October 2nd, 2011 In-Person Meeting
From Mass Pirate Wiki
Attending: Henry, JP, Jamie, Chris Walsh (12:44am)
The draft agenda items are:
a) Campaigns and campaign funding b) Review of upcoming events so we know to register early c) Talk about how to connect with potential supporters, esp. 30
& younger, and build a visible Pirate movement
d) How to do a lot of awareness and activism programs e) National Pirate Book? f) Report back on OccupyBoston g) Ada Lovelace dinner
Support OccupyBoston
PR - jamie will write, jp will suggest bullet points Ask what tech needs they have Kate helping with website / IRC, Gregg working on interaction with BosPD Henry will talk with them about needs / holding a teach in Jamie will reach out to twitter/fb to get reps (have Henry / Lauren) Liquid Feedback as a way of getting people not there to offer input
For talk - make an announcement at previous day's GA, best to do it
before 6pm as GAs start 6-8pm. see what times are good.
From Chris:
Their big priority is outreach people affected more by economy downturn unions as broad as possible
On messaging: 1. what brought everyone together so have common agreement 2. not do to quickly so more people have input
Tactical team oversees needs: Meeting at 5pm to talk about outreach - Dewey Sq.
Setup pirate meeting / dinner (ada lovelace) with Gregory pref in
BU/MIT/Harvard/Tufts - Jamie working on it
national pirate book - publicize
ConConCon - report by Chris
Structural reform of gov to get $ out of politics so it is policy
neutral to resolve debates of left/right
We should be on board to fix the decision making process Fear of a ConCon getting out of control (takes 38 states approve, though) a lot of fatalism about getting congress to fix the problem Two interesting key notes - Lessig's & conservative argument on the
proper relationship between corps & gov.
callaconvention.org / root strikers
Chris interested in running candidates -
IP lawyer turning to advocacy Mini-books title as a turnoff
help with distributed file sharing - garret john oporto
henry has some servers he can donate
could run silent movies after GA
get projecter people to run them / computers