February 12th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Review

Feb. 8 (?) Pirate Show, SCATV (Noe)

Decisions

1. Event Planning
   1. Feb. 14th, WMass & dinner afterward. Facebook event. civi event
   2. Mar. 15, Boston Peace Parade
   3. Mar. 22, Cryptoparty, Worcester
   4. Jun. 13, Boston Pride Parade - Need to register by 2/28
   5. Sept., Freedom Rally - Can register now
2. PirateCon 2015
   1. Program
      1. FOIA - Steve
      2. Open Gov. or Rethinking the City - Jamie
      3. Net neutrality - Lucia
      4. Income inequality - Steve
      5. Pirate Strategy - Jamie
      6. Building 3rd party coalitions - Noe
      7. Running campaigns - Noe
      8. Lightning talks - lisbon?
3. Pirate Council Reorg - See proposal below
4. Establishing Regions?
   1. Swarmwise suggests dividing into 20-30 regions.
   2. Jason worked on a first draft of a map which Jamie has expanded with this Region Proposal.
5. National Matters
   1. The USPP elected new officers and Jamie is subbing in as Quartermaster/Secretary. He would like a replacement.

Proposal to change 6.2 & 6.3 of Articles of Agreement

Currently the Pirate Council is made up of the Captain, First Officer, Quartermaster, and 3 others.

1. 1. Perhaps we should define roles for the 3 other Pirate Council members and expand their number: PR/Media, Activism, Swarmcare and Web/Info.

Sections 6.2 and 6.3 of the Articles of Agreement read:

6.2 Composition

The Pirate Council shall be composed of three officers, Captain, Quartermaster, 1st Officer, and several at-large members. The number of at-large council members shall be determined by the number of party members:

    1-500 members: 3 

    501-5000 members: 5 

    5001-25,000 members: 7 

    25,001-100,000 members: 9 

    100,001+ members: 11 

[edit] 6.3 Election

Members shall elect a Pirate Council once a year during the Winter Member Meeting. ...

This proposal would change the above text to read:

6.2 Composition

The Pirate Council shall be composed of three officers, Captain, Quartermaster, 1st Officer, PR/Media Director, Activism Director, Swarmcare Director and Web/Info Director.

[edit] 6.3 Election

Members shall elect a Pirate Council once a year at our annual conference. ...

Events Summary

1. Feb. 14, 11:00a - 3:00p. 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.
2. Mar. 15, Boston Peace Parade
3. Mar. 22, Cryptoparty, Worcester
4. Apr. 25, PirateCon 2015
5. May 6, International Day against DRM
6. May, Together Boston Cryptoparty?
7. Jun. 13, Boston Pride Parade
8. Jun. event?
9. Jul. event?
10. Aug. event?
11. Sep., Freedom Rally
12. Oct. event?
13. Nov. event?
14. Dec. event?

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

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