November 2nd, 2015 IRC Meeting

Upcoming Events

1. 11/15, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting,
2. 11/21, 9am-5:30pm, Building Sustainable Security, Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall
3. 11/21-22, 10am-6pm, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Student Center, Boston University
4. 11/25, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Somerville
5. 12/6, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting
6. Dec. IT Meeting?
7. 12/30, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Somerville ?

Campaigns Status

Signature Gathering for PassMass Amendment

Last day is 11/18, but they want them in hand earlier than that. Some of us will be out on election day.

2016 Campaigns & Policies Update

• Write up doc on using git & commenting on & voting on changes (jokeefe)

CISA

• Blog Update (Kendra) - Multiple posted along with email. Warren and Markey both came out against it, but cloture vote was 83-14. Bill will need to be reconciled. Multiple MA house members voted for it, so we can urge people to contact those Reps.

TPP

Entire Mass. delegation is against it. Still need a post asking people to contact the others in New England who voted for it.

Election Bills

Will update the statement we did last time and post/email it (jokeefe)

Other Bills for consideration

Haven't received feedback. Will do a poll (jokeefe)

PirateCon 2015 Videos (jokeefe)

Ordered them in ease of processing / priority:

1. Building 3rd party coalitions
2. Lightning talks
3. Keynote: How we won Net Neutrality
4. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and you
5. Rethinking the City
6. Income Inequality

Newsletter (Kendra)

• Design & Feedback
• Distribution Planning (besides emailing a pdf)
  • Gather list of people to mail it to (?)
  • Gather a list of places to distribute it (?)
  • Decide on the print run (?)
• Distribute

Tech

see for priorities

• Bitcoin + Credit card gateway in CiviCRM (srevilak, js0000, Kendra)
• Improve UI navigation of wiki & expose more wiki bits on blog (Noe, jokeefe)
• Allow distributed organizing on CiviCRM (and pointers to get started) (Kendra, srevilak, Chris, jokeefe)
• js0000 and jokeefe will work on building a tool to manage twitter:
  • design (jokeefe) - posted at Twitter API design
  • coding (js0000 & jokeefe)
• Forum (or needed now that lists are publicized?)

Administrative

• Media
  • Updated media list (noe)
  • Nov. - 2016 Elections
• Blog posts
  • Local/regional contacts (jokeefe) - Regional page up. Working on local pages.
• Materials
  • Stickers (igel)
  • Flyers
    • Need update to general flyer
      • ideas: UK Pirate Party materials / design ideas

Tasks: Wiki list, PiratePad version.

Helping with BINJ CCTV camera mapping project

Looking for someone to work on this.

Upcoming Events

1. 11/15, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting,
2. 11/21, 9am-5:30pm, Building Sustainable Security, Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall
3. 11/21-22, 10am-6pm, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Student Center, Boston University
4. 11/25, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Somerville
5. 12/6, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting
6. Dec. IT Meeting?
7. 12/30, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Somerville ?

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

Participants

• igel
• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA)
• Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero, Medway)
• bestpiggy (olivia Píñeyro, Boston)
• kendra (Kendra Moyer in Michigan)
• r0b

Observers

• davidd
• Pharyngeal

Summary

Had candidates meeting on Sunday. 7 attending. Went well.

MAAPL form. Few hours of work done; more to do.

Kendra has newsletter almost ready to publish. Approximately 16 pages.

Minutes

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