November 16th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Review & Decisions

• H.2169 – An Act assuring municipal control of military equipment procurement by local law enforcement

Upcoming Events

Boston Anarchist Bookfair - Planning Pad

Campaigns Status

2016 Campaigns & Policies Update

Thoughts on 11/15 Meeting Notes?

Paris Attack Statement

With attempts to castigate encryption due to the Paris Attack, among other reasons, it would be good to have a statement up.

H.2487 & H.2606 Video Game Production Subsidy

Will have it up this week (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

• 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. 11/21, 9am-5:30pm, Building Sustainable Security, Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall
2. 11/21-22, 10am-6pm, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Student Center, Boston University
3. 11/25, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, Somerville
4. 12/6, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting, Pizzeria Regina, 353 Cambridge St, Allston
5. Dec. IT Meeting?
6. 12/30, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville

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

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero Medway)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, west of the Alewife)
• aquaticonions (Eli Haber, Lexington)
• Kendra (Kendra In Highland Park MI)

Observers

• davidd
• Pharyngeal