Crew Brussels/Meeting/11 07 2012

Agenda

1. Approval of minutes from previous meeting
2. Venue of future meetings
3. Campaign-related items
   1. Update on signature hunt
   2. Creation of a Brussels Street Squad ?
   3. Update from Brussels Program Squad
   4. Other
4. Election of a treasurer for Brussels
5. Social Media & IT
6. Creation of a Brussels Press Squad ?
7. Fleet meeting 24/07
8. Misc

Approval of minutes from previous meeting

• Approved

Venue of future meetings

• Amelia Andersdotter's office will be the new place for work meetings
• Next pirate meetup @Kafka, then we'll decide if we stay there or not

Campaign-related items

Update on signature hunt

• Progress is still too slow
• In order to collect signatures by distance (eg through internet) we can give people's the pirate office's address where they can send signed forms. This address + the form will be put on the website as soon as it is set up.
• Individual initiatives to collect signatures from elected officials are welcome, but we won't put any collective efforts behind it.

Creation of a Brussels Street Squad ?

• There is no point in creating a squad top-down, first step is to find people interested
• Everyone should be involved in collecting signatures.
• No decision on this.

Update from Brussels Program Squad

• Some complains were voiced regarding the structure and functioning of the squad.
• It was however agreed that we would keep the current system until something better is found.
• It was suggested this would be a great application for the LQFB.

Others

• Line's idea : meet every Saturday at 4pm in a public area to discuss a particular topic. This is meant as an open and participative event to get people to stop for a bit and talk about politics. We need different tools to communicate on this, Line agreed to pull this project and keep us informed.
• Paul is taking care of the merchandise, inc. flyers
• French flyers are on the wiki as .pdf

Election of a treasurer for Brussels

• No candidate --> item pushed to next meeting.
• At some point the national pirate account will be moved to Triodos, but this is not urgent.
• Nino will ask the coreteam to open a separate bank account for the Brussels region, otherwise Nino will open one himself

Social Media & IT

• There's some confusion between the FB page and group, but each has its utility so it was decided to keep them.
• It was decided to create local blogs and/or pages under the main website domain name.

Creation of a Brussels Press Squad ?

• Pascal will be responsible at the Brussels level for now
• A structure already exists at national level and should be contacted / revitalised.

Fleet meeting 24/07

• Someone from Brussels should participate, Nino will try to make it.

Misc

• We can use Amelia Andersdotter's office until 2014. Someone from Amelia's team will be there on a fixed time each week + possibly on a permanent basis starting in September (still unsure). A set of keys will be handed out to Nino. There will be an online agenda on which we can book the office for events.
• New name for pirate beers : pirate meetup.