Minutes Kitchener-Waterloo 2009.07.25

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A successful meeting was held on 25 July 2009 in Kitchener-Waterloo at the Student Life Center in the University of Waterloo. There were seven members!

Full minutes to follow shortly.

Images temporarily located at http://sobac.com/temp/ppoc-kw/ Perhaps someone could upload them here? I get an error: 

Internal error

The upload directory (public) is not writable by the webserver.

--Bob.

Meeting minutes as compiled by Anson MacKeracher:

In attendance:

Other names NOT PUBLISHED due to privacy concerns, just in case. But feel free to add yourself.

Contents

Phases of forming a party

  • Collect signatures
  • Create party officially
  • Create non-profit organization
  • Raise money
  • Get candidates
  • Run candidates in election

Advertising the party

  • Concerns were expressed over the website and its format
  • website is perhaps not "friendly" enough
  • Advertising in print media, radio, and other traditional medias should be a focus, since many people rely on said media for their news and information
  • Dane suggests: possibility of advertising during University of Waterloo orientation week?
  • Trevor & John reply: absolutely against university policy to allow that sort of thing
  • The only advertising during orientation week would have to be word of mouth


Educating people about the party

  • Tynan suggests holding a public lecture or discussion on the party's issues
  • We are able to get a lecture room on campus without being an official group recognized by the university
  • Tynan suggests teaming up with the political science department, i.e. "Political Science department hosts the Pirate Party of Canada open discussions"


University club

  • John suggests starting a Piratey Party club on campus to gain legitimacy within the university
  • With a club we would be able to secure funding from the Federation of Students (Feds) to produce handouts, host lectures
  • Start a club focussing on Net Neutrality, privacy, IP reform, but not officially affiliated with the party


Copyright consultation

  • Townhall-like meeting being held in Toronto at the end of August
  • PPoC should be against Bill C61
  • Party should generate a letter template objecting to the bill


Facebook / Twitter

  • Facebook's and Twitter's privacy policies are contrary to the PPoC's core principles
  • Should not use Facebook and Twitter, however they are extremely useful advertising media
  • PPoC members should consider sanitising the information they upload to these services
  • Identi.ca is an Open Source alternative to Twitter, with a more sane privacy policy (ALL content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license)


Future plans

  • Create a Feds group on campus
  • Create copyright consultation letter template
  • Fundraise to start non-profit organization
  • Monthly meeting
  • Toronto meeting on August 27th?
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