February 5th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Review

1. 1. Feb. 4th Cryptoparties

Decisions

1. Cryptoparties
   1. Feb. 14th, WMass & dinner afterward
2. PirateCon 2015
   1. Program
      1. FOIA - Steve
      2. Open Gov. - Jamie
      3. Net neutrality - Jamie
      4. Income inequality - Steve
      5. Pirate Strategy - ?
      6. Building 3rd party coalitions - Noe
      7. Running campaigns - Noe
      8. Lightning talks - ?
3. Budget
4. State Reorg - Review
   1. Currently the Pirate Council is made up of the Captain, First Officer, Quartermaster, and 3 others.
   2. Perhaps we should define roles for the 3 other Pirate Council members and expand their number: PR/Media, Activism, Swarmcare and Web/Info.
5. Establishing Regions?
   1. Swarmwise suggests dividing into 20-30 regions.
   2. Jason worked on a first draft of a map which Jamie has expanded with this Region Proposal.
6. National Matters
   1. The USPP elected new officers and Jamie is subbing in as Quartermaster/Secretary. He would like a replacement.

Events Summary

1. Feb. 8 (week of), Pirate Show, SCATV (Noe)
2. Feb. 14, 11:00a - 3:00p. WMass Cryptoparty (lisbon), Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, 100 Bigelow Street, Holyoke, MA (http://mghpcc.com/), Snow date is Feb 21st, dates tentative. duration 4 hours. Need to supply our own projector.
3. Mar. 15, Boston Peace Parade
4. Mar. 22, Cryptoparty, Worcester
5. Apr. 25, PirateCon 2015
6. May 6, International Day against DRM
7. May, Together Boston Cryptoparty?
8. Jun. 13, Boston Pride Parade
9. Jun. event?
10. Jul. event?
11. Aug. event?
12. Sep., Freedom Rally
13. Oct. event?
14. Nov. event?
15. Dec. event?

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

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• lisbon (Christopher Maria, Ludlow)

Observers

• davidd
• decipherstatic
• Pharyngeal
• zby

Minutes

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