Minutes 8 January 2009: 8.00pm Summertime AEST

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Executive summary of actions

Previous Delegations requiring action

  1. STATES: TO DISCUSS AND REPORT ON MEDIA OFFICERS (except QLD, they were good)
  2. STATES: TO DELEGATE A PERSON AS MEMBERSHIP OFFICER BEFORE NEXT NATIONAL MEETING
  3. DELEGATED: All organisers to drum up their friends & contacts to get involved right now
  4. STATES: To discuss potential Sponsorship officers and report to National
  5. DELEGATED (13/01/2009): VAL There is a constitution which can be circulated via wiki? also email a copy out.
  6. DELEGATED: fifers Hate speech laws / Vilification state by state advice
  7. DELEGATED: fifers Work on media stunt scripts with nsw activist
  8. DELEGATED: Justin for Melbourne, fifers for Sydney, PurpleFae for QLD: O-Week contacts and student networks / student associations
  9. DELEGATED: fifers to draft a petition according to Senate guidelines and put on wiki for review
  10. DELEGATED: Knoe Captcha / Anti-spam Weds-Saturday to be actioned.
  11. DELEGATED: Knoe & Val to figure out our PLI status / Negotiate club PLI status.

New Delegations requiring action and New Decisions

  1. AGREED: DLC Members get:
    1. Voting rights (Annual type)
    2. Access to national meetings if individual is active at state level
    3. Magazine or some kind of membership publication (last of production capacity)... newsletter ... Delegate to other than NSW
    4. member only forums... ie organisational forums
    5. What you get must be listed on website
  2. DELEGATED: QLD & VIC competitive Flyer content production delegation. Cross delegation / competitive delegation: QLD, Vic. WIKI |FORUMS |NCI res forums. DELEGATED By 15/1/2008 QLD / VIC 15th
    • AGREED CONTENT for flyer: Australian-ness avoid racism nationalism "Censorship is "UnAustralian""; Censorship is bad; Internet is good; Opening every piece of mail, listening in every telephone conversation; Destroying Australia's new internet economy; People were hyper picky about citations, need to cite shit from Conroy / Government announcements
  3. AGREED: March in March is 20 March Saturday Canberra
  4. DELEGATION: Val call (Canberra) & PurpleFae to poke (Canberra2)
  5. DELEGATION: (Canberra in general) Sound negotiation and notice of event
  6. DELEGATED SPONSORSHIP OFFICER: Val
  7. DELEGATED: fifers contact MEAA through greens / unions networks.

Tabled Delegations

  1. READ YOUR CONSTITUTION PEOPLE...ITS IN YOUR CONSTITUTION PEOPLE
  2. TABLED (13/01/2009, requires constitution) Discussion on offers of support in kind until meeting in week starting Sunday 11 January 2009
  3. DELEGATED (13/01/2009, requires constitution): Val + Jeronimo Cheat Sheet / SOP


Contents

Matters for next Skype meeting

MEETING 8 January 2009: 8.00pm Summertime AEST

Begun 8.00pm Summertime AEST

Attendance

  1. PurpleFae
  2. fifers
  3. Justin
  4. Val (late)
  5. Jeronimo (late)
  6. Knoe (latest)

Agenda

  1. accepted with modifications
  2. Documents for Meeting: DLC Constitution

Val: Constitution is with NPO lawyer at the moment

Minutes

  1. Were the last minutes okay?
    • RECEIVED
    • ACCEPTED
      • with note that the Brisbane money raised details from the December meeting still need updating

Major Delegated matters requiring report

  1. Val: Constitution of DLC
    • Castigation moved and approved for delegated individual for failure to supply. AGREED. RECINDED BASED ON REPORT RECEIVED.
    • VAL: Expected supply at Tuesday morning. Via Email and wiki
    • TABLED TO MEETING AFTER TUESDAY MORNING
    1. Debate on DLC constitution
      • TABLED
    2. New item: what do you get for your money's worth (NEW) Also web up date on what you get for your money
      1. AGREED: Voting rights (Annual type)
      2. AGREED: Access to national meetings if individual is active at state level
      3. AGREED: What you get must be listed on website
      4. AGREED: Magazine or some kind of membership publication (last of production capacity)... newsletter ... Delegate to other than NSW
      5. AGREED: member only forums... ie organisational forums
      • excellent ideas steven/justin
      • noted Star Observer article / usefulness of Google alert
    3. Cheat Sheet / SOPs
      • TABLED
    4. Melbourne-- what financial relationship to National
      • TABLED
    5. State Reports on delegated items
      1. Status: TAS, WA, ACT
        • WA may have a step up? Getting back to PurpleFae.
      2. State Membership Officers: REQUIRED
        • ONGOING
      3. State Sponsorship Officers: RECOMMENDED
        • ONGOING
      4. State Media Officers (liason): VOLUNTARY (everyone but QLD)
        • ONGOING; Progress in relation to Vic.
      5. State suggestions of Standard Operating Procedures for flyer handouts: MORE THAN ONE OF YOU BASTARDS
        • Folded into SOP agenda item in future
    6. 26 January (National level) planning / discussion
      • DELEGATED: Flyer content production delegation. Cross delegation / competitive delegation: QLD, Vic. WIKI |FORUMS |NCI res forums. DELEGATED By 15/1/2008 QLD / VIC 15th
      • AGREED CONTENT:
      1. Australian-ness avoid racism nationalism "Censorship is "UnAustralian""
      2. Censorship is bad
      3. Internet is good
      4. Opening every piece of mail, listening in every telephone conversation
      5. Destroying Australia's new internet economy
      6. People were hyper picky about citations, need to cite shit from Conroy / Government announcements
        • Citation useful: conroy 4 page letter

Minor Delegated matters requiring report

  1. Membership drumming up (May be a nil report)
    • QLD Report: From December no members, some sent to website for information
  2. DELEGATED: fifers Hate speech laws / Vilification state by state advice (May be an ongoing work report)
    • ongoing work
  3. DELEGATED: fifers Break wiki down into more manageable pages (May be an ongoing work report)
    • Good work fifers, keep it up long term.
  4. DELEGATED: fifers Work on media stunt scripts with nsw activist (May be an ongoing work report)
    • Ongoing, partial report
      • RCA sex red-red white-white yellow-yellow conroy vcr smh
      • Tubes + clogging
      • scanty censored women.
  5. DELEGATED: Justin for Melbourne, fifers for Sydney, PurpleFae for QLD: O-Week contacts and student networks / student associations (May be an ongoing work report)
    • fifers: nothing
    • PurpleFae: fighting PLI issues
    • Justin: compiling contact list
  6. DELEGATED: fifers to draft a petition according to Senate guidelines and put on wiki for review
    • ongoing
  7. DELEGATED: Knoe Captcha / Anti-spam Weds-Saturday to be actioned. (May be a nil report)
    • nil report (time not yet elapsed)

Other Previous Business

  1. O-Week planning / discussion
    • TO DECIDE WHAT AT END OF O-WEEK
    • PurpleFae to contact QLD to assess value of motion below
    • TABLED AS MOTION:
      1. Soapbox during O-Week
      2. Wrap up with social, with best of speakers
      3. contact lecturers
  2. March in March planning / discussion (Senate sits 16-19 March.)
    • ACTION: 20 March Saturday Canberra
    • Delegation: Val call (Canberra) & PurpleFae to poke (Canberra2)
    • Delegation:(Canberra in general) Sound negotiation and notice of event
  3. Marketing Material purchases
    • TABLED (consitition)
  4. Sponsorship Officer (Tabled from December)
    • DELEGATED: val
    • DELEGATED: fifers contact MEAA through greens / unions networks.
    • Val discussing PLI with underwriters
  5. Help/discuss/ideas for this - Volunteer Position Recruiting (Tabled from 4 January)
    • QLD
      • Producing website content
      • Informative graphics
      • & easy to read text
    • VIC
      • Volunteers are wary of us, we don't have anything to give them to do, we need to be open about us
    • TABLED AS: DLC legitimacy in the eyes of keyboard warriors / Potential activists
      • (Trots issue resolved: tin foils issue outstanding)
  6. Tomorrow night can we request for high res video of each event be uploaded on a rapidshit somewhere for fatman to grab and throw on our YouTube and Vimeo channels plz? (Tabled from 4 January)
    • Val asked for Postproduction assistance: outstanding requirement. PurpleFae to ask about in QLD
  7. International Liason
    1. Contact from Turkish Internet Society [1] who want our advice on how to set up an organisation identical in nature to the DLC with a direct action / constitutional challenge approach, they face a similar situation over there.
      • TABLED item for future delegation

New Business

No new business

Time for Next Meeting

  1. 8pm AEST Summertime Sunday 11th January

Meeting Closed

9.26pm AEST Summertime

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