May 15th, 2012 IRC Meeting

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Agenda

0. Status

1. Boston Pride

2. Supporter Survey

3. Public policy questions to put on the Nov. 2012 ballot?

4. Anything else others want to bring up.

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

1. Boston Pride

Action items:

  • Need to ask Chris about our statement for Pride
  • Send in form for table insurance
  • Drum up people to march/table

2. Supporter Survey

Possible questions:

  • What issue do you think is the most important issue we should focus on? - Government transparency, promoting personal privacy, eliminating government surveillance, reforming copyright, eliminating patents, corporate power, ...
  • How would you prioritize the issues we should focus on? - Government transparency, promoting personal privacy, eliminating government surveillance, reforming copyright, eliminating patents, corporate power, education, health care, the economy, the environment, ...
  • What issues do you think we need to take positions on? <text field or list?>
  • Where do you think we should be focusing our efforts? - holding informational events such as how to protect your privacy on the Internet, staging spectacle events such as marching through Logan airport in our underwear to protest the erosion of privacy, running candidates for local offices, running candidates for state legislature, running candidates for the House of Representatives
  • What is the single biggest impediment to you telling your friends about the Pirate Party? - don't know enough about our positions, don't have the materials to give to them, too busy, don't think it will help, they aren't interested, the name
  • What actions would make you more likely to participate?

3. Public policy questions to put on the Nov. 2012 ballot?

4. Anything else others want to bring up.

Attending

  • jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville
  • SplendidSpoon - Lauren Pespisa, Boxboro/Cambridge
  • passstab -
  • multiple observers including passstab & illunati1

Summary

1. Boston Pride

2. Supporter Survey

3. Public policy questions to put on the Nov. 2012 ballot?

Meeting Minutes

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