July 5th, 2012 IRC Meeting

Agenda

1. Status of Liquid Feedback Hackathon

2. Status of VPN testing

3. TPP position?

4. National Party News & Pirate Picnic

5. Position on Election Laws Reform Bill of 2012?

6. Anything else folks want to bring up

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

1. Liquid Feedback Hackathon

2. Status of VPN testing

There is an opportunity for Massachusetts Pirate Party to offer a low-cost VPN service to our members. Some of the other state parties are interested and will pursue this option.

A VPN service can be used to protect a member's privacy. For example, you can browse certain websites and use a protocol such as BitTorrent through your VPN provider. Your computer will have an encrypted communication to the VPN server and someone trying to snoop on your connection will be unable to tell what you are doing.

This is managed by PPI (Pirate Parties International). The VPN service would allow members to pay with multiple currencies including Bitcoin, but they could also use a regular credit card. The cost is as low as $5 per month. Mass Pirate Party would receive half of the proceeds so we would have to ensure that we are complying with campaign finance laws.

Erix has been testing it.

3. TPP position?

4. National Party News

Pirate Picnic?

5. Position on Election Laws Reform Bill of 2012?

This bill would:

• Mandate random post-election audits to ensure voting machines are working correctly and that your vote is counted accurately;
• Let 16- and 17-year-olds pre-register to vote, greatly increasing the number who will actually vote when they turn 18;
• Let voters download and print voter-registration forms;
• Improve training of election officers so they can better protect every citizen's right to vote.

Attending

[Draft list]

• jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville
• erixoltan - Erik Zoltan, Framingham
• aphelionz - Mark Henderson, formerly of South Dakota, now Marshfield
• Lucia -
• passtab -

Observers:

• [bsod]
• brandon
• illunatic
• akollar
• max_CAPP?

Summary

1. Status of Liquid Feedback Hackathon

2. Status of VPN testing

3. TPP position?

4. National Party News & Pirate Picnic

Meeting Minutes

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