September 21st, 2015 IRC Meeting

Reviews

Bill Hearings 9/22
- Video Gaming Tax Break
- GMO
Freedom Rally Planning
PirateCon 2015 Videos
- Evan Greer talk (Bluestreak)
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
Media
- Updated media list (noe)
- Oct. - Free Software & Innovation
- Nov. - 2016 Elections
- Dec. - ?
Blog posts
- Local/regional contacts (jokeefe) - Regional page up. Working on local pages.
- TPP update (jokeefe)
- CISA update (jokeefe)
Tech - see for priorities
- Bitcoin + Credit card gateway in CiviCRM (srevilak, js0000, Kendra)
- Improve UI navigation of wiki & expose more wiki bits on blog (Noe, jokeefe)
- Allow distributed organizing on CiviCRM (and pointers to get started) (Kendra, srevilak, Chris, jokeefe)
- js0000 and jokeefe will work on building a tool to manage twitter:
  - ~~design~~ (jokeefe) - posted at Twitter API design
  - coding (js0000 & jokeefe)
- Forum (or needed now that lists are publicized?)
Materials
- Stickers (igel)
- Flyers
  - Need update to general flyer
    - ideas: UK Pirate Party materials / design ideas
Policies update (jokeefe)
- Check on the state of them
- Write up doc on using git & commenting on & voting on changes.

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

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

We decide to make our $80 charity donation to Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless.

Jamie edited and posted video of Falkvinge's Piratecon 2015 talk.

Next meeting, after reviewing the bills and other research, we will revisit what our position on the video game tax break will be.

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