PNC 10/17/21

Agenda

Discussion

Old Business

• Yari's US-State Party Data Sharing Proposal, found here: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/USPP2021DataSharingProposal

New Business

• Indiana Pirates applying for PNC membership

Summary

Reports:

• IT:
• Platform:
• Outreach:
• Swarmcare:

Minutes

Record of the meeting

 

[9:02pm] yari: with that said, I'm calling this meeting of the PNC to order at 9:02pm EST. IDs please!
[9:03pm] wodensday: Anthony Jay, IN
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[9:03pm] yari: Rose Klein, CA, PNC chair
[9:03pm] Bosun: I am not here.
[9:03pm] yari: welcome Bosun
[9:03pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Massachusetts, Treasurer
[9:03pm] yari: oh I see, hi meg
[9:03pm] Bosun: Joseph Klein, Vice chair
[9:03pm] pmchi: Mitchel Davilo, Chicagoland/ILPP, Swarmcare Manager
[9:04pm] Bosun: I am me.
[9:04pm] yari: cool cool
[9:04pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Massachusetts, Secretary
[9:05pm] yari: RadioJoe will not be joining us, so no CA -
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[9:05pm] yari was promoted to operator by you.
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[9:05pm] yari: Let's start off with reports
[9:05pm] rCarro: How do I join?
[9:05pm] yari: welcome rCarro, please ID
[9:05pm] rCarro: The call
[9:06pm] yari: its just IRC today
[9:06pm] rCarro: Richard Carro, IL Pirates
[9:06pm] yari: thank you
[9:06pm] rCarro: Ofc
[9:06pm] yari: jokeefe - IT?
[9:08pm] Frank joined the chat room.
[9:08pm] yari: welcome frank, please ID if participating.
[9:08pm] Frank: Okay.
[9:08pm] jokeefe: We setup an actionnetwork.org account to setup a petition for the PATRIOT Act protest
[9:08pm] Frank: Frank Decapio, West Virginia.
[9:08pm] jokeefe: Bosun is working on crew.uspirates.org.
[9:08pm] rCarro: (Yari, will we get to the platform talks)
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[9:09pm] jokeefe: Not much more to add.
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[9:10pm] yari: cool. thank you jokeefe, hopefully we can utilize action network to its fullest. Next let's hear from Joe with platform and treasury. what updates do you have?
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[9:10pm] rCarro: I have a question
[9:10pm] yari: yes rCarro,
[9:10pm] Joe: Nothing of note on the treasury front.
[9:10pm] rCarro: There’s a treasury? I thought we don’t
[9:10pm] rCarro: Takes in cash
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[9:11pm] Joe: Yes, we have a treasury
[9:11pm] yari: rCarro we don't have a method of taking in cash currently online, but we have taken state dues in the past. That makes up the bulk of our treasury.
[9:11pm] yari: a whopping $130
[9:11pm] rCarro: what does the cash go to
[9:12pm] Joe: Nothing, hence why it's still there.
[9:12pm] yari: although we will be updating about the Budget in a few meetings, correct?
[9:12pm] Joe: Most contributions have been via in-kind though we have to keep track of that as well.
[9:13pm] Joe: I thought we posted what we had. I will make sure I have it for next meeting.
[9:13pm] Joe: I have a few hours tomorrow to work on it.
[9:14pm] yari: no you are correct, and I am misremembering. We approved the budget I think
[9:14pm] jokeefe: See: https://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=Budget_and_Financial_Statements
[9:14pm] papegaai: Title: Budget and Financial Statements - United States Pirate Party (at wiki.uspirates.org)
[9:14pm] yari: thank you jokeefe
[9:14pm] Joe: Thank you.
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[9:14pm] yari: Next steps with the budget?
[9:14pm] Joe: I can get the account numbers over to IT so we can start accepting donations.
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[9:15pm] rCarro: Supporter packets?
[9:15pm] jokeefe: draft 2022 budget, submit FEC paperwork and start filing.
[9:15pm] rCarro: Wait, we don’t have FEC paperwork
[9:15pm] yari: agreed on both counts. please do that.
[9:15pm] jokeefe: Flyers and other info for supporters and other mailing to supporters
[9:16pm] Bosun: Sorry - my net got blown out of the water.
[9:16pm] rCarro: Literal paper mailing ?
[9:16pm] rCarro: Isn’t that a bit pricy
[9:16pm] jokeefe: We haven’t reached the limit that would trigger it rCarro
[9:16pm] Joe: No need for FEC if our spending was under an specific amount. Now that we have support from multiple states we can continue to the next level.
[9:16pm] yari: Joe, moving on to platform?
[9:16pm] rCarro: exciting
[9:16pm] rCarro: Exiting
[9:17pm] rCarro: Can’t wsit for platform
[9:17pm] Joe: Platform got heated this last week over abortion though we seem to all be in agreement with whom has the choice.
[9:18pm] rCarro: The progressive conservative pirates
[9:18pm] rCarro: Have been very excited on the issue
[9:18pm] Joe: This will be the last week for discussion on older topics such as digital rights.
[9:19pm] yari: thank you Joe, same time for meetings as usual? can we expect a policy proposal from the platform committee soon?
[9:19pm] Joe: Aye
[9:19pm] rCarro: Can I say something on the platform
[9:19pm] Joe: Next meeting I plan to close discussion with digital rights
[9:19pm] yari: fantastic - let us know in advance about any proposals so that they can go on the agenda please
[9:20pm] yari: Thank you Joe. Next, let's move on to the reports on outreach. Wodensday?
[9:20pm] wodensday: PATRIOT Act event updates are as to be expected the most important thing.
[9:20pm] yari: sorry rCarro what would you like to say - please keep it brief we are in reports section
[9:21pm] rCarro: Abdullah, I, and Scott will introduce
[9:21pm] rCarro: something on the debate hopefully
[9:21pm] rCarro: and we will see if platform com likes it
[9:21pm] rCarro: that’s it
[9:22pm] yari: fantastic, I'm glad to hear that. If you have any proposals for actual PNC or USPP policy you are welcome to submit them to the PNC directly, just please do so ahead of the meetings so there is time to put them on agenda
[9:22pm] yari: please continue wodensday
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[9:23pm] wodensday: Yesterday morning we had our organizer meeting. Attendance was unfortunate, but we have a pleasant meeting regardless. We will be sending update emails to everyone we've been in correspondence with and hope to keep them updated as closely as possible as we near closer to the main event.
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[9:24pm] wodensday: We are getting together a concrete schedule for our livestreams. Please get info on if you would like to speak, when you would like to speak, and what you would like to speak about to us ASAP.
[9:24pm] rCarro: I know my friend wants to do smtn
[9:24pm] wodensday: If you aren't sure, we always need people to participate in existing panels as well.
[9:24pm] rCarro: about the effects on Muslims
[9:24pm] wodensday: Thank you, rCarro. Abdullah correct?
[9:24pm] rCarro: with the patriot act
[9:24pm] wodensday: We'll be in touch
[9:24pm] rCarro: yes
[9:24pm] yari: yes rCarro we are already aware of Abdullah's interest.
[9:25pm] yari: thank you wodensday
[9:25pm] wodensday: Other than that, I just ask that everyone continues to check in with the patriot act discord channel when they can. Outreach will be having a busy week
[9:25pm] wodensday: That is all
[9:25pm] yari: thank you, okay moving on to pmchi - swarmcare
[9:26pm] pmchi: Indiana will be applying for PNC membership today! Illinois has agreed to be their sponsor state. On the Discord it appears Virginia and Montana has had some movement in the interest department as well, so hopefully that’ll go somewhere!
[9:26pm] rCarro: Virginia made movement?
[9:26pm] rCarro: Nifty
[9:27pm] yari: wonderful! We love to see new states making moves to join