EB 2012-07-29 transcript



NOTE: All log times are in Canadian Central Time

18:54 < JohannWeiss> Alright, well CCitizen and shawnvulliez, do you have any official business that needs to be attended to? 18:54 <@CCitizen> Yeah we got 5 people here I think 18:54 < JohannWeiss> I'll call this meeting to order then 18:55 < JohannWeiss> First order of business: approval of the minutes. 18:55 < JohannWeiss> RLim, do you have a link to last weeks minutes? 18:55 < RLim> apparently we have none. I can't find it on wiki 18:56 < JohannWeiss> Dang. 18:56 < RLim> reviewing transcript to see if anything happened. We can just move along and approve it next meeting if any 18:56 < JohannWeiss> Yeah, that's fine 18:56 < JohannWeiss> Were you taking minutes last week or was someone else filling in? 18:57 <@CCitizen> I dont think we had anything we actually did 18:57 <@CCitizen> just discussion of stuff 18:57 < RLim> I was here. But I don't think there was really anything. Still weird since I would have said meeting adjourned blah blah. 18:57 <@shawnvulliez> I was not there, because I was in the wilderness. 18:57 < RLim> moving on 18:58 <@shawnvulliez> I'm going to be back in Canada next week, so hurray 18:58 < JohannWeiss> A well, try to find it before the next week. 18:58 < RLim> yay 18:58 < JohannWeiss> Great news! 18:58 < RLim> yeah 18:58 <@shawnvulliez> I motion to create a non-voting, non-quorum member of the executive board called "International Co-ordinator" and appoint Travis McCrea to that position. 18:58 < RLim> wouldn't that be more PC than EB? 18:58 < RLim> JohannWeiss someone's pregnant? 18:59 < JohannWeiss> RLIM: That's not always great news :) 18:59 <@shawnvulliez> He's stepping back from his involvement in the PPCA, but he will be able to help us co-ordinate with the PPUS and PPI because of his involvement there 18:59 < RLim> lol true true 18:59 < JohannWeiss> I can see the logic of it being administrative because it's for coordinating with other Pirate Parties, not the general public ( domain of the PC) 18:59 <@shawnvulliez> I imagined Executive because it's going to be more technical co-ordination than policy and PR 19:00 < RLim> ok cool 19:00 < JohannWeiss> Any objections or discussion? 19:00 < RLim> no objection here 19:01 < JohannWeiss> For clarification, the position wouldn't have any actual powers in the party, it's just a better way for us to communicate to the PPI 19:02 < RLim> like a diplomat 19:02 < JohannWeiss> Seeing no objections It's passed unanimously. 19:02 < JohannWeiss> yeah 19:02 < JohannWeiss> Any more business from CCitizen or shawnvulliez? 19:03 <@CCitizen> Theres no pressing business we dont really need to handle the whole copyright request thing from the VPN at this point 19:04 < JohannWeiss> Yes, Jake has sent a response that is well worded, we should wait and see what response they have 19:05 < JohannWeiss> I'd like to ask the IT about our CRM relating to mailing lists. James Wilson had earlier asked about getting local mailing access and I think it will be necessary in the future for volunteer coordination. 19:06 < JohannWeiss> I'll send an email to the IT team about it and we can discuss at next weeks meeting 19:06 < JohannWeiss> I've got a motion I'd like to discuss, but it's not ready to be passed yet (probably next week) 19:07 < RLim> oh then I have one thing 19:07 < RLim> I've been trying to get apssword for my e-mail 19:07 < JohannWeiss> Did you guys get it in the email I sent to the exec? 19:07 < RLim> *password 19:08 < JohannWeiss> A new pass? 19:08 < RLim> Jhowell and Sean Hunt said they don't know how to do it and need someone to help on that one 19:08 < RLim> no right now secretary@ and ric.li@ are forwarded 19:08 < RLim> so I can't really sent unless I use gmail to mask identity 19:09 < JohannWeiss> I guess Jake would be your best bet if those two can't do it. 19:09 <@shawnvulliez> There was some talk from Jake of switching to a new mail system 19:09 < RLim> with regards to mailing list we might as well discuss it. Should we just hand out list to local riding? 19:09 <@shawnvulliez> I've been frustrated with the lack of accessibility in regards to emails and mailing lists 19:10 < RLim> is there any possible concern. I am not just talking about Wilson but for the future in general 19:10 < RLim> I thought crm would allow that 19:10 < RLim> nvm 19:10 < RLim> we need to figure out a mechanism 19:10 < JohannWeiss> We need to have a system where someone can send email to the list, without the sender seeing all the emails. 19:11 < RLim> and whther civiCRM can restrict access say Vancouver riding can only sent out mailing to those in Vancouver 19:11 < RLim> Jake would probably know more whether that is already possible with CIviCRM. 19:11 < RLim> It's a nice module 19:11 < JohannWeiss> I think it already works that way, but we're the least technical members of the exec, so we're going to be talking without much expertise 19:12 < RLim> I like CiviCRM but have not poke around to see whether it can do that 19:12 < JohannWeiss> the council and exec mailing lists work the way I imagine it should, it just has to scale up (national list, provincial list, local list, etc) 19:13 < RLim> yeah but the trick is can we give access to local riding association. Do we want to? 19:13 < RLim> Rather than going through Exec or me. Not that I mind but I imagine it would be more efficient 19:13 < JohannWeiss> Did you read the email I sent earlier? 19:13 <@CCitizen> I'm sure jake can fix it 19:14 < RLim> yeah 19:15 < JohannWeiss> Any thoughts or opinions on the volunteer plan? 19:15 < RLim> yeah but I think we should just concentrate on establishing local riding association. It could be the same thing 19:16 < RLim> Head of the riding is the chief volunteer organizer 19:17 < JohannWeiss> I'm assuming that the provincial organizers will just be the local organizer from the biggest city. 19:17 < RLim> As to what role? can they be our agent also so that they can solicit donations locally? 19:17 < JohannWeiss> I doubt we'll even have volunteer coordinators from all provinces (I can think of less then 6 people who might take the job) 19:18 < RLim> Ottawa is one 19:18 < JohannWeiss> Yeah: Ottawa, BC (Vancouver), Alberta (Calgary) and maybe James Wilson in NB? 19:19 < JohannWeiss> That's all I can think of TBH 19:19 < JohannWeiss> Unless there's members who have just not voiced their opinion on the matter 19:19 < JohannWeiss> Well I've got to prepare to leave, so seeing no objections, I'll motion that we end the meeting 19:20 < RLim> aye 19:20 < JohannWeiss> aye 19:20 < JohannWeiss> oh wait, chair doesn't vote 19:20 < JohannWeiss> scratch that 19:20 < JohannWeiss> CCitizen shawnvulliez 19:21 <@shawnvulliez> I'm on board 19:21 < JohannWeiss> we're voting to adjourn 19:23 < JohannWeiss> ping CCitizen 19:24 < RLim> 2 ayes, 1 abstain :) 19:24 < JohannWeiss> meeting adjourned then



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