December 19th, 2015 Campaign Planning Meeting

Participants

Attending:

Background & References

Before the meeting, please review the following documents:

• Election Dates, Requirements, Stats
• Rick Falkvinge's Swarmwise
• LP's Candidate Recruitment Manual

Election Schedule

1. Nomination papers available:
   1. State: 2/16/2016
   2. Federal: 2/16/2016
2. Last date to unenroll from a party
   1. State: 3/1/2016
   2. Federal: 5/31/2016
3. Last day to submit signatures to registrars
   1. State: 5/3/2016
   2. Federal: 8/2/2016
4. Last day for registrars to complete validating signatures
   1. State: 5/24/2016
   2. Federal: 8/23/2016
5. Last Day to ask registrars to review non-certified signatures
6. Signatures due at Elections Division
   1. State: 5/31/2016
   2. Federal: 8/30/2016
7. Last day to register to vote: 10/20/2016
8. Election Day: 11/8/2016

Agenda

Task list - Who will do what?

1. Setup simple page for people to volunteer to be regional organizers / candidates / supporters
2. Post videos on:
   1. why run
   2. planning your campaign
   3. how to get on the ballot
   4. how to gather signatures
3. Identify allies
4. Identify potential organizers among members and allies
5. Email our supporters to ask for candidates and regional organizers
6. Setup site where people can see:
   1. What our campaign plan is and why run as a pirate
   2. Where regional meetings are
   3. How to sign up as a candidate
   4. Who our candidates are and how to help them
   5. This site will change to a campaign site as we go along
   6. It must use SSL and will likely be a static site
7. Setup quick how to publicize and run a regional meeting
8. Identify the organizers for the regional meetings
9. Work with organizers to setup regional meetings
10. Make list of supporters available to organizers
11. Organizers call our supporters to invite them to regional meetings
12. Identify candidates from within the party and allies and their campaign teams
13. Publicize that we are looking for candidates and what we expect of them
14. Train candidates and their campaign teams to gather signatures
    1. Every candidate gets a mentor / go to person for questions
15. Weekly tasks
    1. Post how many signatures candidates have gathered on the web site and announce in email/blog/etc.
    2. Contact candidates to check on their progress and get them help
16. Have all candidates hand in enough signatures
17. Setup rally when dropping off ballot signatures
    1. Publicize
    2. Setup logistics
    3. Invite media
    4. Hold event
    5. Talk with media
    6. Review progress
18. Review how this phase of the campaign worked

Define & Assign Fundraising Tasks

• Email fundraiser
• Fundraiser in late January or early February?
• Fundraising letter

Summary

Jamie, Noe, Steve attending.

We'd like to contact some allies. Depending on who they are, we'll give one of two pitches:

• (non-parties). We're looking for people to run for office. Do you know anyone who might be interested in running as a pirate? Would you be willing to ask around your organization?

• (parties) How can we work together?

We brainstorm a list of groups to reach out to, and divide up the list.

We'd like to have a Regional meeting probably in Late January or Early Feb. We set a tentative date of Feb 6th or Feb 7th. The regions would include Somerville, Cambridge, Arligton, Belmont, Waltham (basically, regions where the attendees lives).

Possible locations:

• Capitol theatre (Arlington)
• Somerville Theatre (Somerville)
• Democracy Center (Cambridge)
• Cambridge public Library (Cambridge)
• Robbins Library (Arlington)
• Somerville Public Library (Somerville)

There were a few other locations that I didn't write down. We divided this list up among the three of us. (For calling to get prices and venue information)

After gathering information from the different venues, we should make a Venue Information wiki page, to have as future reference.

We plan to have another strategy meeting on Jan 9th.

We may have another meeting during the latter half of January, if needed to prepare for the regional meeting.

We'd like to have a pirate tech meeting on Jan 6th; this is a Wed. evening.

Next Meetings

The next meetings will be Saturday, Dec. 19th at Regina Pizzeria in Allston, 3-5pm. The first January meeting will be Saturday, Jan. 9th at Regina Pizzeria in Allston, 3-5pm.