October 11th, 2012 IRC Meeting

Agenda

1. Visit by Gregory Engels of the PPDE/PPI
2. CryptoParty in Boston & elsewhere
3. Ballot Questions, Platform, LQFB
4. National Update
5. Other items on the todo list
   1. Interns
   2. Revising Materials
   3. Sending out a Candidate Survey
   4. Requested Pirate voter list
   5. Letter to OCPF on new fundraising methods
   6. Mail thank you letters
   7. Mail letter on State of Mass. Pirates to our voters?
   8. College tour during the winter?
6. Anything else folks want to bring up

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

1. Visit by Gregory Engels of the PPDE/PPI

2. CryptoParty in Boston & elsewhere

• 10/21, noon-6pm
• The Sprouts, 339R Summer St., Somerville
• have teachers
• have poster
• have schedule
• info at https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/Boston

3. Ballot Questions, Platform, LQFB

4. National Update

5. Other items on the todo list

• Interns
• Revising Materials
• Sending out a Candidate Survey
• Requested Pirate voter list
• Letter to OCPF on new fundraising methods
• Mail thank you letters
• Mail letter on State of Mass. Pirates to our voters?
• College tour during the winter?

Attending

• jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville
• mildbeard - Erik Zoltan, Framingham

Observers:

• passstab
• [bsod]
• brandon
• cmal
• Mozart
• TeamColtra
• zby_home

Summary

1. Visit by Gregory Engels of the PPDE/PPI

• Went well, but turnout was only seven people.

2. CryptoParty in Boston & elsewhere

• See above.

3. Ballot Questions, Platform, LQFB

• Ballot Questions posted
• Need to remind folks to participate in LQFB.
• Swedish Pirate Party used a special blog - http://breddning.piratpartiet.se/
• We may want to emulate this approach

4. National Update

• PNC last night adopted a skeleton set of bylaws
• Can move on to electing officers

5. Other items on the todo list

• Interns
• Revising Materials
• Sending out a Candidate Survey
• Requested Pirate voter list
• Letter to OCPF on new fundraising methods
• Mail thank you letters
• Mail letter on State of Mass. Pirates to our voters?
• College tour during the winter?

Meeting Minutes

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[12:07] <@mildbeard> The PNC last night adopted a skeleton set of bylaws. Not enough meat to them, but they're a start. And that means we can move on to electing officers some day soon. Not much else to report nationally. Minor stuff. [12:10] <@jokeefe> ok [12:11] <@jokeefe> I have been focused on Gregory's visit and the upcoming CryptoParty. [12:11] <@jokeefe> We need an inperson meeting in Nov. between the election and Thanksgiving [12:11] <@jokeefe> Need a new flier design as well for at least the CryptoParty [12:12] <@jokeefe> plus LQFB stuff [12:12] <@jokeefe> need to exhort people on that. [12:13] <@mildbeard> I saw that you created LQFB issues for the ballot questions. [12:18] <@jokeefe> Poll for the Nov in-person meeting - http://doodle.com/3vq4ewd927mrysu2 [12:19] <@mildbeard> Awesome. My extended family is using doodle polls now to schedule our birthday parties!!! [12:20] <@jokeefe> Gregory's talk was good. They are way more advanced than we are. [12:20] <@jokeefe> I could only stay for half of it, but dinner afterwards was good. [12:21] <@jokeefe> seven people all together [12:21] <@mildbeard> That's two things by him I missed in traffic. Still not feeling very good about it. [12:24] <@jokeefe> Stuff happens [12:24] <@mildbeard> yeah [12:30] <@jokeefe> did you see this?http://piratetimes.net/how-sweden-found-an-effective-way-of-broadening-their-politics/ [12:32] <@mildbeard> no, looking now. [12:33] <@mildbeard> awesome [12:34] <@mildbeard> Do we have the capability of adding a simple forum to our site? Can you do that in Wordpress? [12:35] <@jokeefe> it is easy to setup a wordpress.com blog [12:36] <@jokeefe> just wondering if that is a more open approach. I like LQFB, esp. with a nice skin on it, but even among activists it hasn't gained traction, and maybe making something completely transparent would get more people involved? [12:36] <@mildbeard> I am in favor of it. The simpler the better. [12:37] <@mildbeard> I think we should be going for the 99% view on every issue that matters, and is outside our core issues of open culture and so on. [12:37] <@mildbeard> The technology isn't that critical as long as people are participating. [12:38] <@mildbeard> As long as it's easy for people to participate in the debate, and as long as we are on top of it so we don't let spam get out of hand. [12:38] <@mildbeard> Very excited to learn that they are doing this. [12:42] <@mildbeard> I am working on a comprehensive platform for the Pirate Party in the US and would love to have something on our site to present issue proposals for comment. [12:45] <@jokeefe> Sounds good. I do think holding video chats along with a blog will help. Anything to get folks more engaged. They host their blog, but something at wordpress.com could work. We need to think about moving our site to a better solution. [12:46] <@mildbeard> If we have a more comprehensive set of policies, and if they offer something that no other party has, then we have the potential to get the one thing we need the most: more warm bodies. [12:46] <@mildbeard> So whatever we need to do with our site to get that in the works, I'll be in favor of it. [12:48] <@jokeefe> agreed [12:56] <@mildbeard> Are we all set? I don't have anything else. [12:59] <@jokeefe> yes, I think so. have a good day! [12:59] <@mildbeard> you too. [12:59] <@jokeefe> tnx