January 8th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Review

1. Review Somerville Cryptoparty
2. Aaron Swartz Vigil

Decisions

1. Elect new First Officer: Noelani offered to serve at least through next election
2. Worcester Meeting Poll status: Date choices: Jan 24, 25, 31; Feb 1
3. PirateCon 2015 Site Review
4. Upcoming events
   1. March in Boston Pride
   2. Table at Freedom Rally
   3. Others we need to pay for?
5. Possible Endorsements
   1. Updated laws on police & surveillance
   2. USOC chose Boston to the the US' Olympic host city - Oppose?

Events Summary

1. Jan. 10, Cryptoparty, Somerville Public Library
2. Jan. 12, Aaron Schwartz vigil
3. Jan. 16-19, Arisia at Westin Waterfront, Crypto-panel
4. Feb. 4, Cryptoparty @ Boston Desktop Linux Users Group
5. 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.
6. May 6, 2015, International Day against DRM

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

Participants

• jokeefe
• CaptBlackbear
• noe
• lisbon
• srevilak

Observers

• davidd
• Pharyngeal
• zby

Summary

Budgets: 2014 2015

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?

Minutes

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