September 28th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Reviews

• 9/22 Bill Hearings
• Freedom Rally

Upcoming Events

• 9/30, 6-9pm, Mesh Networking Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville
• 10/3, 7-11pm, FSF 30th Anniversary Celebration, CIC Boston, 50 Milk St, Boston
• 10/4, 1pm - Wikileaks 9th Birthday, Davis Sq., Somerville
• 10/13, Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade, conversation with Cory Doctorow, Berkman Center at Harvard University, Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A
• 10/13, 6-8:30pm, The Remote-Controlled Society, Roundtable with Cory Doctorow and others, C. Walsh Theater, Suffolk University, Boston
  • Flyering/signature gathering outside

Task Status

• PirateCon 2015 Videos
  • Evan Greer talk (Bluestreak)
• MAAPL form (srevilak)
• Newsletter (Kendra, paper_waves, ?)
  • 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
• Media
  • Updated media list (noe)
  • Oct. - Free Software & Innovation
  • Nov. - 2016 Elections
  • Dec. - ?
• Blog posts
  • Local/regional contacts (jokeefe) - Regional page up. Working on local pages.
  • TPP update (jokeefe)
  • CISA update (jokeefe)
• 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?)
• Materials
  • Stickers (igel)
  • Flyers
    • Need update to general flyer
      • ideas: UK Pirate Party materials / design ideas
• Policies update (jokeefe)
  • Check on the state of them
  • Write up doc on using git & commenting on & voting on changes.

Tasks: Wiki list, PiratePad version.

Event Planning

1. Sep. 30, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville
2. Oct. 3, 7-11pm, FSF 30th Anniversary Celebration, CIC Boston, 50 Milk St, Boston
3. Oct. 13 (probably), Cory Doctorow Event - Working with other groups
4. Oct. 28, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave, Somervilleafts
5. Nov. event?
6. Nov. 25, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville
7. Dec. event?
8. Dec. 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

• Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero, Medway)
• igel
• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• benC

Observers

• davidd
• Pharyngeal
• zby

Summary

Wikileaks Birthday party. Planning. https://piratenpad.de/p/MAPPWikileaksBirthday2015. Need a cake that says "Happy 9th Birthday, Wikileaks". Steve will work on press release; short announcement on Tue, then a longer press release to local papers on Fri or Sat. Lucia offers to make buttons.

Minutes

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