Minutes/National Council/2013-03-13

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Meeting Minutes
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Agenda


Start: 20:21 13/03/2013 AEDT

Finish: 21:26 13/03/2013 AEDT

Attendance

  • Brendan Molloy
  • David Campbell
  • Glen Takkenberg
  • Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
  • Rodney Serkowski
  • Simon Frew

Minutes

Approve previous meeting minutes

  • See motions

Action items from previous meeting

  • David has informed Mark by e-mail of the Victorian coordinator replacement.
  • Brendan has forgotten to e-mail Senator Ludlam, although he has thanked him on twitter and spoken to his P.A. Felicity while at ADA to pass on our thanks.
  • IRC Code of Conduct added to the wiki and linked in the channel topic by Brendan for Mozart.


Motion to add membership levels (temporary constitutional amendment)

  • Draft text is available at: http://pirateparty.openpad.me/temporary-constitutional-membership-amendment
  • Written by Mozart based on Brendan's proposal.
  • Implementation of the 2011 resolution.
  • Will be put to the members for voting (7 day period) and then made an operational/temporary amendment (clause 7.4) before a final vote at the Congress.
  • Vote on motion delayed to next NC meeting due to short notice.

Motion to amend preselection bylaw

  • Background checks to be submitted only if preselection candidates pass the preselection vote, and before the formal nomination period.
  • Lowers cost to potential candidates to $0 unless they win.
  • Rudimentary honesty test to verify candidates disclosed items of potentail concern prior to voting.

Approval of new join form

  • Generated tax invoice cleared by Rodney (Treasurer) are legally compliant.
  • New join form to be deployed on the weekend.
  • Solution is being developed for Rodney and Sam to manage payments - verification of membership payment requires manual intervention currently as Paypal instant payment notifications are not yet fully functional.
  • News members will be sent two emails - a "welcome" e-mail and an invoice e-mail. Existing members will be sent an e-mail that asks for payment type.

Note: Programming Working Group has a new Python developer who is working on the crowdfunding platform

Banking update

  • Letters have not been received from Bendingo Bank yet.
  • Reodney will ring Bendigo tomorrow to chase up.
  • PPAU services currently being paid through the Paypal account.
  • $500+ in donations from the past month alone.

Application for Campaigns Committee position by James Varoutsos

  • see motions

E-mail update from campaigns

  • Refer toe-mail (private).

Election Committee Terms of Reference

  • "Two members" changed to "Minimum two (NC) members"
  • Party Agent included in minimum two NC requirement.
  • "<DavidCampbell> all voting for fun and profit"
  • "<Frew> voting for profit? this isnt NSW ALP"

Pirate Parties International

  • See March 2013 pp.international.general list.
  • Gregory Engels refusing to respond to e-mail due to sheer unmitigated arrogance/
  • He refuses to respond to anything -
    • Containing curses
    • Letters
    • Resignations
    • Anything he dislikes or can not be bothered reading
    • Criticisms of his incompetent leadership.
  • 3 Pirate Parties are also considering withdrawing from PPI.
  • General amusement at the fact many European PP's will be remote delegates at the Kazan meeting.
  • PPI-GA may as well be hosted in Siberia as the solution to complaints was to host it in an inaccessible location.

April Policy & Preselection Meeting

  • Only 6 RSVPs so far, another call will be oput out in the enxt announcement e-mail.
  • Simon to ring venue for confirmation of booking.
  • Minimum attendance required is 15 paying attendees.

Candidates

  • Currently no candidates in Victoria as Mark S. and David C. have withdrawn.
  • Three possible candidates in NSW.


Motions

Motion: Accept https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2013-02-27 as last meetings minutes.

  • 6 ayes.
  • Motion passes.

Motion: Application for Campaigns Committee position by James Varoutsos.

  • 6 ayes.
  • Motion passes.

Motion: no longer require that advertising positions on behalf of officers require an NC meeting and motion to be allowed.

  • 5 ayes.
  • Motion passes.

Motion: accept the Election Committee ToR.

  • 6 ayes.
  • Motion passes.

Motion: approve up to $60 for streaming policy meeting, including equipment and bandwidth.

  • 6 ayes.
  • Motion passes.

Motion: to temporarily amend the Pirate Party Australia Constitution to include the categories of associate member and free member.

  • Withdrawn.

Motion: close meeting.

  • 5 ayes.
  • Motion passes.



Action items

  • none
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