July 11th, 2024 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-member-meeting/

Recording:

Decisions/Endorsements

Worcester Pride

The festival is Saturday, September 7, 3 – 8 PM. Setup is 11 AM. It will be in downtown Worcester. The application deadline is Monday, August 5. The cost is $100. We would need to bring our own table, chairs and tent. Details ...

Projects/Events

Legislature finishes its session at the end of July. Notified members twice about various bills. Post at https://masspirates.org/blog/2024/07/09/good-bills-need-your-help/.

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Video quality of Jitsi has started to suffer. Would be good to find a better streaming/recording alternative.
• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Media Outreach

• Put media list in Civi (jokeefe)

Voter Outreach 2024

• Contact cities/town to get list of voters
• Mail supporters

2025 Local Campaign

Actions:

• Videos:
  • Selecting campaign
  • Planning campaign
  • Get on the ballot
  • Fundraising
  • Voter Id
  • GOTV
• Outreach to volunteers:
  • Ask them to organize locally
  • Ask them to campaign/run
  • Ask them to give us their full contact info
  • Call potential candidates/supporters

Upcoming Events

• July 13th, Democracy/IT Committee Meeting

Participants

• jokeefe
• srevilak
• emcgee

Summary

Two email newsletters sent this week.

Cleaned ~ 1900 spam users from CiviCRM. In process of upgrading civicrm and drupal.

Hope conference is happening this weekend in NYC. Good luck to all who attend.