July 5th, 2016 IRC Meeting
Review & Welcome
- Freedom Rally
- PPI General Assembly
Organization Stuff
- Help Moses get up to speed
- Finding new folks
- Really need someone to coordinate volunteers
Aaron James Campaign
Cryptoparties
- Somerville Public Library, July 14th, noon-4:45pm
- Western Mass. cryptoparty sometime after August. Awaiting a final date. Possibly in Shelburne Falls.
- Possible cryptoparty at a Boston Public Library
- Possible cryptoparty at a Middlesex Community College in September
- Possible cryptoparty at a high school after August. Not Pirate Party event of course.
- No word on Taunton cryptoparty
Also, may have some how to FOIA talks lined up. Muckrock interested in doing one for high school students and Maya Shaffer offered to give one to a more general audience.
Pirate Picnic
Planning to take the noon ferry. Might be useful to have folks arrive early to get a table. Schedule and tickets.
Freedom Rally
Freedom Rally is 9/17-18. Are we signed up? If not when must we?
Upcoming Events
- July, Democracy/IT meeting
- July 16, noon-4:45. Cryptoparty @ Somerville Public Library
- 7/27, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville
- August, WMass Cryptoparty?
- 8/7, (noon ferry), Pirate Picnic, Georges Island. Planning
- 8/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville
- 9/17-18, Freedom Rally
- 9/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville
- How to file a FOIA request by Maya Shaffer
Every Thu., Digital Fourth meeting, 11am-noon, 101 Main Street, Cambridge
Participants
- jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
- srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA)
- Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero, Medway)
- Moses (Moses Sukin, Great Barrington, MA)
- Velveeta_Chef (Dan Butler, Spencer, MA)
- Kendra (Kendra Moyer in Highland Park, Michigan)
Observers
- davidd
- igel
- popegaai
Summary
Freedom Rally. Steve would like to send in application and payment. Lucia volunteers herself and jason for setup. No objections to participating again. Steve will send in application and fee.
PPI General assembly. Happening during the same weekend as HOPE. The PPI is planning to stream the event.
The GE/PCB march was lovely. Around 150 attended. Only regret was not having literature to pass out.
Aaron James Campaign is continuing forward. Looking for more outreach methods.
Cryptoparties. Jamie and Steve doing one at Somerville Public Library on Sat July 16th, noon-4:45pm. Plus, have the monthly cryptoparties in Somerville.
IT meeting. Will likely be in August.
Pirate Picnic. Planning to take noon Ferry to George's Island. Planning pad.
USPP meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) night, 9pm. #uspp channel on our standard irc server.