PNC 10/28/19

Agenda

1. Offical Mission Statement
2. Website & Email updates
3. Overall direction of the party.

Minutes

Record of the meeting

 


[9:02pm] Pirate_Joe: ids
[9:02pm] SamHouston joined the chat room.
[9:02pm] Pirate_Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Captain, MA
[9:02pm] OGPAF: Johann Drolshagen, Webmaster, California
[9:03pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:03pm] Pirate_Joe: ahoy jokeefe
[9:03pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Scribe, MA
[9:03pm] OGPAF: welcome Sam
[9:03pm] SamHouston: Thanks
[9:03pm] Pirate_Joe: Ahoy SamHouston!
[9:03pm] SamHouston: Ahoy!
[9:04pm] jokeefe: Agenda at https://wiki.pirate-party.us/PNC_10/28/19#Agenda
[9:04pm] papegaai: Title: PNC 10/28/19 - United States Pirate Party (at wiki.pirate-party.us)
[9:04pm] Pirate_Joe: Would anyone like to add to the agenda?
[9:05pm] OGPAF: all good here
[9:05pm] jokeefe: aye
[9:06pm] Pirate_Joe: what would you like to add jokeefe?
[9:07pm] jokeefe: no, I am good
[9:07pm] Pirate_Joe: Ok, thank you.
[9:07pm] Pirate_Joe: To start, I wanted to focus on building the structure by which we operation.  Much like any good plan, I want to focus first one the general overview first and set specific obtainable goals. From there, we can include all the steps to achieve those goals.  This brings us to our overall mission statement.
[9:08pm] Pirate_Joe: We need to keep this short and sweet if possible.
[9:08pm] Pirate_Joe: In 30 words or less, who are we and what do we fight for?
[9:08pm] Pirate_Joe: True democracy? Free internet? Drinks with baby umbrellas?
[9:09pm] OGPAF: Here is a place to start...https://usa.piratesparty.org/
[9:09pm] OGPAF: feel free to edit - I was just riffing
[9:11pm] Pirate_Joe: Hmm, that is a good to expand upon, however what I am looking for is one or two sentences that contain the very essence of who we are as a party.
[9:12pm] Pirate_Joe: Let me add this, which is what I have been working on.
[9:12pm] OGPAF: social media contest?
[9:12pm] OGPAF: cool
[9:12pm] SamHouston: Right to repairs, arms, speech, navigation, and Information?
[9:13pm] Pirate_Joe: We are Pirates, proud and true.  We are Pirates and we fight for you. We are not afraid to stand for what is right, we fight for freedom day and night.
[9:13pm] Pirate_Joe: Kind of over the top though.
[9:13pm] jokeefe: that could be any party
[9:13pm] Pirate_Joe: Aye
[9:14pm] OGPAF: I need to read it a few more times to see if it sticks
[9:14pm] OGPAF: Sam - I like your brevity
[9:14pm] SamHouston: Thanks
[9:14pm] Pirate_Joe: We are the next evolution of the political system, the melting pot of ideas and the new middle ground.  We accept every walk of life in to our mist.
[9:15pm] OGPAF: like that too
[9:15pm] OGPAF: mist = midst - good one
[9:15pm] Pirate_Joe: I agree with you Sam, but is there a way to say that so it is commonly understood?
[9:16pm] Pirate_Joe: Not everyone will understand the right to repair as we do.
[9:16pm] OGPAF: small change up...Sam, what brought you, or would bring more of you?
[9:17pm] SamHouston: I think many are disillusioned with the libertarian party, I suppose I saw some of that concept in the idea of piracy
[9:18pm] OGPAF: more forceful? in concept
[9:18pm] Pirate_Joe: I am one of those disillusioned, that was the party I came from.
[9:18pm] jokeefe: Right of repair is ultimately about control over what we use. The issue of control is the biggest component
[9:18pm] SamHouston: I would expect a pirate party to be less on the fence
[9:19pm] jokeefe: sharing is caring
[9:19pm] SamHouston: Libertarians are not united in any real meaningful way, the recent convention was sad.
[9:19pm] SamHouston: Im thinking this could be more organized.
[9:19pm] OGPAF: I hope so
[9:20pm] jokeefe: trying
[9:20pm] Pirate_Joe: My view on it is that we seek to push true democracy by supporting individual autonomy and all the rights that stem from that, such as the right of repair, etc.
[9:20pm] Pirate_Joe: We could use our stance on an indiviuals rights to be individuals as the backbone of our mission statement.
[9:21pm] SamHouston: We should take the defined positions from other partied and draw lines at where we stand on each. Would be my best assumption.
[9:21pm] SamHouston: parties*
[9:21pm] SamHouston: Vote on the stances between members.
[9:21pm] SamHouston: Ratify the positions.
[9:21pm] Pirate_Joe: I agree, however for a mission statement we should still be fairly broad in our approach.  The idea is to catch the public's attention.
[9:22pm] Pirate_Joe: *we elect
[9:22pm] SamHouston: It seems hard to have a mission statement with no hills to defend.
[9:22pm] jokeefe: Pushing expanding democracy is a pirate focus
[9:22pm] jokeefe: agreed SamHouston
[9:22pm] OGPAF: I agree on both points - as soon as you see our P4 articles you will see how I have worked in the juxtaposition.
[9:22pm] Pirate_Joe: Well, we do have our hills to stand on my friend.
[9:22pm] Pirate_Joe: SamHouston
[9:22pm] Pirate_Joe: Right to repairs, arms, speech, navigation, and Information?
[9:23pm] SamHouston: Sounds good to me
[9:23pm] jokeefe: I created https://pad.riseup.net/p/USPP_Mission_Statement
[9:23pm] jokeefe: Perhaps we could edit it there
[9:23pm] Pirate_Joe: Lets open the mission statement to a larger pool than just us by sending it to the mailing list as well.
[9:24pm] jokeefe: +!
[9:24pm] jokeefe: +1
[9:24pm] OGPAF: social media contest
[9:24pm] jokeefe: sab list would be a good place to start
[9:24pm] Pirate_Joe: 2nd to the sab list
[9:24pm] Pirate_Joe: All in favor?
[9:25pm] jokeefe: aye
[9:25pm] Pirate_Joe: aye
[9:25pm] OGPAF: aye
[9:25pm] jokeefe: start there and expand
[9:25pm] jokeefe: perhaps
[9:26pm] Pirate_Joe: We push for pure democracy SamHouston, though you are new here I would like to hear your thoughts on this as well.
[9:26pm] Pirate_Joe: Also, jokeefe, do you have the link for the SAB signups?
[9:26pm] SamHouston: What's a sab list?
[9:26pm] jokeefe: Sign up at http://sab.uspirates.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi
[9:26pm] papegaai: Title: Subscribe to a Mailing List (at sab.uspirates.org)
[9:26pm] SamHouston: ah
[9:27pm] Pirate_Joe: SAB mailing list the we send national level pirate information on.
[9:27pm] jokeefe: We need to move that elsewhere
[9:27pm] Pirate_Joe: That brings us to
[9:27pm] Pirate_Joe: 2) Website & Email updates
[9:28pm] SamHouston: I can help with hosting if needed.
[9:28pm] OGPAF: got it on GCP
[9:28pm] Pirate_Joe: I know that we have been having issues with the old sight as well as the email list
[9:28pm] OGPAF: I have a new MailChimp collecting new emails as well
[9:28pm] Pirate_Joe: We have been using an opensource CRM to do the mailing lists but I have had little time to work on it of late.
[9:29pm] jokeefe: What do you want to do with it?
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: OGPAF, have you signed up at Crew.uspirates.org?
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: Crew.uspirates.org
[9:30pm] OGPAF: screwed that up - didn't realize it was .org
[9:30pm] OGPAF: was trying at .us
[9:30pm] OGPAF: will do now