[PPCA] New Leader and October's General Meeting Notice

This month's General Meeting will be held on October 16, 2021 at 8:00pm EST at IRC. channel #canada. Server: ca.pirateirc.net. ports: 6667 (standard), 6697 (SSL). You can also login to IRC using the web interface at: https://www.pirateparty.ca/chat

As you might have already heard from various news sources and social media sites, Travis McCrea have resigned as Leader of the party. Our Deputy Leader, James Wilson, have assumed the post. Travis remains committed to the Pirate Party. You can bring any question you might have to the General Meeting. Here is James Wilson's blog post about the change in leadership.

https://www.pirateparty.ca/2013/10/13/resignation-of-travis-mccrea-as-party-leader

Agenda for the General Meeting

Approval of agenda
Approval of previous meeting minutes. https://wiki.pirateparty.ca/index.php?title=GM_2013-09-25_minutes
Officers Reports
Annoucement of new IT Director and System Administrators (EB is new IT Director)
Announcement of Party Leader's resignation
Announcement of new Party Leader
Commitee Reports

Old business (if any)

New business

Limit meetings to a specific length of time?
Discuss possible creation of roles (e.g. maintain the wiki, welcoming new members, maintaining membership list, social media relations)

Previous meetings minutes: https://wiki.pirateparty.ca/index.php?title=Meeting_minutes

Other member's initiatives:

- volunteer proposal on roadmap: https://wiki.pirateparty.ca/index.php?title=Talk:Current_Tasks

- call for volunteers to help assist IT Director in rebuilding IT infrastructure

- confirmation wrt Special Rules of Order: https://wiki.pirateparty.ca/index.php?title=Talk:Special_Rules_of_Order

Feel free to e-mail [email protected] if you have any motions or business that you would like to raise during the meeting.

Thank you to everyone who have offered to help. We will be contacting you shortly with specific task where everyone can chip in to help.