October 2nd, 2011 In-Person Meeting

Agenda

1. Campaigns and campaign funding

2. Review of upcoming events so we know to register early

3. Talk about how to connect with potential supporters, esp. 30 & younger, and build a visible Pirate movement

4. How to do a lot of awareness and activism programs

5. National Pirate Book?

6. Report back on OccupyBoston

7. Ada Lovelace dinner

Attending

Henry Lo, Medford JP Hollembaek, Lowell (via Skype) James O'Keefe, Somerville Chris Walsh, Cambridge

Meeting Minutes

1. Support OccupyBoston

      PR - jamie will write, jp will suggest bullet points

      Ask what tech needs they have

      Kate helping with website / IRC, Gregg working on interaction with BosPD

      Henry will talk with them about needs / holding a teach in

      Jamie will reach out to twitter/fb to get reps (have Henry / Lauren)

      Liquid Feedback as a way of getting people not there to offer input

      For talk - make an announcement at previous day's GA, best to do it before 6pm as GAs start 6-8pm.  see what times are good.

      From Chris:

      Their big priority is outreach
              people affected more by economy downturn
              unions
              as broad as possible

      On messaging:

      1. what brought everyone together so have common agreement
      2. not do to quickly so more people have input

      Tactical team oversees needs:
              Meeting at 5pm to talk about outreach - Dewey Sq.

      We could run silent movies after GA

      1. get projecter
      2. people to run them / computers

2. Setup pirate meeting / dinner (ada lovelace) with Gregory pref in BU/MIT/Harvard/Tufts - Jamie working on it

3. National pirate book - publicize

4. ConConCon - report by Chris

      Structural reform of gov to get $ out of politics so it is policy neutral to resolve debates of left/right

      We should be on board to fix the decision making process

      Fear of a ConCon getting out of control (takes 38 states approve, though)

      a lot of fatalism about getting congress to fix the problem

      Two interesting key notes - Lessig's & conservative argument on the proper relationship between corps & gov.

      callaconvention.org / root strikers