{"id":4472,"date":"2016-04-20T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?page_id=4472"},"modified":"2018-08-20T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T02:38:57","slug":"2016-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/2016-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"PirateCon 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong><a href=\"#videos\">Videos<\/a> | <a href=\"#audio\">Audio<\/a> | <a href=\"#slides\">Slides<\/a> | <a href=\"#schedule\">Schedule<\/a> | <a href=\"#details\">Speaker Bios<\/a> | <a href=\"#registration\">Registration<\/a> | <a href=\"#lead\">Election Results<\/a><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>PirateCon 2016 was\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0June 25th at the Tent City Community Room, 130 Dartmouth Street, Boston, MA 02116.\u00a0It started at 10am and ended at 6pm. The audio was live streamed.<\/p>\n<p>Besides holding talks on a variety of topics, we elected our Pirate Council. <a href=\"https:\/\/voteaaronjames.org\/\">Aaron James<\/a>, Pirate Party candidate for 27th Middlesex State Representative gave the keynote address.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"videos\"><\/a><strong>Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0will post the\u00a0raw video of the talks on MEGA. Please contact <a href=\"mailto:info@masspirates.org\">info@masspirates.org<\/a> if you want to\u00a0help with editing.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"audio\"><\/a><strong>Audio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re posting audio to the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/masspirates\">Internet Archive<\/a> as we edit it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/aaronjames-keynote\">Aaron James Keynote<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/what-you-can-do-as-a-town-meeting-member\">What you can do as a town meeting member<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/pirate-organizing\">Pirate Organizing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheDarkWebAndDdos\">The Dark Web and DDoS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/piratecon-2016-lightning-talks\">Lightning Talks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/municipal-rights\">Municipal Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/foia-for-fun-and-liberation\">FOIA for Fun and Liberation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"slides\"><\/a><strong>Talk Slides<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Few of the talks had slides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Community-Defense-Initiative-2016-PDF.pdf\">Municipal Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"schedule\"><\/a><strong>Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The schedule as it was supposed to be is listed below. \u00a0The\u00a0<span>Cannabis Legalization speaker did not appear and\u00a0<span>The Dark Web talk took its place.<\/span><\/span><\/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<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Aaron James<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">10:30am<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">What We Can Accomplish in Town Meeting<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Steve Revilak (Pirate Party Quartermaster &amp; Arlington Town Meeting Member)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">11am<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Pirate Organizing<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Group Discussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">noon<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">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;\">Cannabis Legalization<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">John Minsion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">2pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">The Dark Web<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Paul Paradise, Kendra Moyer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">3pm<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Lightning Talks &amp; Pirate Issue Discussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">4:30pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Municipal Rights<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Terra <span>Friedrichs (Pass Mass. Amendment)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">5pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">FOIA For Fun and Liberation<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Maya Shaffer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a name=\"details\"><\/a><strong>Speaker Bios<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aaron James<\/strong> is the Pirate Party candidate for 27th Middlesex State Representative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Revilak<\/strong> is Quartermaster of the Pirate Party and an Arlington Town Meeting Member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terra <\/strong><span><strong>Friedrichs<\/strong> is the lead organizer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/passmassamendment.org\/\">Pass Mass. Amendment ballot initiative<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maya Shaffer<\/strong><span class=\"_5yl5\" is=\"null\"><span is=\"null\"> is a CoFounder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baystateexaminer.com\/\">The Bay State Examiner<\/a> a government watchdog news outlet that covers Massachusetts. She writes a column on the state\u2019s public records law for <a href=\"http:\/\/digboston.com\/\">DigBoston<\/a> through a partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@BINJ\">Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism<\/a> and frequently writes about issues of police abuse, governmental waste and corruption, and general lack of transparency in Massachusetts. Her background is activism and she was a founding member of MassOps the constitutional trolling crew.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul R. Paradise<\/strong> is a bestselling author of nine nonfiction books including Trademark Counterfeiting, Product Piracy, and the Billion Dollar Threat to the U.S. Economy published by Praeger in 1999. Paradise is an expert on the subject of counterfeit piracy and, in addition to publishing a well received fiction book about the subject, has also been a celebrated speaker to groups nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kendra Moyer<\/strong> is a writer, political technologist, community educator and member of the International Pirate Party and the MF\/PL Support Team and. She teaches programming in GNU\/Linux, educating activists about data security. Kendra has served as an Arbitrator for the Massachusetts Pirate Party. She is a graduate of the MF\/PL Techie of Color Internship Program in network administration. Kendra mentors the for the Outreachy Program, bringing under-represented technologists into the software engineering industry. A past member of OBIT the Occupy Boston Information Tech team and writer and editor for The Boston Occupier and Versus News, she supports Constitutional protections with Restore the 4th and and Net Neutrality with Fight for the Future. She resides in Highland Park, MI and advocates welfare rights and against the emergency management crisis in low income communities. She is dedicated to promoting and end to systematic violence, human rights, and animal rights. Kendra graduated from University of Michigan and holds an MA in Communications and Arts Management from Eastern Michigan University.<\/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=\"lead\"><\/a><strong>Election Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We elected held elections for our\u00a0Pirate Council and three Arbitrators. \u00a0Not all positions had candidates. Ten ballots were cast. The results were:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Position<\/th>\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">For<\/th>\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">NOTA<\/th>\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Abstentions<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">Captain<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">10 &#8211; James O&#8217;Keefe<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">First Officer<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">10 &#8211;\u00a0Noelani Kamelamela<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">Quartermaster<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">10 &#8211;\u00a0Steve Revilak<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">Activism Director<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">4 &#8211;\u00a0Moses S.<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">US Pirate Party\u00a0Representative<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">2<span> &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span>Moses S.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos | Audio | Slides | Schedule | Speaker Bios | Registration | Election Results PirateCon 2016 was\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0June 25th at the Tent City&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5629,"menu_order":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1W8mg-1a8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4472","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=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4801,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4472\/revisions\/4801"}],"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=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}