Board elections 2014

The above comment is directed at @benvidulich, sorry.

Not non-existing entirely :-) I did vote on this Loomio proposal after all. And I am reading stuff mostly when I get to it. Just am very very busy right now, and behind on a million and one things.

Yes, @davidpeterson, I have noticed. This is your participation on the member level in your role as a member of the party. That is fine.

It's just that in your role as a member of the board - or more precisely: as the vice-president of the party - you, like most other board members, produced very little output.
I am sure that most, if not all of you board members have taken on your duty in good faith to make things going; But reading through the IRC log of the board meetings of the last year, it is pretty obvious that the communication in the board was either very fruitless or frustrating or was just not happening at all.
Whoever tried to develop an initiative (as seldom as that happened), it didn't get much appreciation or support and finally got simply stuck.
Things that are absolutely critical for the existence of the party have not been addressed at all, regardless how often they have been brought to the attention of the board.

I only hope that we can establish a team spirit outside of the board to get things resolved and to get the necessary support of the board members where their involvement is inevitable.

First and foremost must the member officer put into the position to be able to recognise the membership status of each and every of us! He is missing information that must be made accessible to him.

Can we count on your support?

I've been asking about membership statuses since ages ago... :-/ I only have a somewhat hazy view on this unfortunately. And would love just as much as you to know more!

Surprisingly this current board was more functional (or less dysfunctional?) than most PPNZ boards recently! :-) Though we seemed to run out of steam midway through the term...

I have had no information about the previous PPNZ account, so I have had no way to tell who has been a member unless they paid since I have had the new account.
As it took 3 months to even get hold of the previous treasurer just to transfer the account balance, I really do not know what more I can do about the situation, suffice to say that unless the board elections happen before July 14 (while I am on holiday in auckland and hamilton) that I will be able to help my elected successor immediately.

It seems though that all the correspondence that I should have been getting went away as soon as pervach left.
Admittedly, I had a major negative experience with some complete raving drunkard called Nick Taylor who has had bizarre accusations about me every single time he's come to a Pirate Party wellington meetup, or even going to far as to hassle me on email persistently several times over a weekend.

However, I will now mention the positive points I will make after my position on the board runs out for the sake of @hubatmcjuhes @benvidulich @davidpeterson and if @andrewreitemeyer wishes to write about it later, then that is fine.

1. I have been quietly developing a new cryptography system for dynamic messaging since 1998 when a local company did not want to hire me to create it. (Netlogic called it E-See and Bankonit.) It has gone through a dozen versions of improvements and I call it StormCloud mainly as a reference to the transfer types (ThunderStorm, HailStorm, SnowStorm, SandStorm)

2. StormCloud is designed to be the social network that has the GCSB wondering why they can't break the cryptography or the messaging platform, however if the bullshit conditions they work for with less than half the pay rate of the private sector is any indication of how moronic they are, then I'm confident they won't have any chance until 2140.

3. I have discussed the technical details of the basic infrastructure over the last five years with the people at telecomix.org (they are associated with TPB and anonymous), PPUS/PPCAN & an old schoolmate who has completed his doctorate on the maths of cryptography at auckland uni. None of the people I have dealt with has found any fault with the workings or details of the system.

4. There are also a few other projects I want to develop which are worth my time just for the academic satisfaction alone. So I will be working on those as well as the StormCloud network from next month.

The good people of telecomix are an extremely cool and clued up crowd. If they approve something, then it is certainly superb.
I am very curious about StormCloud and look forward to see it (pre-)released some time.

But in this discussion, @andrewmcpherson, let us focus on the missing transaction log of the party account. Maybe someone can make contact with the previous treasurer and with Pervach somehow to get end meet?

The last request I received for membership stats was a month ago. At that point we had 22 members, 9 of which count towards the 500 needed for registration.

@benvidulich WHAT?
A year or such ago, we had about 200 members! And just a couple of month ago we have heard rumours of skyrocketing numbers so that we could hope to make it over the 500 mark before end of April, right in time to register for the election!

Do you say that there have been about 180 people who have explicitly made statements to leave the party?

Or do you say that you have conclusive records only for those two dozens and you cannot determine the correct status of the other hundreds of members?