Minutes/National Council/2013-11-06

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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.


Agenda

Start: 20:32 AEDT Finish: 22:07 AEDT

Attendance

  • Simon Frew (Chair)
  • Mark Gibbons
  • Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
  • Fletcher Boyd (WA Coord)
  • Daniel Judge
  • Melanie Thomas
  • Glen Takkenberg
  • Ben McGinnes
  • Brendan Molloy

Apologies

Nil.

Minutes

Action items

  • Frew contacted Nick Xenophon's office.
    • Unsure if if they will call a surveillance summit, might just have a press conference
    • If they do, we'll get an invite.
  • Mark wrote ToR for the Procurement Team.

Banners

  • Decided on VistaPrint for 5 banners at just under $400
  • Just use big "Pirate Party Australia" logo with blue background
  • DanielJ to get design file to Mel
  • 5x 1820x760, outdoor grade 500gm/m2 vinyl
  • See motions

Appoint an IT Officer

  • The two new appointees are having some issues due to real life that are beyond their control
  • Need an 'always around' type like the outgoing IT officer.
  • Brendan suggests appointing Sam Lee-Lindsay as an IT Officer.
  • Special thanks to the Outgoing IT Officer
    • See motions
  • Outgoing IT officer to work with Brendan to produce document of all accounts/passwords, use to transition to Sam then to reside with Secretary for safe keeping.
    • See motions

Potential WA election

  • Fletcher happy to run
  • Trevor Dadson as possible running mate
  • Run a Pozible campaign for fudning to run candidates
  • Prepare all materials well in advance
    • Meet later on this
  • Also meet later on determining preference order if/when necessary
    • Note: national votes, possible change of democrat positioning etc

Archive resolutions: 2011-2, 2011-3, 2012-1, 2012-2, 2012-3 & 2013-1

  • Most invalid, others unecessary
    • See motions

Social Media Guidelines submission

Survey results

Membership by-law

Queensland

  • Multiple anecdotal reports of people with Tattoos being stopped in the street, questioned and photographed by police, arrested for chalking, and other abuses of power.
    • Everyone is "wtf" at this
  • Mel starting a wiki/website to list all these egregious events
    • To discuss further over email


Motions

  • MOTION: Accept Meeting Minutes for 2013-10-09
    • Put by: Frew
    • Ayes: 7 (taco, Brendan, Mozart, Hasimir, MarkG, Frew, DanielJ); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Accept meeting minutes for 2013-10-23
    • Put by: Frew
    • Ayes: 7 (taco, Hasimir, Frew, DavidCampbell, Brendan, MarkG, Mozart); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 1 (DanielJ)
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Accept the Procurement Team ToR as worded.
    • Put by: Brendan
    • Ayes: 8 (Hasimir, Brendan, Frew, Mozart, Mel, DanielJ, taco, MarkG); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Approve up to $400 for the purchase of 5 banners from Vistaprint.
    • Put by: Brendan
    • Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Frew, Hasimir, Mozart, DanielJ, MarkG, DavidCampbell); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Appoint Sam Lee-Lindsay as an IT Officer.
    • Put by: Brendan
    • Ayes: 9 (Brendan, Mel, Hasimir, MarkG, taco, Frew, DanielJ, DavidCampbell, Mozart); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Require the production of documentation pertaining to all accounts and passwords of Pirate Party services by Nick, to be provided to Brendan by email, PGP-encrypted.
    • Put by: Brendan
    • Ayes: 8 (DavidCampbell, Frew, Hasimir, Brendan, Mel, MarkG, taco, DanielJ); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Thank Nick for his years of service as IT Officer.
    • Put by: Brendan
    • Ayes: 9 (Brendan, Mozart, Frew, taco, DanielJ, Hasimir, DavidCampbell, Mel, MarkG); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Archive resolutions: 2011-2, 2011-3, 2012-1, 2012-2, 2012-3 & 2013-1
    • Put by: Frew
    • Ayes: 9 (Hasimir, Brendan, Frew, MarkG, Mozart, DavidCampbell, Mel, DanielJ); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Accept the social media guidelines as worded.
    • Put by: Brendan
    • Ayes: 8 (Hasimir, Brendan, Frew, Mel, DanielJ, MarkG, DavidCampbell, Mozart); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Accept by-law Membership of State and Territory Branches as worded.
    • Put by: Brendan
    • Ayes: 7 (Mozart, MarkG, DanielJ, Hasimir, Frew, taco, DavidCampbell); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: End this, pls.
    • Put by: Brendan
    • Ayes: 8 (DavidCampbell, Mozart, Brendan, Hasimir, Frew, MarkG, DanielJ, Mel); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

Action items

  • DanielJ to get banner design to Mel
  • IT to provision the Twitter account "@Pirates_WA"
  • Fletcher set up a Facebook page with a reasonable URL, add two NC members as admins