https://masspirates.org/wiki/index.php?title=January_25th,_2014_Issue_Meeting&feed=atom&action=historyJanuary 25th, 2014 Issue Meeting - Revision history2024-03-29T09:29:26ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.41.0https://masspirates.org/wiki/index.php?title=January_25th,_2014_Issue_Meeting&diff=1728&oldid=prevSrevilak: initial revision2014-01-27T01:29:26Z<p>initial revision</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Jamie, Kendra, and Steve attending.<br />
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Net Neutrality. Telephone companies are considered common carriers;<br />
why not make ISPs common carriers? These days, a lot of voice traffic<br />
is carried via packets, and there's not a lot of distinction between<br />
telephone and data traffic.<br />
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In other countries, broadband service is cheaper than what we have in<br />
the US, with much higher bandwidth. Our ISPs could provide much better<br />
(and cheaper) service than they're currently providing. Why is this<br />
the case? What can we do about it.<br />
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March 21st Fundraiser. We're holding the fundraiser on a Friday<br />
evening. Note that Libre Planet is the following Saturday and Sunday.<br />
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We'd like to have a range of ticket prices for the fundraiser: from<br />
$10.00 all the way up to $500.00. We don't want to turn people away,<br />
and we don't want to discourage those who might contribute more. We<br />
need to figure out what the levels are, and what to call them.<br />
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It would be nice to set up some kind of web form, to collect OCPF data<br />
for cash donations. (Steve will look into this.)<br />
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The fundraiser will be held at the Democracy Center. Kendra and Steve<br />
will tour the site on Tuesday 1/28/2014. The Democracy center won't<br />
allow us to serve alcohol, but we can serve snacks and non-alcoholic<br />
drinks.<br />
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Upcoming events:<br />
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* 2/8 Security Conference<br />
* 2/9 Cryptoparty at Northeastern<br />
* 2/17 Airport demonstration<br />
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Pirate conference. Perhaps we should hold the conference in September<br />
(i.e., later in the year). College students will be back<br />
then. Delaying the conference would also allow us to devote more<br />
energy towards getting signatures for 2014 electoral candidates.<br />
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We could use the conference to discuss and vote on planks of the<br />
pirate platform. Holding the conference in September would give us<br />
more time to work on our platform.<br />
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Nation Builder. We have several goals for Nation Builder. First, we'd<br />
like a way to send email campaigns that doesn't depend on one<br />
person. We'd like to maintain a database of supporter<br />
information. We'd like to host our own petition and campaign<br />
pages. For example, instead of having to tell people "go sign this<br />
ACLU petition", we could host the petition ourselves. Nation builder<br />
gives us access to MA voter registration lists (so far, we've had to<br />
jump through a lot of hoops in order to get this information from the<br />
date).<br />
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During the next IRC meeting, we should pick three campaigns to focus<br />
on during the next six months. For example: NSA, TPP, and Joe's<br />
campaign. (This list is for illustration; we should make the final<br />
decision as a group.) We can work on other things during the next six<br />
months, but we'll focus on the primary issues first.</div>Srevilak