GM 2014-04-16 minutes

The regular General Meeting of the Pirate Party of Canada came to order at 20:21 Eastern Time, April 16, 2014 at ca.pirateirc.net irc channel #canada. The President (CCitizen) was the chair.

drew asked if there was still interest in offering a VPN service. He also mentioned that he was interested in releasing an new version of Pirate Linux in time for the election.

CCitizen commented that it was deemed too risky to put on our main VM host: the concern was a potential shut-down due to DCMA complaints (which Canadian companies generally treat as valid notices of infringement).

There was some concern over the new copyright legislation requiring logs to be preserved.

CCitizen MOVED to: "Appoint drew to the IT Committee and give the IT Director and Executive Board control over his appointment. As well give him permission to set up a VPN service for testing purposes and report his findings to the next GM." SECONDED by Wilson

There was some concern over the new copyright legislation requiring logs to be preserved. It was pointed out that some log-free services still appeared to operate in Canada. The option of using an off-shore VPN was also mentioned.

MOTION CARRIED (7 Yes, 1 Abstain, 0 No)

RLim gave a financial report: $3,649.81 on bank account, $1,000 plus on Paypal. He also suggested "offering merchandize like: donation of $100 or more gets a flag."

This led to discussion about the previous AWOL flags. It was decided that pending flag orders should be refunded due to the delay.

CCitizen looked at the OVH website and found "they seem to have moved the servers we purchased to another division soyoustart.com. Moving to that hosting would save us over $500 on our hosting for next year for basically the same server capacity we have now. Hell we could get that and a backup server for the same price we were paying last year."

CCitizen went on to say: "I'd also like to call attention to the fact that we are currently looking for someone who is willing to volunteer to do the job of IT Director. In order to be considered for this position you would ideally need to NOT be self-employed as such causes much headaches for the party and know what they're doing."

rekabis said: "I am not self-employed any more. I am actually on-board with a national cloud service/hosting provider now." CCitizen told him to contact the Executive Board after the meeting. There was some discussion about what work was financial contribution to the party, so phillipsjk linked to the Elections Canada ruling we were using for interpretation.

CCitizen: "Another thing is we have a vacancy in the Project Development Committee for the Project Manager... basically it's sorta a bit of R&D and fundraising rolled into one. The VPN we discussed earlier would be considered under that when it gets operational... The goal is to have a bunch of stuff that we can sell or services we can provide to Canadians that will give us as a party a steady income stream."

phillipsjk pointed out that "We also have a vacancy for vice president"

CCitizen opened the floor up for nominations, but none of the initial nominations were seconded.

''CCitizen MOVED "Accept nominations for the Vice President position for a period of 1 week following the GM by way of the member's forums. After that week all nominated individuals will be placed on a ballot to be voted on as per our constitution to fill the vacant seat. Results will be put into immediate effect and any concerns or questions about the election can be brought up at the next GM." SECONDED by phillipsjk CARRIED (8 For, 0 Against, 1 Abstain).

phillipsjk gave NOTICE "...for a Constitutional amendment to strike 'The positions of President, Vice-President and Secretary shall not be eligible to hold a position on the Political Council.' from Article IV of the constitution."

Wilson MOVED to adjourn. SECONDED by CCitizen (implied) CARRIED (6 for, 0 against).

The meeting adjourned at 20:00 Eastern time.