Minutes/Hobart Meeting/2015-04-09

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Hobart Meeting

• Thursday 9 April 2015
• Tasman Quartermasters (http://www.tasmanquartermasters.com.au/)
• From 18:00; meeting closed at 19:47

Agenda

• Discuss possible State Branch formation

Attendance

• Tim Serong
• Thaiis Thei
• Peter Lawler
• Charles Gregory
• Thomas Randle
• Scott Bragg

Minutes

• Meeting opened 18:25
• Discussion of possible State Branch formation, now that we have 50 tasmanian members according to national membership records (see https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Branch_Formation_Working_Group_ToR#Scope_.26_Responsibilities).
  • Pete suggests waiting on national membership audit first.
  • General consensus on state branch formation, is first we:
    • Need means of communication and decision making (something more formal than random mail to the discuss list).
      • Suggestion that we should use the PPAU wiki for this in the interim, absent something more liquid-democracy-like
    • Need means of ensuring participation with all members, people who can't make Hobart meetings, etc.
• Suggestion for road trip to north / northwest, because road trips are awesome
• Pete strongly encourages visit to pirate takeaway in Stanley
• Pete suggests Pirates of Tas run a hack weekend / hackfest thing to try to put together an openaustralia/rightotknow FOI style thing, for Tasmania
  • Thomas: can this fork/derive from existing OA/RTK thing?
• Thomas acknowledges Charles' excellent work posting on the PiratePartyTas facebook page.
• Pete requested an online store for t-shirts, stickers, etc. for fundraising.
• Thomas suggested future objectives:
  • Events for members, not like the annual congress, but a regular hack day, or fun thing
  • Eventually obtain our own space somewhere, or even coworking space
  • At some point in future we will eventually want to be able to have paid staff
• Pete requested a couple of oddites be minuted that arguably aren't strictly party business:
  • Using Firefox private browsing on a mobile phone for minute taking on the etherpad sucks
  • Tim still has a beard
• Meeting closed at 19:47

Action Items

• Tim to:
  • Find out geographic spread within state
  • Update discussion list with URLs of minutes etc.
    • Note: they're all on the party etherpad, e.g.: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/tas-20150409, they just haven't all been transferred to the party wiki yet; change the date at the end of the URL to see the minutes for the appropriate meeting
  • Send draft branch constitution to discuss list