June 13th, 2013 IRC Meeting

Agenda

1. Reminders
   1. General Meeting, Sun., June 16th, 2-4pm
2. Committee Reports
3. Event Review
   1. Boston Pride Parade - June 8th
4. Scheduled Events
   1. Cease & Desist, Boston, June 14th 4-6pm
   2. 2nd Cammy Dee Probable Cause hearing - June 27th
   3. No NSA Spying Protests, July 4th
   4. Cameron D'Ambrosio Fundraiser, Lowell, July 6th, 8pm
   5. Art Beat, Somerville, July 19-20th
   6. Pirate Picnic, George's Island, August 3rd
5. Conference
   1. Speakers & Schedule
   2. Logistics
6. Cryptocurrency Conference

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

Reminders

A reminder that we have a General Meeting on Sun., June 16th, 2-4pm. It will be at 140 Holliston Street Medway, MA. If you are Facebook and plan to attend, please join the event.

Cryptocurrency Conference

Conferences tend to take a lot of our time. We need to be finding and preparing candidates for 2014. Having a cryptocurrency conference in Sept. will likely be a distraction from our election plans in 2014 and getting our platform finalized. Jokeefe suggests cancelling it.

Participants

pending

• Bluestreak: Lucia Fiero, Medway
• srevilak: Steve Revilak, Arlington
• Kendra: Kendra Moyer, Arlington
• black_van - Sevan
• jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville

Observers:

• passstab
• illunatic
• davidd: David van Deijk, Eindhoven, NL
• rocode

Summary

Conference

Speakers & Schedule

Have the following panels:

• Crowdfunding
• Open Gov.
• Government surveillance in 2020

Other suggestions:

• Old and new cyber security legislation
• Don't Agonize, Organize!

srevilak will ask if we can go longer.

Finishing the discussion on email.

Meeting Minutes

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jokeefe: hi all [8:45pm] Bluestreak: Is soccer season over!?! [8:48pm] jokeefe: yes [8:54pm] srevilak: hi all [8:54pm] Bluestreak: I was listening Jill and Rene on UnRegular Radio... it's over now. [8:55pm] Bluestreak: Sup Steve? [8:55pm] srevilak: I'm about to answer a question you posted a few days ago [8:55pm] srevilak: https://www.loomio.org/discussions/4532 [8:57pm] Bluestreak: I reached out to Kevin about this. Hey Kevin! [8:57pm] Bluestreak: (Lurking there) [9:01pm] Bluestreak: Ping me when y'all are ready to start [9:02pm] Kendra_ joined the chat room. [9:03pm] jokeefe: hi [9:03pm] jokeefe: sorry distracted by loomio discussions [9:03pm] jokeefe: Agenda at http://masspirates.org/wiki/June_16th,_2013_General_Meeting [9:03pm] jokeefe: Want to keep this short since we have the meeting on Sunday [9:04pm] srevilak: works for me [9:04pm] jokeefe: Who will be at Cease & Desist rally on Friday? [9:04pm] Bluestreak: Not me. [9:04pm] jokeefe: bad me going out of order [9:04pm] jokeefe: starting ids - James O'Keefe, Somerville [9:04pm] Kendra_: Hi. Where and when is the rally? [9:04pm] Bluestreak: Lucia Fiero, Medway [9:04pm] srevilak: Steve Revilak, Arlington MA, or thereabouts [9:05pm] Kendra_: Kendra Moyer Arlington, MA [9:05pm] srevilak: I don't think I'll make it out of work in time [9:05pm] Bluestreak: Hye Kendra [9:05pm] Kendra_: 'sup [9:05pm] Bluestreak: Fridays are usually bad for me [9:06pm] jokeefe: 1. Committee reports [9:06pm] jokeefe: web - site moved over, still more to do [9:06pm] black_van joined the chat room. [9:06pm] black_van: Hey [9:07pm] Bluestreak: Hello there [9:07pm] jokeefe: hi black_van [9:07pm] jokeefe: Bluestreak, please run the meeting, I will be back soon [9:07pm] Bluestreak: LOL [9:08pm] srevilak: (more web) I've been tintering with statusnet. Might be worth setting up an instance at some point [9:08pm] Bluestreak: Tell us more about that. [9:09pm] Bluestreak: No pressure [9:09pm] srevilak: it's the software that runs https://identi.ca/ [9:10pm] srevilak: Kind of a distributed, host-your-own twitter. w/o 140 char limitation [9:10pm] srevilak: and it does polls [9:11pm] Bluestreak: So what do you mean by setting up an instance? [9:11pm] srevilak: You can uses statusnet in two ways. Via the author's site (identi.ca), or you run it on your own site [9:12pm] srevilak: "set up instance" means "run on our site" [9:12pm] Bluestreak: So... you would put it on the blog? [9:13pm] srevilak: sort of. next to the blog. In the same way that wiki is next to the blog [9:13pm] jokeefe: sounds good [9:13pm] Bluestreak: And it's like Twitter? [9:13pm] Bluestreak: Oh you're back! [9:14pm] srevilak: yes, basically like twitter. [9:14pm] srevilak: The author has a vision of social web sites that work like email [9:14pm] srevilak: w/email any two people can exchange messages. Regardless of mail provider [9:14pm] srevilak: Social sites should work the same way [9:14pm] srevilak: Anyway, done digressing [9:15pm] Kendra_: I have a bunch of flyers for the conference left and might be able to go Friday. I am also going to the Allied Media Conference in Detroit next week, so let me know if I should carry forth a Pirate Party message there. it seems like surveillance is the hot topic. Also I don't know if I can add this, but I have been talking with the Socialist Alternative for about a month and they have gotten Irish native Seamu [9:16pm] jokeefe: did you get cut off Kendra_? [9:17pm] Bluestreak: Certainly you should network with any MA based media you meet out there. [9:17pm] Bluestreak: Flyers are good. [9:17pm] passstab joined the chat room. [9:17pm] jokeefe: hi passstab [9:17pm] jokeefe: agree with Bluestreak [9:18pm] Bluestreak: If Kendra is taking a break... [9:18pm] Kendra_: Too many periods. Support= a couple of things, but I am on a fishing expedtion to figure out if they are in sync with the Pirate Party and getting mixed reviews. They are leftists and Marxists, but international unioniists. I don 't know what endorsing/supporting this candidate would entail, outside of promoting third party candidates They are not a registered political party. [9:18pm] Bluestreak: I'd like to talk about the D'Ambrosio PC plan? [9:18pm] Bluestreak: Oops shes back [9:19pm] Bluestreak: You can always focus on coalition building when you cant directly build the party [9:20pm] Bluestreak: Then drift can occur between groups [9:21pm] Kendra_: This is where organizing gets tricky, building alliances and figuring out what the skeletons in the closet might be. PP is actually a registered party while SA is not, if that matters. Not to break from the agenda though. [9:21pm] jokeefe: If he wants our endorsement, then he should ask for it. Suggest putting it on Sunday's agenda [9:22pm] Bluestreak: We work with Occupy and they arent a party either [9:22pm] jokeefe: I will be at Cease & Desist rally tomorrow. Anyone else? [9:22pm] Kendra_: Sounds like a plan, we can discuss on Sunday and I'll fishout the details. [9:22pm] Kendra_: I am off work tomorrow and will do my best to make it. [9:23pm] Bluestreak: Have fun storming the castle! [9:24pm] Bluestreak: Will you also have time Friday to get Guy back on line? [9:24pm] jokeefe: great, lets keep in touch. it looks like the march starts at 5:30pm from Dewey Sq. [9:24pm] Bluestreak: Do they even have an ISP any longer? [9:25pm] jokeefe: ? [9:25pm] jokeefe: any other committee reports besides the democracy/tech's ? [9:25pm] Bluestreak: Sorry thought you were done [9:25pm] black_van: our post on reddit recieved 2000 vies [9:25pm] jokeefe: no didn't understand the question [9:26pm] srevilak: I might be able to make 5:30. Might as well go down and see who's there [9:26pm] jokeefe: cool, black_van [9:26pm] Bluestreak: I'd like to talk about the D'Ambrosio PC plan? [9:27pm] jokeefe: I am trying to get it to them. possibly tomorrow evening [9:27pm] Bluestreak: So *after* the rally? [9:28pm] jokeefe: yes [9:28pm] srevilak: jokeefe: do you still have that dilemma we spoke about earlier? [9:28pm] jokeefe: no, I think I have it. I will test it in the morning [9:28pm] jokeefe: thanks!