{"id":3353,"date":"2015-02-09T13:08:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?page_id=3353"},"modified":"2018-08-20T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T02:40:07","slug":"2015-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/2015-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"PirateCon 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong><a href=\"#videos\">Videos<\/a> | <a href=\"#slides\">Slides<\/a> | <a href=\"#schedule\">Schedule<\/a> | <a href=\"#details\">Speakers<\/a> | <a href=\"#registration\">Registration<\/a> | <a href=\"#location\">Location<\/a><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PirateCon2015GroupPicture-1024x408.jpg\" alt=\"PirateCon2015GroupPicture\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1579\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PirateCon 2015 was Saturday,\u00a0April 25th.\u00a0 It started at 10am and ended at 6pm.\u00a0 After the conference, a group of us went out for dinner.\u00a0 We <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/piratecon2015-thanks-and-welcome-new-pirate-council-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held elections for the Pirate Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Greer, Campaign Manager for Fight for the Future, gave the keynote speech at 10am on\u00a0<span>How we won Net Neutrality. \u00a0Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate party and indeed all Pirate Parties, gave our final talk on Pirate Strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can find pictures of the conference <a class=\"extern\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9468132@N05\/sets\/72157652221266225\">here<\/a> and <a class=\"extern\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonLowenthal\/status\/592031213537341440\/photo\/1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"videos\"><\/a><strong>Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve posted raw video on <a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/#F!P8gGnLST!wXP0vUl-1qewhrg7S_V83A\">MEGA<\/a>. Please contact <a href=\"mailto:info@masspirates.org\">info@masspirates.org<\/a> if you can help with editing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rick Falkvinge talks about Pirate Strategy<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TKXPzjYt8Eg\">Link<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TKXPzjYt8Eg\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"audio\"><\/a><strong>Audio<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/how-we-won-net-neutrality-evan-greer\">How we Won Net Neutrality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/rethinking-the-city\">Rethinking the City<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Piratecon2015LightningTalks\">Lightning Talks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Piratecon2015OfficerElections\">Pirate Council\/Officer Elections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/building-3rd-party-coalitions\">Building 3rd Party Coalitions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/FoiaAndYou\">The Freedom of Information Act and You<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/IncomeInequalityPanel\">Income Inequality<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"slides\"><\/a><strong>Talk Slides<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re posting talk slides as they become available.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MuckRock&#8217;s FOIA presentation: <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/piratecon-muckrock-foia.pdf\">pdf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/piratecon-muckrock-foia.ppt\">ppt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"schedule\"><\/a><strong>Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid black; width: 50px;\">Time<\/th>\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Talk\/Panel<\/th>\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Speakers<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">10am<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Keynote: How we won Net Neutrality<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Evan Greer (Fight for the Future)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">11am<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Rethinking the City<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Seth Zeren, Tim Devin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">noon<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" colspan=\"2\">Lunch &amp; Key Signing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">1pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" colspan=\"2\">Lightning talks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">2pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Building 3rd party coalitions<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Noelani Kamelamela (Pirate),\u00a0Frank Jackson (Green-Rainbow), Alwin Hopfmann (Libertarian), Evan Falchuk (United Independent), representative of Socialist Alternative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">3pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and you<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">J. Patrick Brown (Muckrock). Allan Lasser (Muckrock)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">4pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Income Inequality<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">James O&#8217;Keefe &amp; other speakers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">5pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Pirate Strategy for 2016<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Rick Falkvinge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a name=\"details\"><\/a><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rick Falkvinge<\/strong> is the founder of the first Pirate Party and a campaigner for next-generation civil liberties. In particular, he stresses how the copyright industry works with security hawks to erode the parts of Internet that guarantee civil liberties. On this platform, one of privacy and digital rights, his party became the largest in the below-30 demographic in the 2009 European Elections, and his nascent party has now spread to 70 countries. He has been named a Top Global Thinker by <em>Foreign Policy<\/em> magazine and shortlisted as one of the world\u2019s most influential people by <em>TIME<\/em> Magazine.\u00a0 He can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/falkvinge.net\/\">falkvinge.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evan Greer<\/strong> is campaigns manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightforthefuture.org\/\">Fight for the Future<\/a> and<span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.4187758670360089\"> a radical genderqueer singer\/songwriter, parent, and community organizer based in Boston. (S)he writes and performs high-energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance! At 25 years old, Evan tours internationally as a musician and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. Wielding an arsenal of fiercely radical songs that vary in style from pop-punk poetry to foot-stompin\u2019 bluegrass singalongs, Evan has been honored to collaborate, tour, and share stages with artists as musically diverse as Pete Seeger, Immortal Technique, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, <\/span><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.4187758670360089\">Pamela Means<\/span><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.4187758670360089\">, Against Me!, The Coup, Anne Feeney, Oi Polloi, State Radio, Leftover Crack, Emma&#8217;s Revolution, The Mammals, Defiance Ohio, Holly Near, Chumbawamba, and Vicci Martinez (featured on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Voice&#8221;.) (S)he can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evangreer.org\/index\/\">www.evangreer.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seth Zeren<\/strong> w<span>orks in real estate development for a small local firm where his main projects are a downtown infill project in Salem, and a mixed-use, mill reuse project in North Andover. He teaches urban planning and sustainable design at Boston Architectural College. He is increasingly involved in Tactical Urbanism as a strategy for breaking the anti-change log jam through low cost experimentation, and as a way of broadening political participation in the creation of our urban habitat. He is also on the Board of the local Congress for the New Urbanism chapter based here in Boston and has been active with Livable Streets here in Boston and also with Strong Towns nationally. <\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Devin&#8217;s<\/strong> projects focus on community, communication, and social change. His work has been included in art and urbanist shows across the US, Canada, and Europe, and has been featured in such news sources as NPR, CBC and, closer to his house, the Boston Globe.\u00a0 He can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdevin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.timdevin.com<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Evan Falchuk<\/strong> founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedindependent.org\/\">Massachusetts United Independent Party<\/a> and was its 2014 nominee for Massachusetts Governor.\u00a0 His campaign surpassed the three percent threshold required by state law for the United Independent Party to earn official party status in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noelani Kamelamela<\/strong> is First Officer of the Massachusetts Pirate Party and was its candidate for the 34th Middlesex State Representative district winning 12% of the vote in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Jackson<\/strong> is Co-Chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.green-rainbow.org\/\">Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alwin Hopfmann<\/strong> is Membership Renewals officer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/lpmass.org\/\">Massachusetts Libertarian Party<\/a> and a long-time Libertarian Party activist.<\/p>\n<p>Muckrock editor <b>J. Patrick Brown<\/b> is a graduate of Bowdoin College, the former Editor-in-Chief of the alt-weekly <em>DigBoston<\/em>, former Web Editor for <em>ScoutCambridge<\/em> and <em>ScoutSomerville<\/em>, the author of a really stupid book about owls, and at one point ran a computer lab in a church basement. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:JPat@MuckRock.com\">JPat@MuckRock.com<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/pgp.mit.edu\/pks\/lookup?op=get&amp;search=0xDD5B5B2A85B2477A\">PGP Key<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Muckrock developer <b>Allan Lasser<\/b> likes computers, government, and other complex man-made systems. He likes these things because they are unfinished and imperfect, yet foundational to daily life. He graduated from Boston University in 2014 with degrees in Computer Science and American Studies. Send messages to <a href=\"mailto:allan@muckrock.com\">allan@muckrock.com<\/a>, tweets to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/allanlasser\/\">@allanlasser<\/a>, and encrypt secret notes with his <a href=\"https:\/\/keybase.io\/allanlasser\">PGP Key<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James O&#8217;Keefe<\/strong> was one of the three founders of the Massachusetts Pirate Party and is its current Captain.\u00a0 In a past life he was the Green-Rainbow Party&#8217;s nominee for Massachusetts Treasurer in 2002 and 2006 winning 160,000 (8%) and 320,000 (16%) votes respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"registration\"><\/a><strong>Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Registration was $10. Youth under 18 were free.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"location\"><\/a><strong>Location<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was held at the Community Church of Boston at 565 Boylston Street #2, Boston, MA 02116. We provided free wifi at the conference.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"childcare\"><\/a><strong>Child Care<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We offered child care for preschool aged or older children.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"tellothers\"><\/a><strong>Tell Others<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides telling your friends about the conference (there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1663036593916549\/\">Facebook event<\/a>), we provided PirateCon 2015 posters supporter could print out and put up in your city, town or campus. Both are PDFs. Thanks to Kate &amp; Kendra for putting them together.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 0px solid black;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 0px solid black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PirateCon2015.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PirateCon2015Flyer1.png\" alt=\"PirateCon2015Flyer1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3518\" height=\"269\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 0px solid black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PirateCon2015Flyer2.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PirateCon2015Flyer2.png\" alt=\"PirateCon2015Flyer2\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3519\" height=\"261\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos | Slides | Schedule | Speakers | Registration | Location PirateCon 2015 was Saturday,\u00a0April 25th.\u00a0 It started at 10am and ended at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5629,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1W8mg-S5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5634,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3353\/revisions\/5634"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}