PNC 8/8/12

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--- 08/8/2012 21:00h EDT ---

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Wiki: http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_8/8/12

Minutes

Record of the meeting

1 - ATTENDEES

1.1 - Members of the PNC

• participating:
  • Joseph T. Klein, Wisconsin
  • Zacqary Adam Green, NY
  • Jarod Smith, GA
  • Jeff Talada, WA
  • Orion Steele, CA
  • Kyle DeVore, OR
  • Bradley Hall, Florida

• excused
  • Massachusetts

• unexcused

• probation
  • OK (fourth week)

1.2 - At Large Members of the PNC

• Alex Kollar PA
• James Eastman/Amanda Johnson, Michigan

2 - PROCEEDINGS

• Meeting opened at: 09:02 pm EDT by Lindsay-Anne Brunner
• Meeting closed at: 11:08pm EDT by Lindsay-Anne Brunner
• Meeting chaired by 
• Secretary for this meeting is Jeff Talada
• Quorum is established: Members 7 out of 8 present
• Logging Enabled: Yes

3 - Review of previous minutes

• http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_8/1/12

4 - REPORTS

4.1 - Short report of the board members

Massachusetts

• excused

Washington

• no report

Oregon

• working on getting the ORPP FB page up

=Georgia

• no report

Florida

• Friday we have to file our 3-month activity report with the Florida Department of Elections

New York

• Pirate Choir video should be done this week

California

• we are all back from various teaching jobs across the country so we are starting to bring together all of the ideas and networking together and take action
• reaching over 8000 people on facebook every day and our twitter/subreddit/google+ page is growing daily
• just had our 9th videotaped weekly meeting and it is available online
• on wednesday we have our third episode of the pirate hour (would love to see any of you there) we are interviewing Bill Kelleher and Alan Dechert
• working with Travis McCrea and the German pirates as part of the AGPPP
• This week we are in the process of switching over our website to our own server space, installing liquid feedback and a 24/7 radio stream
  • as part of our media project we are trying to start working with other pirate parties to collect content from musicians in their districts that support our cause, then setting up a radio station that plays our music, podcasts/interviews and our own commercials
    • its an awesome way to unite the pirate parties around the world and build the cultural component of our movement
    • got interest from Pirate Parties UK and Finland
• working on the music project and an internship proposal to take to universities in our area to give college students school credit for helping us with the pirate party
• writing blogs and keeping stuff fresh

Want help with:

1. pirate hour - this is an awesome venue for talking to important people about stuff we care about. we are trying to nail down the time for generally thursday nights at 9 pm PDT (midnight on east coast). any of these you could come to helps us because we need a full audience and helps you because it allows you to connect with people and share our networking labor
2. TPP treaty negotiations - we were really happy to have a presence in san diego and we will work with anyone who is interested in going to virginia to help you with a speech or materials to distribute or whatever

Wisconsin

• our members voted and ratified the PNC Constitution
• looking into the possibility of a student pirate group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• reaching 33k people on facebook weekly
• Twitter network shows constant growth, and we will soon be making efforts to network using google+

- AOB -

• Mozart (PPAU) – Trans-Pacific Partnership.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership#Controversy_over_Intellectual_Property_.28IP.29_provisions
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership#Controversy_over_negotiation_secrecy
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership
  • Next round of negotiations are in VA
    • Sept. 9
    • Registration closes in about a week: http://www.ustr.gov/tpp/
  • the text of the speech CAPP presented is here: http://www.calpirateparty.org/1/post/2012/07/california-pirate-party-response-to-the-trans-pacific-partnership-treaty.html
  • Mozart is available to help write/edit presentations that get written
  • OrionSteele, we can also help write presentations and work with anyone on the logistical side of registering or writing flyers for the table

Observer State updates

• Michigan
  • revamping site
  • waiting on the AGPPP care package
  • Ann Arbor boys to start flyering with other flyers when we get the funds
  • have a couple contacts at the U of M to flyer there and I'm trying to get others from Wayne State, EMU and other universities to start student groups

• Minnesota
  • got the HTTPS cert for the MNPP website
  • talk with someone from the Rochester, MN area whom has interested folks in the MNPP
  • may have some interested folks from a political meetup that I regularly go to

Elections really need to get done eventually. - Amanda Johnson

Vote to issue a statement of opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. 1 for, at-large for

Questions, Comments, Concerns Send a request to Asha Ziering (calpirateparty@gmail.com) to participate in Pirate Hour

Next Meeting Date

• Next meeting: Wednesday, August 18 at 9PM EDT
• Meeting closed: 11:08pm EDT