January 1st, 2015 IRC Meeting

Review

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

Decisions

1. Worcester Meeting?
2. PirateCon 2015
3. Work with Pass Mass Amendment this fall
4. 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 (Noelani Kamelamela, Somerville, MA)
• CaptBlackbeard (Adam Seaman, Southwick)
• Kendra
• tgstkmop

Observers

• davidd
• decipherstatic
• Pharyngeal

Summary

Reviewed 2015 Budget.

Do survey for western mass planning meeting. Date choices: Jan 24, 25, 31; Feb 1
Survey form: https://masspirates.org/crew/forms/worcester-planning-meeting

Piratecon 2015. District Hall Boston is a potential space. Community Church of Boston is another possibility. Prefer dates in April or May. Would like to finalize dates in the next two weeks. Possibly have additional mini-conferences in Western Mass?

Discuss helping Pass Mass Amendment with petitioning this fall. Motion to help has five in favor, no opposed.

Aaron Schwartz vigil on Jan 12th. Vote to endorse. Five in favor, no opposed.

Minutes

 
[9:02pm] jokeefe: Agenda at https://masspirates.org/wiki/January_1st,_2015_IRC_Meeting
[9:02pm] jokeefe: ids - James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:02pm] CaptBlackbeard: Adam Seaman, Southwick
[9:02pm] srevilak: Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA
[9:03pm] noe: Noelani Kamelamela, Somerville, MA
[9:05pm] jokeefe: Glad you could join us CaptBlackbeard
[9:05pm] CaptBlackbeard: thanks jo, my 2nd time..   
[9:06pm] CaptBlackbeard: Im trying to be a more active pirate, there be booty on the high seas and im in the pillagin' mood!
[9:07pm] jokeefe: srevilak put out a budget for 2014, that needs to be updated for the whole year.  I will take a stab at that this weekend.
[9:07pm] jokeefe: I updated the 2015 budget at https://masspirates.org/wiki/2015_Budget
[9:08pm] tgstkmop joined the chat room.
[9:08pm] srevilak: I should send slides I started for treasurer presentation
[9:09pm] jokeefe: cool
[9:09pm] jokeefe: ahoy tgstkmop
[9:09pm] tgstkmop: hello
[9:09pm] jokeefe: srevilak, any idea what the SSL certs cost is?
[9:09pm] srevilak: 10
[9:09pm] jokeefe: and am I missing any expenses in the 2015 https://masspirates.org/wiki/2015_Budget
[9:10pm] jokeefe: Agenda at https://masspirates.org/wiki/January_1st,_2015_IRC_Meeting, tgstkmop
[9:10pm] jokeefe: if anyone wants to add something to the agenda, shout it out
[9:10pm] Kendra joined the chat room.
[9:10pm] jokeefe: ahoy Kendra
[9:10pm] Kendra: hey
[9:11pm] noe: Theoretically, we have a transmission for SCATV on 1/12,so if people have ideas, please share!  I was gonna bring a camera to the CryptoParty on 1/10 and edit that down.