July 11th, 2024 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-member-meeting/

Recording:

Decisions/Endorsements

Worcester Pride

The festival is Saturday, September 7, 3 – 8 PM. Setup is 11 AM. It will be in downtown Worcester. The application deadline is Monday, August 5. The cost is $100. We would need to bring our own table, chairs and tent. Details ...

Projects/Events

Legislature finishes its session at the end of July. Notified members twice about various bills. Post at https://masspirates.org/blog/2024/07/09/good-bills-need-your-help/.

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Video quality of Jitsi has started to suffer. Would be good to find a better streaming/recording alternative.
• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Media Outreach

• Put media list in Civi (jokeefe)

Voter Outreach 2024

• Contact cities/town to get list of voters
• Mail supporters

2025 Local Campaign

Actions:

• Videos:
  • Selecting campaign
  • Planning campaign
  • Get on the ballot
  • Fundraising
  • Voter Id
  • GOTV
• Outreach to volunteers:
  • Ask them to organize locally
  • Ask them to campaign/run
  • Ask them to give us their full contact info
  • Call potential candidates/supporters

Upcoming Events

• July 13th, Democracy/IT Committee Meeting

Participants

• jokeefe
• srevilak
• emcgee

Summary

Two email newsletters sent this week.

Cleaned ~ 1900 spam users from CiviCRM. In process of upgrading civicrm and drupal.

Hope conference is happening this weekend in NYC. Good luck to all who attend.

Worcester pride. September 3rd. Setup at 11:00 am. $100 for a 10x10 space. Need to decide on whether to get a space by Aug 5th.