January 11th, 2024 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-bbb-room/.

Recording:

Projects/Events

Winter Conference

Review survey and choose date.

Possible Topics:

• 2024 Campaign
• Planning for post-2024 election future

Planning for 2024

• Restart democracy committee: Sat Jan 6th
• Contact cities/town to get list of voters
• Put together plan for local organizing and 2024 town/legislature campaign
• Mail members/voters
  • Ask them to organize locally
  • Ask them to campaign/run
  • Ask them to give us their full contact info
• Call potential candidates/supporters
• ?

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news on Jan 7th
• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Participants

• jokeefe
• srevilak
• Joe

Summary

Location shield act. Plan is to set up a series of events to draw attention to it. The bill would ban sale of location data (e.g., to data brokers). First event on Wed 1/17/2024, which will be a webinar. A consortium of groups is organizaing these events, like the ACLU and warrantless.org.

Chair report. Email updates and blog posts have gone out about candidates for office elections, winter conference. A fellow pirate visiting from Australia, and we have an opportunity to have dinner with him on Monday night.

USPP meeting. Recording of meeting will be posted.

Year-end OCPF report is due. Jamie and Joe will work on this over the weekend.

Winter conference.

• How long should it last? Majority: usual one day is fine
• Next week, 1/15 - 1/21 is the week that works best. Next is 1/29 - 2/4.
• What should conference focus on? Group discussions had most support. Also campaigning how-tos
• Topics: Decentralizing auditing came out on top
• Several people volunteered to help with organizing.

Conference will be Sat Feb 3rd, noon--4pm.