PNC 7/18/12

Agenda PNC MEETING' 

--- 07/18/2012 21:00h EDT ---

IRC: irc.pirateirc.net

Room: #pnc

Wiki: http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_7/18/12

Minutes

Record of the meeting

1 - ATTENDEES

1.1 - Members of the PNC

• participating:
  • Jeff Talada, WA
  • Erik Zoltan, Massachusetts
  • Max Bugrov, California
  • Kyle DeVore, Oregon
  • Lindsay-Anne Brunner, New York
  • Bradley Hall, Florida
  • Jarod, GA

• excused: 
• unexcused:
• probation;
  • OK

1.2 - At Large Members of the PNC

• Megan Cochran/Joseph T. Klein, WI
• James Eastman/Amanda Johnson, MI
• Caleb Langeslag, Minnesota

2 - PROCEEDINGS

• Meeting opened at: 9:01 pm EDT by Travis McCrea
• Meeting closed at: 12:09 am EDT by Travis McCrea
• Meeting chaired by Travis McCrea
• Secretary for this meeting is Jeff Talada
• Quorum is established: Members 7 out of 7 present
• Logging Enabled: Yes

3 - Review of previous minutes

• http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_7/11/12

4 - REPORTS

4.1 - Short report of the board members 

Massachusetts

• attended Hope 9
• trying to schedule a picnic on George's Island together with Anonymous
• looking for a new Treasurer
• written a proposed policy to replace copyright and patents that is designed to appeal to writers, musicians, video makers and inventors
  • circulated it and gotten great feedback
• still working on VPN as well as liquid feedback which has some configuration issues

Oklahoma

• absent
• 1st week probation

Washington

• nothing to report

Oregon

• Rock the Ballot event on the 21st in Portland

Georgia

• will be traveling up to boston friday
• will be offline next week

Florida

• nothing to report

New York

• did the Pirate Choir last Saturday
  • it was still a success
  • will post video

California

• created several versions of our logo, deciding on a standard we're going to be using for letter heads, social media, etc.
• Made some pretty overlays for videos / standardizing our hangouts on g+ with them eventually
• working on a newsletter template
• Looking for server/hosting options to begin implementation of LF
• had the debut of The Pirate Hour, where we interview David Bollier, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication
  • http://youtu.be/4W6J9a9PBlU
  • Next Pirate Hour will feature Joe Matthews... scheduled for 9:30 pm PDT on Monday, July 23rd
  • trying to get James O'Keefe to do a pirate hour with us around July 30-beginning of august
• trying to get the CA governor to participate in a debate with us about prop 39 on video
• Smaller project that we are working on includes musicians and artists and the CAPP - distribution of sorts, details are still being worked out, this will include a concert seriese in attempt to promote CAPP and Artists that support us

4.2 - Short Report From Committees

IT Committee

• absent

PNC Charter Committee

• discussed outstanding issues

5 - Agenda Items

• WI application for membership
  • Website - http://www.pp-wisconsin.net
  • Has reps to be present at all meetings
  • Recruiting
  • Supports the three planks
  • Membership accepted with 7 for, 2 at-large for, 2 at-large abstains

• adjourned 3 for, 1 abstain

- AOB -

• Washington considering probation
• Proposal: Require agenda to be posted 48 hours before meetings

• Next meeting: 7/18/12 at 9:00pm EDT
• Meeting closed: at 12:09 am EDT