Minutes Online 2010.10.19

Attendance:


 * AdamS
 * copporo
 * DLS
 * Jeremy
 * MissKitty
 * MikkelPaulson
 * Rintaran
 * Nuitari (late - 21:19)
 * doconner (late - 21:22)
 * sidek (late - 21:43)

20:00 -- MikkelPaulson called the meeting to order 20:00 -- Discussion of Chair and Clerk Positions

Chair:

The person in charge of general meetings. The chair moderates debate, establishes agendas, and can accept motions and censor disruptive attendees.

Clerk:

Responsible for taking votes, publishing minutes, and keeping a record of documents and motions passed. The clerk should have sole access to voting records. Allowing directors access to this data would give us the opportunity to falsify votes. Since this information is published to the forum, it provides another good reason to remove directors from roles as forum moderators. The clerk should either have basic PHP/MySQL experience or app

20:08 Voice vote was taken on electing Copporo as Chair Yays: 5 Nays: 0  Abs: 2 Copporo elected Chair

20:09 Voice vote was taken on electing Rintaran as Clerk Yays: 5 Nays: 0  Abs: 2 Rintaran elected Clerk

20:13 Copporo states rules of order:

First, we will be running under a different meeting procedure from previous meetings. For the most part, this shouldn't matter, but if you have any questions, you don't know how to do something, etc., please PM me.

I will not participate in discussion without ceding the chair (ideally to MikkelPaulson as party leader), except to add information.

I will not vote unless it affects the outcome

If you want a vote to be exposed to the whole party, unless it's required to be done that way, it requires a majority to put the motion before the whole party. Otherwise votes will be taken only from those present

20:23 MikkelPaulson opened discussion on on the matter of the Winnipeg North by-election 21:00 Rintaran moved that the party seek to run someone in a by-election in Winnipeg North, and if no local candidate steps forward, Mikkel be granted the opportunity to run as per the pirate party condidacy procedure. 21:00 MikkelPaulson moved that the motion as stated be considered informally, and that coppro leave the chair to be able to join discussion 21:01 Motion discussed informally. 21:53 Copporo closed informal discussion. 21:53 Copporo moved that the motion be non-debatable.

21:53 Vote commenced. Yays: 5 Nays: 0 Abs: 4 Motion passed.

21:54 Vote on Rintaran's motion (that the party seek to run someone in a by-election in Winnipeg North, and if no local candidate steps forward, Mikkel be granted the opportunity to run as per the pirate party condidacy procedure) commenced. Yays: 5 Nays: 0  Abs: 4 Motion passed.

22:00 Meeting adjourned.

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