Minutes/National Council/2017-10-18

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Start: 9:04 PM AEDT

End: 11:27 PM AEDT

Attendance

• Simon Gnieslaw
• Simon Frew
• Emily Sievers
• Miles Whiticker
• Tom Randle
• John Jeffery
• Mark Gibbons (from 9:35PM)

Apologies

• Alex Jago

Absentees

• John August

Officers and others

• Fletcher Boyd (ITT / IEWG)

Minutes

• Previous meeting minutes (Tom)

https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2017-10-04

• Amend previous meeting minutes, missed CFV motions (Tom)
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2017-09-06
• Audit (Tom)
  • Been mailed off to the AEC (Tom)
  • At least it's increased active member numbers (Simon G)
  • Quick Breakdown:
    • 51 NSW, 39 VIC, 29 QLD, 12 TASm 8 SA, 13 WA, 2 ACT, 1 NT (Simon G)
  • Keep up with recruitment towards state registration, and work out which messages were most effective (MarkG)
    • Get State Mailouts in VIC and NSW running (Miles)
      • State government topics and meetups (MIles)
        • ACTION ITEM: Post to discuss asking for volunteers to organise(SimonG)
• ENC (Tom)
  • ACTION ITEM: There remains one final task to finalise the agenda 7days before the event (Tom)
• Documentation Working Group (SimonG)
  • Guides
  • Updating Wiki
  • Cleanup Wiki
  • Make shortened/easy to read versions of Policy and publish into Wordpress
  • Just in the idea stage, ACTION ITEM: needs a ToR and recruit members to it
• Remove Jarrod Bevear as Designs Officer (Tom)
  • Has been inactive, not replying to emails for a while, and then no longer a member of the party. Non-members can't hold positions, so removed by default. (Tom)
  • ACTION ITEM: Mark role as inactive as Designs are effectively ran by Bureau anyway (Simon G/Simon F)
• Strategy (Miles, Frew)
  • Strategies being put in place (informally):
    • https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/draft-strategic-plan-2017-for-discussion-and-comment/1575 (Simon F)
    • https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/swarm-as-strategy/1536/4 (Simon F)
  • Motion in https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/strategic_plan_2017 (MIles)
    • To set some basic targets/goals (Tom/Miles)
  • Squads = Issue Based, Crews = Geography Based (unorganised small groups to begin with before being a 'crew')
• General business

Motions

• MOTION: Accept the minutes from 4 October 2017
  • Put by: Emily Sievers
    • Ayes: 6 (Simon Frew, Tom Randle, Miles Whiticker, Emily Sievers, John Jeffery, Simon Gnieslaw); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Accept minutes for 6 September 2017 (which has been amended)
  • Put by: Emily Sievers
    • Ayes: 7 (Simon Frew, Tom Randle, Miles Whiticker, Emily Sievers, John Jeffery, Simon Gnieslaw, Mark Gibbons); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Accept the Strategic Plan 2017 as documented at https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/strategic_plan_2017
  • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes: 7 (Simon Frew, Tom Randle, Miles Whiticker, Emily Sievers, John Jeffery, Simon Gnieslaw, Mark Gibbons); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: close meeting
  • Put by: Emily Sievers
    • Ayes: 4 (Tom Randle, Simon Frew, Emily Sievers, Simon Gnieslaw; Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 1 (Miles Whiticker)
    • Motion lapses

• MOTION: close meeting
  • Put by: Tom Randle
    • Ayes: 6 (Tom Randle, Emily Sievers, Miles Whiticker, Simon Gnieslaw, Mark Gibbons, Simon Frew); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

CFV Motions

• MOTION: The National Council endorses CAP-0 of the 2017 Emergency National Congress and recommends the members of the Party adopt the motion.
  • Put by: Tom Randle
    • Ayes: 8 (Tom Randle, Simon Gnieslaw, Simon Frew, Emily Sievers, Alex Jago, John Jeffery, Mark Gibbons, Miles Whiticker); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Endorse and participate in the joint Pirate parties press release in support of Catalan pirates.
  • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes: 8 (Miles Whiticker, Tom Randle, Simon Gnieslaw, Mark Gibbons, Emily Sievers, John August, Alex Jago, Simon Frew); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Approve $250.00 ad spend for AEC audit related campaigning efforts on social media platforms.
  • Put by: Tom Randle
    • Ayes: 8 (Tom Randle, Alex Jago, Simon Gnieslaw, Emily Sievers, Simon Frew, John Jeffery, Miles Whiticker, Mark Gibbons); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.