PNC 12/20/20

Agenda

Old Business

Proposed amendments to PNC Bylaws

Article III, section 3, 7
Each delegation shall be treated equally in all matters with an exception in the matter of nominations for President and Vice-President of the United States, wherein each delegation shall have a vote in a national convention weighted by its population in millions rounded up to the next whole million. In the case of the delegation representing a constituency that has a primary election wherein the pirate party has state ballot status, the delegation shall allot its votes to candidates in proportion to the results of the state’s primary.

Reports

IT

MassPirates deployed the latest Pirate Rogue theme successfully. jokeefe will update it a uspirates.org before the end of the year.

Minutes

Record of the meeting

 


[9:00pm] Bosun: IDs Please
[9:00pm] Sayyida: Megan Klein Vice Chair Wi
[9:00pm] Bosun: Joseph Klein, USPP chair
[9:01pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Secretary, Acting Rep from MA until real rep. appears
[9:01pm] Joe joined the chat room.
[9:01pm] Joe: Ahoy
[9:01pm] yari joined the chat room.
[9:01pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:02pm] yari: ahoy
[9:02pm] yari: Have we begun?
[9:02pm] Sayyida: Ahoy yari , Joe
[9:02pm] jokeefe: we are just getting started with ids
[9:02pm] yari: Rose Klein, California
[9:02pm] Bosun: CA is observer
[9:02pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Treasurer, Massachusetts
[9:04pm] Bosun: Yari - what of the old business tabled at the last meeting?
[9:04pm] jokeefe: Mass. has not been able to vote on the change to Article III, section 3, 7
[9:06pm] yari: My suggestion, as I communicated to Bosun and to jokeefe, is that we table the change to III, 3,7 and also introduce some additional bylaws to solve the issue of a potential small group of people taking over an entire delegation with little involvement in the pirate party
[9:07pm] Olivia_ joined the chat room.
[9:07pm] Olivia_: Olivia Kristiann, volunteer
[9:07pm] yari: Specifically, I would suggest that we discuss some sort of credentialing process for delegates to the convention
[9:07pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:08pm] Bosun: So, it remains tabled.
[9:08pm] Bosun: Anything from IT?
[9:08pm] jokeefe: MassPirates.org deployed the latest Pirate Rogue theme successfully. I will update uspirates.org with it before the end of the year.
[9:09pm] jokeefe: It is much more mobile friendly
[9:09pm] Olivia_: It looks great!
[9:09pm] jokeefe: Thank you
[9:10pm] jokeefe: I will schedule a Tech meeting for early/mid January
[9:11pm] Bosun: We need more pirate hats!
[9:11pm] Olivia_: How did the end of the tech meetup go recently on which tool to use for conferencing?
[9:12pm] Olivia_: I left after the second hour.
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Mass. tech meeting? Haven’t made a decision.
[9:12pm] Olivia_: Mitch sent me a dm saying he's  getting a bad gateway error trying to come here tonight.
[9:13pm] Sayyida: Olivia_, what is he using?
[9:13pm] Sayyida: is he using the web browser?
[9:13pm] Olivia_: I think he's using the one on the site the web one I'm not sure.
[9:13pm] jokeefe: yeah, https://webchat.pirateirc.net/ is down
[9:14pm] Olivia_: I use irccloud.com I had to manually configure it once and then just rejoin.  It saves the text if we want too.
[9:15pm] jokeefe: good to know
[9:16pm] Sayyida: sorry baby pirate is protesting and not wanting to go to bed
[9:16pm] Sayyida: the warm bottle of milk is being deployed, hopefully we can come to some agreement
[9:16pm] jokeefe: good luck!
[9:17pm] Bosun: bottle deployed
[9:17pm] jokeefe: that is all I have for IT