September 5th, 2024 Meeting

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

Recording: https://youtu.be/uHPDZlzKNe0

Projects/Events

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 Campaigns

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

Participants

• jokeefe
• srevilak
• emcgee

Summary

Jamie has been cleaning up some things with the database. Found one form that didn't require a captcha, which might be where spam was coming from. Steve will try to tighten up.

No decisions or endorsements this week.

USPP updates. 9/15 is pirate week. 9/19 is talk like a pirate day. Planning to do camera walks on 9/17 and 9/22. Locations TBD.

NextNav wants to privatize some of the 900--902 MHz band, which is used for amateur radio. FCC asking for comments, and we'll ask members to submit them.

Joe planning to go door to door, starting this Sunday (for state rep campaign).

Pirate news this Sunday, ususal time.

Next email will have a poll for members about the upcoming ballot questions.

Next meeting on Sept 19th.