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- Agenda PNC MEETING'
- --- 08/8/2012 21:00h EDT ---
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- Room: #pnc
- Wiki: http://www.pirate-party.us/wiki/PNC_8/8/12
Minutes
Record of the meeting
1 - ATTENDEES
1.1 - Members of the PNC
- participating:
- Joseph T. Klein, Wisconsin
- Zacqary Adam Green, NY
- Jarod Smith, GA
- Jeff Talada, WA
- Orion Steele, CA
- Kyle DeVore, OR
- Bradley Hall, Florida
- excused
- Massachusetts
- unexcused
- probation
- OK (fourth week)
1.2 - At Large Members of the PNC
- Alex Kollar PA
- James Eastman/Amanda Johnson, Michigan
2 - PROCEEDINGS
- Meeting opened at: 09:02 pm EDT by Lindsay-Anne Brunner
- Meeting closed at: 11:08pm EDT by Lindsay-Anne Brunner
- Meeting chaired by
- Secretary for this meeting is Jeff Talada
- Quorum is established: Members 7 out of 8 present
- Logging Enabled: Yes
3 - Review of previous minutes
4 - REPORTS
4.1 - Short report of the board members
Massachusetts
- excused
Washington
- no report
Oregon
- working on getting the ORPP FB page up
=Georgia
- no report
Florida
- Friday we have to file our 3-month activity report with the Florida Department of Elections
New York
- Pirate Choir video should be done this week
California
- we are all back from various teaching jobs across the country so we are starting to bring together all of the ideas and networking together and take action
- reaching over 8000 people on facebook every day and our twitter/subreddit/google+ page is growing daily
- just had our 9th videotaped weekly meeting and it is available online
- on wednesday we have our third episode of the pirate hour (would love to see any of you there) we are interviewing Bill Kelleher and Alan Dechert
- working with Travis McCrea and the German pirates as part of the AGPPP
- This week we are in the process of switching over our website to our own server space, installing liquid feedback and a 24/7 radio stream
- as part of our media project we are trying to start working with other pirate parties to collect content from musicians in their districts that support our cause, then setting up a radio station that plays our music, podcasts/interviews and our own commercials
- its an awesome way to unite the pirate parties around the world and build the cultural component of our movement
- got interest from Pirate Parties UK and Finland
- as part of our media project we are trying to start working with other pirate parties to collect content from musicians in their districts that support our cause, then setting up a radio station that plays our music, podcasts/interviews and our own commercials
- working on the music project and an internship proposal to take to universities in our area to give college students school credit for helping us with the pirate party
- writing blogs and keeping stuff fresh
Want help with:
- pirate hour - this is an awesome venue for talking to important people about stuff we care about. we are trying to nail down the time for generally thursday nights at 9 pm PDT (midnight on east coast). any of these you could come to helps us because we need a full audience and helps you because it allows you to connect with people and share our networking labor
- TPP treaty negotiations - we were really happy to have a presence in san diego and we will work with anyone who is interested in going to virginia to help you with a speech or materials to distribute or whatever
Wisconsin
- our members voted and ratified the PNC Constitution
- looking into the possibility of a student pirate group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- reaching 33k people on facebook weekly
- Twitter network shows constant growth, and we will soon be making efforts to network using google+
4.2 - Short Report From Committees
IT Committee
5 - Agenda Items
- AOB -
- Mozart (PPAU) – Trans-Pacific Partnership.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership#Controversy_over_Intellectual_Property_.28IP.29_provisions
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership#Controversy_over_negotiation_secrecy
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership
- Next round of negotiations are in VA
- Sept. 9
- Registration closes in about a week: http://www.ustr.gov/tpp/
- the text of the speech CAPP presented is here: http://www.calpirateparty.org/1/post/2012/07/california-pirate-party-response-to-the-trans-pacific-partnership-treaty.html
- Mozart is available to help write/edit presentations that get written
- OrionSteele, we can also help write presentations and work with anyone on the logistical side of registering or writing flyers for the table
Observer State updates
- Michigan
- revamping site
- waiting on the AGPPP care package
- Ann Arbor boys to start flyering with other flyers when we get the funds
- have a couple contacts at the U of M to flyer there and I'm trying to get others from Wayne State, EMU and other universities to start student groups
- Minnesota
- got the HTTPS cert for the MNPP website
- talk with someone from the Rochester, MN area whom has interested folks in the MNPP
- may have some interested folks from a political meetup that I regularly go to
Elections really need to get done eventually. - Amanda Johnson
Vote to issue a statement of opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. 1 for, at-large for
Questions, Comments, Concerns Send a request to Asha Ziering (calpirateparty@gmail.com) to participate in Pirate Hour
Next Meeting Date
- Next meeting: Wednesday, August 18 at 9PM EDT
- Meeting closed: 11:08pm EDT