NEC/Minutes/28th February 2010
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NEC meeting minutes 28th February 2010
Attendees
Andy, Philip, Miah, Tom
Summary
Start of NEC meeting
Apologies from John who is attending a pirate meet up in Manchester.
Minutes of last meeting approved.
No further news on election date, still looking like May 6th.
No movement on the manifesto since last Monday, need to talk to Tom to get this moving.
Merchandising. Seems to be some confusion between a lot of people about the status of the Swedish offer, and where we're going with it. In the interim, Andy will get a one off order of 200 t-shirts from back street merchandise, keeping the Swedish negotiations open.
Suggestion to get John Prescot more heavily involved as deputy treasurer.
Seven month constitutional vote now due.
Details here: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=1369
The NEC recommends that members accept these changes.
Action: ask Tom to get this set up and running.
Philip has been in contact with Hugh Hancock who is doing an animated film/short about the digital economy bill.
Philip got an email from Florian at the Open Rights Group about an event coming up in London in a months time. Andy may be able to attend the event. Need for reciprocal coverage of our events noted.
Appointment of a press officer.
Action: Andy will contact the various members of the press committee to gauge interest.
Strategy for publicity (website). The blog on the front page doesn't get updated often enough. On the forum there is a news thread that gets regular updates. These could be used to drive more visitors to the site, via reddit et al.
Action: Philip to talk to Tom and discuss on the forums about options to increase visitors.
Ratification of candidates. John needs to put together the text for the votes, and Tom needs to put the votes up.
Action: Andy will ask John to put some text together for the votes so that these can be driven forward.
Forms for electoral commission - changing of nominating officer. Peter Liddell not in meeting to discuss.
Action: Andy will look into this and contact Peter.
An opportunity may have arisen at the Edinburgh meet up to talk to Allen Ellis of Oink fame. Also at the same meeting, interest was expressed in setting up a Glasgow students pirate group.
Andy did another fairly short Russian TV interview on the topic of a Russian torrent site being shut down. The producers struggled to find anyone who agreed with the shutting down of the site, so the interview/discussion ended up being fairly one sided in our favour.
Need to generally increase blogging on the approach to the election, so need to try and plan some useful/interesting blogs going forward. Looking for people/members/etc to email suggestions to Andy to collate and post on the site.
Map/distribution statistics on membership - would be good if this was by constituency rather than postcode.
Action: Miah to talk to John about the data he is able to produce.
End of NEC meeting
Start of web team meeting
Tom joined the call.
Need to set up a few votes for members:
1) Membership vote on constitutional change. Should be a "do we adopt this - yes/no" vote.
2) Data controller election.
3) Candidate ratification votes. Need John to put the text together for this.
4) Manifesto vote - Tom reckons a few days to sort the code out to do this. Would also want a feedback/free-text box to allow members to comment. Output from this should be anonymised.
Want to run 1, 2 and 3 all together once we've provided all the text.
4 should be released later in the week once Tom has set up the code.
Tom is looking to reduce the height of the top banner/logo on the website.
Action: Andy to provide Tom with high quality source image so he can make this change.