EB 2012-04-23 minutes

The regular Executive Board meeting of the Pirate Party of Canada was called to order at 22:00 Eastern Time, April 23, 2012 at irc channel #exec, irc.pirateparty.ca. The president was in the chair and the secretary was present. In attendance were Sean Hunt, Ric Lim, Shawn Vulliez, Travis McCrea, Patrick Fitzgerald and Stephane Bakhos. The minutes from previous meetings were reviewed and approved.

Sean Hunt moved "that, until a future direction is made in this regard, no torrent be tracked on CaPT unless there is evidence that the necessary consent has been received from its copyright owners for distribution, and that the PC be asked to come to a decision about what rules, restrictions, or lack thereof it would like to see on CaPT content."

Sean Hunt moved "that we leave the tracker as is, and provide an email address that takedown notices can be sent to on the capt page, until we decide what we want to do on the long term." Motion was adopted after debate and substitution with 5 ayes and 0 nays.

Travis McCrea moved "that the party lend Travis $150 for the purchase and shipment of 25 No Safe Harbour books to sell and sign and recover our money." Motion was adopted without dissent with 4 ayes and 0 nays.

Patrick Fitzgerald moved for the adoption of the following as a standing rule: Funds for projects shall be allocated as follows: Funds may be earmarked either into the General Project Fund or to funds for specific official projects. On the first of each month, $5 will be put into the General Project Fund per official project, and the funds may be added to at any time by the Executive Board or as a condition of a donation to the Party. In the event that a project loses recognition, the Executive Board will make an effort to contact any donors of unspent funds and offer to return them; otherwise, the remaining funds in that project's fund shall revert to the General Project Fund. Motion was adopted after discussion with 4 ayes and 0 nays.

Sean Hunt moved "that we decide to seek an individual to replace the Fund as the chief agent of the Party." The motion was postponed to the next meeting.

Travis McCrea moved "to support the appointment of Ric Lim, Patrick Fitzgerald, and Jacob Daynes as officers." Motion was adopted with 3 ayes and 0 nay.

The meeting was adjourned at 01:49 AM Eastern Time April 24, 2012.