Minutes/National Council/2018-04-02

Meeting Minutes This document is a record of a meeting. Do not edit this document without contacting the relevant group first.

Start: 20:40 AEST

End: 21:41 AEST

Attendance

• Emily Sievers
• Tom Randle
• Miles Whiticker
• Simon Frew
• Alex Jago
• Mark Gibbons
• Peter Lawler (arrived 21:08 AEST)

Apologies

John August

Absentees

John Jeffery

Minutes

Previous Meeting Minutes (Tom)

• https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2018-03-19

Correspondence, reports, and action items (Secretariat)

• Action item: Secretariat to start setting up the Annual National Congress 2018 wiki pages
• Action item: Miles Whiticker to document feature requests for the members area platform (PirateDB)

Discussion items, and motions

Carried forward (Secretariat)

• Tom and Miles: Member mailout call for volunteers finalisation of content
• Mark to provide a PayPal update, added to main agenda.
• Miles noted another copyright inquiry is open for submissions (https://www.communications.gov.au/have-your-say/copyright-modernisation-consultation)

PayPal (Mark)

• Mark provides an update on the Party's suspended PayPal account.
  • The person who registered the account is no longer involved with the Party and the account should be properly transferred to the Treasurer.
  • PayPal are asking for more documents.
  • PayPal claim regulations changed.
  • Tom is not happy with the delay in getting the account enabled again, issue was reported on 10 March.
  • Tom is concerned PayPal is known to suspend accounts and hope they are abandoned.
• Mark proposes to investigate possible other payment gateway options.
  • Peter suggests looking into Osko payments.
  • Alex suggest Square and Stripe

General Business

• Tom suggests those interested in writing submissions to inquiries should make a thread on the forums to gather interest from other members.

Motions

• MOTION: Accept the National Council meeting minutes of 2018-03-19 as presented
  • Put by: Tom Randle
  • Ayes: 6 (Tom Randle, Emily Sievers, Mark Gibbons, Alex Jago, Simon Frew, Miles Whiticker); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: close meeting
  • Put by: Emily Sievers
  • Ayes: 6 (Tom Randle, Simon Frew, Emily Sievers, Mark Gibbons, Alex Jago, Peter Lawler); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

CFV Motions

• MOTION: Approve payment of $127 for post office box renewal to Australia Post.
  • Put by: Simon Frew
  • Ayes: 6 (Simon Frew, Emily Sievers, Peter Lawler, Tom Randle, Alex Jago, Miles Whiticker); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.