Minutes/National Council/2017-10-04

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Meeting Minutes
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Start: 8:41 PM AEDT

End: 11:43 PM AEDT

Attendance

  • Emily Sievers
  • Simon Gnieslaw
  • Miles Whiticker
  • Tom Randle
  • Simon Frew
  • John Jeffery
  • Alex Jago
  • Mark Gibbons

Apologies

John August

Absentees

Officers and others

Minutes

Items

Previous meeting minutes

https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2017-09-20

Audit

Discussion of the Audit topic:

  • Tom has implemented a basic ranking system to determine which members are likely to be the highest quality to include in the AEC audit export.
  • 460 active members, Target for 90+ more active to reach 550.
  • Renewals are essentially complete, 1 email every 5 days for those who haven't renewed.
  • Alex & SimonG: possible spam folder issues with that frequency.
    • Tom: there is no evidence of that.
  • Mini Membership Drive - Topic to continue on discuss: https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/mini-recuitment-drive/1553, including
    • Facebook, Twitter & Paid Ads
      • Mark offers to pay for a some ads as a donation to the party.
    • Family & Friends
    • Online Communities (OzBargain, reddit, Whirlpool, OCAU, etc.)
    • "free membership" as a selling point, most critical to stay registered rather than prove a "commitment"
    • Suggestion for Newspaper/Radio?
      • Tom: probably not enough time
  • AEC usually sample out of 500-550 and don't keep asking if it fails from the subset, the process is weighted towards de-registering parties.
  • No authority / approval needed to post about PPAU in a personal capacity.

Emergency National Congress

  • Pad started: https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/extraordinary-national-congress-2017
  • Tom working on proposal and wording:
    • The changes have been committed to GitHub version control
    • SimonG and John J find the GitHub format confusing
  • ACTION ITEM: Tom: "I'll CFV later this week on the proposal to get the tick of 'The National Council recommends the members of the Party adopt CAP-0.'"
  • There will be a full PDF + 2016 to 2017 changeset + Web version
  • Constitution is natively in LaTeX format and maintained using GitHub.

Resolution 2013-5 repeal (Tom)

John August's copyright submission

  • John A has (over email) offered the submission he wrote to be sent on behalf of the Party to a recent inquiry, Party can use it if wanted, otherwise he will send it as his own private submission.
  • John A has sent in apologies for not attending this meeting
  • Transferred to Pad: https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/john_a_copreg_edits for editing before submission
  • ACTION ITEM: Alex will get it authorised and sent off on Friday
  • Due 6 October
  • There is a draft "motion", however not needed as there is an approval process for submissions.

Strategy (Frew)

  • Is a structure settled on? (Simon G)
    • Frew: "I think we are closer to having a strategy, if there aren't any objections, I think we should use the swarm as strategy thread and Adam's organisational diagram as the basis for a final strategy meeting to lock in the details"
    • Miles: 'Tom and I have an alternate structure to Adam's'
  • Next Steps (Frew)
    • SimonG Question: "Is it possible to start with Adams and then switch to Tom+Miles if we want to later?" Miles Answer: "no"
    • ACTION ITEM from Tom: "Frew and MilesW could both have models to present next monday that would be great" (And on Discuss)
    • ACTION ITEM for Miles: Post his structure onto Discuss too
  • https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/2017-strategy-development-long-term-goals
    • ACTION ITEM (all): Structure to be decided on Monday strategy meeting, 8.30PM AEST Monday.

Local Crews

Email unsubscription policy

SimonG provides his thoughts on emails to members

  • We should still send emails to members even if they unsubscribed, unless they resign (put this notice explicitly at the bottom).
  • Having members unsubscribing from important emails leads them to feel disengaged even though they unsubscribed (quite a few queries came in during members area rollout because they didn't even remember us) and bad for Quorum for internal elections.
    • Important Announcements should not be opt-out-able, despite spam blacklist concerns (use a throwaway domain/3rd party mailer) as it effectively disengages them from participation.
  • No legal requirement for us to even offer "unsubscribe" for 3 reasons:
  • Still a good idea to make it clear how to unsubscribe (by resigning in the case of an account message) to avoid upsetting people (eg: "YesEquality" SMS campaign did this) and to avoid being marked as spam.
  • No clear consensus.
  • Tom: "The way our email communications work now is better than it has ever been by orders of magnitude", "this is something to revisit probably early next year".

General business

  • Basic Income numbers update (Mark G)
    • The basic income policy is several years old and needs to be updated for inflation.
    • Alex is working on a basic income video so we need to do it now.
    • The PDC has worked out a new Tax Threshold but the NC has to vote on it as it is technically a change to a policy.
    • The amount worked out is around $39,000
    • Simon Frew suggests rounding up to $40,000, nice round amount.
    • Mark says that it would add $6 billion to the hypothetical cost to set the level at $40,000 instead of $39,000, it doesn't really make much difference as it's a hypothetical amount.
    • Main point is to update for inflation.
    • $40,000 "Future Proofs" the amount for likely continued inflation.
    • Motion made to update Basic Income Tax Threshold to $40,000
  • Annual National Congress 2018 Brisbane
  • Comments from SimonG requesting
    • QLD people, please get planning/logistics started, at least want a date set so I can book plane tickets
  • Approve position statement opposing in principle Brisbane train facial recognition (Miles):
    • "PPAU calls for a halt to the plans to roll out facial recognition technology on Brisbane public transport until a consultation process and privacy assessment can be carried out."
    • Approved by Tom Randle, Simon Frew, Emily Sievers, Simon Gnieslaw
  • Advertising (Miles/Emily)
    • Tom: ACTION ITEM (all): Everyone work on AEC Audit comms and advertising for more members tomorrow night.

Motions

  • MOTION: accept the minutes of 20 September 2017 National Council meeting as presented
    • Put by: Emily Sievers
      • Ayes: 7 (Simon Frew, Simon Gnieslaw, Miles Whiticker, Emily Sievers, Tom Randle, Mark Gibbons, John Jeffery; Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 1 (Alex Jago)
      • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Repeal National Council Resolution 2013-5, as promotional materials authorisation is covered by https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Authorisation_processes
    • Put by: Tom Randle
      • Ayes: 8 (Tom Randle, Miles Whiticker, Simon Gnieslaw, Mark Gibbons, Alex Jago, Simon Frew, John Jeffery, Emily Sievers); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
      • Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Raise the tax threshold in the basic income policy to $40,000 and adjust the basic income accordingly.
    • Put by: Mark Gibbons
      • Ayes: 7 (Miles Whiticker, Tom Randle, Simon Frew, Mark Gibbons, Simon Gnieslaw, Emily Sievers, Alex Jago); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
      • Motion carries.

CFV Motions

  • MOTION: Approve expenditure of $76.00 for AEC audit related expenses payable to NSW Fair Trading.
    • Put by: Tom Randle
      • Ayes: 8 (Tom Randle, Alex Jago, Simon Frew, Simon Gnieslaw, Miles Whiticker, Emily Sievers, John Jeffery, John August, Mark Gibbons); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
      • Motion carries.
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