PNC 6/27/12

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Agenda PNC MEETING

06/20/2012 18:00h PST

IRC: irc.pirateirc.net

Room: #pnc

Wiki: http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_6/27/12

Attendees

Members of the PNC

Attending

• Erik Zoltan, MA
• Zacqary Green, NY
• Brad Hall, FL
• Kyle deVore, OR
• Jarod, GA

Excused

• Washington

unexcused

• California
• Oklahoma

At Large Members of the PNC

• sacha, Michigan

Proceedings

• Meeting opened at: 9:08pm EST by Travis McCrea
• Meeting closed at: 10:49pm EST by Travis McCrea
• Meeting chaired by Travis McCrea
• Secretary for this meeting is kusanagi
• Quorum is established. 5 Members out of 8 present
• Logging Enabled: Yes

Review of previous minutes

• http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_6/20/12

Reports

Short report of the board members

Massachusetts

Hosted Pirate luncheon to help spread awareness of hackerthon this coming weekend. hackerthon will try to build a liquid feedback system for their site. Will be offering VPN

Oklahoma

• absent

Washington

• absent

Oregon

• Working on attending "Rock the Ballot" event in Portland at end of July.

Georgia

• Drafting documents to become official

Florida

• Working on NSH2, asking for more contributions

New York

• Pirate Choir isw to be held on July 14th, site for the action is at www.nypirateparty.org/piratechoir Please spread the word. Also have been working on Plzpirate.me. Doing an experiment so members who wish to remain anonymous can vote via crypto keys

California

• absent

Short Report From Committees

IT Committee

• no update

PNC Charter Committee

• the PNC votes to extend its existence until July 12 and will next meet on July 11 to consider the report of the constitutional committee.
• vote to pass was unianimous, 5.5 votes for.
• Motion to not have a meeting on July 4th, PNC voted and was passed, 5.5 for.

Official Naming Convention of State Parties

• Discussion was had about naming conventions, no motions nor vote was made.

Adopting Science Based Reasoning as Official Policy

• Motion to officially advocate science-based reasoning
• Vote passed, 5 for, .5 against

Adopting the 1% of Tax Dollars For NASA platform

• (we currently have no platforms)
• Discussion, no motions. deferred to a nonspecified later date.

Ultimatum for Oklahoma to Participate in the PNC

• Discussion about OK's nonparticipation in PNC. Letter was sent regarding nonparticpation, will return to this topic next meeting.

AOB

• The name thing that Kusanagi keeps asking about, clarifying the roll call process at the beginning of meeting.
  • Motion for PNC representatives to use their real names
    • Vote passes, 3 for, 1.5 abstain
• MrSquared has a concern in the USPP website
• Matuck - please change "Oregan" to "Oregon"

Next meeting: 7/11/12 at 9:00pm EST Meeting closed: at 11:39 pm EST