PNC 06/20/21

Agenda

Reports

IT

Regular IT meeting - Thu. 6/10, 9pm EDT

Next tasks:

1. Report from Bosun on crew.uspirates.org
2. archive SAB list messages
3. update old pages in the blog/wiki such as the state contact pages

Discussion

• Review of conference and its engagement statistics
• Discussion of holding more meetings on YouTube or hosting more recordings/livestreams
• How to expand outreach to our supporters

Minutes

Record of the meeting

 


[9:02pm] Yari: With that said, I hereby call this meeting of the Pirate National Committee to order at 9:02 pm EST
[9:02pm] Yari: Please ID for the record
[9:02pm] pmchi: Mitchel Davilo, Chicagoland/ILPP
[9:02pm] Bosun: Joseph Klein Vice Chair
[9:02pm] Yari: Rose Klein, California
[9:02pm] wodensday: Anthony Jay, IN
[9:03pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Secretary, Massachusetts
[9:03pm] Yari: (and also chair now - I forgot to write that)
[9:03pm] Joe joined the chat room.
[9:03pm] pmchi: (Swarmcare Manager)
[9:03pm] Joe: Ahoy, sorry for late
[9:03pm] Yari: Welcome Joe, please ID
[9:04pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Treasurer, Massachusetts
[9:04pm] Yari: wonderful - a full house!
[9:05pm] Yari: okay, first and foremost, I would like to ask that we approve a new chair of the outreach committee before going on to committee reports
[9:05pm] jokeefe: Keeping the meeting minutes at https://wiki.uspirates.org/w/index.php?title=PNC_06/20/21
[9:05pm] papegaai: Title: PNC 06/20/21 - United States Pirate Party (at wiki.uspirates.org)
[9:06pm] Yari: I nominate wodensday to be the new chair of the outreach committee, as I can no longer fill that role.
[9:06pm] Yari: are there any other nominations?
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Has the committee had a chance to review any candidates?
[9:08pm] Yari: the PNC or outreach?
[9:09pm] jokeefe: outreach
[9:10pm] Yari: assuming you mean outreach, the pool of candidates is limited, and there were no alternate candidate names put forward during the dicussion when wodensday accepted nomination
[9:11pm] jokeefe: thanks
[9:11pm] Yari: I suppose I need a second on the nomination
[9:11pm] Yari: or, barring that, an alternate nomination
[9:11pm] Bosun: 2nd
[9:11pm] jokeefe: 3rd
[9:12pm] Yari: any objections to approving wodensday as chair of outreach?
[9:12pm] Bosun: none here
[9:12pm] Yari: hearing none - moving on.
[9:12pm] Yari: committee reports - IT?
[9:12pm] jokeefe: I have none
[9:13pm] pmchi left the chat room. (Quit: Connection closed)
[9:13pm] Yari: jokeefe
[9:13pm] jokeefe: Sorry, no update. Bosun. Are you available Thursday or would next Monday be better?
[9:13pm] pmchi joined the chat room.
[9:14pm] Bosun: No certain yet. let me check.
[9:14pm] Yari: outreach committee report - wodensday?
[9:14pm] jokeefe: Thanks, Bosun
[9:15pm] wodensday: Meeting on Tuesday went fantastic. We're trying to iron out some objectives for the future of outreach, but we do have a resolution for the PNC when ready.
[9:15pm] Radiojoe joined the chat room.
[9:15pm] Yari: lovely, thank you. We can do that in the new business section.
[9:16pm] Catra left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 245 seconds)
[9:16pm] Yari: Joe - anything to report from the treasury?
[9:16pm] Joe: No expenditures at this time. Also no donations.
[9:17pm] Yari: Well, that makes sense, but let's work to change that.
[9:17pm] Yari: Reports are out of the way - moving on to old business.
[9:17pm] Yari: Is there any old business? I think this is all new business that I'm seeing on the agenda
[9:17pm] Yari: jokeefe?
[9:17pm] Yari: I asked you this last week didn't I
[9:18pm] jokeefe: Review of conference and its engagement statistics
[9:18pm] jokeefe: Discussion of holding more meetings on YouTube or hosting more recordings/livestreams
[9:18pm] jokeefe: How to expand outreach to our supporters
[9:19pm] Radiojoe left the chat room.
[9:19pm] Radiojoe joined the chat room.
[9:20pm] Yari: Okay, let's hit that first point then
[9:21pm] Yari: I reviewed the conference statistics. The most notable takeaways were:
[9:21pm] Yari: Whenever we post something, people watched a lot of our backlog of content
[9:22pm] Yari: and that Most of our viewers were linked to the site from our Discord posts
[9:22pm] Yari: Since we don't have that much data, there wasn't much else I could glean
[9:23pm] jokeefe: Thanks, Yari
[9:23pm] Yari: The things I really got from this was: Engage the audiences we already have, and keep up with posting.
[9:24pm] Joe: May I?
[9:24pm] Yari: please
[9:24pm] Yari: it's a discussion
[9:24pm] Joe: I concur to this. We should post videos on a regular basis focused around what laws are being formed as well as ones we should change.
[9:25pm] Joe: A good example of this is RCV and how we need this done yesterday.
[9:26pm] wodensday: The creation of more good pirate content on a regular basis was a point of discussion at outreach. We'd really like to see that happen.
[9:27pm] wodensday: I'm personally partial to youtube, but Yari did mention also wanting to utilize our website itself.
[9:27pm] Yari: agreed. I know Joe you had floated the idea of making videos for youtube using your own setup?
[9:28pm] Bosun: We can youtube and put them on the website.
[9:28pm] Joe: We can do both
[9:28pm] Yari: Bosun good point
[9:28pm] jokeefe: Can always post the videos on the site.
[9:28pm] Joe: Use Youtube to compile the video and then download it.
[9:28pm] wodensday: We also considered the inverse, turning blog posts into youtube videos
[9:28pm] Bosun: or embed in a posting
[9:29pm] jokeefe: more the better
[9:29pm] Joe: We can even edit the video on Youtube though I like prism personally for such purposes. Unfortunately I have not had much time of late though.
[9:29pm] Yari: We're having some good discussion here, I would be happy to consider a motion to extend time
[9:29pm] wodensday: Post a good blog post, a little bit later supplement it with the same thing in an audiovisual medium too
[9:29pm] Nolan left the chat room. (Quit: Connection closed)
[9:30pm] jokeefe: Motion to extend
[9:30pm] Yari: Can we get a second?
[9:30pm] Bosun: 2nd
[9:30pm] Yari: jokeefe by how much?
[9:30pm] Bosun: 10 min
[9:31pm] jokeefe: 15 minutes?
[9:31pm] Bosun: ok
[9:31pm] jokeefe: 10 is fine with me
[9:31pm] Bosun: 2nd that
[9:31pm] jokeefe: Joe?
[9:31pm] Joe: I have no objection
[9:31pm] Yari: lol we're doing 15, hearing no objections, this meeting is extended
[9:32pm] Bosun: discuss!
[9:32pm] Yari: So how do we make the content though - that's the main issue I think
[9:32pm] wodensday: That would depend mostly on the skillsets of the interested members
[9:33pm] pmchi: One idea I would like to suggest: YouTube shorts. We could start by making shorts out of our website blog posts, seeing as we’d only need about 60 seconds to get a point across. I think that could make the creation process shorter and more compact. I feel like the creation aspect can’t be more than narration, background music and a relevant slideshow with some transition effects
[9:33pm] Yari: pmchi that's actually really good
[9:33pm] pmchi: It would be something different, something I don’t think any other political party or entity is taking full advantage of
[9:33pm] Yari: youtube shorts are favored heavily by youtube's internal algorithms right now
[9:34pm] Joe: I would be happy to share how to edit the videos though I do not think I can commit to doing them on a regular basis
[9:34pm] wodensday: YT Shorts don't take all that much to have impact. You just need someone prepared to go on a quality 1-minute ramble
[9:34pm] Yari: ^
[9:34pm] jokeefe: “Pirate in 60 seconds”
[9:35pm] Yari: ^^
[9:35pm] Yari: This is clever
[9:35pm] pmchi: “This has been your 60 second Pirate news”
[9:35pm] Yari: I like this
[9:35pm] Joe: We could call it our cannon blasts
[9:35pm] pmchi: ^^^
[9:35pm] wodensday: I like that.
[9:35pm] Bosun: sixty second shorts.
[9:36pm] Yari: I can make some of these as well