PC 2012-11-25 transcript

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I call this meeting to order! We have no agenda. and no quorum :( but in any case Yes we do after some more thinking We have quorum bud we need 5?  we have 8, my understanding is quorum is 5 Oh, I'll ping jake he's in the other room anyway, I have decided to submit my resignation. Due to some confusion it wasn't gotten to Ric in time for the GM Ah, that's a shame, but perhaps it will make it easier to get quorum if nothing else Sadly, probably not I appreciate your service to this party, and I hope I haven't soured myself too greatly to you. since my attendance rate is pretty good you haven't If you haven't been able to see, this is my first time running a party like this through these methods heh forwarding my resignation email to PC for more context the mailing list is broken oh you have to email us individually sending along to you five individually then *four I will still try to participate so that you guys won't lack quorum for lack of me, etc. Ok, cheers. For today that would be appreciated. I tried to send out an email to you folks that didnt get delivered here it is: I hope we can all make it to the meeting tomorrow at the usual time. I'd like to start conversations on a few subjects, and I'd like to get us all working once again for the party. 1. Social Media We have a wide reach, and we need to develop a way to bring more people in to help across multiple mediums. Once we have the new mailing lists set up, perhaps we could organize that way. 2. Meetings I have been a poor participant and leader recently, because...  I believe we should take personal initiative on these projects and work collaboratively via email and piratepad until the banking / site situation is worked out.l  On a related note, at the GM it was discovered that visits to the PPCA website has flat-lined Interesting I think it would be because of the low forum activity and confusing new login system whcih has had some people unable to login or post once they are in That, and complete lack of media activity I'm not interested in pointing people to an embarassing mess unless necissary noted none the less We should be willing to talk about our own flaws as a group if we can't talk about our own inability to do things, then we will never fix that I think a distinction has to be made between being self-aware and being pessimistic We're all adults with lives, full time jobs or school, girlfriends, and so on inability to do things is not a condition or an accurate description of what is happening we are not afflicted with some disease we're part of a complicated system ok, sure  I've actually brought this up before. but since we need the attention I'll bring it up again: I would like PC authorization to create a research study of sitting MPs to gauge how effective it is for voters to contact them by email. I'm willing to do all the grunt work myself and would show how well MPs use technology and measure their responsiveness. This has been seen as a negative project before but I think any look at how our MPs function is a net positive for Canadian democracy. If you're going to do it, yes. please. it sounds great and the fact that you're engaged and interested is what is going to make it great :) <@scshunt> ^ <@scshunt> (to the whole thing)  Does such authorization need a motion or should I just go with it? I don't want to do it, slap "authorized by the PPCA" on it just to have someone say it wasn't <@scshunt> personally I'd prefer to see the final report <@scshunt> but I won't be around long so I won't argue with what the rest of you think Yeah I'll agree with scshunt we'll slap it with the logo after its done, not before but I imagine there shant by any problems  kk, I'll get on it then wonderful alright, patrick, are you all embroiled in this banking stuff or are you willing to take on a project for the PC?  what project is that It depends, we can talk over some possibilities basically I'd like to get us each on an autonomous project for the time being would you be willing to do research on other pirate parties and make a list / report on strategies they've used to promote themselves?  note: the German Pirate Party has done parodies of corporate ads to promote the party.  Hah... That would be awesome to do some parodies  Perhaps we could parody the existing 'porn' the government puts out as self-promotion  You know talking about oil sands and jobs for Canadians and stuff... by highlighting things like oil companies trying to bring in foreign workers from china and stuff like that yeah, dubbing over their commercials to include negative stuff that would be fun once my computer is fixed (hopefully this week) I'm planning to grab some video editing software for the PPCA  Cool  we could use some videos on our site or our youtube channel yeah definitely  The Liberals did a commercial about "I'm a Liberal because...". If we could get the volunteers a similiar thing for the PPCA would be cool yeah, another neat idea maybe there could be a piratepad to list the ideas we could pirate from other like, other pirate parties, and other political parties in general maybe patrick could lead it, but we could all participate it would be good to have a reserve of ideas come election seasons maybe a google doc, for stability, tbh  and with that I have to run to the store. So unless there are any motions that require quorum, I'm out for tonight. okay, thanks wilson
 * shawn winks at scshunt

