{"id":5016,"date":"2017-02-28T20:49:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?page_id=5016"},"modified":"2018-08-20T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T02:39:27","slug":"2017-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/2017-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"PirateCon 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--\n<center>\n<video src=\"http:\/\/a.stream.mayfirst.org:8000\/masspirates.webm\" controls=\"controls\">\n<\/center>\n--><!--\n<center>\n<audio src=\"http:\/\/a.stream.mayfirst.org:8000\/masspirates-audio.webm\" controls=\"controls\">\n<\/center>\n--><\/p>\n<pre><a href=\"#recordings\">Recordings<\/a> | <a href=\"#schedule\">Schedule<\/a> | <a href=\"#details\">Speaker Bios<\/a> | <a href=\"#streaming\">Will it be streamed?<\/a> | <a href=\"#registration\">Registration<\/a><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013ConferencePiratesCropped.jpg\" alt=\"PirateCon2015GroupPicture\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1579\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013ConferencePiratesCropped.jpg 910w, https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013ConferencePiratesCropped-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PirateCon 2017, our annual conference,\u00a0was Saturday, April 29th at the Community Church of Boston. The Community Church is in Copley Square at 565 Boylston St #2, Boston. It started at 10am and end at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks to everyone who participated, spoke at it and most especially volunteered.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"recordings\"><\/a><strong>Recordings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Video<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLx2c_9B8YzXnSh9S2FesBaPWFiPJSmrhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video playlist of all of the talks<\/a>, and will make them available via BitTorrent. You can also find specific talks embedded below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jzxSub298cE\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nQualifying the Integrity of Media Sources<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JOMD3fFC-j0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nElectoral Action<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hqAxIxGsNKA\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nMedia &amp; Liberation<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCCTNFriOsk\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFOIA: Transparency by a Thousand Papercuts<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yTQNVQMn58I\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOrganizing for a Sustainable, Accountable Movement<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hc37PWZVhV4\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nLightning Talks<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iEDWP6idL1c\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nState of Surveillance<\/p>\n<p><em>Audio<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Qualifying the Integrity of Media Sources. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/qualifying-integrity-media-sources\">audio<\/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: 60px;\">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;\">10:00am<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Qualifying the Integrity of Media Sources<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Kendra Moyer, Andrea Romig,\u00a0Wendy Joy Welsh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">10:50am<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Electoral Action<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Aaron James,\u00a0Joseph Onoroski,\u00a0Adam Friedman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">11:40am<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Media &amp; Liberation<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">David Day, Sevan Chorluyan, Thom Dunn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">12:30pm<\/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;\">1:30pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">FOIA: Transparency by a Thousand Papercuts<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">JPat Brown,\u00a0Maya Shaffer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">2:20pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Organizing for a Sustainable, Accountable Movement<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Grace Ross, Guillermo Hamlin,\u00a0Jordan Pelovitz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">3:10pm<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Lightning Talks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">4:10pm<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">State of Surveillance<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Alex Marthews,\u00a0Steven Presser,\u00a0Steve Revilak, Michael Walsh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">5:00pm<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\">Pirate Policy Breakout Groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a name=\"details\"><\/a><strong>Speaker Bios<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Qualifying the Integrity of Media Sources<\/h3>\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><strong>Andrea Romig<\/strong> is organizing a support rally for the March for Real News in DC and wants to have time to speak\/promote it at PirateCon. Andrea has been both in mainstream and independent media. She is also involved with Science for the People.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wendy Joy Welsh<\/strong> is a graduate of Smith College with a degree in Computer Science. Ms. Welsh\u2019s success in the software industry includes starting and running her own consulting company, but Wendy is now using her problem-solving skills to solve the most important problem: Big Business\u2019 control over our government, aka corruption. Wendy\u2019s first foray into political activism was to work with the Greater Boston Trade Justice (formerly NoTPPBoston) in order to stop the Trans Pacific Partnership. Wendy took the group beyond simple protesting by employing marketing techniques. Wendy identified and targeted a prime audience: medical patients, who would have to pay more for medicines with the TPP. Wendy designed and created a targeted, informative trifold flyer. The flyer resembled a pharmaceutical brochure, and was distributed to all of the hospitals in Boston and many of the surrounding towns. While trying to solve the problem of corruption, Wendy stumbled upon a way to prove that Corporate Media is a tool for propaganda. That proof is described her paper entitled Why Media Corporations Lie About Citizens United and How to Get Money out of Politics. She also made a 10-minute video about the same topic: Corruption and Fake News. You can find Wendy Joy Welsh\u2019s work at TheAnswerIsLocal.com.<\/p>\n<h3>Electoral Action<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Aaron James<\/strong> was the Pirate Party candidate for 27th Middlesex State Representative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Onoroski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Friedman<\/strong> serves as the Executive Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/voterchoicema.org\">Voter Choice Massachusetts<\/a>, a movement of volunteers dedicated to educating the public about Ranked Choice Voting. In 2009, he served on the executive committee of a RCV statewide ballot question campaign in Massachusetts. Adam serves on the boards of MassVOTE and Common Cause Massachusetts and has been involved in lobbying and organizing around democracy reform for over ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Adam works full-time as a civic technologist and web applications engineer. Beginning in 2012, Adam created the first <a href=\"http:\/\/electionstats.state.ma.us\">searchable public database<\/a> of official election statistics on behalf of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and three other US states. He holds a BA in History from Boston University.<\/p>\n<h3>Media &amp; Liberation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>David Day:<\/strong> In October 2009, David sent out an email to all the producers, performers and promoters he knew about joining forces and starting a festival, called <a href=\"http:\/\/togetherboston.com\/\">\u201cTogether.\u201d<\/a> Having spent years in the Boston music scene, he figured it was high time everyone got the respect and acknowledgment they deserved. As a creative economy, Art + Music + Technology has a boundless future and Boston is the type of city that can support its endless expansion. As <a href=\"http:\/\/togetherboston.com\/\">Together<\/a>\u2019s Creative Director, Day is responsible for watering all the trees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sevan Chorluyan<\/strong> is the Chief of <a href=\"http:\/\/badmirror.tv\/\">BadMirror Broadcasting<\/a>, a hyperlocal video broadcasting system I created the architecture for. Currently leading a small team of wonderful people changing the relationship people have with where they live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thom Dunn<\/strong> is a playwright and fiction author who was a staff writer at Upworthy.<\/p>\n<h3>FOIA: Transparency by a Thousand Papercuts<\/h3>\n<p><strong>JPat Brown<\/strong> is Executive Editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/\">Muckrock<\/a>. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College, the former Editor-in-Chief of the alt-weekly DigBoston, the author of a really stupid book about owls, and at one point ran a computer lab in a church basement. He&#8217;s been published in the Boston Herald, had his public records work written about in Newsweek and the New York Times, and wrote a thing that Jerry Seinfeld read out loud in a funny voice on The Daily Show. Hit him up at jpat@muckrock.com or @resentfultweet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maya Shaffer<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<h3>Organizing for a Sustainable, Accountable Movement<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Grace Ross<\/strong> was the\u00a02006 Green-Rainbow Party nominee for Massachusetts Governor and is an anti-foreclosure\/social justice organizer with decades of experience. She is leading the fight against illegal foreclosures in Massachusetts as part of the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending and the Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Action Team. The\u00a0<span>Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Action Team has had a high success rate in fighting illegal foreclosures by empowering homeowners and combining nonviolent direct-action and legal action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guillermo Hamlin<\/strong> is an educator, consultant, media-maker, and is currently the Volunteer &amp; Outreach Coordinator at MATV, Malden\u2019s Media Center. Mr. Hamlin holds an A.L.B from Harvard University with a concentration in Philosophy with a secondary concentration in Anthropology. As an undergrad, he was everything from a camera operator to an end user security coordinator. As the Boston Chapter President of the Harvard Latino Alumni Alliance, Guillermo facilitates alumni engagement with Latino student communities through mentoring, community building, and other volunteer activities in the Greater Boston Area. He was previously the Program Assistant for Chelsea Community Schools under the city\u2019s Health and Human Services. Additionally, he serves on the board of the Community Action Agency of Somerville which in addition to fighting the causes of chronic poverty, administers Head Start programs promoting school readiness for low-income children under 5 in Somerville and Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan Pelovitz<\/strong> is an industrial designer and teacher. You can find his work at <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanpelovitz.com\/\">jordanpelovitz.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>State of Surveillance<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Alex Marthews<\/strong> is President of Digital Fourth. Alex was deeply interested in tech policy from before 9\/11: at grad school, he helped to design Berkeley\u2019s first course on Cyberlaw (2000-1), wrote his master\u2019s thesis on online discrimination in blocking and filtering systems, and interned at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he researched surveillance and digital piracy. After graduating, he ran three successful nonprofits (Preservation Action Council, 2003-5; WATCH, 2005-7; Growth Through Learning, 2008-12). After becoming a proud US citizen, Alex founded Digital Fourth in Cambridge, Mass., in June of 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steven Presser<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Revilak<\/strong> is Quartermaster of the Pirate Party and an Arlington Town Meeting Member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Walsh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"registration\"><\/a><strong>Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Registration was $10. Youth under 18 were free. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.piryx.com\/donate\/ZeBuHGQi\/Massachusetts-Pirate-Party\/piratecon2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Participants could pay in advance<\/a> or just <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/register-piratecon-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tell us they would attend<\/a> if they prefered to pay at the door or are under 18.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"streaming\"><\/a><strong>Will it be streamed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We streamed the conference on video and audio, after a delay. 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