October 2nd, 2011 In-Person Meeting

Attending: Henry, JP, Jamie, Chris Walsh (12:44am)

The draft agenda items are:

    a) Campaigns and campaign funding
    b) Review of upcoming events so we know to register early
    c) Talk about how to connect with potential supporters, esp. 30

& younger, and build a visible Pirate movement

    d) How to do a lot of awareness and activism programs
    e) National Pirate Book?
    f) Report back on OccupyBoston
    g) Ada Lovelace dinner

Support OccupyBoston

      PR - jamie will write, jp will suggest bullet points
      Ask what tech needs they have
      Kate helping with website / IRC, Gregg working on interaction with BosPD
      Henry will talk with them about needs / holding a teach in
      Jamie will reach out to twitter/fb to get reps (have Henry / Lauren)
      Liquid Feedback as a way of getting people not there to offer input

      For talk - make an announcement at previous day's GA, best to do it

before 6pm as GAs start 6-8pm. see what times are good.

      From Chris:

      Their big priority is outreach
              people affected more by economy downturn
              unions
              as broad as possible

      On messaging:
      1.  what brought everyone together so have common agreement
      2. not do to quickly so more people have input

      Tactical team oversees needs:
              Meeting at 5pm to talk about outreach - Dewey Sq.

Setup pirate meeting / dinner (ada lovelace) with Gregory pref in BU/MIT/Harvard/Tufts - Jamie working on it

national pirate book - publicize

ConConCon - report by Chris

      Structural reform of gov to get $ out of politics so it is policy

neutral to resolve debates of left/right

      We should be on board to fix the decision making process
      Fear of a ConCon getting out of control (takes 38 states approve, though)
      a lot of fatalism about getting congress to fix the problem
      Two interesting key notes - Lessig's & conservative argument on the

proper relationship between corps & gov.

      callaconvention.org / root strikers

Chris interested in running candidates -

      IP lawyer  turning to advocacy
      Mini-books title as a turnoff

help with distributed file sharing - garret john oporto

      henry has some servers he can donate

could run silent movies after GA

      get projecter
      people to run them / computers