April 18th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

California Pirate Party wants to join the national party. They are coming up to speed nicely. Suggest we sponsor them.

Projects

Conference

• PirateCon 2017 Topics
• Write to panelists. Make sure they're okay with proposed times. See if they'd like to retitle their panel.
• Press outreach
  • Press Release
  • Call press
• Outreach
  • Poster/flyers - Kate is working on it
  • Email reminders/blog posts (jokeefe)
• Piratecon code of conduct (srevilak/G)
• Decide which planks to work on during breakout groups
• We'll need volunteers, esp for setup and registration
• Alternate plans for streaming bandwidth?
• List of stuff to bring. Here is last year's list, as a reference

Projects On Hold For the Moment

Planks

• Discussion session planned for PirateCon
• Previous work in this area: https://github.com/masspirates/planks

CCTV Camera Map

Looking at organizing a map-a-thon.

Upcoming Events

• 4/22, March for Science, Boston
• 4/25, 5-8pm, Campaign Workshop, Holyoke Public Library Community Room, 250 Chestnut St, Holyoke
• 4/26, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 4/29, PirateCon (details forthcoming)
• 4/29-30, 9am-5:30pm, MassAlliance Grassroots Campaign Training, Western Massachusetts
• 5/5, 5-7pm, LGBT-focused Cryptoparty, Make Shift Boston, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston
• 5/6-7, 9am-5:30pm, MassAlliance Grassroots Campaign Training, Greater Boston
• 5/9, Massachusetts Pirate Party 7th Anniversary
• 5/14-21, Together Boston, Cambridge
• 5/17, Chelsea Manning's Release Date
• 5/20, 10am-4pm, March Against Monsanto
• 5/21, noon-6pm, Together Boston Cryptoparty, Together Boston space, 614 Massachusetts Ave. #203, Central Sq., Cambridge
• 5/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 6/3, 5-7pm, LGBT-focused Cryptoparty, Make Shift Boston, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston
• 6/10, Boston Pride Parade, Boston
• 6/21, Edward Snowden's Birthday
• 6/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• moses
• jokeefe (James O'Keefe, Somerville)
• HarambeForever (G, Lowell)

Observers

• Techrev
• davidd
• papegaai
• igel

Summary

California Pirate Pary is interested in joining the US Pirate Party. Looks like they've been busy the last few months. We will sponsor their application to the PNC.

March for science. Takes place Saturday, April 22nd, from 13:00 - 16:00. This will be a stationary event (no marching). We'll meet up behind the visitor's center on Boston Common, at 14:00. Look for the banner.

PirateCon. Logistics. Press release is one. Flyers are in progress. Steve will work on code of conduct. Regarding streaming: we got a good signal at CCB during our walk-through. Plan B would have us using CCB's wireless. Plan C is to stream audio-only (no video).