Minutes/National Council/2015-09-02

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Meeting Minutes
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Agenda

Start: 20:41 AEST
End: 22:37 AEST

Attendance

National Council

  • Simon Frew
  • Thomas Randle
  • Michael Keating
  • Fletcher Boyd
  • Daniel Judge
  • David Crafti
  • Adien Treleaven
  • Mark Gibbons

Apologies

Minutes

Previous meeting's minutes

  • Minutes held over, not yet marked up to wiki.

Canning By-Election

  • This is going okay so far
  • The Pozible campaign is at over $2,000
    • so 2/3 of way there within 1 day
    • thanks largely to a single large donation though
    • http://pozi.be/canning2015
    • Always encourage PPAU members to add to the Pozibles, remembering we arent charging yearly fees atm :D
      • We'll keep pimping it
  • The Mandurah Mail article was great
  • Most NC didnt do the pre-preference order, so Frew, DanielJ poedgirl and Keating got to decide the original order received by members, who are voting now
    • ballots for preferences were sent to WA members, thanks brendan for sorting out the form. ballot closes midday (AWST) tomorrow
    • Note to see what response we get as we need a decent sample size for it to be suitably representative.
      • If not enough, NC/election committee may need to decide
    • People seem happy with the pre-determined order
  • we should codify all this preference deciding process at some stage
    • and maybe set a percentage threshold as well, something to note before the next general election, when we'll need to go thru this process again
    • unless we've missed a by-law somehow, pretty sure the preference voting thing is a convention, not set in stone.
      • Not saying set it in stone as we need to have flexibility on the issue, but the process should be set out for when we do do it
  • Draft HTVs were sent out?
    • only minor changes from the Griffith design, but please look them over as we need to look at getting these printed asap
  • We will call the Election Committee in the next couple of days or so, meet early next week
  • Michelle has provided new image to use for HTV but may need a higher quality for use on corflutes if we go with similar to this design https://i.imgur.com/z9upyYg.png
  • DanielJ having trouble finding the high res files from the WA special election photo shoot.
    • Fletcher will see if he has a copy
  • Last time in WA we used http://www.mediapoint.com.au/ for corflutes and discountprinting.com.au for HTVs
  • AEC asking about payment details from dcrafti for if we are entitled to funding after the election
    • (ie if we get the 4%)
    • It is unlikely to come up, so either just send them our bank details on the donate page or leave it as the default cheque method
    • dcrafti estimates we'd get around $5k if we got the 4% threshold.
  • Frew will post about election committee in the next couple of days in discuss, and call a meeting for monday or tuesday next week
  • This needs to go out: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/canning2015-pozible-membermail
  • once preference ballot comes in tomorrow, adam will update the HTVs with the ballot order
  • we'll deal with any issues as they arise over email (ie with the preference votes etc as needed)

Membership Database Tender

  • Brendan has withdrawn his offer to help with assessing the member DB tenders due to his stress levels
    • The next step is to publicise the tender and then start receiving submissions
    • MarkG is unable to make the alliance for progress meeting as I hoped to do, which was the problem to start with
      • we wanted their buy-in
  • If anyone else is able to go, it might be good, even if we don't pitch this concept at that specific meeting
    • could possibly mention it as an idea, but not a proper pitch.
  • How do we put the tender out?
    • probably on our website, with a link in one of the feature boxes
    • and social media pimping?
    • we could just go out to Twitter, or we could put it on a freelancer/freelance type site
  • Tender details: https://gist.github.com/bbqsrc/321624da6ef1e72088f1
    • The tender dates will need to change. Submissions close 31 August and the first phase of development is meant to be done by 15 October.
    • we can discuss that stuff over email (date changes etc)
  • we need to get the tender up on the website ASAP then post it about on social media
    • dcrafti to go over it and suggest date changes via email

Alliance for Progress meeting

  • MarkG cant attend
  • DanielJ will attempt to make it

Constitutional Reform Policy Debate and PDC

  • We decided to open up a broad constitutional debate at the Congress
    • Frew will start a pad when I get a few hours clear of election stuff, write a bit of an intro topic for discuss
    • do a general President mailout and invite people to contribute ideas and get the ball rolling

General Business

  • The waylaid electoral nomination fees found their way back to the correct account
  • We need to delegate more people the power to send out PRs mails etc
    • the process is the PR process
    • emails are just general agreeance of the NC, with 2 people signing off on content, having checked for punctuation etc
    • preferably other than the main writers, but not necessary if it is time important
      • its harder to spot mistakes the longer you work on something
    • The bit that Mozart does with the sending and publishing, is documented on the wiki.
    • Ideally the NC should all have access, personally.
      • it is however a single login.
      • We should all be trusted to follow the approval process etc
      • The chance of abuse doesn't increase or decrease. It just makes it harder to find who is doing it.
      • But think the flexibility is needed as the PR sat there for hours today
    • If need be IT can reset the password if there are problems
    • New password to be set and provided to all NC who are willing and able to send PR mails. (Fletcher to do tonight)
    • Don't store the password. Always log out.
  • Some Canning emails need responses, see pads and emails.
    • MarkG suggestion re answer to Gun laws questions seems best course.

Motions

  • MOTION: Approve NC minutes for 2015-08-19
    • Put by: Frew
      • Ayes: 7 (dcrafti, Adien, Frew, DanielJ, Rundll, Keating, Fletcher)
    • Result: Motion carries.
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