February 14th, 2017 IRC Meeting: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:19, 14 February 2017

Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Our yearly conference is coming up in 10 weeks. Now would be a time to contact supporters directly and invite them to come, volunteer and donate.

Aaron James, who has fundraising experience, offered to make the calls, but would like to be remunerated. Likely a fixed percentage of the total raised or $15/hr, whichever is higher.

Projects

Campaign Workshops

Starting Local Chapters

Fundraising & Conference

Message board application

Local Surveillance Ordinances

Cryptoparties

MAAPL Fight Foreclosure Campaign

Projects On Hold For the Moment

Both of these could be topics for future hackathons.

CCTV Camera Map

Together Boston Meshnet

Upcoming Events

2/18, 2-4pm, Democracy/IT meeting, Arlington
2/22, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA)
ovenbirdmash (Chris Foran; Roxbury)
Aaron (Aaron James, Somerville)
puer (puer, Somerville)

Observers

davidd
igel
sankey
Techrev

Summary

Calls for conference, fundraising. Aaron has fundraising experience and is willing to make calls, but would like renumeration for doing so. We discuss our typical burn rate, expenses, and the cost of running campaigns.

We agreed to hire Aaron, but have to work out a couple of the particulars.