February 14th, 2012 IRC Meeting

Agenda

1. Status of conference

2. Elect national reps

   Erik Zoltan offered to be the primary representative to the Pirate National Council
   Lauren Pespisa and James O'Keefe offered alternates
   Any others?

3. Discuss helping form Pirate parties in New England

4. Anything else others want to bring up.

Attending

• bsod - http://activepolitic.com:82/
• illunatic
• jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville
• GrimJack - John Gaunt, Springfield-ish
• JP - JP, Lowell
• SplendidSpoon - Lauren Pespisa, Boxboro/Cambridge
• erixoltan - Erik Zoltan, Framingham

Summary

1. Status of conference

2. Elect national reps

3. Discuss helping form Pirate parties in New England

4. Anything else others want to bring up.

Meeting Minutes

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[12:01] <jokeefe> Lets being [12:01] <jokeefe> begin [12:01] <jokeefe> Agenda at http://masspirates.org/wiki/index.php?title=February_14th,_2012_IRC_Meeting [12:02] <jokeefe> Start with ids - James O'Keefe, Somerville [12:02] <SplendidSpoon> Lauren Pespisa - Boxboro/Cambridge [12:02] <JP> JP, lowell [12:03] <GrimJack> John Gaunt, Springfield-ish [12:04] <jokeefe> Agenda Item 1. Status of conference [12:04] <jokeefe> Still locking down the schedule. Got responses from folks, but not from everyone. [12:04] <jokeefe> Hope to be done by Friday at the latest [12:05] <jokeefe> SplendidSpoon, any word on your friend? [12:05] <jokeefe> whether she wants to be on the panel? [12:05] <SplendidSpoon> Yes she never responded so I'm going to assume nope [12:05] <jokeefe> shame [12:06] <SplendidSpoon> Yea [12:06] <jokeefe> So we have two so far. I pinged Randall Munroe's press email, but no response. would anyone be able to send me a better way to contact him? [12:07] <SplendidSpoon> WAT Randall Munroe? [12:07] <SplendidSpoon> xkcd guy? [12:07] <jokeefe> XKCD [12:07] <SplendidSpoon> wow [12:07] <SplendidSpoon> You try going to his irc channel? [12:08] == erixoltan [47aee4da@gateway/web/freenode/ip.71.174.228.218] has joined #masspirates [12:08] <jokeefe> haven't yet. good idea. would you be able to ask him? [12:08] <jokeefe> hey erixoltan [12:08] <erixoltan> erixoltan - Erik Zoltan (Framingham) [12:09] <jokeefe> thanks! [12:09] <SplendidSpoon> Ill try i never actually talked to him before [12:09] <jokeefe> nor I [12:10] <jokeefe> Will send an email focusing on the conference this week [12:10] <GrimJack> I saw him at a con a few years back with Doctorow. Since Doctorow contributed to No Safe Harbor, maybe someone has a way to reach out to him to put you in touch with Randall that isn't the front-door press email. [12:10] <GrimJack> Just a thought. [12:10] <jokeefe> could work. Depends on Doctorow responding. Could also ping RM on twitter. [12:11] <jokeefe> Moving on to 2. Elect national reps [12:12] <jokeefe> Erik Zoltan offered to be the primary representative to the Pirate National Council [12:12] <jokeefe> Lauren Pespisa and James O'Keefe offered to be alternates [12:12] <jokeefe> Any others? JP? [12:12] <erixoltan> moment of weakness... [12:12] <jokeefe> The more the merrier [12:13] <JP> no one I can think of, will keep pondering [12:13] <jokeefe> I only plan to be a rep to help orient the others [12:13] <SplendidSpoon> hey what should I leave a message with Randall saying? [12:13] <SplendidSpoon> People on the irc saying he hasn't been to an event in awhile [12:14] <SplendidSpoon> If one of you wants to message me with the message to message him with that'd be cool haha [12:15] <erixoltan> fomclol [12:15] <jokeefe> We are having a conference on March 10th in Cambridge and will have a panel dicussion we would like him to be on. Current title is "Tales from the Net: Making a living at being creative". Writer / publisher Cecilia Tan and at least one other will be on it. [12:15] <SplendidSpoon> k and email to contact? [12:15] <SplendidSpoon> for him to email back? [12:16] <jokeefe> [his email] works [12:16] <jokeefe> main party email seems impersonal [12:17] <jokeefe> Back to PNC reps. Anyone else interested in being a PNC rep? [12:18] <JP> my plate is full, I think [12:19] <jokeefe> no doubt :-) [12:19] <jokeefe> once [12:19] <jokeefe> going twice [12:20] == ccwalsh [183d0e0f@gateway/web/freenode/ip.24.61.14.15] has joined #masspirates [12:20] <ccwalsh> Hi everyone, sorry I'm late [12:20] <jokeefe> Welcome ! [12:21] <jokeefe> Just electing reps to the Pirate National Council [12:21] <ccwalsh> Good, good [12:21] <jokeefe> Reps would serve no more than six months at the most while we figure out how the national party should organize it. [12:22] <jokeefe> Currently: Erik Zoltan as primary reps, while Lauren and I would be alternates [12:22] <jokeefe> Any objections fo that line up? [12:23] <SplendidSpoon> sounds good [12:23] <ccwalsh> no objection here [12:25] <jokeefe> I have no objections [12:27] <jokeefe> All opposed curse on your peg leg. Arrgh! [12:27] <SplendidSpoon> lulz