PNC 07/24/2022

Agenda

Discussion

Old Business

• Follow-up: any remaining discussion of from last week of how to hold combined open video/chat meetings, possibility of using telegram (proposed by KY)

New Business

• discussion - what elements of platform should be adopted by the Democratic Freedom Caucus? (proposed by chair)

Attending

• Drew Bingaman, PA
• Joseph Onoroski, MA
• Mitch Davilo, IL
• Rose Klein, CA

Non-Voting

• Anthony Jay, Chair

Summary

Meeting called to order at 9:08pm EST.

Reports

• Swarmcare
  • Tennessee website was created
  • South Dakota - Yari will connect with Mitch
  • Mitch encourages the states which are considering joining to attend PNC meetings
  • PA Pirates have their bylaws and platform online https://papirates.org/platform/
• Treasury
  • at the request of the PNC has gone through and narrowed down the options that we can install on our website for taking donations
  • ActBlue, Stripe, and NationBuilder all mentioned
  • a spreadsheet has been put together to help make a final decision
• Secretary
  • Volunteers for wiki appreciated, specifically people who want to learn wiki formatting and who are not state reps
  • State reps should let secretary know about anything that needs to be added to website/wiki
• Chair
  • We have some new press contacts
• IT committee
  • made the spreadsheet for the treasurer
  • cleaned up contacts that we have, moved to support.uspirates.org
  • will have input form for new contacts by next week
• Platform
  • working on the mandatory/optional platform positions part of the bylaws, will be presenting an amendment by next week
  • 2nd amendment added to todo list for platform
• Outreach
  • no major progress, other than: the decentralized way of handling things is going well.

Old Business

• Follow-up: any remaining discussion of from last week of how to hold combined open video/chat meetings, possibility of using telegram (proposed by KY)
  • CA motions: that the PNC does a test run, at their earliest convenience, of two streamed video meetings via the telegram platform that are then shared via the usual channels.
  • MA seconds
    • debate of merits of telegram and capabilities of the platform
    • the positive: telegram allows for more integrated meetings
    • the negative: lack of established audience
    • note made that there are other available platforms as well, CA says they haven't researched much.
  • the motion is rescinded by CA without objection

New Business

• CA motions that the PNC assign a small committee to review the spreadsheet provided by the IT committee of different payment processing companies and make a decision about which one should be used for the USPP website.
  • vote called. motion passes 4-0-0.
  • Yari and Joe volunteer for the committee. Jamie is suggested as a potential member.
• CA asks if there should be a discussion about what sort of items of business our representative should bring to PPI.
  • brief discussion about the current structure of PPI meetings
  • PA suggests that our PPI representative bring back a report every time there is a meeting with a brief summary of what occurred at the meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 10:02pm EST.

Minutes

Record of the meeting The meeting was livestreamed to youtube and can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWb30qYFv_8