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# Upcoming Events
# Upcoming Events
## 1/17, Smart Meter comments due
## 1/17-20, [http://2014.arisia.org/ Arisia], Boston (Cryptoparty & Campaign Training) - Schedule set
## 1/17-20, [http://2014.arisia.org/ Arisia], Boston (Cryptoparty & Campaign Training) - Schedule set
## 1/18 [https://www.facebook.com/events/642274562499212/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming Boston Common Smoke Out/Vape Up!]
## 1/18 [https://www.facebook.com/events/642274562499212/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming Boston Common Smoke Out/Vape Up!]
## 1/20, Smart Meter comments due
## 1/23, Medway Pirates Meeting. [https://twitter.com/medwaypirates twitter] [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9V11Y_NL_9xAP_ciHsha1Q youtube]
## 1/23, Medway Pirates Meeting. [https://twitter.com/medwaypirates twitter] [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9V11Y_NL_9xAP_ciHsha1Q youtube]
## 1/25, Issue Meeting
## 1/25, Issue Meeting
## 1/25, 7pm, [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-1st-annual-activist-ball-of-boston-tickets-9262842411 Activists Ball]
## 1/25, 7pm, [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-1st-annual-activist-ball-of-boston-tickets-9262842411 Activists Ball]
## 1/28 (Tue), International Privacy Day
## 2/8, Boston Security Conference, Cambridge
## 2/9, Cryptoparty
## 2/9, Cryptoparty
## 2/9, Somerville Pirate Party meeting. https://twitter.com/villepirates
## 2/9, Somerville Pirate Party meeting. https://twitter.com/villepirates
## 2/11, [https://thedaywefightback.org/ The Day we Fight Back], Call in to Congress about NSA surveillance
## 2/11, [https://thedaywefightback.org/ The Day we Fight Back], Call in to Congress about NSA surveillance
## 2/17 (Monday), Snowden, Manning & other whistleblowers [http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/2013-December/014971.html Airport Protest]
## 2/17 (Monday), Snowden, Manning & other whistleblowers [http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/2013-December/014971.html Airport Protest]
## 2/23 2-4pm.  Phone banking/fundraising.
## March Cryptoparty
## March Cryptoparty
## 3/21 (Saturday), Pirate Party Fundraiser, Democracy Center, Harvard Sq., Cambridge
## 3/21 (Saturday), Pirate Party Fundraiser, Democracy Center, Harvard Sq., Cambridge
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## Finances & negative account balance
## Finances & negative account balance
## Nation Builder - Try 14 day trial
## Nation Builder - Try 14 day trial
## Phone banking
## Phone banking - Sun. 2/23 2-4pm
## Fundraiser Tasks
## Fundraiser Tasks
# 2014 Campaign
# 2014 Campaign
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* jokeefe (James O'Keefe, Somerville)
* jokeefe (James O'Keefe, Somerville)
* srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA)
* srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA)
* Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero, Medway)
* Kendra (Kendra Moyer, Arlington, MA)
* Kendra (Kendra Moyer, Arlington, MA)
* js0000
* js0000 (johnny saylor walthamy MA)
* Igel


Observers:
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Arisia this weekend.  Events being held at room 454 of the Westin Boston Waterfront hotel.
Arisia this weekend.  Events being held at room 454 of the Westin Boston Waterfront hotel.
Steve will submit comments on smart meter legislation.  Later, this will become a blog post.
Steve will write blog post for 2/11 The Day we Fight Back action.
Democracy center tour, as prep for the 3/21 fundraising event.  Perhaps Sat 1/26.
Date for phone banking.  For now, we'll say 2/23 (Sunday) 2-4pm for phone banking.  Steve to host.


== Meeting Minutes ==
== Meeting Minutes ==
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21:06 < Kendra> Today I found out I have to move at the end of February, but I will keep everyone updated.  Landlady is selling the house.
21:07 < jokeefe> ah, will keep eye out for places
21:07 < srevilak> Have truck, will help you move
21:07 < jokeefe> 1. Upcoming events
21:08 < srevilak> where are the Arisia events being held?
21:08 < jokeefe> hi js0000
21:08 < js0000> hi
21:08 < jokeefe> http://masspirates.org/blog/2014/01/13/party-with-the-pirates-at-arisia-this-weekend/
21:08 < jokeefe> room 454 of the Westin Boston Waterfront hotel
21:09 < srevilak> thx.  Had been looking through email -- should have checked website
21:09 < Kendra> So do we have to register for the actual conference or are we ok to just go to the hotel room?
21:09 < js0000> johnny saylor walthamy MA
21:09 < jokeefe> should be in both places
21:09 < jokeefe> k, we have a schedule, encouraging people to attend
21:10 < jokeefe> mentioned it in the email
21:12 < srevilak> Ah see it now.  (I'm behind on mail)
21:13 < jokeefe> Encourage others to get the word out.  Need fliers
21:14 < Kendra> What it the subject line in the email with the Arisia schedule?
21:14 < jokeefe> http://masspirates.org/blog/2014/01/13/party-with-the-pirates-at-arisia-this-weekend/
21:14 < jokeefe> will get it
21:15 < srevilak> Subject: "Support Online Voter Reg. Bill Today!" (sent early thu am)
21:15 < jokeefe> Anyone able to put together a flier about it - what, where, when, why ...
21:15 < jokeefe> ?
21:16 < Kendra> Can we clarify if we are talking about Arisia or the Online Voter reg Bill?
21:17 < srevilak> We're talking about Arisia.  The email w subject "Support Online..." had online voter reg info, plus arisia info
21:18 < jokeefe> hi lgel
21:19 < Igel> hi jokeefe,
21:19 < Igel> how goes it?
21:19 < Kendra> Thanks.  I don't think I got that email though. 
21:20 < jokeefe> will check if you are on the distribution list and add you if you aren't.
21:20 < jokeefe> Can take discussion of this to email.
21:20 < jokeefe> 1/17, Smart Meter comments due
21:21 < jokeefe> looks like there is an extension to 24th if you mention that there is an extension
21:21 < jokeefe> not sure we want to put such an extension in a blog post
21:21 < jokeefe> comments can be as little as a paragraph
21:21 < Kendra> Have you had any good submissions yet?  I missed last weeks meeting and was wondering what we might need to say exactly.  Other than the additional invasion of privacy.
21:22 < srevilak> Tomorrow night I'll be able to write blog post.  Can mail in a copy as comment
21:24 < jokeefe> how about this, I will put up a post tonight that says comments are due by 1/17 and outline what is going on.  srevilak, if you would post our comments to their site, later we can post to blog.  sound ok?
21:26 < srevilak> Will do.  In general, I'll clean up summary of issues that I sent over the weekend,
21:26 < jokeefe> Good.  Thank you.
21:27 < jokeefe> Reminder about the 1/25, Issue Meeting
21:27 < jokeefe> as part of the 2/11, The Day we Fight Back, there is talk of a crypto party on 2/9.  Maybe at a university.
21:27 < jokeefe> Should know more by Sat.
21:27  * srevilak just mailed quick and dirty arisia flyer to activists @ masspirates.org
21:28 < js0000> thx, will try to make it
21:28 < jokeefe> Thanks!
21:28 < jokeefe> We need a post on our support for the The Day we Fight Back action on  2/11
21:29 < srevilak> Can work on Day we fight back action post
21:29 < jokeefe> thank you!
21:30 < srevilak> I can talk all day about mass surveillance :)
21:30 < js0000> mass pirate mass talk
21:31 < Kendra> Not to pile on, but we might also want to respond to Obama's NSA reform speech tomorrow.  That can be a short post too.  I might been able to get something written and actually posted this time.
21:32 < jokeefe> make it so!
21:32 < jokeefe> ;-)
21:33 < jokeefe> I don't have anything further on the other events.  We can talk about them during the weekend
21:33 < jokeefe> that includes the 2014 conference
21:35 < jokeefe> also, Jan. 28 (Tue) is International Privacy Day
21:37 < jokeefe> Moving on to Support Outreach & Fundraising
21:37 < Kendra> Libre Planet 2014
21:37 < jokeefe> Nation Builder trial ongoing
21:38 < jokeefe> Finances & negative account balance - we had two unanticipated charges that put us in the red
21:39 < Kendra>  Sorry that was a typo, on last event.  Libre Planet, our Linux group will be presenting on Tech activism.  March 22-23 in the Stata Center at MIT
21:39 < jokeefe> oh good
21:40 < srevilak>  I may be doing a cryptoparty @ FSF the night before the conference
21:40 < srevilak> (with members of said linux group, of course :)
21:40 < jokeefe> cool
21:40 < srevilak> (pirates would be welcome, too!)
21:41 < Kendra> Good time and place to spread the word.
21:43 < Kendra> Sorry to derail the agenda, if you want to continue with finances and fudnraising
21:43 < jokeefe> anything else on finances, srevilak, except that we need to fundraise
21:43 < srevilak> I don't think so.  We'll both pay eastern a visit this weekend.  That should be sufficient
21:44 < Kendra> Are you planning to go to the Democracy ctr this weekend?
21:44 < Igel> neat
21:45 < jokeefe> Kendra, too busy.  Was thinking next Saturday.  Does that work?
21:46 < srevilak> next Sat could work, as long as it's before activists ball and IPM
21:47 < srevilak> or, at leasts fits in among activists ball and IPM
21:47 < Kendra> Maybe we could meet in the morning and take a look.  I've done events there, so I know the layout.  will we be restricted to a particular part of the building?
21:49 < jokeefe> I don't have to be there, so if you two want to go, I can put you in touch with my contact and you can find a time that works.
21:49 < srevilak> I'm game if Kendra's game
21:50 < srevilak> goal is to look the place over, get a sense of layout, etc, yes?
21:50 < Kendra> We can talk about it later.  We can start thinking about a good concept for the fundraiser.  I still have some decent contacts for performers.
21:50 < srevilak> Kendra: awesome
21:51 < jokeefe> yes, srevilak.
21:51 < jokeefe> thanks, Kendra
21:51 < Kendra> that works
21:52 < jokeefe> Phone banking - should pick dates
21:53 < srevilak> how about late feb, early march?
21:53 < jokeefe> late feb.
21:53 < jokeefe> with back up of early march.
21:54 < srevilak> sun, feb 23rd?
21:54 < jokeefe> sounds good
21:54 < Kendra> I can be available that day.  Do we want to work together at one location on this?
21:54 < Kendra> And what time works?
21:55 < srevilak> it might be nice to be co-located, to bounce questions off each other.
21:55 < jokeefe> how about training on that day, with some calls
21:55 < jokeefe> who can host?
21:55 < srevilak> I could do it
21:55 < jokeefe> thank you
21:56 < jokeefe> what time?
21:56 < srevilak> 2-4pm?  (give people time for sleeping in, church, etc)
21:56 < Kendra> OK with me.
21:57 < Kendra> Sheesh this month is flying by
21:57 < srevilak> yup
21:58 < jokeefe> yes it is.  that time is fine
21:59 < srevilak> ok, 2/23 2-4pm noted
22:01 < jokeefe> we are at time.  adjourn?
22:02 < srevilak> motion to adjourn
22:02 < srevilak> I can post transcript
22:02 < js0000> second
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Latest revision as of 23:06, 16 January 2014

Agenda

  1. Upcoming Events
    1. 1/17, Smart Meter comments due
    2. 1/17-20, Arisia, Boston (Cryptoparty & Campaign Training) - Schedule set
    3. 1/18 Boston Common Smoke Out/Vape Up!
    4. 1/23, Medway Pirates Meeting. twitter youtube
    5. 1/25, Issue Meeting
    6. 1/25, 7pm, Activists Ball
    7. 1/28 (Tue), International Privacy Day
    8. 2/8, Boston Security Conference, Cambridge
    9. 2/9, Cryptoparty
    10. 2/9, Somerville Pirate Party meeting. https://twitter.com/villepirates
    11. 2/11, The Day we Fight Back, Call in to Congress about NSA surveillance
    12. 2/17 (Monday), Snowden, Manning & other whistleblowers Airport Protest
    13. 2/23 2-4pm. Phone banking/fundraising.
    14. March Cryptoparty
    15. 3/21 (Saturday), Pirate Party Fundraiser, Democracy Center, Harvard Sq., Cambridge
  2. 2014 Conference
    1. Location?
    2. Date - poll not sent
    3. Need info on it at Fundraiser so we can sell tickets
  3. Support Outreach & Fundraising
    1. Finances & negative account balance
    2. Nation Builder - Try 14 day trial
    3. Phone banking - Sun. 2/23 2-4pm
    4. Fundraiser Tasks
  4. 2014 Campaign
    1. Media List
    2. Mapping
    3. Voter registration app

Participants

  • jokeefe (James O'Keefe, Somerville)
  • srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA)
  • Kendra (Kendra Moyer, Arlington, MA)
  • js0000 (johnny saylor walthamy MA)
  • Igel

Observers:

  • ageis
  • davidd

Summary

Arisia this weekend. Events being held at room 454 of the Westin Boston Waterfront hotel.

Steve will submit comments on smart meter legislation. Later, this will become a blog post.

Steve will write blog post for 2/11 The Day we Fight Back action.

Democracy center tour, as prep for the 3/21 fundraising event. Perhaps Sat 1/26.

Date for phone banking. For now, we'll say 2/23 (Sunday) 2-4pm for phone banking. Steve to host.

Meeting Minutes

21:06 < Kendra> Today I found out I have to move at the end of February, but I will keep everyone updated.  Landlady is selling the house. 
21:07 < jokeefe> ah, will keep eye out for places
21:07 < srevilak> Have truck, will help you move
21:07 < jokeefe> 1. Upcoming events
21:08 < srevilak> where are the Arisia events being held?
21:08 < jokeefe> hi js0000
21:08 < js0000> hi
21:08 < jokeefe> http://masspirates.org/blog/2014/01/13/party-with-the-pirates-at-arisia-this-weekend/
21:08 < jokeefe> room 454 of the Westin Boston Waterfront hotel
21:09 < srevilak> thx.  Had been looking through email -- should have checked website
21:09 < Kendra> So do we have to register for the actual conference or are we ok to just go to the hotel room?
21:09 < js0000> johnny saylor walthamy MA
21:09 < jokeefe> should be in both places
21:09 < jokeefe> k, we have a schedule, encouraging people to attend
21:10 < jokeefe> mentioned it in the email
21:12 < srevilak> Ah see it now.  (I'm behind on mail)
21:13 < jokeefe> Encourage others to get the word out.  Need fliers
21:14 < Kendra> What it the subject line in the email with the Arisia schedule?
21:14 < jokeefe> http://masspirates.org/blog/2014/01/13/party-with-the-pirates-at-arisia-this-weekend/
21:14 < jokeefe> will get it
21:15 < srevilak> Subject: "Support Online Voter Reg. Bill Today!" (sent early thu am)
21:15 < jokeefe> Anyone able to put together a flier about it - what, where, when, why ...
21:15 < jokeefe> ?
21:16 < Kendra> Can we clarify if we are talking about Arisia or the Online Voter reg Bill?
21:17 < srevilak> We're talking about Arisia.  The email w subject "Support Online..." had online voter reg info, plus arisia info
21:18 < jokeefe> hi lgel
21:19 < Igel> hi jokeefe, 
21:19 < Igel> how goes it?
21:19 < Kendra> Thanks.  I don't think I got that email though.  
21:20 < jokeefe> will check if you are on the distribution list and add you if you aren't.
21:20 < jokeefe> Can take discussion of this to email.
21:20 < jokeefe> 1/17, Smart Meter comments due 
21:21 < jokeefe> looks like there is an extension to 24th if you mention that there is an extension
21:21 < jokeefe> not sure we want to put such an extension in a blog post
21:21 < jokeefe> comments can be as little as a paragraph
21:21 < Kendra> Have you had any good submissions yet?  I missed last weeks meeting and was wondering what we might need to say exactly.  Other than the additional invasion of privacy. 
21:22 < srevilak> Tomorrow night I'll be able to write blog post.  Can mail in a copy as comment
21:24 < jokeefe> how about this, I will put up a post tonight that says comments are due by 1/17 and outline what is going on.  srevilak, if you would post our comments to their site, later we can post to blog.  sound ok?
21:26 < srevilak> Will do.  In general, I'll clean up summary of issues that I sent over the weekend, 
21:26 < jokeefe> Good.  Thank you.
21:27 < jokeefe> Reminder about the 1/25, Issue Meeting
21:27 < jokeefe> as part of the 2/11, The Day we Fight Back, there is talk of a crypto party on 2/9.  Maybe at a university.
21:27 < jokeefe> Should know more by Sat.
21:27  * srevilak just mailed quick and dirty arisia flyer to activists @ masspirates.org
21:28 < js0000> thx, will try to make it
21:28 < jokeefe> Thanks!
21:28 < jokeefe> We need a post on our support for the The Day we Fight Back action on  2/11
21:29 < srevilak> Can work on Day we fight back action post
21:29 < jokeefe> thank you!
21:30 < srevilak> I can talk all day about mass surveillance :)
21:30 < js0000> mass pirate mass talk
21:31 < Kendra> Not to pile on, but we might also want to respond to Obama's NSA reform speech tomorrow.  That can be a short post too.  I might been able to get something written and actually posted this time. 
21:32 < jokeefe> make it so!
21:32 < jokeefe> ;-)
21:33 < jokeefe> I don't have anything further on the other events.  We can talk about them during the weekend
21:33 < jokeefe> that includes the 2014 conference
21:35 < jokeefe> also, Jan. 28 (Tue) is International Privacy Day 
21:37 < jokeefe> Moving on to Support Outreach & Fundraising 
21:37 < Kendra> Libre Planet 2014 
21:37 < jokeefe> Nation Builder trial ongoing
21:38 < jokeefe> Finances & negative account balance - we had two unanticipated charges that put us in the red
21:39 < Kendra>  Sorry that was a typo, on last event.  Libre Planet, our Linux group will be presenting on Tech activism.   March 22-23 in the Stata Center at MIT
21:39 < jokeefe> oh good
21:40 < srevilak>  I may be doing a cryptoparty @ FSF the night before the conference
21:40 < srevilak> (with members of said linux group, of course :)
21:40 < jokeefe> cool
21:40 < srevilak> (pirates would be welcome, too!)
21:41 < Kendra> Good time and place to spread the word. 
21:43 < Kendra> Sorry to derail the agenda, if you want to continue with finances and fudnraising
21:43 < jokeefe> anything else on finances, srevilak, except that we need to fundraise
21:43 < srevilak> I don't think so.  We'll both pay eastern a visit this weekend.  That should be sufficient
21:44 < Kendra> Are you planning to go to the Democracy ctr this weekend?
21:44 < Igel> neat
21:45 < jokeefe> Kendra, too busy.  Was thinking next Saturday.  Does that work?
21:46 < srevilak> next Sat could work, as long as it's before activists ball and IPM
21:47 < srevilak> or, at leasts fits in among activists ball and IPM
21:47 < Kendra> Maybe we could meet in the morning and take a look.  I've done events there, so I know the layout.  will we be restricted to a particular part of the building?
21:49 < jokeefe> I don't have to be there, so if you two want to go, I can put you in touch with my contact and you can find a time that works.
21:49 < srevilak> I'm game if Kendra's game
21:50 < srevilak> goal is to look the place over, get a sense of layout, etc, yes?
21:50 < Kendra> We can talk about it later.  We can start thinking about a good concept for the fundraiser.  I still have some decent contacts for performers. 
21:50 < srevilak> Kendra: awesome
21:51 < jokeefe> yes, srevilak.
21:51 < jokeefe> thanks, Kendra
21:51 < Kendra> that works
21:52 < jokeefe> Phone banking - should pick dates
21:53 < srevilak> how about late feb, early march?
21:53 < jokeefe> late feb.
21:53 < jokeefe> with back up of early march.
21:54 < srevilak> sun, feb 23rd?
21:54 < jokeefe> sounds good
21:54 < Kendra> I can be available that day.  Do we want to work together at one location on this?
21:54 < Kendra> And what time works?
21:55 < srevilak> it might be nice to be co-located, to bounce questions off each other.
21:55 < jokeefe> how about training on that day, with some calls
21:55 < jokeefe> who can host?
21:55 < srevilak> I could do it
21:55 < jokeefe> thank you
21:56 < jokeefe> what time?
21:56 < srevilak> 2-4pm?  (give people time for sleeping in, church, etc)
21:56 < Kendra> OK with me. 
21:57 < Kendra> Sheesh this month is flying by
21:57 < srevilak> yup
21:58 < jokeefe> yes it is.  that time is fine
21:59 < srevilak> ok, 2/23 2-4pm noted
22:01 < jokeefe> we are at time.  adjourn?
22:02 < srevilak> motion to adjourn
22:02 < srevilak> I can post transcript
22:02 < js0000> second