Meeting August 4

= Agenda =

Positions
Let's clarify the tasks of each position. This may not be necessary, but let's do it to make sure everyone is on the same page.

There are five positions: Leader, Manager, Finance Director, Marketing Director and Technical Director. For more details see the Party_Officer_Nominations page.

I'd like to add that these will be "unofficial" positions for the time being, considering that we don't actually have a party. It's more a way to make people accountable for the various aspects of the party.

Once we've got our party, let's do a more official election where we mail/email out information to all the people registered as members.

Nominees
Who is running for each position?

Voting Mechanism
How are we going to vote? We have suggested a lot of things, namely electronic voting vs. paper mail ballots. Electronic voting is obviously the easiest to make anonymous and accountable, however we'll need to publish the source and all that so that everyone can see, while at the same time hiding sensitive information like who voted for who.

Voting Eligibility
Who can vote? Eventually we'll want everyone who has both signed their member form and paid the membership fee - this is why we need your contact info on the forms, so we can contact you when elections are happening.

However for now since we have so few people who have actually done both, we need to think of another way to count membership.

Current Tasks Page
Our current tasks page is a bit out of date. We'll need to assign this to someone (likely me - Rob.s.brit). Should we use a wiki page, or should we use something more sophisticated? It seems like Mantis is a bit too sophisticated.

Website status
What's going on with the website? What is keeping us from launching it?

NPC Bylaws status
What's going on with the bylaws? Are they nearing completion?

We need three people to sign them. Since Nuitari and I are acting as officers at the moment, perhaps we can sign the bylaws in Montreal with a third person as a Director-At-Large? We can then assign the other positions based on who wants them.

Party Manifesto committee
We need to assign someone (or several someones) to manage the Party Manifesto page and make it complete.

Copyright Consultation submission
We should assign some people to work together on a Copyright Consultation submission.

Social Network Appointees
We need people to manage the social networks:
 * Facebook
 * Twitter/Identi.ca - this can be one person since anything posted on Identi.ca gets automatically forwarded to Twitter
 * Myspace

Contact System
What kind of system should we have for contacting us? We can have a basic form which sends an email to someone on the team - who should that person be? Likely the marketing/PR person.

Or should we have regional PR people?

Local Meetings
Let's try and schedule some meetings in various cities across Canada - at least in those that don't already have meetings scheduled.

Larger Meeting
There was a brief discussion here about a Montreal+Toronto meeting, however there was not much discussion on the matter. Let's talk about this.

Online Meeting
Need to schedule next online meeting.

Extras Added
Stuff added during the meeting:

E-Voting Committee
Find some people to do some research into e-voting.