United States Pirate Party

I feel that since the tour is over, and this is the first meeting after it, that is should be discussed, the impact it has made to the membership discussed, and the overall value of it. Lessons learnt etc.

in the upcoming meeting I would like to address an issue. it is somewhat of an expansion of Records and the Records office but is something of it's own point.
it appears to me that the manner in which meetings are currently conducted are not done in a manner that is satisfactory to several of our members. to address this issue I have proposed a restructuring or rather restating of how meetings should run. I have posted it here
to summarize:

• IRC rooms get autologged by bots and dumped to a wiki
• each meeting will have it's own forum that includes a brief description of of each topic and a link to each topic's own forum
• during a "meeting" IRC is used by administration to announce topics one at a time (as listed in the meeting forum) and links to their respective forum threads
• discussion of each topic takes place in said forum's thread (not in the IRC)
• threads will be maintained with an updated first post as per practice in forums on sites like SomethingAwful.com
• concerns and requests for additional topics should be posted to appropriate meeting's forum beforehand so that forums for topics may be created and discussed before the meeting.

this is to reduce the cluster F***  of IRC chatter that is currently present. chaff is not transparency. IRC logs suck, threaded discussion is where it's at!
I beleive this is how ryan intended for meetings to go, but this is not how they have gone. so here it is out in the open. I am willing to accept questions and comments.
 

Just got off a very long and nerve wracking call with the IRS.  Seems we got some stuff late but nothing that can't be filed in the next few weeks.  No fines, no fees.  Apparently there is another form i've never heard of that isn't due till March.  The 990 might not even be late, as our schedule could very well be from 6-9.  An IRS agent is going to call me back in about a week to clairify and go into more detail with me.  We need to make a real calendar of filing requirements for any future person who is going to be responsible for this stuff.
 
Thank goodness!
 
It really is about time for a CPA / Lawyer team though. Luckily we spend nothing and our donations are non-existant now, or maybe there would have been trouble.  Doubt it, but still.
 
Will update the page later as I find out more.
 
I'm sure everyone is super happy that there is nothing critically bad going down!
 

Due to the tone of recent correspondence between members of the party, I would like to remind everyone that there is a provision in our constitution that states:
 
 "All members of the Pirate Party are welcome to participate at all times during any meeting. However, members may be ejected from the meeting for continuous, irrelevant, disruptive and counterproductive behavior. Members are entitled to at least two warnings."
 
I will be taking it upon myself to oversee the proceedings of the meeting this Saturday, to ensure that the tone is kept productive and positive. 
 
Any issues with this system are issues with the constitution, and should be addressed as such. Inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated. 
 
Thank you.

 Alright, I like voice.  Everyone has access to some kind of voice.  Voice is good.  

Here is my current voice hardware pile.

3 laptops 

8 1/8'' audio cables

2 htc telephones (1/8'' adaptors)

I plan to chain this all together to create a bridge between skype callers, users on the telephone confrence call, and any other suggested system (suggest away) and record them all in real time.  I also hope to find something i can embed into the meeting page so that users can listen in who are just on the site.

 When the pirate party ran the FM radio experiment confrence call thingy in the Georgia Burning Man meetup it looked like this:

What is this IRS situation you speak of? You should elaborate to the public.

 Because I'm the first person to ask for one since the last one, which i asked for.

I, personally, was unaware that Thanksgiving is this week until yesterday, but I suppose that's probably just me. We're asking for an hour of time on Saturday.
 
Also, will those who take issue with the date not have internet access?
 
Second, the method of having a meeting to discuss the future voting on issues at another meeting is something that was done previously, at the behest of other individuals, and is being continued as such.
 
Also, I would like to submit that we vote on adding a "Right to Internet" platform, as discussed here.
 
 

Grrr, I will again be unavailable.  I work Saturdays.  I will have access to the Internet, but will only safely be able to use email.  Anything else and I could get in trouble.
Can we have the vote take place over a 24 hour period?

First and foremost: the date is oh so wrong. It's Thanksgiving weekend - not many people will be around. I can personally attest that I will be working. I say we push it back a week, that way people will have returned back to their normal life cycle, and failing that, make this meeting tentative until we can all compromise.
 
Second: the method by which you're trying to push for fundamental changes is agreeable, sure, but strange. Way too much red tape: when people vote, they want simplicity; no ambiguity and no reason to vote on it first and the vote on it again to ratify it.
 
Third: Where is the meeting to be accessed from? Saying where you're available from does not dictate where everyone will be meeting and have federation across those protocols.

Be where, exactly? You say when (chose a shitty time; Thanksgiving weekend, but that aside...), and that the meeting needs to be done then to facilitate voting, but you haven't said where.