United States Pirate Party

Considering the meeting to be a virtual convention of sorts, open to the public to participate with directly.  Would like to schedule in audience participation times that build up to the meeting.  Thinking 10am EST to 6-7pm eastern would be a good time.  The votes and official decisionmaking will happen from 3pm. During this time at LEAST the Administration and Records officers will be available for voice and text chat.  The Operations Officer will also be arriving at least in time for the official voting period.  We will be opening the floor for discussion of all subjects leading up to the vote and finalizing what decisions need to be made right now.  Discussion topics include but are not limited to:
 
 
 

• Election of Byan Hoffower - The 'pointment of bryan to promotions office, maybe?
• Comedy show discussion - The comedy show coming up that wants USPP endorsement.  No new details about platform adherence
• Appointment of volunteers - Appointing volunteers from the meeting to tasks.
• reopening the topic of member dues
• relocation of offical IRC to freenode - The movement of the 'official' irc to freenode in order to make it easier to recruit more individuals into the chat, as well as 'shaking up' our idle community.
• User and volunteer profiles - The creation of profiles for individuals who claim to want to volunteer, mostly a list of time commitment and skills (claimed)
• Municipal level policies - Thoughts on what policies city level candidates should be promoting.
• Status Updates from state level groups - Updates from NY party, OR party, others?
• Tour Updates - Rain! RAIN!
• The Pirate Micronation applied - About to start promoting this, input?
• email policy, along with data policy - Who should get an official email address?
• news, news system, the forums, and general webpage content - how should we handle news and stories and pages on the site?
• Pirates (needing to be) In The Media - promotions and campaign ideas
• The International Movement - Hows the rest of the movement doing?
• Screen printing equipment / merch needs - The tour needs merch to sell for gas money!
• Closing of the alpha-users mailing list - it's not doing anything, the site is up.  lets not segregate our community any more than we must.
• closing of the printfection store - useless.  kill it.
• policies of fund use - we haven't got any, but we need some!
• officially supported media syndication / monetization tools and networks - more details to come.
• Podcast - we're gonna do one, so lets work out the last of the problems.

 
Voice will be available through Skype and Telephone, text via IRC and AIM Chat.  Meeting itself will be at the end and will be where votes are taken on what is worked out during the days event.  If you have any problems whatsoever, or aren't sure how to get started, feel free to get hold of Ryan Martin Saturday and he will help.
 
The Contact Page provides a wealth of information, including IRC information and email addresses.
 
This is you, the public's, meeting so become involved in it if you want a say.