Minutes/National Council/2018-03-05

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Start: 20:43 AEDT (09:43 UTC)

End: 22:39 AEDT (11:39 UTC)

Attendance

• Peter Lawler
• Miles Whiticker
• Alex Jago
• Emily Sievers
• Tom Randle
• John Jeffrey

Apologies

• Simon Frew

Absentees

• Mark Gibbons
• John August

Other Attendees

Mikaela (observer)

Minutes

Previous Meeting Minutes (Secretariat)

• https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2018-02-19
• Tom noticed the minutes were missing absentees
• Miles noted it hadn't mentioned his apology for being unable to attend
• Peter corrected minutes as per these notes

Correspondence, reports, and action items (Secretariat)

• Alex Jago completed his action item from last fortnight
• Emily Sievers congratulated Alex on his good work

Discussion items, and motions

• Adopt Nation Council Standing Orders (Tom) https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/2018-nc-standing-orders
  • Tom stated that this formalises what we already do, most of the top sections are just an instruction guide on how to run a meeting
  • Tom mentioned that there are two section of importance: 'Suspension of Standing Orders' and 'Interruption of business', they are in there to provide a process and rules if things ever go very wrong in an NC meeting and they really just establish parliamentary procedures to resolve things and keep meetings moving.
  • Alex questioned what constituted "interrupting the business"
  • Tom said that this was the only section of his proposal he was yet to be happy with, it related to the NC being able to silence a member during debate on an agenda topic but the text as currently presented suggested the member would be silenced for the remainder of the meeting.
  • Peter suggested the council take some time to tighten the text up
  • Tom agreed, stating that procedural motions are separate from the interrupting section and that interrupting a councilor is the same as interrupting the business of a meeting.
  • Tom then decided to defer this until next meeting

• Site blocking submission (Tom)
  • https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/submission-copyright-online-infringement-amendment
  • Tom needs volunteers to help writing the submission
  • John Jeffery to help contributing
  • Peter will attempt but is unsure what he can offer
  • Emily stated that she would see what she could do
  • Tom mentioned there were reading materials in the pad and next step to work on structure then proceed to telling the government they're idiots and should repeal this censorship law

• March newsletter (Tom) https://emailpad.pirateparty.org.au/load/mailout-newsletter-2018-02
  • Tom requested a newsletter to rally the membership.
  • Alex said he'd write some of that on Thursday
  • Peter asked Emily if she'd write some paragraphs for the newsletter
  • Tom reminded us that we need to mention passing AEC Audit to the membership
  • Emily will try to write a punch opening

• Update the Authorisation Processes (AlexJ)
  • Background: There are law changes on the 15th. A loophole, whereby some of our online images didn’t require an authourisation tag under some circumstances, is likely now closed.
  • Alex propose we just put authorisation tags on everything.
  • Alex suggests a requirement for SVG source files to go in the new repository for them.
  • Alex's draft change text is currently on his wiki Talk page: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/User_talk:AlexJago
  • Tom asked why not use the auth section in Print at (6) for the changed reqs of Promo
  • Alex said that his desire was to keep the authorisation process the same.
  • Tom suggested we CFV auth changes later later if needed, so we can discuss it (without having to sit through the Matrix lag that the meeting was currently experiencing), that Alex should pad it, run it passed twisty, then do an update on them

General Business

• Paying attention during meeting attendance (Pete)
  • Pete had a quick rant about people attending the meeting but unable to pay attention to the meeting proceeding or participate in votes of the meeting.
  • Peter had a tangential rant regarding meeting members insisting on using Matrix and this causing significant delays in procedures
  • Alex stated his ZNC skills were bad
  • Emily stated that she'd rather have people turn up and try rather than not at all.
  • Tom said we need to do something about the lag because we're having to second guess whether messages have been received by folks between respective platforms.
  • Pete is playing with linux containers and the like at home so as to hopefully be able to provide instructions to the party on how to deploy our own matrix box with meeting bot.

• Socmed spend (Tom)
  • Tom metioned it isn't bringing in new members
  • Alex stated that the well has run dry at the moment
  • Peter said that it may be important to get PR and submissions in so as to attract members
  • Tom complained that FB was showing the ad to him and he hadn't worked out how to exclude himself
  • Peter suggested some Greasemonkey magic for members who feel they do not need to see the ad

Motions

• MOTION: Accept minutes from PPAU National Council meeting of 19 February 2018
  • Put by: Emily Sievers
    • Ayes: 6 (Miles Whiticker, Tom Randle, Emily Sievers, Peter Lawler, John Jeffery, Alex Jago); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries

• MOTION: Close meeting
  • Put by: Emily Sievers
    • Ayes: 6 (Tom Randle, Peter Lawler, Emily Sievers, John Jeffery, Alex Jago, Miles Whiticker); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries