January 29th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Decisions

1. Cryptoparties
   1. Feb. 4th, Cambridge
   2. Feb. 14th, WMass & dinner afterward
2. PirateCon 2015
   1. Site Update
   2. Program
      1. FOIA - Steve
      2. Open Gov. - Jamie
      3. Net neutrality
3. Budget
4. State Reorg - Review
   1. Currently the Pirate Council is made up of the Captain, First Officer, Quartermaster, and 3 others.
   2. Perhaps we should define roles for the 3 other Pirate Council members and expand their number: PR/Media, Activism, Swarmcare and Web/Info.
5. Establishing Regions?
   1. Swarmwise suggests dividing into 20-30 regions.
   2. Jason worked on a first draft of a map which Jamie has expanded with this Region Proposal.
6. National Matters

The USPP elected new officers and Jamie is subbing in as Quartermaster/Secretary. He would like a replacement.

Events Summary

1. Feb. 4, Cryptoparty @ Boston Desktop Linux Users Group
2. Feb. 8 (week of), Pirate Show, SCATV (Noe)
3. Feb. 14, 11:00a - 3:00p. WMass Cryptoparty (lisbon), Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, 100 Bigelow Street, Holyoke, MA (http://mghpcc.com/), Snow date is Feb 21st, dates tentative. duration 4 hours. Need to supply our own projector.
4. Mar. 15, Boston Peace Parade
5. Mar. 22, Cryptoparty, Worcester
6. Apr. 25, PirateCon 2015
7. May 6, International Day against DRM
8. May, Together Boston Cryptoparty?
9. Jun. 13, Boston Pride Parade
10. Jun. event?
11. Jul. event?
12. Aug. event?
13. Sep., Freedom Rally
14. Oct. event?
15. Nov. event?
16. Dec. event?

Every Thu., Digital Fourth meeting, 11:20am-1:30pm, Voltage Cafe, Third Street, Cambridge

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• lisbon (Christopher Maria, Ludlow)

Observers

• davidd
• decipherstatic
• Pharyngeal
• zby

Summary

Minutes of Worcester Planning Meeting

Things look good for Feb 4th and Feb 14th cryptoparties. Steve to do blog post and CiviCRM events. Lisbon will try to put up a few flyers.

Minutes

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