February 12th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Review

Feb. 8 (?) Pirate Show, SCATV (Noe)

Decisions

1. Event Planning
   1. Feb. 14th, WMass & dinner afterward. Facebook event. civi event
   2. Mar. 15, Boston Peace Parade
   3. Mar. 22, Cryptoparty, Worcester
   4. Jun. 13, Boston Pride Parade - Need to register by 2/28
   5. Sept., Freedom Rally - Can register now
2. PirateCon 2015
   1. Program
      1. FOIA - Steve
      2. Open Gov. or Rethinking the City - Jamie
      3. Net neutrality - Lucia
      4. Income inequality - Steve
      5. Pirate Strategy - Jamie
      6. Building 3rd party coalitions - Noe
      7. Running campaigns - Noe
      8. Lightning talks - lisbon?
3. Pirate Council Reorg - See proposal below

Proposal to change 6.2 & 6.3 of Articles of Agreement

Currently the Pirate Council is made up of the Captain, First Officer, Quartermaster, and a group of at large members that are dependent on the number of members we have.

Swarmwise recommends having Captain, First Officer, Quartermaster as well as PR/Media, Activism, Swarmcare and Web/Info directors.

This proposal would change the composition of the Pirate Council to reflect Swarmwise's recommendation and to change the Winter requirement for election of the Pirate Council/officers to a requirement that it be at our annual conference.

Sections 6.2 and 6.3 of the Articles of Agreement currently read:

6.2 Composition

The Pirate Council shall be composed of three officers, Captain, Quartermaster, 1st Officer, and several at-large members. The number of 
at-large council members shall be determined by the number of party members:

    1-500 members: 3 

    501-5000 members: 5 

    5001-25,000 members: 7 

    25,001-100,000 members: 9 

    100,001+ members: 11 

6.3 Election

Members shall elect a Pirate Council once a year during the Winter Member Meeting.  Ballots as well as voting instructions and the date 
ballots are to be returned shall be mailed to every member three weeks prior to the election date. Members must be able to submit their 
secret ballots electronically or by mail. The Captain, Quartermaster and 1st Officer shall be elected using IRV and the at-large members 
shall be elected by STV-PR as defined in Article 3.0. 

This proposal would change the above text to read:

6.2 Composition

The Pirate Council shall be composed of seven members: Captain, Quartermaster, 1st Officer, PR/Media Director, Activism Director, 
Swarmcare Director and Web/Info Director.  The PR/Media, Activism, Swarmcare and Web/Info Directors would be responsible for their 
particular areas.

6.3 Election

Members shall elect a Pirate Council once a year at our annual conference. 

Ballots as well as voting instructions and the date ballots are to be returned shall be mailed to every member three weeks prior to the 
election date. Members must be able to submit their secret ballots electronically or by mail.  All members shall be elected using IRV 
as defined in Article 3.0. 

Deferring to Next Meeting

1. 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.
2. National Matters
   1. The USPP elected new officers and Jamie is subbing in as Quartermaster/Secretary. He would like a replacement.

Events Summary

1. 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.
2. Mar. 15, Boston Peace Parade
3. Mar. 22, Cryptoparty, Worcester
4. Apr. 25, PirateCon 2015
5. May 6, International Day against DRM
6. May, Together Boston Cryptoparty?
7. Jun. 13, Boston Pride Parade
8. Jun. event?
9. Jul. event?
10. Aug. event?
11. Sep., Freedom Rally
12. Oct. event?
13. Nov. event?
14. Dec. event?

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

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