October 31th, 2013 IRC Meeting
Agenda
Upcoming Events
Who will be at:
- Nov. 5th, Tue., 9am-midnight, Million Mask March, State House, Boston, MA, 9am-midnight
- Nov. 6th, Wed., 6:30-8:30pm, Boston Desktop Linux Users Group, Jamie speaking on the "Dangers of the Surveillance State"
- Nov. 6th, Wed., Berkman Center Mesh Network Cryptoday, Cambridge/Somerville
- Nov. 9th, Sat., Scorpion Bowl, Positronic Design, 903 Dwight St, Holyoke,
- Nov 17th In-Person Meeting, 2-5pm, Regina Pizzeria, 353 Cambridge St, Allston, MA (see above)
- Nov 23rd Cryptoparty
Issues/Platform Discussion
Our next In-Person Meeting will be 2-5pm. Sunday Nov. 17th, at Regina Pizzeria, 353 Cambridge St, Allston, MA. We're going to try a different format: instead of discussing planning and logistics, this meeting will be a social event where we talk about issues, politics, and our party platform.
During tonight's IRC meeting, we'd like to develop a short list of topics to talk about on the 17th.
For example, our core platform centers around four points: Open Government, Open Innovation, Open Culture, and People First. We could have a discussion that elaborates on these points, talk about how some of today's big issues can be framed in terms of these four points, or talk about issues that don't fall neatly into the core platform.
Of course, that's just an example. We can elaborate more tonight.
Nov. 23rd CryptoParty
Also: we have a cryptoparty on Nov. 23rd. We should spend a few minutes discussing topics and presenters.
Fundraising
We have a fundraiser scheduled for 12/28 and will send out a fundraising email. Besides calling folks, what other fundraising ideas can folks suggest?
Participants
- volt (volt, high school student from Florida, also from Hyperboria)
- ANONinMASS
- Igel (Will in Arlington)
- srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
- davidd
- Kendra (Kendra in Arlington)
- jokeefe
Observers:
- zby
- firsttimehere_
- ircerr
Summary
- Million Mask March: ANONinMass "would like to request a pirate member to discuss other options in government besides the red/blue gridlock we are in". srevilak to send note to activist list, requesting speaker.
- Berkman Center Mesh Network Cryptoday. Need more information from Kit (e.g., time, location)
- Scorpion Bowl. jokeefe planning to attend.
- November in-person meeting. jokeefe suggests going through http://www.piratenpartei.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/parteiprogramm-englisch.pdf, and seeing what we can adopt as-is. See also:
- UK Pirate Party manifesto: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/media/uploads/Manifesto2012.pdf.
- http://uspirates.org/values-and-name/
