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1.  Boston Pride Review
1.  Boston Pride Review
Jamie wrote:
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First, I want to thank everyone who helped with Pride:
    Jeanne, Lauren, Sevan, a friend of Jeanne's did a great job with the ship and it really made us stand out during the parade.
    David was a real trooper and manned the table from 9:30am to 2:30pm when the rest of us arrived from the parade.
    For the march we had twelve people including Harry, Steve, Julie, Zo, Nancy, Kit, Sevan, Vijeta, Lauren, Kate, Erik.
The march was incredible.  We had our largest showing of Mass. Pirates at a non-Pirate public event with twelve people in our contingent.  We handed out all the fliers we had during the march and were well received.  The soccer group behind us had a huge soccer ball they threw up in the air that landed on our boat several times snapping the mast's support cables.
Some things we could improve on for next time:
    more fliers - we ran out a bit over halfway through.
    put the ship in the front to get people's attention and then have the banner behind it so people can see who we are
    mount a semi-functional cannon on the ship to occasionally make a big noise
    we didn't have much in the way of chants, but Steve and Erik started a few that were simple
    we might consider using very short skits to tell people about what we stand for.  Lauren, Kate, Erik and I got into mock cutlas fights which the parade goers found amusing
Next year, we might fore go the table and instead setup the pirate ship and run a few skits to promote our ideas.  That or we need to get people to be at the table after the march.
In terms of metrics, we got 39 and 52 people on the site last Sat & Sun, which is over double a usual day, and certainly much higher than most weekends.  We got a few more FB page likes and twitter followers.
All in all, a fun event.  Thanks to everyone who helped!
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2.  Public Policy Question Status
2.  Public Policy Question Status

Revision as of 11:14, 12 June 2012

Agenda

1. Boston Pride Review

2. Public Policy Question Status

3. National Party News

4. Moving this meeting to Thursdays

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

1. Boston Pride Review 

   Need to post a blog update with pics.

4. Moving this meeting to Thursdays 

   The poll on moving the date of the IRC meeting (http://www.doodle.com/frx24ndprvqzes7f) indicates that Thursdays work best.

Attending

  • jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville
  • SplendidSpoon - Lauren Pespisa, Boxboro/Cambridge
  • passstab -
  • [bsod] -

Observers:

  • brandon-cr-48
  • illunatic
  • [Derek]

Summary

1. Boston Pride Review

Jamie wrote: 

First, I want to thank everyone who helped with Pride:

    Jeanne, Lauren, Sevan, a friend of Jeanne's did a great job with the ship and it really made us stand out during the parade. 
    David was a real trooper and manned the table from 9:30am to 2:30pm when the rest of us arrived from the parade.
    For the march we had twelve people including Harry, Steve, Julie, Zo, Nancy, Kit, Sevan, Vijeta, Lauren, Kate, Erik.

The march was incredible.  We had our largest showing of Mass. Pirates at a non-Pirate public event with twelve people in our contingent.  We handed out all the fliers we had during the march and were well received.  The soccer group behind us had a huge soccer ball they threw up in the air that landed on our boat several times snapping the mast's support cables.

Some things we could improve on for next time:

    more fliers - we ran out a bit over halfway through.
    put the ship in the front to get people's attention and then have the banner behind it so people can see who we are
    mount a semi-functional cannon on the ship to occasionally make a big noise
    we didn't have much in the way of chants, but Steve and Erik started a few that were simple
    we might consider using very short skits to tell people about what we stand for.  Lauren, Kate, Erik and I got into mock cutlas fights which the parade goers found amusing

Next year, we might fore go the table and instead setup the pirate ship and run a few skits to promote our ideas.  That or we need to get people to be at the table after the march.

In terms of metrics, we got 39 and 52 people on the site last Sat & Sun, which is over double a usual day, and certainly much higher than most weekends.  We got a few more FB page likes and twitter followers.

All in all, a fun event.  Thanks to everyone who helped!


2. Public Policy Question Status

3. National Party News

4. Moving this meeting to Thursdays


Meeting Minutes

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