Minutes/General Meeting/2013-01-29

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


General IRC Meeting (#ppau)

Start: 20:00 29/01/13 AEDT

Finish: 22:06 29/01/13 AEDT


Agenda

  • Introduction and attendance
  • Assign minuter
  • Link to previous general meeting minutes (DavidCampbell) — https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/General_Meeting/2013-01-15
  • discuss roll-over topics from previous meeting (DavidCampbell)
  • Policy & pre-selection meeting venues (Mozart)
  • Fun things from the Secretary (Brendan)
  • ACT status report (Glen)
  • More detail on registration of parties (Brendan)
  • QLD status report (Liam)
  • VIC status report (Mark)
  • Quick PDC shoutout to encourage people to get involved (Sam)
  • Quick Webcast shoutout (sam)
  • Campaigning (everyone who hijacked Brendan's thing)
  • Event Calanders (VJmes)


Attendance

  • NC members
    • Glen Takkenberg
    • Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
    • Brendan Molloy
    • David Campbell
    • Simon Frew
    • Sam Kearns
  • State Coordinators
    • Glen Takkenberg (ACT)
    • Thomas Randle (Tas)
    • Liam Pomfret (Qld)
    • Simon Frew (NSW)
    • Mark Street (Vic) — late
  • + Approximate attendees:
    • 12

Minutes

Policy & pre-selection meeting venues

  • Meeting in 2 months for purposes of policies and pre-selection
  • If anyone finds suitable venue please inform National Council: [email protected]
    • near public transport
    • preferably <$600 for 2 days (flexible) <-- ie for venue rental
    • Good internet/wifi
      • failing good internet, need at least decent mobile/3G signal
  • size likely <50

Fun things from the Secretary

  • Pirate Party Australia is now officially registered for federal elections.
  • Post-registration membership database cleanup
  • 74 new (payable) members since registration
  • members may host and should host local crew meetings
    • Brendan is building a google maps ... map of population centres to work out where best members should host crew meetings
  • Membership breakdown (Confirmed members who responded to the registration emails)
    • QLD has 96.
    • NSW has 203
    • VIC 129
    • ACT 93
    • NT 4
    • TAS 17
    • SA 49
    • WA 66
    • TOTAL: 658 (ie members with valid contact information/verfied details)
    • Approx 90% male
    • Old data is backed up
  • "Autopen" http://nsw.ppau.brendan.so for NSW EC
    • Brendan has emailed NSWEC to see if allowed

ACT status report

  • report by taco (aka Glen Takkenberg)
  • ACT Rego delayed til DB work was done
  • A few short of rego, so recruiting to be done
  • First post-election meeting turnout was low (3)
  • Plan Cryptoparty?
  • Concerns re Camera networks on buses
  • would like to complete submission into size of legislative assembly (for better proportionality)
    • State/Territory co-ords will get spacialised DB access (CRM-type system)


More detail on registration of parties

  • NSW requires 750 NSW members for NSW registration/elections.
    • Costs 2000
    • Needs Physical signed form, no electronic forms
  • QLD needs 500
  • Vic 500
  • ACT 100(?) Free


QLD status report

  • report by LiamP
  • inactive lately due to exams etc (high proportion of uni students)
  • today's planned meeting cancelled due to weather
    • postponed to Feb 11
  • next meeting (11Feb) will host Anna Troburg (current leader of Swedish Pirate Party)
  • some interest from people looking to attend before joining
  • no o-week table this year but flyers on friendly tables
  • also LiamP has guest lectures on online privacy scheduled
  • did lose potential pre-selected candidate last month so no suitable candidate atm
  • now with rego more people should appear
  • Cryptoparty fell through (lack of qualified speakers and venue)


VIC status report

  • report from Faradn
  • started a meetup group
  • had a joint meeting with "Free software Melbourne"
    • 30 ppl on their maillist
    • 2 member & 2 potentials showed + 12 of their (FSM) guys
    • good interest in policies etc, nice BBQ but no formal minutes/actions
  • this week (thursday meeting) down to business
  • no post election contact from dhaidon
  • "meetup" $70 per 6 mths & keeping up facebook/twitter
  • vic generally slowed, focusing on federal for now (& policy etc)
  • 26 responses from member poll re meeting times, Thurs nights decided upon
    • sat also popular so potential change due to low turnout on thurs
  • any vic ppl - please join the meetup.com group
  • Brendan will do a population centre map soon, should help with meeting locations etc
  • Progress re registration?:
    • dcrafti and dhaidon each came up with some notes / constitutional things they wanted to see but no document has been put together yet
    • incorporated association first step; but not necessarily 100% necessary
    • possibility of state parties forming as working groups under PPAU until there was enough reason to take the bureaucratic burden
    • next step likely faradn and dcrafti put something together from notes thus far
    • next state election 2014
    • federal election hopefully help springboard


Quick PDC shoutout to encourage people to get involved


Quick Webcast shoutout

  • good first attempt at live show
  • Sam, looking forward to live interaction
  • be good to have people hang around etc
  • suggestions: [email protected]


Campaigning

  • should look at Linux.conf.au
  • posters, be good to target "Uni" cities/locations
  • t-shirt talk
  • payment gateway talk (eg "eway")
  • crowdfunding (rules re political parties?)
  • ... event calendars?


Action Items

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