December 6th, 2012 IRC Meeting

Agenda

Prep for the in-person meeting on the 9th

1. Final revision of letter to members/supporters?
2. Member survey
3. Review of voter/supporter stats
4. Review of planned 2013 events/activities
5. Review of organization
6. Review of budget

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

1. Final revision of letter to members/supporters?
2. Member survey
3. Review of voter/supporter stats
4. Review of planned 2013 events/activities:

 * Continuing what we have done
   * Pirate Info Conference
   * Together Boston music festival is in April/May IIRC (http://togetherboston.com/)
   * Boston Pride Festival on Sat. June 8th (http://www.bostonpride.org/calendar/)
   * Freedom Rally on Boston Common
   * CryptoParty
 * New events
   * Pirate Planning/Issue Conference?
   * Security BSides
   * CryptoCurrencies Conference (such as this one)
   * Wake up the Earth Festival in JP on Sat., May 4th (http://www.spontaneouscelebrations.org/cultural-programming/festivals-and-events.html)
   * Pax East which is March 22-24th.  They are looking for submissions (http://panels.paxsite.com/), though they do focus on computer gaming;
   * AnimeBoston which is May 24-26th.
   * Digital Media Conference & Grassroots Use of Technology Conference possibly

1. Review of organization

 * How can we be better organized?
 * Need committees?  Which ones if so?

1. Review of budget. Here is what we adopted for 2012

Voter info

As of 11/19/2012 we have 76 voters.  
On 2/29/2012 we had 21 voters.
Three left, but 58 joined.

Here is a break down by Gender or Age for this and the previous voter sets:



11/19/12	02/29/12
Total	
76	
21	
Gender	Female	18	24%	4	19%

Male	58	76%	17	81%
Age	18-20	10	13%	4	19%

21-25	17	22%	2	10%

26-30	23	30%	3	14%

31-40	16	21%	5	24%

41-50	6	8%	5	24%

51+	4	5%	2	10%

I also mapped the 11/19/2012 data set by zipcode only:

http://batchgeo.com/map/e130b9964255c2446bed102c127581a8

I also merged in the data from the supporters list on mailchimp.  
When I only look at the MA records, that only gave us four new addresses.  
It did give us 178 zipcodes, however, which I mapped below designating 
which are voters and which are supporters:

http://batchgeo.com/map/2fa61cadb8d4ae99cd5de316e8ed57fc

Finally, I merged in all of the people who signed our petition to create 
the Pirate designation, so the snail mail list portion consists of 149 records.  
I have broken them out into voters, supporters who are not voters and people 
who signed our petition.  I included the three people who left in case they 
just changed their designation to vote in an election.

Participants

• mildbeard - Erik Zoltan, Framingham
• SplendidSpoon - Lauren Pespisa, Boxboro/Cambridge
• srevilak - Steve Revilak
• jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville

Observers:

Summary

1. Updated letter to members/supporters

Meeting Minutes

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