Minutes/General Meeting/2012-11-06

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General IRC Meeting (#ppau)

Start: 20:05 06/11/12

Finish: 20:58 06/11/12

Agenda

• Copyright Review (Mozart)
• TPP meetings (Mozart)
• FOI review (Mozart)
• Classification stuff (Mozart)
• Piracy Debate tomorrow night (Roderick)
• Registration & other boring admin.

Minutes

Copyright Review

• Mozart has finished his degree and will be focusing on the copyright review submission
• More people needed to complete the review http://pirateparty.openpad.me/copyright-review-submission
• final admission date November 16th
• Roderick to apply for extention

TPP Meetings

• A few members of the NC attending meeting with DFAT in Sydney on the 16th
  • Poor transparancy theater last meeting, expect more of the same
• Brendan attending negotiations in NZ.
• PPNZ NOT attending due to failboat

FOI Review

• Review starting soon on the FOI process and laws
• http://www.ag.gov.au/Consultationsreformsandreviews/Pages/ReviewofFOIlaws.aspx
  • Irony due to recent issues with Brendan requesting classification data
• FOI review required by the FOI laws
  • some feel we may have reminded them to do it
• http://savefoi2012.wordpress.com
• Policy suggestion - Read Only Terminal for Government servers in every government building :D

Piracy Debate Tomorrow Night

• http://metroscreen.org.au/event/piracy-industry-debate/
• Appears balanced at this point, will be good to speak to IPAF in a moderated environment.
• Be wary of Neil Gane

Registration & other boring admin

• Registration submitted, nothing much else beyond waiting now.