January 1st, 2015 IRC Meeting

Review

1. Budget Review 2014 2015
   1. Money on hand
   2. Expected Expenses

Decisions

1. PirateCon 2015
2. Work with Pass Mass Amendment this fall
3. Upcoming events
   1. March in Boston Pride
   2. Table at Freedom Rally
   3. Others we need to pay for?

Events Summary

1. Jan. 10, Cryptoparty, Somerville Public Library
2. Jan. 16-19, Arisia at Westin Waterfront, Crypto-panel and Pirate Party room http://www.arisia.org/
3. Feb. 4, Cryptoparty @ Boston Desktop Linux Users Group
4. Feb. 14, WMass Cryptoparty (lisbon), Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, 100 Bigelow Street, Holyoke, MA (http://mghpcc.com/), Snow date is Feb 21st, dates tentative. duration 4 hours. Need to supply our own projector.
5. May 6, 2015, International Day against DRM

Every Thu., Digital Fourth meeting, 11:20am-1:30pm, Voltage Cafe, Third Street, Cambridge

Participants

• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• jokeefe (James O'Keefe, Somerville)
• noe
• CaptBlackbeard

Observers

• davidd
• decipherstatic
• Pharyngeal

Summary

Discuss WMass cryptoparty. We'll shoot for 11a-3pm on Sat 2/14/2015. Outreach strategies: we have usual social media, website, email list. Also have Ludlow Register and Springfield Republican (newspapers). Also Craig's list, colleges, and activists group based in western mass.

Jan Cryptoparty at Somerville Public Library. Will request Jan 10th as a date, perhaps 11:00 start time.

We vote to endorse the Tor Project's Statement of Solidarity against online harrassment.

Minutes

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