June 12th, 2012 IRC Meeting

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Agenda

1. Boston Pride Review

2. Public Policy Question Status

3. National Party News

4. Moving this meeting to Thursdays

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

1. Boston Pride Review

  • Need to post a blog update with pics.
  • Will ask Chris to finish the statement he wrote a draft for

4. Moving this meeting to Thursdays 

   The poll on moving the date of the IRC meeting (http://www.doodle.com/frx24ndprvqzes7f) indicates that Thursdays work best.

Attending

  • jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville
  • SplendidSpoon - Lauren Pespisa, Boxboro/Cambridge
  • passstab -
  • [bsod] -

Observers:

  • brandon-cr-48
  • illunatic
  • [Derek]

Summary

1. Boston Pride Review

Jamie wrote: 

First, I want to thank everyone who helped with Pride:

    Jeanne, Lauren, Sevan, a friend of Jeanne's did a great job with the ship and it really made us stand out during the parade. 
    David was a real trooper and manned the table from 9:30am to 2:30pm when the rest of us arrived from the parade.
    For the march we had twelve people including Harry, Steve, Julie, Zo, Nancy, Kit, Sevan, Vijeta, Lauren, Kate, Erik.

The march was incredible.  We had our largest showing of Mass. Pirates at a non-Pirate public event with twelve people in our contingent.  We handed out all the fliers we had during the march and were well received.  The soccer group behind us had a huge soccer ball they threw up in the air that landed on our boat several times snapping the mast's support cables.

Some things we could improve on for next time:

    more fliers - we ran out a bit over halfway through.
    put the ship in the front to get people's attention and then have the banner behind it so people can see who we are
    mount a semi-functional cannon on the ship to occasionally make a big noise
    we didn't have much in the way of chants, but Steve and Erik started a few that were simple
    we might consider using very short skits to tell people about what we stand for.  Lauren, Kate, Erik and I got into mock cutlas fights which the parade goers found amusing

Next year, we might fore go the table and instead setup the pirate ship and run a few skits to promote our ideas.  That or we need to get people to be at the table after the march.

In terms of metrics, we got 39 and 52 people on the site last Sat & Sun, which is over double a usual day, and certainly much higher than most weekends.  We got a few more FB page likes and twitter followers.

All in all, a fun event.  Thanks to everyone who helped!


2. Public Policy Question Status

3. National Party News

4. Moving this meeting to Thursdays


Meeting Minutes

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[11:58] == jokeefe [401c5302@gateway/web/freenode/ip.64.28.83.2] has joined #masspirates [11:58] <jokeefe> hi all [12:00] <passstab> yo [12:07] <jokeefe> Agenda at http://masspirates.org/wiki/index.php?title=June_12th,_2012_IRC_Meeting [12:09] == SplendidSpoon [~lpespisa@38.111.20.226] has joined #masspirates [12:10] <jokeefe> hi Splendid! [12:10] <SplendidSpoon> Hey [12:11] <jokeefe> Agenda at http://masspirates.org/wiki/index.php?title=June_12th,_2012_IRC_Meeting [12:12] <jokeefe> not seeing erik and not much on the agenda, so I am moving on [12:12] <jokeefe> Item 1. Boston Pride Review [12:13] <SplendidSpoon> fun! [12:13] <SplendidSpoon> Yay! [12:14] <jokeefe> I posted my recap to the wiki page [12:15] <jokeefe> how are your feet? [12:20] <SplendidSpoon> alright now [12:20] <jokeefe> good [12:21] <jokeefe> On Item 2. Public Policy Question Status, I got no objections to having someone at our table getting people to sign to get the anti-citizen's union ballot question on. [12:22] <jokeefe> Personally, I am just going to focus on organizing Pirates in Somerville/Cambridge to help over the next two-three weeks and see where that gets us. [12:23] <jokeefe> On Item 3. National Party News [12:23] <jokeefe> I attended the meeting and most of it focused on setting up a committee to create a new national consitution. [12:23] <SplendidSpoon> cool [12:24] <jokeefe> and electing new co-chairs for this committee. I know Erik was put up as a possible candidate. [12:24] <jokeefe> not sure if he accepted. [12:25] <jokeefe> I tried to get the votes to be public since I think states should know how their reps voted, but was out voted. [12:25] <jokeefe> the vote is using a ranked ballot. [12:25] <jokeefe> I suggest leaving the vote up to Erik since he has a better knowledge of the folks involved. [12:26] <jokeefe> does that make sense? [12:27] <SplendidSpoon> yea [12:27] <SplendidSpoon> sorry being distracted by coworkers [12:27] <SplendidSpoon> but yea that's fine [12:28] <jokeefe> ok, someone txt'd that they are running late to the meeting. not sure who though [12:30] <SplendidSpoon> OK [12:31] <jokeefe> Reminder: the pirate lunch poll is still open - http://www.doodle.com/m4hepdwkeu2zftib [12:31] <SplendidSpoon> Did we ever decide if we were gonna switch irc server? [12:32] <jokeefe> formally, maybe. seems like the right thing to do. [12:33] <SplendidSpoon> Yea [12:33] <jokeefe> pirateirc? [12:33] <SplendidSpoon> Yea that seems like a good idea [12:33] <jokeefe> all pirates in one basket [12:33] <jokeefe> :-) [12:33] <SplendidSpoon> yea [12:34] <jokeefe> would you set it up? i guess you me and Erik as admins [12:34] <SplendidSpoon> I have no idea how.... [12:34] <SplendidSpoon> I mean I'm pretty sure anyone can create a room on the fly and then they are OP but I never do that [12:34] == erixoltan [47aee4da@gateway/web/freenode/ip.71.174.228.218] has joined #masspirates [12:35] <SplendidSpoon> Don't know all the IRC commands [12:35] <erixoltan> hi, sorry to be so late. [12:35] <erixoltan> had to rush back from dr. appt. [12:35] <jokeefe> no problem

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