December 6th, 2012 IRC Meeting

Agenda

Prep for the in-person meeting on the 9th

1. Final revision of letter to members/supporters?
2. Member survey
3. Review of voter/supporter stats
4. Review of planned 2013 events/activities
5. Review of organization
6. Review of budget

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

1. Final revision of letter to members/supporters?
2. Member survey
3. Review of voter/supporter stats
4. Review of planned 2013 events/activities:
   1. Continuing what we have done
      1. Pirate Info Conference
      2. Together Boston music festival is in April/May IIRC (http://togetherboston.com/)
      3. Boston Pride Festival on Sat. June 8th (http://www.bostonpride.org/calendar/)
      4. Freedom Rally on Boston Common
      5. CryptoParty
   2. New events
      1. Pirate Planning/Issue Conference?
      2. Security BSides
      3. CryptoCurrencies Conference (such as this one)
      4. Wake up the Earth Festival in JP on Sat., May 4th (http://www.spontaneouscelebrations.org/cultural-programming/festivals-and-events.html)
      5. Pax East which is March 22-24th. They are looking for submissions (http://panels.paxsite.com/), though they do focus on computer gaming;
      6. AnimeBoston which is May 24-26th.
      7. Digital Media Conference & Grassroots Use of Technology Conference possibly
5. Review of organization
   1. How can we be better organized?
   2. Need committees? Which ones if so?
6. Review of budget. Here is what we adopted for 2012

Voter info

As of 11/19/2012 we have 76 voters.  
On 2/29/2012 we had 21 voters.
Three left, but 58 joined.

Here is a break down by Gender or Age for this and the previous voter sets:



		11/19/12	02/29/12
Total		76		21	
Gender	Female	18	24%	4	19%
	Male	58	76%	17	81%
Age	18-20	10	13%	4	19%
	21-25	17	22%	2	10%
	26-30	23	30%	3	14%
	31-40	16	21%	5	24%
	41-50	6	8%	5	24%
	51+	4	5%	2	10%

I also mapped the 11/19/2012 data set by zipcode only:

http://batchgeo.com/map/e130b9964255c2446bed102c127581a8

I also merged in the data from the supporters list on mailchimp.  
When I only look at the MA records, that only gave us four new addresses.  
It did give us 178 zipcodes, however, which I mapped below designating 
which are voters and which are supporters:

http://batchgeo.com/map/2fa61cadb8d4ae99cd5de316e8ed57fc

Finally, I merged in all of the people who signed our petition to create 
the Pirate designation, so the snail mail list portion consists of 149 records.  
I have broken them out into voters, supporters who are not voters and people 
who signed our petition.  I included the three people who left in case they 
just changed their designation to vote in an election.

Participants

• mildbeard - Erik Zoltan, Framingham
• SplendidSpoon - Lauren Pespisa, Boxboro/Cambridge
• srevilak - Steve Revilak
• jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville

Observers:

Summary

1. Updated letter to members/supporters

Meeting Minutes

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