GM 2012-07-18 Reports

=Party's Project=

Jake Daynes report on VPN:
VPN subscriptions have hit the point in which we can now lift the bandwidth limit - $10 a month is now unlimited VPN access, and you will get a $7/month tax receipt for your subscription.

I have managed to rewrite our scripts to allow new signups for the VPN from the new site, and that will be going live shortly. This means that the last bit of functionality has been moved over from the old site to dev.pirateparty.ca, and we will be able to perform the final transition to the new site.

CCitizen report:
19:47 <+CCitizen> Well as Jake said he's got the VPN back working... I've                  written some documentation for Ubuntu/Linux users and will be                   working on some Windows 7 ones as well since I have access to                   it. 19:48 <+CCitizen> EncryptEverything is moving along. Some people have been including some OSX guides which we've been sorely lacking. 19:49 <+CCitizen> Pirate Linux is on hold. drew was pretty much the person doing that entire project. He's unable to dedicate the same amount of time to it as he has in the past. I'm looking for anyone who knows how to build a distro like he did to help keep it going. If anyone has those skills and spare time it                  would be greatly appreciated if they contact me later.

19:51 <+CCitizen> Pirate Boxes is something Johann is working on. Myself I have a Raspberry Pi in my possession now. I've done some experimenting with it. If you want full details you can read the blog posts I've done on the dev site. Suffice it to say there are some challenges involved in using it as a platform for a PirateBox 19:52 <+CCitizen> CaPT appears to be well offline or not working. Travis is in                  charge of CaPT and I think the idea is to at some point relaunch this project as a public tracker with more openness involved (IE. Artists can upload their own stuff) 19:53 <+CCitizen> That would be all that I have at the moment to report. The PDC is going to be focusing a bit more on the VPN promotion and PirateBoxes in the next month.