PNC 09/28/2025

The September 28th, 2025 PNC Meeting was one of the weekly meetings of the Pirate National Committee (PNC). It was the second meeting of the proposed experiment to have public Jitsi meetings. This meeting took place on IRC at first for IDs then moved to Jitsi.

Summary

Attending

Jolly Mitch, Captain (Chicagoland/IL)
Ty Clifford, Vice Captain (WV/non-voting)
Darren Mckeeman, QuarterMaster (CA)
Blase Henry, Scribe (AZ)
Morgan Landry, Webadmin (TX)
Eli McGee, Beancounter (MA)
Ashley Melody (IN)
Cy Kindsfather, PR Director (MT/non-voting)
David Hall (FL)
Dustin (VA/Non-Voting)
Tanner Basye (ID)

Meeting Minutes

11:43:47 — 13:29:19 C2ah, NomadOfNorad and pmchi have joined 13:29:56 <NomadOfNorad> a message 13:30:01 <NomadOfNorad> okay, NOW its workng 13:32:07 <NomadOfNorad> hmmmm... did hamsters knaw the wires in the server room, or something? I was getting "cannot send message in server buffer" in here earlier. 15:59:12 — 16:32:17 Captain has joined, pmchi has quit 16:32:24 <Captain> hola 16:41:10 <NomadOfNorad> hello 17:32:12 PoliticalFreedomFighters has joined 17:35:17 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> hello 17:41:38 — 17:47:19 pmchi and Tanner have joined 17:48:17 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> I can't wait for this meeting in 12 minutes 17:50:34 <Tanner> I cant wait to hear whats in store for todays meet, im exited too 17:51:27 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> I see that the pirate party stream their meetings on YouTube. Will this meeting also be the case? 17:52:01 <Tanner> i assume so, but im not the person who'd know for sure 17:54:33 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> If that's the case, I want to see the stream 17:55:21 <pmchi> No unfortunately we will not be streaming tonight. Next week will be over livestream! 17:56:31 <Tanner> im working on establishing a pirate party in my state, so im trying to be present at these, and get a feel for things 17:56:42 Jester has joined 17:57:25 <Jester> Good day all, how are we doing? 17:57:31 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> Doing good Jester 17:57:43 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> Tanner, what state are you in? 17:57:52 <Tanner> hi jester! doin alright here 17:57:59 <Tanner> im in idaho 17:58:11 Wanda-FL has joined 17:58:18 <Wanda-FL> Ahoy 17:58:26 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> ahoy Wanda 17:58:30 <pmchi> Ahoy all! Bears won today so I’m doing fantastic and I hope you’re all feeling as well as I am 17:58:46 <Wanda-FL> Full disclosure, I will be recording the meeting tonight for recordkeeping purposes. Blase asked me to do so 17:58:52 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> I'm in North Carolina. I'm also trying to establish a state party in my state because there have been some North Carolinians who have wanted it in the past 17:58:59 <pmchi> Thank you Wanda 17:59:14 <pmchi> Welcome! 17:59:14 <NomadOfNorad> recording on video, or doing auto-transcription? 17:59:21 <NomadOfNorad> both? 17:59:31 <Wanda-FL> Recording on video 17:59:39 <Jester> Thank you for recording Wanda-FL 18:00:09 <pmchi> It is 9:00pmET, we can call this meeting to order. Let’s start with IDs please. 18:00:12 EliMass has joined 18:00:27 <Wanda-FL> Wanda Ward, Florida Pirate Party, USPP Lookout 18:00:32 <pmchi> Jolly Mitch, Captain, Chicagoland/ILPP 18:00:33 <Tanner> Tanner Basye-idaho 18:00:40 <EliMass> Eli mcgee. Massachusetts rep 18:00:42 <NomadOfNorad> David Hall, other FPP rep 18:00:53 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> James Nguyen, new person hoping to represent North Carolina 18:01:40 <pmchi> I’m excellent thank you everyone. James and Tanner just fyi you are both more than welcome to participate and ask questions but know that voting will be limited to PNC member states 18:01:42 <Jester> Ashley Melody, INPP 18:01:48 <Jester> Interim rep of course 18:02:34 <Jester> I thought tonight was a jitsi/irc night? 18:02:45 <pmchi> Tonight will be over Jitsi! 18:02:48 <Wanda-FL> I believe we're wating on the link 18:02:53 tjcrowley has joined 18:02:55 <PoliticalFreedomFighters> I want to form a state party in North Carolina because from what I have heard, people have been wanting one for years. How do I make one? 18:03:03 <tjcrowley> Hello hello 18:03:20 <Wanda-FL> Hello! We're in the process of IDs right now 18:03:52 <tjcrowley> I'm Darren Mckeeman, California Pirate Party and quartermaster 18:04:12 <pmchi> James I will answer that question in Jitsi, which I will send the link to momentarily! Welcome Darren! 18:05:02 <tjcrowley> I'm not sure how long I can stay tonight, I actually haven't eaten since yesterday and I need to deal with that soon 18:05:06 <Captain> I'm Cy Kindsfather of the Montana Pirate Party, handling PR at present 18:05:49 <Captain> i slaved over a hot USB charger all evening tryna get my fancy webcam working, only for us to not being using Jitsi? ...or are we? 18:05:56 <pmchi> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/Mm9v7peK 18:05:57 <papegaai> Title: Snippet | IRCCloud (at www.irccloud.com) 18:06:10 <Wanda-FL> We will be on jitsi momentarily I believe 18:06:17 <pmchi> https://meet.jit.si/newpirateswelcomeaboard 18:06:18 <papegaai> Title: Jitsi Meet (at meet.jit.si) 18:06:22 <pmchi> There we go’ 18:09:36 — 20:11:32 zmef, stillzmef and BlaseHenry-AZ have joined, Jester has left, zmef, EliMass, BlaseHenry-AZ, tjcrowley, PoliticalFreedomFighters, Wanda-FL and pmchi have qu