FC 2011-07-28 Transcript

[21:04] <@Rintaran> Well, we may as well get started. [21:06] <@Rintaran> Mikkel, care to start us off with an update? [21:07] <~MikkelPaulson> mailed card letters [21:08] <~MikkelPaulson> Stephanie and I are going to do monthly meetings [21:08] <+Nuitari> grrrrrrr [21:09] <~MikkelPaulson> autocorrect [21:09] <~MikkelPaulson> sorry [21:09] <~MikkelPaulson> 2nd Thursday at 7 [21:10] <~MikkelPaulson> location TBA [21:10] <@Rintaran> That won't interfere with the 9:00p Thursday Fed Council Meeting? [21:11] <~MikkelPaulson> planning to attend from there [21:11] <~MikkelPaulson> need waifing [21:11] <~MikkelPaulson> wifi [21:11] <~MikkelPaulson> fuck [21:13] <~MikkelPaulson> also might wantto do astatement of solidarity with PPUK [21:13] <~MikkelPaulson> ISP censorship [21:14] <~MikkelPaulson> nothing more to report [21:15] <@Rintaran> No sign of Bleskie, so that puts me next. [21:15] <@Rintaran> I've sent out a localized newsletter here in Ottawa about the upcoming meeting on the 2nd. [21:16] <@Rintaran> I've received a handful of responses back. It looks like we'll be having a small group of 5 or 6 for this meeting. [21:16] <@Rintaran> It seems a lot of them are also readers of my blog, Through the Eyes of a Pirate. [21:17] <@Rintaran> My most recent post, about how the PPCA does stuff between elections to help constituents, and my suggestion for doing tutoring session seems to have some grounds with this group. [21:17] <@Rintaran> So it looks like that may be one of the topics we dig into on Tuesday. [21:18] <~MikkelPaulson> cool [21:18] <~MikkelPaulson> let us know whatcomes ofit [21:18] <@Rintaran> There was something else I've been working on over this week, but I seem to have packed the pages... Tomorrow is my big move so I'm pretty much just down to the netbook and modem left unpacked. [21:19] <@Rintaran> By Tuesday I should have teh office setup properly, so I'll be able to do a bit more business-end and some minor graphic work to get the fliers put together to advertise the service. [21:20] <~MikkelPaulson> we shouldmake a @ignore push to start regular meetings across the country [21:20] <~MikkelPaulson> big [21:21] <~MikkelPaulson> don't know wherewithal got @ignore [21:21] <~MikkelPaulson> fffffd [21:21] <@Rintaran> That was the point of the blog article about starting crews. I've also pushed the idea in my personal blog a couple of times. I've managed to quintuple my traffic on my blog, and as most articles link to the PPCA site, I'd be surprised if some didn't end up over here. Hopefully it'll help increase membership. [21:22] <~MikkelPaulson> going back to a traditional keyboard for the balance of the meeting [21:22] <@Rintaran> Beyond that, I can't really think of what else I've done this week... I know there's more, but I'm so scattered because of the packing I just can't remember it. [21:23] <@Rintaran> Bakhos, how are things on your end? [21:26] <@Rintaran> Stephane? [21:28] <@Rintaran> I guess we lost quorum? [21:28] <+Nuitari> ? [21:29] <@Rintaran> Ah, there you are. We're waiting on your update... [21:29] <+Nuitari> trying to install etherpad on the new server [21:32] <@Rintaran> I take it by the extended silence that's the extent of your update? [21:33] <+Nuitari> yeah pretty much [21:33] <+Nuitari> baby kept me busy most nights [21:33] <+Nuitari> the reports were sent to the auditor last to last week [21:34] <@Rintaran> Cool. Next on the agenda is "VPN Information Package"... Anyone know what that's about? I think it may have been added by Vulliez. [21:36] <~MikkelPaulson> I assume it's intended to be a how-to [21:36] <~MikkelPaulson> which we do need [21:37] <@Rintaran> I thought we had one of those being made already? [21:39] <~MikkelPaulson> as did I, but I haven't heard a peep since [21:39] <+Nuitari> I think Jake just decided to stop working on it and no one picked the ball [21:39] <+Nuitari> I think JayP can help us with that [21:39] <+Nuitari> right now the vpn is still on a temporary webpage and I would like to use the domain we bought for it... [21:40] <+Nuitari> JayP: what do you think? [21:40] <+JayP> hi [21:40] <+JayP> i've never used a VPN [21:40] <+JayP> but i guess i could help [21:42] <@Rintaran> Well, I'm cool with that. [21:42] <+JayP> what kind of information package are we talking about here? [21:42] <+JayP> like a single instruction webpage or what? [21:43] <@Rintaran> Sounds like a good place to start. When Vulliez gets back we may find out more information about his original idea. This is just what we think he was talking about. [21:43] <+JayP> ok well I'm interested if this topic gets anywhere [21:45] <@Rintaran> For now, I guess you should work on putting together the how-to page for the VPN. [21:45] <+JayP> i'll do some research and wait for a confirmation [21:45] <+Nuitari> basicaly something to describe the service [21:45] <+Nuitari> but not just technical highlights [21:46] <+JayP> ok, but instructions? [21:46] <+Nuitari> we'll see exactly what Vulliez has in mind [21:46] <+JayP> ok [21:46] <+Nuitari> there would be some web design [21:46] <+JayP> would i use PPCA's template? [21:47] <+Nuitari> a new one I think [21:47] <+Nuitari> but the branding still needs to be linked to PPCA [21:47] <+JayP> im not the greatest with CSS from scratch [21:47] <+Nuitari> you can adapt the PPCA one [21:48] <+Nuitari> I know we also want to work on the design of the main website [21:48] <+JayP> ok [21:49] <+JayP> well you have tue crm subdomain and wordpress and smf integrated it might be complicated [21:49] <+JayP> *thr [21:49] <+JayP> *the [21:49] <+JayP> im not sure of your setup though [21:49] <+JayP> If they share css filed or not etc. [21:50] <+JayP> anyway... [21:51] <@Rintaran> Ok, moving on then. The next issue on the agenda is the Survey Website that JayP proposed. [21:52] <@Rintaran> Personally, I think it'd be a great tool to launch shortly before an election. Given how far out we are, and that we're still waiting for the membership survey to go out to better finalize our marketing plan, we may want to backburner that idea until election year. [21:53] <~MikkelPaulson> agreed [21:53] <+JayP> it could help with votes, memberships and awareness [21:53] <@Rintaran> If you aren't up on JayP's suggestion, it's here: https://www.pirateparty.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1308.0 [21:53] <~MikkelPaulson> still, there's nothing wrong with sending several [21:54] <~MikkelPaulson> we have plenty of time [21:54] <@Rintaran> I meant backburner the survey website idea, not the membership survey which should go out ASAP... [21:55] <~MikkelPaulson> ah yeah [21:55] <+JayP> The website would take some time [21:55] <~MikkelPaulson> Stephane, any progress on that update to the map that I requested? [21:57] <+Nuitari> no [21:58] <~MikkelPaulson> think you could get on that? I would have liked to use it in my Leader's Report [22:02] <+Nuitari> ok [22:02] <+Nuitari> I'll see if I can do it [22:02] <~MikkelPaulson> thanks [22:03] <@Rintaran> Any other business tonight? The Constitution stuff was on the agenda, but it was more as filler if we didn't have anything. [22:07] <~MikkelPaulson> I don't think so [22:08] <@Rintaran> Alrighty then. I guess meeting's over for the night... Back to dismantling my furniture...

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