September 14th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Task Status

• PirateCon 2015 Videos (jokeefe, Bluestreak)
  • Falkvinge Pirate Strategy video posted to Youtube
• MAAPL form (srevilak, jokeefe, noe, ...)
• Newsletter (Kendra, paper_waves, ?)
  • Design & Feedback
  • Distribution Planning (besides emailing a pdf)
    • Gather list of people to mail it to (?)
    • Gather a list of places to distribute it (?)
    • Decide on the print run (?)
  • Distribute
• Bills
  • Video Tax Break - Hearing 9/22 - 9/15 advisory, 9/22 positions
  • GMO - Hearing 9/22 - Participate in the main press conference
• Media
  • Updated media list (fish/noe)
  • Sep. - Freedom Rally - Release dates - 9/18 & 9/25 or 9/26 morning
  • Oct. - Free Software & Innovation
  • Nov. - 2016 Elections
  • Dec. - ?
• Blog posts
  • Email lists
  • Ask for opinions on legislation (jokeefe)
  • Local/regional contacts (jokeefe) - Regional page up. Will work on local page.
  • TPP/CISA (jokeefe)
• Materials
  • Stickers (igel)
  • Flyers
    • Need Freedom Rally flier
    • Need update to general flyer,

• • • • ideas: UK Pirate Party materials / design ideas

Tasks: Wiki list, PiratePad version.

Event Planning

1. Sep. 22, 1pm, Public Hearing on Massachusetts GMO labeling bill (H.3242), Gardner Auditorium at the Massachusetts State House
2. Sep. 26th & 27th, Freedom Rally - Sign up form - Planning - have asked for volunteers in email as well
3. Sep. 30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts
4. Oct. 3, 7-11pm, FSF 30th Anniversary Celebration, CIC Boston, 50 Milk St, Boston
5. Oct. 13 (probably), Cory Doctorow Event - Working with other groups
6. Oct. 28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts
7. Nov. event?
8. Nov. 25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts
9. Dec. event?
10. Dec. 30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts

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

Participants

• jokeefe
• Bluestreak
• igel
• Kendra

Observers

• davidd
• Pharyngeal
• zby

Summary

• igel will follow up again on info on sticker manufacturers and prices
• jokeefe will get blog posts up this week
• Newsletter
  • In addition to sharing the newsletter docs at wiki, also have it up at an ownCloud instance.
  • Kendra working on newsletter.
  • Will update to Scribus 1.4.5 so we are using a consistent version

Minutes

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