PNC 5/23/12

Agenda PNC MEETING' 

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

IRC: irc.pirateirc.net

Room: #pnc

Wiki: http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_5/23/12

Minutes

Record of the meeting

1 - ATTENDEES

1.1 - Members of the PNC

• participating:
  • Erik Zoltan, Massachusetts
  • Marcus Kesler, Oklahoma
  • Jef Talada, Washington
  • Kyle DeVore, Oregon
  • Jarod/Mitch Tuck , Georgia
  • Rush, Florida
  • Zacqary Adam Green, New York

• excused: 

• unexcused: 

1.3 - Others

• Itspara
• Sacha

2 - PROCEEDINGS

• Meeting opened at  9:13pm EST by Travis McCrea
• Meeting closed  at  10:40pm 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

• https://pnc.piratenpad.de/PNC-5-15-2012

4 - REPORTS

4.1 - Short report of the board members 

Massachusetts

• will be running a float for Massachusetts Pirate Party in the Boston Pride Parade
  • encouraging family members with children to participate in the parade, and encouraging participants to dress as pirates
• working on the language of a ballot question to put on the November ballots. it will be a nonbinding policy question directing local representatives to vote for privacy.

Oklahoma

• pushing for the ballot access bill to go through our senate, which has stalled and should make it a little easier to get on the ballot as pirates
• waiting on the final list for all elected offices this year to decide if we want to repeat sending out a survey to every body again with pirate questions (did this last year, send out 150+ surveys, ended up endorsing 4 candidates)
•  trying to get started to plan for a "Freedom, Not Fear" event in November. Maybe the weekend before the election.

Washington

• looking into getting a permanent meeting place at a local hackerspace
• working on a state version of the national site's state page to work for counties

Oregon

• generating more interest on our FB group
• updating our web page to make the information current

Georgia

• It seems the information I had gotten last was wrong. So I am having to read over some information about creating the party https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_6V9WxCPmjmxzk8XR7tIGpDsLyNJiO8fS28908e7xfk/edit

Florida

• my address being wrong on the state and IRS documents has been fixed
• I have the FLPP password and stuff for the EFS system for logging our finances to the state each few months
• Tomorrow Carlo will open us a bank account of awesomeness and we'll finally be able to offload the $5 the party has into an account that we control and then um, do stuff

New York

• set a date to rehearse and plan our Pirate Choir action on June 9th, and the actual action will occur on the 23rd
• On June 1st I have two piratey-related things happening: first I'm going to Blue Point High School to talk to an AP Government class about the Pirate Party.
• Sebastian Lange from Politik & Kommunikation is interviewing NYPP
• going to be speaking with Josh Lafazan, an 18-year-old who just got elected to the school board of Syosset

4.2 - Short Report From Committees

IT Committee

• Working on implementing liquid feedback and ConsiderIt
• Working on .pirate top-level domain

- AOB -

• A concern (Sacha)

Next meeting: 5/30/12 at 9:00pm EST

Meeting closed: at 10:40pm EST