Minutes/Policy Development Committee Meeting/2014-09-10
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Meeting Minutes
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Attendees
- Andrew Downing (Chair)
- Brendan Molloy
- Ben Fairless
- Bill McLean
- Fletcher Boyd
- Daniel Judge
- Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (Inquiries Officer)
- Mark Gibbons
Absent
- Sunny Kalsi
Apologies
- David Crafti
Agenda
PDC members Changes
Ben Fairless (his first meeting tonight) - must find him something to do. Done: Ben now chairs an FOI policy working group. ref: IRC log.
Inquiries Status update by Inquiries Officer (Mozart)
Mozart: Yes, we dropped quite a monster submission on Friday. 25 pages on the online copyright infringement discussion paper. I believe that's the longest (or second longest) submission we've made. It, and all our submissions, are available from https://pirateparty.org.au/submissions/
Progress Reports from Active Working Groups
Universal Healthcare Working Group (Chair=BillM)
Set first meeting for Wednesday, 17th September. Added DanielJ to team. Brendan just has watching brief.
Corporate Stalking (Chair=DavidC)
Pending participation by Liam
Startups Working Group (Chair=AndrewD)
No progress.
Distributed Digital Currencies and Economies Policy (Chair=AndrewD)
Set 1st meeting to be Monday 22nd September, 8:30pm in #ppau-pdc AndrewD to post discourse topic to prompt member discussion, well before meeting.
Library and Cultural Development Policy (Chair=Sunny Kalsi)
Met two mondays back. Missed this monday. Some work done. Found these interesting links ...
- http://www.wired.com/2014/09/makerspace/
- Title: Why Your Library May Soon Have Laser Cutters and 3-D Printers | Design | WIRED (at www.wired.com)
- http://www.alia.org.au/sites/default/files/Kelly%20-%20final.pdf
- Title: Why do we need one of those? The role of the public library in creating and promoting makerspaces.
- http://eprints.qut.edu.au/73071/
- Title: A place to make, hack, and learn: makerspaces in Australian public libraries | QUT ePrints (at eprints.qut.edu.au)
- http://eprints.qut.edu.au/73071/1/73071.pdf
- Title: A Place to Make, Hack, and Learn: Makerspaces in Australian Public Libraries
Libraries seem to already be thinking about adapting their roles to include things like Maker Spaces but they do seem a bit worried about copyright and other IP issues