PNC 6/6/12

Agenda PNC MEETING' 

--- 08/23/2012 18:00h PST ---

IRC: irc.pirateirc.net

Room: #pnc

Wiki: [http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_6/06/12 http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_6/06/12]

Minutes

Record of the meeting

1 - ATTENDEES

1.1 - Members of the PNC

• participating:
  • Zacqary Adam Green, New York
  • Liz Brunner, NY
  • Brad Hall, Florida
  • Jeff Talada, Washington
  • Jarod, GA
  • matuck, GA
  • James O'Keefe, MA

• excused: 

• unexcused: 

1.2 - At Large Members of the PNC

• sacha, MI
• itspara, Maryland

2 - PROCEEDINGS

• Meeting opened at 9:06pm EST by Travis McCrea
• Meeting closed at 11:42pm EST by Travis McCrea
• Meeting chaired by Travis McCrea
• Secretary for this meeting is QuazarGuy
• Quorum is established. [] Members out of [] present
• Logging Enabled: Yes

3 - Review of previous minutes

• [http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_5/23/12 http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_5/23/12]

4 - REPORTS

4.1 - Short report of the board members 

Massachusetts

• will be marching in the Boston Pride Parade this Saturday with our banner and pirate ship
  • also have a table
• exploring helping a local non-profit with its ballot drive to get various advisory questions for state rep districts
  • the question is to ask state rep. to support a const. amendment to overturn citizens united
• working on JP's campaign
  • exploring possible legal suit to challenge early deadline
• holding monthly pirate lunches
• looking to setup a hack day to get a liquid feedback server up
• making connections, planning summer events
• will probably be at the boston freedom rally which is pro-hemp fest in September

Washington

• Planning to go around the state to help form local groups

Georgia

• Still working on getting things together to get registered

Florida

• Same as we were last week

New York

• Zac and Liz are going to be in an article in the next issue of politik und kommunikation
• Rehearsing the Pirate Choir this weekend
• Interviewing with Joe Satran of the Huffington Post
• Josh Lafazan is an 18-year-old kid from my hometown of Syosset who got elected to the Syosset school board, attempting conversion
  • On a platform of "why the hell is the superintendent being paid $500,000" 

5 - Progress on Temporary PNC Objectives

• http://pirate-party.us/news/article/temporary-pirate-national-committee
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aLMIpfAPMqIMRET12kNayo0j5kBFNyQOkT-9v0IGwYY/edit?pli=1
• Massachusetts moves that we establish a constitution committee that consists of two co-chairs appointed by the PNC and any other members who are interested in joining.  quorum shall consist of a majority of active members of the committee.
  • 5 for, at-large (.5) for
  • Motion to appoint chairs next week
    • 5 for, at-large (.5) for
    • Motion to have candidates confirmed by Sunday 9:00pm EDT
      • 5 for, at-large (.5) for
      • Motion to use ranked voting to determine the co-chairs of committees
        • 4 for, at-large (.5) for
        • Motion for the ballot to be open
          • Amend to secret instead of open
            • 2 for, 1 against, at-large (.5) for
          • 2 for, 1 abstain, at-large (.5) for
• Motion to adjourn
  • 2 for, 1 against, at-large (1) for

6 - VPN

Any states that would like to provide VPN service to their members:

• Rates would be $10 p/mo $35 p/6mo $60 p/yr
• Your state would make $5 $15 $30 respectively (not per signup, but per mo/6/yr)

This is the same system being adopted by PPI for member countries, so it's pretty awesome. It's a great way for your state to make money to be used for advertising and party funds. Here is the order page http://acceptculture.org/ to get a feel for it. (ignore the current prices, they are just place holders)

- AOB -

Next meeting: 6/13/12 at 9:00pm EST

Meeting closed: at 11:42 pm EST