Minutes/Election Committee Meeting/2013-07-17

Meeting Minutes This document is a record of a meeting. Do not edit this document without contacting the relevant group first.

Agenda

• Preferences
• Media
• Building media contacts
• Media training
• Writing in to newspapers
• Getting in on local issues & expanding press team
• a) Crowd funding & b) schwag
• Hitting up businesses for funding
• How to handle PR for new policies (Glen)

Start time: 20:03 AEST 17/07/13
Finish time: 21:47 AEST 17/07/13

Attendance

• Simon Frew
• Brendan Molloy
• Glenn Takkenberg
• Ben McGinnes
• Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
• Melanie Thomas
• David Campbell
• Joe Miles
• Daniel Judge
• Thomas Randle

Apologies

• Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer

Minutes

Preferences

• email sent out, waiting on responses.
• PR done for sending soon.

Media

• Develop regularly asked questions "cheat sheet" - use Mumble to prep.

Building Media Contacts

• Mel to provide contact list.

Media Training

• Investigate costs of training.
• Use mumble for training.
• Practice by doing
• sharing experiences.
• Seek journalism students.

Writing to Newspapers

• Use the opinion pages of local and regional papers to make localised points, speak to larger concepts and issues, may get picked up by bigger & metro papers etc.

Getting in on local issues & expanding press team

• Members in each state are responsible for identifying and writing on local issues for Press Releases.
• All drafts to be forwarded to Mozart for clearance and sending.

Crowd funding & schwag

• Crowd Funding
  • Chasing this up.
  • Donations portal done and getting truly awesome.
• Swag
  • Get swag sorted once and for all.
  • Teespring probably, organic, non-child-labour and all the rest.

Hitting up businesses for funding

• Compile list/pad of businesses affected by Pirate issues, approach for funding/donations/membership etc.
• for example:
  • generic medicine manufacturers
  • Grey Importers like The Reject Shop etc
    • Woolworths etc do grey importing as well
  • Internet Service Providers
• Make it perfectly clear who we are, why we're asking, what we're doing and that we'll fight the good fight regardless of donation.

How to handle PR for new policies

• Drip feed policies over time, not all in one hit otherwise press may not take time to comb through it
• Target PRs to coincide with topical issues/news stories
• Have pre-written items ready to go with minor customisations
• Priorities pad: https://pressteam.piratenpad.de/priorities