Minutes Kitchener-Waterloo 2009.07.25

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:
 * Bob Jonkman
 * Anson MacKeracher

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

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?