February 14th, 2012 IRC Meeting

Agenda

1. Status of conference

2. Elect national reps

   Erik Zoltan offered to be the primary representative to the Pirate National Council
   Lauren Pespisa and James O'Keefe offered alternates
   Any others?

3. Discuss helping form Pirate parties in New England

4. Anything else others want to bring up.

Attending

• bsod - http://activepolitic.com:82/
• illunatic
• jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville
• GrimJack - John Gaunt, Springfield-ish
• JP - JP, Lowell
• SplendidSpoon - Lauren Pespisa, Boxboro/Cambridge
• erixoltan - Erik Zoltan, Framingham
• ccwalsh - Chris Walsh, Cambridge

Summary

1. Status of conference

   Locking down the schedule.  
   Contacting more folks to be on the "Tales from the Net: Making a living at being creative" panel

2. Elect national reps

   Erik Zoltan elected as our primary representative to the Pirate National Council
   Lauren Pespisa and James O'Keefe elected as alternates

3. Discuss helping form Pirate parties in New England

4. Anything else others want to bring up.

Meeting Minutes

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[12:01] <jokeefe> Lets being [12:01] <jokeefe> begin [12:01] <jokeefe> Agenda at http://masspirates.org/wiki/index.php?title=February_14th,_2012_IRC_Meeting [12:02] <jokeefe> Start with ids - James O'Keefe, Somerville [12:02] <SplendidSpoon> Lauren Pespisa - Boxboro/Cambridge [12:02] <JP> JP, lowell [12:03] <GrimJack> John Gaunt, Springfield-ish [12:04] <jokeefe> Agenda Item 1. Status of conference [12:04] <jokeefe> Still locking down the schedule. Got responses from folks, but not from everyone. [12:04] <jokeefe> Hope to be done by Friday at the latest [12:05] <jokeefe> SplendidSpoon, any word on your friend? [12:05] <jokeefe> whether she wants to be on the panel? [12:05] <SplendidSpoon> Yes she never responded so I'm going to assume nope [12:05] <jokeefe> shame [12:06] <SplendidSpoon> Yea [12:06] <jokeefe> So we have two so far. I pinged Randall Munroe's press email, but no response. would anyone be able to send me a better way to contact him? [12:07] <SplendidSpoon> WAT Randall Munroe? [12:07] <SplendidSpoon> xkcd guy? [12:07] <jokeefe> XKCD [12:07] <SplendidSpoon> wow [12:07] <SplendidSpoon> You try going to his irc channel? [12:08] == erixoltan [47aee4da@gateway/web/freenode/ip.71.174.228.218] has joined #masspirates [12:08] <jokeefe> haven't yet. good idea. would you be able to ask him? [12:08] <jokeefe> hey erixoltan [12:08] <erixoltan> erixoltan - Erik Zoltan (Framingham) [12:09] <jokeefe> thanks! [12:09] <SplendidSpoon> Ill try i never actually talked to him before [12:09] <jokeefe> nor I [12:10] <jokeefe> Will send an email focusing on the conference this week [12:10] <GrimJack> I saw him at a con a few years back with Doctorow. Since Doctorow contributed to No Safe Harbor, maybe someone has a way to reach out to him to put you in touch with Randall that isn't the front-door press email. [12:10] <GrimJack> Just a thought. [12:10] <jokeefe> could work. Depends on Doctorow responding. Could also ping RM on twitter. [12:11] <jokeefe> Moving on to 2. Elect national reps [12:12] <jokeefe> Erik Zoltan offered to be the primary representative to the Pirate National Council [12:12] <jokeefe> Lauren Pespisa and James O'Keefe offered to be alternates [12:12] <jokeefe> Any others? JP? [12:12] <erixoltan> moment of weakness... [12:12] <jokeefe> The more the merrier [12:13] <JP> no one I can think of, will keep pondering [12:13] <jokeefe> I only plan to be a rep to help orient the others [12:13] <SplendidSpoon> hey what should I leave a message with Randall saying? [12:13] <SplendidSpoon> People on the irc saying he hasn't been to an event in awhile [12:14] <SplendidSpoon> If one of you wants to message me with the message to message him with that'd be cool haha [12:15] <erixoltan> fomclol [12:15] <jokeefe> We are having a conference on March 10th in Cambridge and will have a panel dicussion we would like him to be on. Current title is "Tales from the Net: Making a living at being creative". Writer / publisher Cecilia Tan and at least one other will be on it. [12:15] <SplendidSpoon> k and email to contact? [12:15] <SplendidSpoon> for him to email back? [12:16] <jokeefe> [his email] works [12:16] <jokeefe> main party email seems impersonal [12:17] <jokeefe> Back to PNC reps. Anyone else interested in being a PNC rep? [12:18] <JP> my plate is full, I think [12:19] <jokeefe> no doubt :-) [12:19] <jokeefe> once [12:19] <jokeefe> going twice [12:20] == ccwalsh [183d0e0f@gateway/web/freenode/ip.24.61.14.15] has joined #masspirates [12:20] <ccwalsh> Hi everyone, sorry I'm late [12:20] <jokeefe> Welcome ! [12:21] <jokeefe> Just electing reps to the Pirate National Council [12:21] <ccwalsh> Good, good [12:21] <jokeefe> Reps would serve no more than six months at the most while we figure out how the national party should organize it. [12:22] <jokeefe> Currently: Erik Zoltan as primary reps, while Lauren and I would be alternates [12:22] <jokeefe> Any objections fo that line up? [12:23] <SplendidSpoon> sounds good [12:23] <ccwalsh> no objection here [12:25] <jokeefe> I have no objections [12:27] <jokeefe> All opposed curse on your peg leg. Arrgh! [12:27] <SplendidSpoon> lulz [12:28] <jokeefe> Hearing none, motion passes [12:28] <jokeefe> Agenda Item 3. Discuss helping form Pirate parties in New England [12:28] <jokeefe> erixoltan suggested this one [12:29] <erixoltan> I wanted to ask whether there are any active pirate parties (besides us) in New England? [12:29] <jokeefe> Not that I know of [12:29] <jokeefe> Chris R offered to help start a NH Pirate Party and do the research work on it. I know of at least one other person who was interested. I think there are other followers on twitter from other NE states [12:30] <erixoltan> That seems odd to me - there have to be a lot of people that would join in the other NE states if they had an organization. [12:31] <SplendidSpoon> Organizers are a rare breed though [12:31] <jokeefe> aye! [12:32] <jokeefe> On twitter: 3 in NH, 2 in CT, 1 in VT and the other two from NE [12:32] <jokeefe> We could have a talk on building the Pirate Party in New England at the conference [12:33] <jokeefe> I think NH would be our best place to start next [12:33] <erixoltan> Seems like an open discussion would be appropriate - is it possible to do that instead of a "talk" where one person presents? [12:33] <jokeefe> discussion? [12:34] <jokeefe> A discussion would be better. [12:35] <jokeefe> We also have the lunch & dinner times when we could just get food and sit around and talk [12:36] <ccwalsh> It should at least be on the schedule so people know to attend if they're interested [12:37] <jokeefe> good idea