PNC 06/16/2024

The June 16th, 2024 PNC Meeting was one of the weekly meetings of the Pirate National Committee (PNC). This meeting took place on IRC.

Meeting Minutes

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20:50:40 <DreadPirateDrew>AHOY!!
20:50:44 <iAmV>ahoy
20:52:09 <iAmV>I was looking in the archive and there usually were state reports to the PNC. Do you remember any of those types of meetings Drew?
20:53:34 <DreadPirateDrew>No, not really but then again we have been mostly focusing on reviving the USPP and I know at least PA has been neglected. And for us in PA there isn't much to actually run for this year, as next year will be local elections again.
20:54:03 <DreadPirateDrew> all our stuff is high level in even years.
20:54:26 <iAmV> There's a balance between state work and national work I think.
20:55:10 <iAmV> I think it was a very cool week for state stuff. CA, FL, and MA had meetings this week. IL started getting ready for meetings again.
20:55:16 <DreadPirateDrew> Yeah, there is. I am figuring mostly that if we promote the PP as a whole, that volunteers will come out and find their state parties
20:56:00 <DreadPirateDrew> agreed. With PA having a few new people, I think we can have functioning meetings again.
20:56:00 <iAmV> Did you see the cool PP demands we started Saturday?
20:56:14 <DreadPirateDrew> I missed those, where can I find them?
20:56:20 <iAmV> One second.
20:56:51 <iAmV> https://medium.com/@sopphey/pirate-party-demands-7dd518623feb Started the list here.
20:56:53 <papegaai>Title: Pirate Party Demands - Sarai "Sopphey {V}ance" Oviedo - Medium (at medium.com)
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20:57:20 <sopphey>ahoy mitch!
20:57:22 <pmchi>Ahoy!
20:58:14 <DreadPirateDrew>We're missing energy reform in those demands
20:58:38 <sopphey>Yes. We're missing a lot. These were the first ones :)
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20:58:46 <sopphey>We'll keep adding to the demands.
20:59:07 <sopphey>ahoy !
20:59:17 <LightRiderTX> Greetings
21:00:00 <DreadPirateDrew>It's a good start @sopphey
21:01:08 <DreadPirateDrew>So for reminders for me ( and for after the meeting as I am doing a livestream after this ) We currently have 6 members of the PNC right?
21:01:15 <NomadOfNorad> So, is the meeting started? Or is this just lobby-talk? :)
21:01:25 <sopphey>Lobby talk
21:01:51 <sopphey>We have MA, ID, IL, TX, CA, PA ... so yes
21:02:11 <sopphey>mavsben ahoy?
21:02:15 <DreadPirateDrew>Yeah still lobby talk. Thanks for that.
21:02:26 <NomadOfNorad> Any Florida ppl here but me right now?
21:02:36 <mavsben>howdy
21:02:41 <DreadPirateDrew>We can do ID's
21:02:52 <LightRiderTX> I may or may not be watching house of the dragon...
21:03:04 <DreadPirateDrew>"howdy" that's such a texas thing to say... LOL
21:03:06 <sopphey>Okay we can do IDs
21:03:11 <NomadOfNorad> Schroedinger's House of the Dragon
21:03:16 <LightRiderTX> Howdy landlubbers
21:03:23 <DreadPirateDrew>did season 2 release?
21:03:27 <mavsben>ahoywdy
21:03:32 <LightRiderTX> ha
21:03:36 <DreadPirateDrew>LOL
21:04:03 <DreadPirateDrew>OK, a bit more serious. Drew Bingaman, Captain of the USPP
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21:04:08 <LightRiderTX> Frank Flores, TX Treasurer
21:04:18 <mavsben>Ben Horlick USPP Quartermaster & TX rep
21:04:19 <yari> Rose Klein, CA rep
21:04:27 <sopphey>Sarai "Sopphey Vance" Oviedo, Swarmcare USPP
21:04:38 <yari> (going to only be here for a bit, btw)
21:04:51 <NomadOfNorad> Anyway, looks like I got voluntodlificated to preliminarily become the emergency-backup PNC guy for FPP. David Hall in the upper Eastern part of Florida here.
21:05:08 <NomadOfNorad> volun-toldificated
21:05:17 <mavsben>lol
21:05:24 <sopphey>Good to have you here
21:05:27 <LightRiderTX> best of luck
21:05:34 *NomadOfNorad gets a goofy, lopsided smile,
21:05:46 <DreadPirateDrew>Nice.
21:06:14 <DreadPirateDrew>@pmchi
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21:08:24 <Ty--> Ty Clifford, WV / USPP VC
21:08:53 <DreadPirateDrew>OK so one thing I need to address is that with all the new activity, it is more important to remember to sign tweets (or whatever they're called now since the name change) Especially for transparency purposes. It doesn't need to be your full name, initials are good. Just an identifier that it was whoever posted.
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21:09:26 <pmchi>Mitch Davilo, Chicagoland/ILPP
21:09:42 <mavsben>roger that drew
21:10:15 <yari> i have to bounce in a second. want to report that things are really moving on the CAPP end. nothing to report as an officer.
21:10:21 <wanda061>Sorry for being late, I didn't realize it was already 8. Do I need to ID?
21:10:32 <pmchi>Full transparency, the recent Twitter activity is mine
21:10:33 <DreadPirateDrew>Floor is yours Yari
21:10:46 <yari> oh, nothing more than that to report
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21:11:23 <sopphey>yay CA! So awesome yari <3 21:11:47 <yari> okay thank you all for your work, see you next week <3 21:11:51 <DreadPirateDrew>OK cool. PA has seen a few new members as well. I think this partnership with vermin really raised our visibility, and I will be helping that later tonight to talk about our partnership on a livestream
21:11:54 <sopphey>see you <3
21:12:15 <mavsben>adios yari! be safe
21:12:34 <sopphey>PA livestream, Drew?
21:12:43 <LightRiderTX> adios
21:13:06 <DreadPirateDrew>No actually itn's a livestream with Dave Valente on his youtube channel.
21:13:25 <sopphey>That's wonderful! We should RT
21:13:39 <DreadPirateDrew>https://www.youtube.com/live/jd94k5QG96U?si=cCGl_qWiczzb1Ed-
21:13:40 <papegaai>Title: A Pirate's Life For Us: The Political Deep Dive - YouTube (at www.youtube.com)
21:13:43 <DreadPirateDrew>That is the link
21:14:11 <sopphey>Great, thank you
21:14:19 <mavsben>ooo good luck!
21:14:51 <sopphey>Are we doing reports, I went and pinged the Discord
21:16:09 <DreadPirateDrew>yes, if there is anything to report, this is a good time
21:16:19 <LightRiderTX> cool
21:16:37 <sopphey>Swarmcare's been busy. We did a big pirate pride celebration. Successful 5hour hangout of global pirates!
21:17:01 <LightRiderTX> was awesome
21:17:13 <sopphey>Going to do a version of pirate beer the last Saturday of every month on a global scale with timezones fitting eastern and western hemispheres.
21:17:15 <DreadPirateDrew>that was fun. Looking forward to the next one
21:17:22 <LightRiderTX> TX has a new facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560637366224
21:17:23 <papegaai>Title: Tejas Pirates (at www.facebook.com)
21:17:26 <sopphey>(looking at MilesW_PPAUfor help too)
21:17:33 <mavsben>Joe and I werent able to get together and wrap up the FEC filings but we submitted and had approved the amended form of organization installing me as treasurer. We've got putting me on the bank account in process pending some documents that need to be signed via snail mail
21:18:06 <mavsben>IIRC we've got til the 24th to get the filings updated so theres a bit of time left
21:18:25 <sopphey>FL (finds wanda and nomad) had a meeting <3
21:18:51 <mavsben>We're planning to leave Jamie as an authorized signatory on the account as he is now just to have a backup in case some kind of branch banking needs to get done and Joe isnt available
21:18:56 <wanda061>Just wanted to pop in to ID, I'm Wanda from Florida
21:19:31 <wanda061>We met yesterday and ratified bylaws (PNC and Florida bylaws)
21:19:30 <NomadOfNorad> And yeah, I'm the other one from Florida
21:19:39 <DreadPirateDrew>Does that mean florida is soon ready to be sponsored?
21:19:57 <wanda061>Hopefully next week if all goes well
21:20:04 <DreadPirateDrew>awesome!
21:20:07 <sopphey>Just missing the website.
21:20:17 <mavsben>TX will be ready to sponsor :)
21:20:25 <sopphey>yeehaw
21:20:26 <mavsben>i was born in west palm actually
21:20:39 <mavsben>Texas raised but florida man at heart
21:21:13 <sopphey>Does anyone have big plans for July 4?
21:21:23 <NomadOfNorad> I've lived in Florida since I was.... like... age 4 or something.
21:21:29 <sopphey>Or RNC?
21:22:16 <DreadPirateDrew>I don't really have plans for either ATM
21:22:52 <LightRiderTX> oh god watch out it's florida man!
21:23:04 <wanda061>lol
21:23:04 <pmchi>I will be working July 4th, but might I suggest early an event for Talk Like a Pirate Day in September?
21:23:32 <sopphey>July 4 is on a Thursday. So maybe we can do something, even if graphics only, to remind the government that we want "taxation WITH representation"
21:23:48 <sopphey>Yes, talk like a pirate day is on the list. What's the plan mitch?
21:24:27 <sopphey>(maybe add more to the demands list: https://medium.com/@sopphey/pirate-party-demands-7dd518623feb for 4th of July?)
21:24:28 <papegaai>Title: Pirate Party Demands - Sarai "Sopphey {V}ance" Oviedo - Medium (at medium.com)
21:24:55 <pmchi>I got no plans in mind, but a worldwide Pirate livestream would be cool
21:25:53 <sopphey>That could be cool
21:26:21 <pmchi>Perhaps Pan-American Pirates, Australia and any European who’s awake to attend. It would be neat to have a Pirate-centric broadcast, kind of allowing for those who’ve never heard of the Pirate Party to see what it’s all about
21:27:40 <sopphey>I think it can work
21:27:54 <sopphey>I forgot to post earlier the graphic for pirate beers (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1088982817876222062/1251956629054947439/pirate-beer.png?ex=667076f8&is=666f2578&hm=8298cf4e3064f0d33fdc62090db1c820d1eb1fec04105a5a70116a704207d747&)
21:29:20 <pmchi>If at all possible, maybe we can have a bilingual event? Ie, if Chile, Argentina and other Spanish speaking Pirates attend, I think it would be great to have an English and Spanish presentation
21:30:16 <DreadPirateDrew>Who all is fluent in Spanish? I know very little 21:30:25 <sopphey>I am fluent in Spanish
21:30:41 <pmchi>I think I could get by on what I know. I use to speak it all shift at work
21:30:46 <mavsben>i wouldnt say im fluent but i can make due
21:31:18 <DreadPirateDrew>OK, then I would say that could absolutely be on the table and it sounds awesome.
21:32:01 <LightRiderTX> Dos cervezas por favor
21:32:16 <DreadPirateDrew>I know that one...lol
21:32:25 <sopphey>arr capitan
21:32:35 <mavsben>como se dice "grog" lol
21:32:50 <DreadPirateDrew>Probably just "grog"
21:33:29 <pmchi>El grog
21:33:53 <sopphey>So we didn't quite reach quorum did the meeting officially begin?
21:34:15 <pmchi>We ID’d, did we not reach quorum?
21:34:30 <sopphey>3 out of 6?
21:34:37 <DreadPirateDrew>we had quorum when we started I think, but Yari is now not here
21:34:40 <mavsben>I think we had/lost it
21:34:44 <mavsben>yeah drews right
21:34:46 <sopphey>Ah
21:35:15 <LightRiderTX> Was anyone from Team Vermin invited?
21:35:38 <DreadPirateDrew>Didn't specifically invite anyone but it was known that this week was IRC
21:35:45 <NomadOfNorad> So, we're back to lobby-talk. :D
21:36:00 <mavsben>its been productive lobby talk at least haha
21:36:07 <NomadOfNorad> yup
21:37:05 <DreadPirateDrew>Technically. I will need to hop out shortly. Is there anything else for reports or updates?
21:37:08 <LightRiderTX> Looking forward to what the platform committee comes out with
21:37:48 <mavsben>nada from me
21:38:06 <sopphey>I think I reported all the things.
21:38:17 <sopphey>I will attend a VS team meeting this week too
21:38:32 <sopphey>Plus global pirate things like PPI board meeting, PPEU
21:38:37 <DreadPirateDrew>Is that the Wed night meeting?
21:38:48 <sopphey>Correct, VS is Wed evening
21:38:49 <DreadPirateDrew>the team supreme meeting
21:39:22 <DreadPirateDrew>nice, I will try to join up if I am available
21:40:03 <sopphey>Okay y'all. Let's support our capitan: https://www.youtube.com/live/jd94k5QG96U
21:40:04 <papegaai>Title: A Pirate's Life For Us: The Political Deep Dive - YouTube (at www.youtube.com)
21:40:40 <mavsben>@drew do you want me to join on the uspp youtube?
21:40:53 <mavsben>like just hang in the chat
21:42:11 <LightRiderTX> move to adjourn?
21:42:15 <pmchi>Second
21:42:23 <sopphey>aye
21:42:28 <mavsben>mutiny!
21:42:40 <mavsben>technically not a meeting, so motion isnt needed
21:42:47 <DreadPirateDrew>I would say to hop in the chat for the political deep dive. And absolutely you can chime in.
21:42:48 <sopphey>technically it was hilarious
21:42:52 <NomadOfNorad> :)
21:42:56 <LightRiderTX> Talk like a dragon day
21:43:02 <mavsben>>:D
21:43:09 <mavsben>cool sounds good
21:43:15 <NomadOfNorad> Pirates riding in on dragons! THERE'S an interesting picture! :D
21:43:49 *LightRiderTX writes note to self "upgrade tigers to dragons..."
21:44:10 <sopphey>Okay see you on the Discord server and then youtube later
21:44:09 <NomadOfNorad> Tigers with dragon-wings... hmmmm....
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21:44:26 <LightRiderTX> adios and yeeharr
21:44:29 <DreadPirateDrew>my Thu'um needs work
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21:44:56 <wanda061>I'm going to watch the stream from the FLPP youtube, which I just made lol
21:45:15 <DreadPirateDrew>awesome! Thanks everyone, next week jitsi
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