11 September 2014 Executive Reports

Minutes for the Pirate Party of New Zealand board meeting 11 September 2014 19:00

Attendees
 * AndrewR
 * Daniel
 * Ben
 * AndrewM

Excused

Absent Minutes of last meeting Taken as read
 * Mathmo

Matters arising

Correspondance

Agenda

1 Board meeting discipline In order to maintain discipline and enable the efficient working of the board the chariman is charged with maintaining discipline. To enable this the chairman requests the power to warn board members and guests to stay on topic and be respectful of other participants. Should, after three warnings, misconduct continue the chairman should be able to suspend the offender(s) for the rest of the meeting.

Vote

2. Comms The comms group needs to be reformed and its perview extended. Not only press releases but all social media channels should be under the comms group. This work can wait until after the elections.

There is only one active member with admin rights to social media channels. This should be extended to the chairman and at least one other board member. defered to after the elections 20 sept

3. Membership / Constitutional reform The Internet party has a two tier membership system we could use General and full membership https://internet.org.nz/rules working group to be established

We can adopt this prior to our internal membership drive so lapsed full members can still be general members.

4. Accessibility of the Loomio Board discussion group Proposal Make the PPNZ Board group read only to PPNZ members who are not on the board Voting in the loomio PPNZ Board discussion https://www.loomio.org/d/UPZSBwRj/should-we-make-this-group-readable-to-the-membership vote passed

5. Board internal process and issue tracking Proposal to install RedMine (subject to ongoing discussion in loomio) as a Ticket System for board internal process and issue tracking. https://www.loomio.org/d/8Ph4TlSa/ticket-bug-tracking-system vote passed

Meeting closed: 20:30

Next meeting:25 September