PNC 6/13/12

Agenda PNC MEETING' 

--- 06/13/12 18:00h PST ---

IRC: irc.pirateirc.net

Room: #pnc

Wiki: http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_6/13/12

Minutes

Record of the meeting

1 - ATTENDEES

1.1 - Members of the PNC

• participating:
  • Bradley Hall, Florida
  • Lindsay-Anne Brunner, NY
  • Brady O'bannon Dibble, Washington
  • Jarod, GA
  • Kyle DeVore, Oregon
  • Erik Zoltan, Massachusetts
  • Orion Steele, California

• excused: 

• unexcused: 
  • Oklahoma

1.2 - At Large Members of the PNC

• Itspara maryland
• Sacha, MI

2 - PROCEEDINGS

• Meeting opened at :  pm EST by Travis McCrea
• Meeting closed at : 12:10am EST by 
• Meeting chaired by Travis McCrea
• Secretary for this meeting is QuazarGuy
• Quorum is established. [6] Members out of [7] present
• Logging Enabled: Yes

3 - Review of previous minutes

• http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_5/06/12

4 - REPORTS

4.1 - Short report of the board members 

Massachusetts

• participated in the Boston Pride Parade last weekend
  • all dressed up as pirates and handed out fliers as we marched and chanted slogans
  • completely underestimated the level of interest there would be
    • ran out of fliers one third of the way through the parade
  • learned a lot and have many ideas about how to improve our process next time
• going to have a hackathon soon to put up liquid feedback on our site
• drafting the language of a ballot proposal

Oklahoma

• n/a

Washington

• nothing to report

Oregon

• nothing to report

Georgia

• nothing to report

Florida

• nothing to report

New York

• Zac interviewed with huffpost
• making some phone calls to the board of elections to actually be registered
• Pirate choir will be rehearsing on 23rd
• Lindsay has been named administrative officer
• Zac is now Operations and will be the new NY rep, with Lindsay as backup

4.2 - Short Report From Committees

IT Committee

• Didn't report

California Seeks Entry Into PNC

• Massachusetts moves to admit California into the PNC.
  • Motion to allow Orion to speak on behalf of CA
    • 4 for, at-large (1) for
  • Reasons for membership provided by Orion
    • we believe in the ideals of the pirate party, and we are committed to defending pirate party ideology
    • believe that we can contribute to a successful national movement and provide resources/information/support to other states
    • we believe that our members have a unique opportunity to lobby on behalf of pirates in Hollywood
    • founded on May 1, 2012
      • Since that time we have formally organized with the secretary of state and IRS
      • started a voter registration drive to become a registered party in our state
    • launched a website, facebook, twitter and google accounts, and in the short time we have been in business we have recruited over 50 pirates
    • Our plan is to conduct live public debates about pirate related issues, to hold pirate rallies and concerts, as well as do everything we can to promote public intellectualism
    • our group of pirate party administrators are smart, committed individuals
    • Orion would be PNC rep for CA and their president, Jake Ziering, will be secondary
  • 5 for, 1 abstain, at-large (1) for

5 - Progress on Temporary PNC Objectives

• Motion to allow Sacha a comment
  • 4 for
  • Comment:
    • Last week this was discussed so late that no clear plan was agreed upon before adjourning for the night. Simply "confirm by sunday" on Saturday I sent out an email to the board requesting further instruction and recieved nothing back. I think we should keep that in mind before ruling on whether or not we cut out the people that were not confirmed last meeting.
• Washington motions to vote now on a single chair for the Constitution Committee to act primarily as a representative to the PNC from the following: Brad, Brady, Zac
  • 4 for, at-large (.5) for
  • Vote for the representative

Key | First Round | Second Round

F8kg3l | Zac Brady Rush | Zac 2 Brady 1

D93kjs | Brady Zac Brad | Zac 1 Brady 2

K34sof | Zac Brady Brad | Zac 2 Brady 1

C3ksdl | Brady Zac Brad | Zac 1 Brady 2

Hisk3lf | Zac Brad Brady | Zac 2 Brady 0

Kisff3n | Brady Brad Zac | Zac 1 Brady 2

Results:

• Zac 14
• Brady 14
• Brad 8

Final Round Results:

• Zac 9
• Brady 8

• http://pirate-party.us/news/article/temporary-pirate-national-committee
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aLMIpfAPMqIMRET12kNayo0j5kBFNyQOkT-9v0IGwYY/edit?pli=1

6 - VPN

Any states that would like to provide VPN service to their members:

• Rates would be $10 p/mo $35 p/6mo $60 p/yr
• Your state would make $5 $15 $30 respectively (not per signup, but per mo/6/yr)
• This is the same system being adopted by PPI for member countries, so it's pretty awesome. It's a great way for your state to make money to be used for advertising and party funds. Here is the order page http://acceptculture.org/ to get a feel for it. (ignore the current prices, they are just place holders)

- AOB -

• Motion to adjourn
  • 4 for, at-large for

Next meeting: 6/20/12 at 9:00pm EST

Meeting closed: at 12:10 am EST