Officer Reports/2014-05-08

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  • Q1: "What did your Committee or Working Group do since the last scheduled National Council meeting?"
  • Q2: "Did anything impede your group's ability to do anything since the last scheduled National Council meeting?"
  • Q3: "What can the National Council do to assist your group?"
  • Q4: "Any other comments?"

Responses

Officer/Group Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
ACT - Coordinator (Glen Takkenberg) No action has been made in ACT. Other than inaction by myself, no. The only possible NC action would be replacing the ACT Co-ordinator. I was planning on holding a meetup during the past fortnight, but there was a little interest in response to my query several weeks ago about when people wanted it held.

This has affected my motivation to organise a meetup.

QLD - Coordinator (Michael Keating) The QLD Branch formation committee at this point has not formally met, however a small amount of work has been done to identify goals for when we first meet to discuss this process. - Ideally the National Council should be able to assist us when the time comes for providing membership numbers etc to determine state numbers when looking at incorporating the branch. -
NSW - Coordinator (Sunny Kalsi) There was a monthly meeting. Minutes at: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Sydney_Meetup_2014-04-26 No. There was discussion during the meetup that we might need a list of low-priority "todo" items. No progress on NSW the branchening.
TAS - Coordinator (Tim Serong)

Sent a Q&A to the candidates of the Tas Legislative Council elections for Huon and Rosevears. Three actually replied: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/TAS:2014/Legislative_Council_Q_and_A

Kevin Bonham (a presumably reasonably well followed election junkie) linked to this page off his blog at http://kevinbonham.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/legislative-council-2014-huon-and.html

So kinda some sort of visibility for us, I hope. I'd be interested to know what sort of traffic we got on that wiki page, if it's possible to find out.

Nope. I'd like to somehow be able to do a one-off mailout to any/all Tasmanian

members who *aren't* on the Announce TAS list, inviting them to please get on that list so they'll hear about meeting announcements and whatnot. But I can't do that myself, not having access to the membership database (I'm not asking for access to the database, I just want to be able to get that email out somehow, or at find out if there's members who aren't on the announce list).

This looks suspiciously like Scrum via email ;)

Also, some advance warning: I'll be away from about June 7 to July 1, in Germany. I should have access to email, but I may or may not be reliably present on IRC for that period.

SA - Coord (Bryn Busai) I announced an start of fortnightly meetings for the Adelaide/SA Group, apart from that not much. Not yet Help me get some connections... -
WA - Coordinator (Fletcher Boyd) We scheduled our monthly meetup and coordinated the retrieval of election material. Only a lack of time on the part of group members. (myself included) Keep running awesome national campaigns that bring more attention to the party. I like this, let's do this.
PDC Held one meeting to discuss ongoing policy development and which policies/amendments are likely to be drafted in time for Congress.

Also submitted to the Attorney-General's Department on draft legislation to repeal s 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. Discussed potential approaches to a policy targeting domestic violence nationwide.

Member availability has been an impediment, though anticipated. Submissions can take time away from developing policies, but I

think this was expected when the PDC was given the responbility over submissions.

N/A. N/A.
Press Team Four press releases: "AGD continues to draw articial distinctions at public hearing" (24 April),

"UN calls on Federal Government to reconsider Reef dumping plans" (2 May), "There's nothing the Coalition won't put a price on: Internet censorship sponsored by Hollywood" (5 May) and "Stop blaming consumers for failed business models: Pirate Party petitions Senate" (6 May).

Generally a lack of personnel to pick up the slack, but this has shown strong signs of improvement particularly over the last week. A single person (not a committee, team or working group) responsible for coordinating campaigns would be useful. One issue

is that the Press Team does not learn that a press release is needed until very close to the deadline and more time would be appreciated where possible. Sometimes, however, this cannot be achieved, such as with the recent news regarding anti-piracy measures which was entirely unanticipated. However, the National Council should consider appointing a coordinator to manage campaigns that involve several teams/committees.

N/A.
IEC To my knowledge, no significant actions have been undertaken by the IEC since the last NC meeting. The only action taken to my

awareness is the trivial addition of the current IEC membership list to the wiki.

I've not been terribly active as of late, as I'm currently rather time-poor from work & study commitments and moving plans. I'm

aiming to have my move finalised by mid-June (and the current uni semester should wrap up around the same time) after which I will be more actively involved.

Nothing major springs to mind. Are there any under-development policies related to the IEC's area of work that we can assist the PDC with? None at present.
ITWG * Patrol wiki and main website comments and delete/block spam users and posts;
  • Upgrade mediawiki to fix security hole;
  • Upgrade WP core and plugins;
  • Promote select wiki users to state coordinator priviliges, to enable them to have more control over protected pages;
  • Add/update mailing group membership as requested by NC and Officers;
  • Add/update calendar items as requested by state coordinators;
  • Ask Rodney to renew lapsed pirate.org.au domain, as the CC it was linked to had expired so it did not auto-renew;
  • Regularly install server updates as they become available;
  • Purchase isabbottstillpm.net.au domain and add to Cloudflare DNS;
  • Investigate Binary Lane as a potential web host and check they comply with informal ITWG guidelines on service reliability, data privacy and company ethics;
  • Recommend Binary Lane to the Programming Officer who has since moved the Join Form/Membership DB to servers in Brisbane (formerly in Germany).
 No. Find a volunteer willing to maintain website theme. -
Social Media * Focused on getting daily updates out on Twitter/FB
  • Working on recruitment - nothing confirmed yet, but planning on poaching hanrahan to work on Twitter :)
 Lack of time/people - will be much easier to keep everything running with a few more people on board. Definitely appreciate the help from Mozart, Brendan, Rundll, and Frew the last few weeks. Better publicisation of the Twitter/FB accounts on the website. Right now they're nearly invisible other than a couple links on the wiki. sorry for the late submission
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