PNC 04/24/2022

Agenda

New Business

• update on Pirate Party Conference
• candidate for First Officer
• USPP Chair Dissolution Proposal

Attending

• Wodensday: Anthony Jay, INPP
• pmchi: Mitchel Davilo, Chicagoland/ILPP, Swarmcare Manager
• jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Secretary, temporary MA rep.

Probationary States

• WI

Non-Voting

• yari: Rose Klein, PNC chair
• Oz: Ethan Osborne, Kentucky

Summary

Meeting started at 9:0pm Eastern.

Meeting ended at 10:pm Eastern.

Minutes

Record of the meeting

[9:04pm] yari: It looks like we have a quorum, with IL, IN, MA, and KY all in attendance.
[9:05pm] yari: with that, I'm going to call this meeting of the PNC to order at 9:04 pm Eastern. ID please
[9:05pm] yari: oops, 9:05
[9:05pm] Oz left the chat room. (connection closed)
[9:05pm] Wodensday: Anthony Jay, INPP
[9:05pm] pmchi: Mitchel Davilo, Chicagoland/ILPP, Swarmcare Manager
[9:05pm] yari: Rose Klein, PNC chair
[9:05pm] Oz joined the chat room.
[9:05pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Secretary, temporary MA rep.
[9:06pm] yari: Oz, could you please share your state and name. let's get started with our usual reports. jokeefe?
[9:07pm] Oz: Ethan Osborne, Kentucky
[9:07pm] jokeefe: IT did not meet. Will meet this week.
[9:08pm] jokeefe: From Secretary - Need to update a few meeting pages.
[9:08pm] Oz: I have to reboot having lag
[9:08pm] Oz left the chat room. (connection closed)
[9:09pm] yari: thank you jokeefe. Will come back to Oz. Wodensday, anything to report?
[9:09pm] Wodensday: Outreach did not have a meeting this week either. The loss of momentum concerns me a bit, but I’m sure we’ll get right back to it in the coming weeks.
[9:11pm] yari: thank you Wodesnday. If you'd like, we can discuss solutions or ways to rebuild momentum as part of discussion. pmchi, anything to report?
[9:11pm] pmchi: Unfortunately I likewise have nothing. The momentum loss has been noted from my end too
[9:12pm] yari: while we're waiting for Oz to return, should this be a discussion?
[9:12pm] Wodensday: Sure.
[9:12pm] yari: I will note of course that there was no meeting last week, and that I haven't been as present the last few weeks.
[9:13pm] jokeefe: Discussion is fine
[9:13pm] Wodensday: It doesn’t seem unlike other ebs and flows we’ve had in the past, but it would definitely be good to brainstorm how we recover so they down periods don’t last a few weeks to a month. That being said, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact a lot of us here in this very meeting were pretty busy this week. It could be a fluke related to
[9:13pm] Wodensday: that.
[9:14pm] TitaniumCowboy left the chat room. (connection closed)
[9:14pm] yari: Yeah - I think I'mm tempted to blame it on our own schedules - but you have a point - we should focus on how to recover from something similar in the future.
[9:14pm] yari: Or prevent it, even
[9:15pm] Wodensday: Complete prevention  may be impossible while we’re still small, I will say that these periods have gotten noticeably shorter and less severe over the past few months and we should pat ourselves on the back for that.
[9:15pm] yari: Certainly one potential solution is simply in recruitment, to your point
[9:16pm] yari: Is there anything we can do structure-wise though? Is this just a numbers game?
[9:16pm] yari: I'm down for the numbers game if that's what it is
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[9:16pm] Wodensday: On my end, I think I’m going to switch outreach to a more rigid model again.
[9:17pm] Oz joined the chat room.
[9:17pm] yari: Has the fluid version not been working well?
[9:17pm] Wodensday: I don’t really like that, but I think it may help. I don’t feel like we’ve been as productive since we decentralized and liquidized it.
[9:17pm] Wodensday: I want to try the experiment again when we have more people.
[9:18pm] yari: Yeah, that's fair. I think you have to have enough energy and people so that when you spread it out folks don't feel like they're working alone
[9:19pm] Oz: Sorry I'm back
[9:19pm] Wodensday: In the current form, I feel like people were still looking for direction and commands from someone who was very decidedly not a commander. Brushing up on my swarmwise may also help.
[9:19pm] yari: Wondering about if we had a virtual pirate hack-a-thon
[9:19pm] yari: jokeefe, didn't you host a hack-a-thon for MAPP?
[9:20pm] TitaniumCowboy left the chat room. (connection closed)
[9:20pm] jokeefe: we have hosted them in the past.
[9:20pm] yari: welcome back Oz. We're discussing how to prevent slouches in volunteer energy within USPP
[9:20pm] Oz: copy
[9:20pm] yari: I'll get to your report in a moment