PNC 06/16/2024

The June 16th, 2024 PNC Meeting was one of the weekly meetings of the Pirate National Committee (PNC). This meeting took place on IRC.

Meeting Minutes

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20:50:40 <DreadPirateDrew>AHOY!!
20:50:44 <iAmV>ahoy
20:52:09 <iAmV>I was looking in the archive and there usually were state reports to the PNC. Do you remember any of those types of meetings Drew?
20:53:34 <DreadPirateDrew>No, not really but then again we have been mostly focusing on reviving the USPP and I know at least PA has been neglected. And for us in PA there isn't much to actually run for this year, as next year will be local elections again.
20:54:03 <DreadPirateDrew> all our stuff is high level in even years.
20:54:26 <iAmV> There's a balance between state work and national work I think.
20:55:10 <iAmV> I think it was a very cool week for state stuff. CA, FL, and MA had meetings this week. IL started getting ready for meetings again.
20:55:16 <DreadPirateDrew> Yeah, there is. I am figuring mostly that if we promote the PP as a whole, that volunteers will come out and find their state parties
20:56:00 <DreadPirateDrew> agreed. With PA having a few new people, I think we can have functioning meetings again.
20:56:00 <iAmV> Did you see the cool PP demands we started Saturday?
20:56:14 <DreadPirateDrew> I missed those, where can I find them?
20:56:20 <iAmV> One second.
20:56:51 <iAmV> https://medium.com/@sopphey/pirate-party-demands-7dd518623feb Started the list here.
20:56:53 <papegaai>Title: Pirate Party Demands - Sarai "Sopphey {V}ance" Oviedo - Medium (at medium.com)
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20:57:20 <sopphey>ahoy mitch!
20:57:22 <pmchi>Ahoy!
20:58:14 <DreadPirateDrew>We're missing energy reform in those demands
20:58:38 <sopphey>Yes. We're missing a lot. These were the first ones :)
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20:58:46 <sopphey>We'll keep adding to the demands.
20:59:07 <sopphey>ahoy !
20:59:17 <LightRiderTX> Greetings
21:00:00 <DreadPirateDrew>It's a good start @sopphey
21:01:08 <DreadPirateDrew>So for reminders for me ( and for after the meeting as I am doing a livestream after this ) We currently have 6 members of the PNC right?
21:01:15 <NomadOfNorad> So, is the meeting started? Or is this just lobby-talk? :)
21:01:25 <sopphey>Lobby talk
21:01:51 <sopphey>We have MA, ID, IL, TX, CA, PA ... so yes
21:02:11 <sopphey>mavsben ahoy? 21:02:15 <DreadPirateDrew>Yeah still lobby talk. Thanks for that. 21:02:26 <NomadOfNorad> Any Florida ppl here but me right now? 21:02:36 <mavsben>howdy 21:02:41 <DreadPirateDrew>We can do ID's 21:02:52 <LightRiderTX> I may or may not be watching house of the dragon... 21:03:04 <DreadPirateDrew>"howdy" that's such a texas thing to say... LOL 21:03:06 <sopphey>Okay we can do IDs 21:03:11 <NomadOfNorad> Schroedinger's House of the Dragon 21:03:16 <LightRiderTX> Howdy landlubbers 21:03:23 <DreadPirateDrew>did season 2 release? 21:03:27 <mavsben>ahoywdy 21:03:32 <LightRiderTX> ha 21:03:36 <DreadPirateDrew>LOL 21:04:03 <DreadPirateDrew>OK, a bit more serious. Drew Bingaman, Captain of the USPP 21:04:06 *yari has joined 21:04:08 <LightRiderTX> Frank Flores, TX Treasurer 21:04:18 <mavsben>Ben Horlick USPP Quartermaster & TX rep 21:04:19 <yari> Rose Klein, CA rep 21:04:27 <sopphey>Sarai "Sopphey Vance" Oviedo, Swarmcare USPP 21:04:38 <yari> (going to only be here for a bit, btw) 21:04:51 <NomadOfNorad> Anyway, looks like I got voluntodlificated to preliminarily become the emergency-backup PNC guy for FPP. David Hall in the upper Eastern part of Florida here. 21:05:08 <NomadOfNorad> volun-toldificated 21:05:17 <mavsben>lol 21:05:24 <sopphey>Good to have you here 21:05:27 <LightRiderTX> best of luck 21:05:34 *NomadOfNorad gets a goofy, lopsided smile, 21:05:46 <DreadPirateDrew>Nice. 21:06:14 <DreadPirateDrew>@pmchi 21:08:23 *Dustin has joined 21:08:24 <Ty--> Ty Clifford, WV / USPP VC 21:08:53 <DreadPirateDrew>OK so one thing I need to address is that with all the new activity, it is more important to remember to sign tweets (or whatever they're called now since the name change) Especially for transparency purposes. It doesn't need to be your full name, initials are good. Just an identifier that it was whoever posted. 21:09:12 *wanda061 (~u@6aqci8p7crsx8.PirateIRC) has joined 21:09:19 *Dustin has quit (Quit: #VotePirate - https://uspirates.org) 21:09:26 <pmchi>Mitch Davilo, Chicagoland/ILPP 21:09:42 <mavsben>roger that drew 21:10:15 <yari> i have to bounce in a second. want to report that things are really moving on the CAPP end. nothing to report as an officer. 21:10:21 <wanda061>Sorry for being late, I didn't realize it was already 8. Do I need to ID? 21:10:32 <pmchi>Full transparency, the recent Twitter activity is mine 21:10:33 <DreadPirateDrew>Floor is yours Yari 21:10:46 <yari> oh, nothing more than that to report 21:10:53 *MilesW_PPAU has joined 21:11:23 <sopphey>yay CA! So awesome yari <3 21:11:47 <yari> okay thank you all for your work, see you next week <3 21:11:51 <DreadPirateDrew>OK cool. PA has seen a few new members as well. I think this partnership with vermin really raised our visibility, and I will be helping that later tonight to talk about our partnership on a livestream 21:11:54 <sopphey>see you <3 21:12:15 <mavsben>adios yari! be safe 21:12:34 <sopphey>PA livestream, Drew? 21:12:43 <LightRiderTX> adios 21:13:06 <DreadPirateDrew>No actually itn's a livestream with Dave Valente on his youtube channel. 21:13:25 <sopphey>That's wonderful! We should RT 21:13:39 <DreadPirateDrew>https://www.youtube.com/live/jd94k5QG96U?si=cCGl_qWiczzb1Ed- 21:13:40 <papegaai>Title: A Pirate's Life For Us: The Political Deep Dive - YouTube (at www.youtube.com) 21:13:43 <DreadPirateDrew>That is the link 21:14:11 <sopphey>Great, thank you 21:14:19 <mavsben>ooo good luck! 21:14:51 <sopphey>Are we doing reports, I went and pinged the Discord 21:16:09 <DreadPirateDrew>yes, if there is anything to report, this is a good time 21:16:19 <LightRiderTX> cool 21:16:37 <sopphey>Swarmcare's been busy. We did a big pirate pride celebration. Successful 5hour hangout of global pirates! 21:17:01 <LightRiderTX> was awesome 21:17:13 <sopphey>Going to do a version of pirate beer the last Saturday of every month on a global scale with timezones fitting eastern and western hemispheres. 21:17:15 <DreadPirateDrew>that was fun. Looking forward to the next one 21:17:22 <LightRiderTX> TX has a new facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560637366224 21:17:23 <papegaai>Title: Tejas Pirates (at www.facebook.com) 21:17:26 <sopphey>(looking at MilesW_PPAUfor help too) 21:17:33 <mavsben>Joe and I werent able to get together and wrap up the FEC filings but we submitted and had approved the amended form of organization installing me as treasurer. We've got putting me on the bank account in process pending some documents that need to be signed via snail mail 21:18:06 <mavsben>IIRC we've got til the 24th to get the filings updated so theres a bit of time left 21:18:25 <sopphey>FL (finds wanda and nomad) had a meeting <3 21:18:51 <mavsben>We're planning to leave Jamie as an authorized signatory on the account as he is now just to have a backup in case some kind of branch banking needs to get done and Joe isnt available 21:18:56 <wanda061>Just wanted to pop in to ID, I'm Wanda from Florida 21:19:31 <wanda061>We met yesterday and ratified bylaws (PNC and Florida bylaws) 21:19:30 <NomadOfNorad> And yeah, I'm the other one from Florida 21:19:39 <DreadPirateDrew>Does that mean florida is soon ready to be sponsored? 21:19:57 <wanda061>Hopefully next week if all goes well 21:20:04 <DreadPirateDrew>awesome! 21:20:07 <sopphey>Just missing the website. 21:20:17 <mavsben>TX will be ready to sponsor :) 21:20:25 <sopphey>yeehaw 21:20:26 <mavsben>i was born in west palm actually 21:20:39 <mavsben>Texas raised but florida man at heart 21:21:13 <sopphey>Does anyone have big plans for July 4? 21:21:23 <NomadOfNorad> I've lived in Florida since I was.... like... age 4 or something. 21:21:29 <sopphey>Or RNC? 21:22:16 <DreadPirateDrew>I don't really have plans for either ATM 21:22:52 <LightRiderTX> oh god watch out it's florida man! 21:23:04 <wanda061>lol 21:23:04 <pmchi>I will be working July 4th, but might I suggest early an event for Talk Like a Pirate Day in September? 21:23:32 <sopphey>July 4 is on a Thursday. So maybe we can do something, even if graphics only, to remind the government that we want "taxation WITH representation" 21:23:48 <sopphey>Yes, talk like a pirate day is on the list. What's the plan mitch? 21:24:27 <sopphey>(maybe add more to the demands list: https://medium.com/@sopphey/pirate-party-demands-7dd518623feb for 4th of July?) 21:24:28 <papegaai>Title: Pirate Party Demands - Sarai "Sopphey {V}ance" Oviedo - Medium (at medium.com) 21:24:55 <pmchi>I got no plans in mind, but a worldwide Pirate livestream would be cool 21:25:53 <sopphey>That could be cool 21:26:21 <pmchi>Perhaps Pan-American Pirates, Australia and any European who’s awake to attend. It would be neat to have a Pirate-centric broadcast, kind of allowing for those who’ve never heard of the Pirate Party to see what it’s all about 21:27:40 <sopphey>I think it can work 21:27:54 <sopphey>I forgot to post earlier the graphic for pirate beers (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1088982817876222062/1251956629054947439/pirate-beer.png?ex=667076f8&is=666f2578&hm=8298cf4e3064f0d33fdc62090db1c820d1eb1fec04105a5a70116a704207d747&) 21:29:20 <pmchi>If at all possible, maybe we can have a bilingual event? Ie, if Chile, Argentina and other Spanish speaking Pirates attend, I think it would be great to have an English and Spanish presentation 21:30:16 <DreadPirateDrew>Who all is fluent in Spanish? I know very little 21:30:25 <sopphey>I am fluent in Spanish 21:30:41 <pmchi>I think I could get by on what I know. I use to speak it all shift at work 21:30:46 <mavsben>i wouldnt say im fluent but i can make due 21:31:18 <DreadPirateDrew>OK, then I would say that could absolutely be on the table and it sounds awesome. 21:32:01 <LightRiderTX> Dos cervezas por favor 21:32:16 <DreadPirateDrew>I know that one...lol 21:32:25 <sopphey>arr capitan 21:32:35 <mavsben>como se dice "grog" lol 21:32:50 <DreadPirateDrew>Probably just "grog" 21:33:29 <pmchi>El grog 21:33:53 <sopphey>So we didn't quite reach quorum did the meeting officially begin? 21:34:15 <pmchi>We ID’d, did we not reach quorum? 21:34:30 <sopphey>3 out of 6? 21:34:37 <DreadPirateDrew>we had quorum when we started I think, but Yari is now not here 21:34:40 <mavsben>I think we had/lost it 21:34:44 <mavsben>yeah drews right 21:34:46 <sopphey>Ah 21:35:15 <LightRiderTX> Was anyone from Team Vermin invited? 21:35:38 <DreadPirateDrew>Didn't specifically invite anyone but it was known that this week was IRC 21:35:45 <NomadOfNorad> So, we're back to lobby-talk. :D 21:36:00 <mavsben>its been productive lobby talk at least haha 21:36:07 <NomadOfNorad> yup 21:37:05 <DreadPirateDrew>Technically. I will need to hop out shortly. Is there anything else for reports or updates? 21:37:08 <LightRiderTX> Looking forward to what the platform committee comes out with 21:37:48 <mavsben>nada from me 21:38:06 <sopphey>I think I reported all the things. 21:38:17 <sopphey>I will attend a VS team meeting this week too 21:38:32 <sopphey>Plus global pirate things like PPI board meeting, PPEU 21:38:37 <DreadPirateDrew>Is that the Wed night meeting? 21:38:48 <sopphey>Correct, VS is Wed evening 21:38:49 <DreadPirateDrew>the team supreme meeting 21:39:22 <DreadPirateDrew>nice, I will try to join up if I am available 21:40:03 <sopphey>Okay y'all. Let's support our capitan: https://www.youtube.com/live/jd94k5QG96U 21:40:04 <papegaai>Title: A Pirate's Life For Us: The Political Deep Dive - YouTube (at www.youtube.com) 21:40:40 <mavsben>@drew do you want me to join on the uspp youtube? 21:40:53 <mavsben>like just hang in the chat 21:42:11 <LightRiderTX> move to adjourn? 21:42:15 <pmchi>Second 21:42:23 <sopphey>aye 21:42:28 <mavsben>mutiny! 21:42:40 <mavsben>technically not a meeting, so motion isnt needed 21:42:47 <DreadPirateDrew>I would say to hop in the chat for the political deep dive. And absolutely you can chime in. 21:42:48 <sopphey>technically it was hilarious 21:42:52 <NomadOfNorad> :) 21:42:56 <LightRiderTX> Talk like a dragon day 21:43:02 <mavsben>>:D 21:43:09 <mavsben>cool sounds good 21:43:15 <NomadOfNorad> Pirates riding in on dragons! THERE'S an interesting picture! :D 21:43:49 *LightRiderTX writes note to self "upgrade tigers to dragons..." 21:44:10 <sopphey>Okay see you on the Discord server and then youtube later 21:44:09 <NomadOfNorad> Tigers with dragon-wings... hmmmm.... 21:44:13 *sopphey has quit (Quit: #votepirate) 21:44:26 <LightRiderTX> adios and yeeharr 21:44:29 <DreadPirateDrew>my Thu'um needs work 21:44:49 *LightRiderTX has quit (Quit: #VotePirate - https://uspirates.org) 21:44:56 <wanda061>I'm going to watch the stream from the FLPP youtube, which I just made lol 21:45:15 <DreadPirateDrew>awesome! Thanks everyone, next week jitsi 21:45:54 *wanda061 has quit (Quit: #VotePirate - https://uspirates.org) 21:54:21 *mavsben has quit (Quit: Leaving) 22:16:54 *MilesW_PPAU has quit (Quit: #VotePirate - https://uspirates.org)