October 26th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Upcoming Events

1. 10/28, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts?, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville
2. Nov., 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting
3. 11/21, 9am-5:30pm, Building Sustainable Security, Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall
4. 11/21-22, 10am-6pm, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Student Center, Boston University

Campaigns Status

2016 Campaigns & Policies Update (jokeefe)

• Setting up a planning meeting in early November.
• Write up doc on using git & commenting on & voting on changes.

CISA

• Blog Updates (jokeefe) - Multiple posted along with email. Warren and Markey both came out against it, but cloture vote was 83-14. Bill will need to be reconciled. Multiple MA house members voted for it, so we can urge people to contact those Reps.

TPP

Entire Mass. delegation is against it. Still need a post asking people to contact the others in New England who voted for it.

H.2487 & H.2606 Video Game Production Subsidy

Been busy with CISA. Will get back to this (jokeefe)

Election Bills

Will update the statement we did last time and post/email it (jokeefe)

Other Bills for consideration

Haven't received feedback. Could do a poll. (jokeefe)

PirateCon 2015 Videos (jokeefe)

Ordered them in ease of processing / priority:

1. Building 3rd party coalitions
2. Lightning talks
3. Keynote: How we won Net Neutrality
4. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and you
5. Rethinking the City
6. Income Inequality

Newsletter (Kendra)

• Design & Feedback
• Distribution Planning (besides emailing a pdf)
  • Gather list of people to mail it to (?)
  • Gather a list of places to distribute it (?)
  • Decide on the print run (?)
• Distribute

Tech

see for priorities

• Bitcoin + Credit card gateway in CiviCRM (srevilak, js0000, Kendra)
• Improve UI navigation of wiki & expose more wiki bits on blog (Noe, jokeefe)
• Allow distributed organizing on CiviCRM (and pointers to get started) (Kendra, srevilak, Chris, jokeefe)
• js0000 and jokeefe will work on building a tool to manage twitter:
  • design (jokeefe) - posted at Twitter API design
  • coding (js0000 & jokeefe)
• Forum (or needed now that lists are publicized?)

Administrative

• Email blast - Latest announcements
• Media
  • Updated media list (noe)
  • Nov. - 2016 Elections
• Blog posts
  • Local/regional contacts (jokeefe) - Regional page up. Working on local pages.
• Materials
  • Stickers (igel)
  • Flyers
    • Need update to general flyer
      • ideas: UK Pirate Party materials / design ideas

Tasks: Wiki list, PiratePad version.

Helping with BINJ CCTV camera mapping project

Looking for someone to work on this.

Upcoming Events

1. 10/28, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts?, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville
2. Nov., 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting
3. 11/21, 9am-5:30pm, Building Sustainable Security, Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall
4. 11/21-22, 10am-6pm, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Student Center, Boston University
5. 11/25, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Somerville
6. Dec., 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting
7. Dec. IT Meeting?
8. 12/30, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Somerville ?

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

Participants

Observers

• davidd
• Pharyngeal
• zby

Minutes

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