Minutes/National Council/2020-08-20

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National Council Meeting 20th August 2020

08:30pm scheduled start time, in Discord.

Meeting commenced at 08:36pm.

Previous minutes: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-08-04

Attendance

• Miles Whiticker (President)
• Alex Jago (Secretary)
• Dave "Satch" Kennedy (Councillor)
• Fred Gerner (Councillor)
• Phillip Richards (Councillor)

• Bryn "mandrke" Busai (DRC)
• Pip Foweraker (PDC)

• John August (Treasurer, sporadic)

Minutes

• Handover continued (Alex)
  • https://trello.com/b/8egn941W/nc-handover-2020
  • bios for website
    • https://pirateparty.org.au/national-council/
    • Action item for Alex to update
    • Action item for everyone to give Alex things to update with

• • Most of the rest is Treasury / Public Officer / Party Agent related (all John)

• • TODO: update the Platform to reflect updates as of Congress

• Voting wrapup (Alex)
  • Announcements
    • TODO: email, website post, wiki page
    • seeking volunteers to help write
    • Miles is on it
    • Email can be a direct copy from the forum pretty much, website we might want to just use percentages.

• AEC membership audit
  • general agreement that regardless of whether we try to pass or not, we still should run a big membership drive
  • Proposal: spend up to $500 on advertising
    • (Proposal still to be fleshed out)

• Remix this! Meme comp https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/meme_comp (Miles)

• (if we have time) PDC re-launch

Motions

• MOTION: Approve the minutes of the previous meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-08-04
  • Ayes 5 (AJ, MW, PR, FG, JA); Abstain 1 (DK)
  • Motion carried at 20:54

• MOTION: close the meeting.
  • Unanimous; meeting closed at 9:55pm.