June 21st, 2012 IRC Meeting

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Agenda

1. Upcoming Events

2. Should we provide a VPN for members?

3. National Party News

4. Anything else folks want to bring up

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

1. Upcoming Events

2. Should we provide a VPN for members?

There is an opportunity for Massachusetts Pirate Party to offer a low-cost VPN service to our members. Some of the other state parties are interested and will pursue this option.

A VPN service can be used to protect a member's privacy. For example, you can browse certain websites and use a protocol such as BitTorrent through your VPN provider. Your computer will have an encrypted communication to the VPN server and someone trying to snoop on your connection will be unable to tell what you are doing.

This is managed by PPI (Pirate Parties International). The VPN service would allow members to pay with multiple currencies including Bitcoin, but they could also use a regular credit card. The cost is as low as $5 per month. Mass Pirate Party would receive half of the proceeds so we would have to ensure that we are complying with campaign finance laws.

3. National Party News

erixoltan wrote: 

   At this week's PNC meeting there was a question about whether the Mass
   Pirate Party would like to participate in a joint event involving
   multiple state parties on the Internet. Each state party would get
   together at a certain location and we'd have something along the lines
   of a Google+ hangout. Proposed dates were July 21 and 28.

Attending

Place holders

  • jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville
  • SplendidSpoon - Lauren Pespisa, Boxboro/Cambridge
  • erixoltan - Erik Zoltan, Framingham
  • passstab -

Observers:

  • [bsod] -
  • brandon-cr-48
  • illunatic
  • [Derek]

Summary

1. Upcoming Events

2. Should we provide a VPN for members?

3. National Party News

4. Anything else folks want to bring up

Meeting Minutes

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