May 23rd, 2016 IRC Meeting

Review

• Together Boston Cryptoparty
• Left Forum

Campaigns Status

2016 Campaign

• Update on Aaron James running for 27th Middlesex State Rep. district
• Signature drop off is Wednesday, the 25th

PirateCon 2016

• Date set at 6/25. Have multiple speakers. Deadline is 5/25.
• Speaker sign up & registration (pay/nonpay) forms and conference page are up.
• Todo:
  • Get word out
    • Email act-ma and other lists
    • Call supporters
  • Lockdown audio and streaming setup (Meeting 6/5)
  • Flyers
  • Get speakers
  • Finalize schedule
  • Food
  • Plan post-conference activity

Boston Pride Parade

We are marching again this year on 6/11. Got marshals, need:

• srevilak & jokeefe went to marshal training. Looks like they are staggering the times that groups need to have all their marchers.
• Sign up form / Facebook event are done
• jokeefe picked up some rainbow flags. Working on putting the party logo on them.
• Pirate ship is functional

Upcoming Events

1. 5/25, 12:30pm, Hand in signatures for Aaron James, Elections Division, 1 Ashburton Place, Boston
2. 5/25, Digital Fourth meeting, noon-1pm, Tatte Cafe, 101 Main Street, Cambridge
3. 5/25, Last date for speakers to sign up for PirateCon 2016
4. 5/25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville
5. 6/5, 1-3pm, IT/Democracy Meeting, noon-2pm, 111 Sunnyside Ave, Arlington
6. 6/10, 6pm, Boston Dyke March, Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, Boston
7. 6/11, 10am-4pm, Boston Pride Parade, Boston
8. 6/25, 10am-6pm, PirateCon 2016
9. 6/29, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville
10. July, WMass Cryptoparty?
11. 7/27, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville
12. July-Aug Pirate Picnic
13. 8/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville
14. Sep., Freedom Rally
15. 9/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville

Every Wed., Digital Fourth meeting, noon-1pm, 101 Main Street, Cambridge

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• igel (William Fleurant, Arlington)
• BenC (Ben Cook, Quincy)
• Noe

Observers

• davidd

Summary

Together Boston Cryptoparty. Good discussion, but a smaller turnout than last year. Covered Jitsi, OTR, key signing. Next year, plan to set up a mesh network for together boston. Next year, we should also put more effort into promotion.

Left Forum. Pirate party got a mention during a panel on internet and surveillance. Occupy Oakland's privacy working group gave a good talk on FOIA, public records, and Oakland's Domain Awareness Center.

Aaron's campaign. Have a fundraiser coming up on June 14, 7--9pm at Somerville Armory. Aaron appeared on SCATV recently. Last week's Young Jurks radio interview went well. Noe will try to post a link on the blog. Steve offers to bring equipment to make an audio recording of the fundraiser.

PirateCon 2016. Several more people expressed interest in speaking. We're planning to review speaker applications on Thursday, so we can give yes/no decisions to those who have applied. Steve will send applicant summaries, and email announcement of meeting.

Tech meeting. Still on for Sun June 5th. Goal is to get a streaming setup working amongst participants in the tech meeting. Jamie as a few rainbow flags. Need to silkscreen/paint pirate logo on them.

Pride Parade. Marshall Training went well. A few changes to lineup logistics this year, so people can spend less time waiting for parade to start. We have signup form and Facebook event.

Minutes

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[9:12pm] jokeefe: agenda - https://masspirates.org/wiki/May_23rd,_2016_IRC_Meeting [9:12pm] jokeefe: ids - James O’Keefe, Somerville [9:12pm] srevilak: Steve Revilak, Arlington [9:12pm] igel: William Fleurant, Arlington [9:13pm] BenC: Ben Cook, Quincy [9:13pm] jokeefe: Reviews - Together Boston Cryptoparty [9:14pm] jokeefe: Good discussion, though turnout seemed less than last year [9:14pm] jokeefe: Got a Jitsi video chat to work well [9:14pm] BenC: I agree. The workshops at Danger!Awesome were not very well promoted this year [9:15pm] jokeefe: Got multiple people to use OTR & sign keys [9:15pm] BenC: I tried to attend on on Saturday, and it was canceled right before it started [9:15pm] jokeefe: dang [9:15pm] igel: good to hear about the gitsi video chat.. did you use the app or web one? [9:16pm] BenC: but the discussions at our event went well [9:16pm] jokeefe: Will have to do more to promote next year [9:16pm] jokeefe: I am excited about setting up a mesh net at next years [9:16pm] igel: yeah+ [9:16pm] BenC: I agree. Maybe it would be possible to do some promotion at the music events earlier in the week [9:16pm] igel: we'll make it happen. [9:17pm] jokeefe: yes, having flyers at least would be good. [9:17pm] igel: that wouldnt hurt yea [9:17pm] jokeefe: How did Left Forum, go srevilak? [9:18pm] Noe joined the chat room. [9:18pm] Noe: Ahoy [9:18pm] BenC: good evening Noe [9:18pm] srevilak: Left forum was good, though perhaps w/ slightly smaller attendance than last year [9:18pm] jokeefe: ahoy Noe - just reviewing past events [9:18pm] jokeefe: agenda - https://masspirates.org/wiki/May_23rd,_2016_IRC_Meeting [9:18pm] Noe: Noelani Kamelamela, Somerville