PC 2012-04-05 minutes

Previous Business:
1. Updates due from the Constitution Refinement Committee and the Electoral Strategy Committee

Electoral Strategy: No update, long time till an election

Constitution Refinement: 18 amendments up for a vote at this months GM. After the votes we may take comments/criticisms and repackage into some new amendments, including the possible Ideals section.

New Business:
1. 30 Second Advert

https://www.pirateparty.ca/forum/index.php?topic=796.msg11593#msg11593 Motion: To approve the above message to be turned into a video advertisement Vote passed: +4/-0

Conclusion: Jake will contact James O'brien. Shawn and/or Travis should bring this to the Executive Board.

2. Motions being passed, but not acted on There have been two motions which were passed by us, but haven't been acted on by anyone. We should asses the situation, contact those who should have acted, and ensure we don't allow it to repeat. These are the two :
 * Have the Party Mirror all Canadian Wikileaks content on CaPT (passed on 08/03)
 * The Pirate Party should promote alternatives to services that do not respect users' privacy. (passed on 22/03)
 * Link to encrypteverything.ca on our homepage (not sure if this was passed by us or the GM cause I couldn't find the motion, but regardless it hasn't happened yet)

Conclusion: Jake will bring the encrypteverything button to the IT and/or do it himself. Shawn will write a press-release and release it about the wikileaks issue (it's already up apparently). Travis will deal with the front page social media alternatives.

3. Press release on Canadian companies who spy on our citizens (not the passive google type spying but the government contracted type)

https://www.pirateparty.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1840.0

Conclusion: Postponed

4. Dutch Pirate Party legal Issues

James Wilson informed me that the Dutch pirate party had a proxy site for thepiratebay and is being sued

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-refuses-to-shutdown-pirate-bay-proxy-faces-lawsuit-120403/

There's a multitude of actions we could take on this, such as press releases, financial support, etc

Conclusion: Travis and possibly Sean H will contact the Dutch Pirate Party about any assistance we can offer. Jake will write a preliminary press-release but wait until we have contacted the Dutch Party to release it (to add any additional actions on our part).

5. Bloggers for the PPCA site

I have appointed a few people who wanted to post stories to the front page of the blog to contributor on the site. I would like us to watch the submitted posts so we can actually approve them for the front page.

Conclusion: Already implemented, it is approved now. Contributors can write articles and admins (or editors) can approve. Approval needs to also be used to stagger posts because we don't have archiving accessible yet. An email address will be used to notify admins that there is a submission waiting

6. Paid Administrator for VPN Project

Pay someone to run the VPN - Do it by commissions. If someone takes ownership of the VPN project and actually are getting paid, we might have a better chance of it really taking off.

Conclusion: Will discuss specific proposals over email and bring back to either next weeks meeting of the week after (depending on how the discussion goes).