January 22nd, 2015 IRC Meeting

Review

1. Jan. 17, Arisia at Westin Waterfront, Crypto-panel
2. Jan. 19, 4 Mile March

Decisions

1. PirateCon 2015
   1. Site Review
   2. Program

Events Summary

1. Feb. 4, Cryptoparty @ Boston Desktop Linux Users Group
2. Feb. 8 (week of), Pirate Show, SCATV (Noe)
3. Feb. 14, WMass Cryptoparty (lisbon), Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, 100 Bigelow Street, Holyoke, MA (http://mghpcc.com/), Snow date is Feb 21st, dates tentative. duration 4 hours. Need to supply our own projector? Time is 11:00a - 3:00p
4. Mar. 15, Boston Peace Parade
5. Mar. 22, Cryptoparty, Worcester
6. Apr.-May, PirateCon?
7. May 6, International Day against DRM
8. May, Together Boston Cryptoparty?
9. Jun. 13, Boston Pride Parade
10. Jun. cryptoparty?
11. Sep., Freedom Rally

Every Thu., Digital Fourth meeting, 11:20am-1:30pm, Voltage Cafe, Third Street, Cambridge

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak - Arlington, MA)
• igel (William Fleurant, Arlington MA)
• plantzz (Leilani Mroczkowski, Somerville)
• lisbon (Christopher Maria - Ludlow, MA)

Observers

• davidd
• decipherstatic
• Pharyngeal
• zby

Summary

Reviewed events: Arisia cryptoparty, four mile march (notes at 2015 Event Notes).

PirateCon 2015. Democracy center is booked up for weekends in April and May. We choose April 25th as the conference day. Community church is tentative location -- we'll put down a deposit now.

From poll, the top topics are

1. Net neutrality & Open Government
2. pirate strategy
3. building third party coalitions & filing FOIA/public records requests
4. income inequality
5. running campaigns

Steve will contact Muckrock, re: participating in FOIA campaign.

Jamie will contact Boston Open Government group.

Net neutrality. Perhaps contact BNN, freepress, SCATV

Minutes

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