Minutes/National Council/2021-08-05

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Meeting Minutes
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National Council meeting for August 5th 2021

Quorum achieved 20:36

Agenda

  • Previous meeting's minutes
  • Onboarding of new NC members
  • Additional Discord Discussion Topic Channels (Roger)
  • NC meeting date/time/frequency
  • @twisty is back. Would like to re-occupy Social Media Officer position. We never really dropped that, but it waned for a long time.
  • Merch Store
  • Sticker drive (Alex, others?)
  • JA Covid video and media release ( if not sorted out on the discord chat)
  • JA Treasurer email / Mark G transfer of stripe responsibility
  • National Congress debrief (Miles, Alex, everyone)

Start: 20:36 AEST. End: 22:43 AEST.

Attendance

  • Miles Whiticker (President, chair)
  • Brandon Selic (Deputy President) (until 22:05)
  • Alex Jago (Secretary, minutes)
  • Roger Whatling (incoming Deputy Secretary)
  • John August (Treasurer)
  • Mitchell Curnoe (incoming Deputy Treasurer)
  • Fred Gerner (Councillor)
  • Dave Kennedy (Councillor)
  • Andrew Downing (incoming Councillor & PDO)

Apologies

  • None

Minutes

Previous Meetings Minutes

Onboarding

  • Welcome to the new members, and a refresher for the continuing members!
  • Miles encourages people to take responsibility for a particular portfolio
  • Especial need now for press releases etc and social media content
    • Twisty back for SocMed
    • Brandon volunteers as tribute
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Press_Release_Guide
  • see also https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Authorisation_processes
  • Be sure that what we put out actually does comply with our policy and principles, too!
  • And try and do a bit of due diligence to see whether the policy is out of date!
  • Roger charges the PDO with reviewing existing policy for not being overtaken by events.
  • Satch gives continued consent for use of his address for authorisation.
  • Miles also links to https://pirateparty.org.au/constitution/
    • "We are the ones who are putting these objects into practice"
  • There are various committees and working groups
    • IT, Press Team, Policy Dev, Internal Elections
  • Miles sees the PDC as a clearing-house for policy initiatives and for updates and maintenance, too
    • initiatives will come along from interested members, also need PDC people who know the ropes to make it happen
  • Chris Cheng (Milspec) appointed to the PDC.
  • International Relations also exist
    • Originally founded to deal with PPI
    • Recently resurrected, a couple of meetings
    • Potential work doing more liaision with PPI and other national parties
    • Policy comparisons and cross-pollination
    • Friday night possibilities
  • Task for the NC this year: website revamp

Additional Discord Discussion Topic Channels

  • Roger notes that Milspec asked for an Infrastructure channel
    • "Granted" - Alex
  • Roger points out that lots of infra delivery is state level
    • Andrew: yes, this ties in to having state-level policies
    • Mitch: does this have an impact of some policies being good in one state but not in another due to existing laws?
  • Roger also asks about day-to-day activity; mostly it's Discord now, but what can we do to encourage local meetups post-Covid
    • Suggests state channels for organisation and meetups, less so discussion

Future NC meetings

  • Alex has class quite late on Thursdays
  • New NC; worth putting it as a question
  • Mitch would like to start earlier - trouble for non-Sydneysiders if we do that though
  • Back to fortnightly. See motions

Committee memberships

  • Twisty resuming SocMed
    • technically never vacated the role
    • still has access
    • welcome back!
  • ITWG and IEWG have particularly low bus factor.
    • Eventually we need to get this to a point where the Secretary doesn't need to have solid IT skills
    • Fred (and Dave?) are getting co-opted

Merch Store & Stickers

  • Shirts can happen via The Print Bar dropshipping without too much effort from our part
    • website integration is the pain point
    • can point a subdomain at TPB's site, probably

John's Covid video

Treasury things

  • Alex by oversight never added John to the Treasury list
  • Mark and Alex working through Stripe things
  • John and Mitchell need ANZ IB4B set up
  • see also By-law 2021-01
    • John and Mitchell automatically on by position
    • need to do a motion to say who we add - next time
    • Alex to stay as 3rd sig

Congress debrief

  • Be good to have appointed Liam as elections RO in advance rather than from the floor
  • TODO: extract Jpeg's and Andrew's interviews and upload seperately
  • Future discussion: clean up speaking order, enforce not talking over each other
    • formalise and update the "chair grants speaking perms" system for current era
    • need to clarify how and when people on stream get to speak
  • Also slow getting people up to speak
    • need a second stream master?
    • and more practice in general
  • Roger asks what our communication processes need to change to
  • Miles emphasises inclusivity and accessibility
    • Text chat not going away any time soon
    • Live stream not going away, so we still need audio chatter
    • __Don't__ want free voice chatter though, because it heavily privileges speakers
    • TODO: put some more thought into this


Motions

  • MOTION: accept previous NC minutes from July 22nd
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 6 (Alex Jago, Miles Whiticker, David Kennedy, Brandon Selic, John August, Fred Gerner)
    • Abstain 3 (Roger Whatling, Mitchell Curnoe, Andrew Downing)
    • Motion carried 20:40 AEST
  • MOTION: Resume fortnightly NC meetings from 19th August
    • Put by: David Kennedy
    • Carried unanimously.
  • MOTION: authorise Alex's sticker pack crowdfund scheme
    • Put by: Alex Jago
    • Carried unanimously (Roger Whatling, Fred Gerner, David Kennedy, Mitchell Curnoe, Miles Whitcker, Andrew Downing, John August) at 22:06 AEST.
  • MOTION: John August (Treasurer), Mitchell Curnoe (Deputy Treasurer) and Alexander Jago (Secretary) are to be the signatories to all three of Pirate Party Australia's ANZ bank accounts.
    • Put by John August
    • Ayes 8 (Roger Whatling, John August, David Kennedy, Andrew Downing, Mitchell Curnoe, Fred Gerner, Alex Jago, Miles Whiticker)
    • Nays 0; Abstain 0
    • Motion carried 22:28 AEST.
  • MOTION: close the meeting.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 8 (Miles Whiticker, Fred Gerner, Mitchell Curnoe, David Kennedy, Roger Whatling, Andrew Downing, John August, Alex Jago)
    • Meeting closed at 22:43 AEST.
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