Pirate Lab

Pirate Lab
Topics	Pirate Party
Start date	Sat 25 January 2014
Contact	Loomio thread
Status	In progress

Description

Pirate Labs are monthly work meetings open to everyone where pirates from across the country gather. The labs are « the potluck » of projects, born out of an urge of self-management. They allow all pirates to propose a project, to evaluate the reaction of other pirates, and to launch a squad to work on it. Thus it's a place of empowerment. Indirectly, they allow crews to meet regularly and keep in touch. The general goals of the Lab are to

• Launch new projects: come and propose your project, and find pirates to achieve it with you.
• Meet other pirates
• Work in groups
• Explore democracy (a Lab is... a democracy laboratory!)
• Getting things done!
• Check together what pirates need to make progress
• Coordination between financial administration and what the pirates want

Pirate Lab Events

The current project is to organize one Pirate Lab every month from April 2015 on. There is a page for every Pirate Lab. Typically we follow the meeting guidelines as proposed by the internal democracy group. You can suggest topics for the agenda in the pad on the page or in the wiki page of the lab. The lab itself starts with a popcorn table where people can share their mood, what time they wish to leave and the projects they want to work on. Afterwards we split up in groups based on what people want to do/talk about. In the end everyone comes together to share what was done/discussed in the subgroups. The end of the lab is defined during the popcorn table based on when people want/need to leave.

Meeting	Date	Venue
Pirate Lab June 2020	Sat 27 June 2020, 2:00pm	Online – https://talk.parley.be/
Pirate Lab May 2020	Sat 30 May 2020, 2:00pm	Online – https://talk.parley.be/
Pirate Lab April 2020	Sat 25 April 2020, 2:00pm	Online – https://talk.parley.be/
Pirate Lab March 2020	Sat 28 March 2020, 2:00pm	meet.jit.si – Piratelab2020-March 101 The Wire
Pirate Lab February 2020	Sat 29 February 2020, 2:00pm	Les Triplettes – Avenue des Saisons, 81 1050 Ixelles - Elsene
Pirate Lab January 2020	Sat 25 January 2020, 2:00pm	Les Triplettes – Avenue des Saisons, 81 1050 Ixelles - Elsene
Pirate Lab November 2019	Sat 30 November 2019, 2:00pm	Les Triplettes – Avenue des Saisons, 81 1050 Ixelles - Elsene
Pirate Lab October 2019	Sat 26 October 2019, 2:00pm	Taverne de la gare – Plateau de la Gare 33 1480 Tubize
Pirate Lab July 2019	Sat 27 July 2019, 2:00pm	Taverne Georges – Rue de l'Ancien Bourg 7 1420 Braine-l'Alleud
Pirate Lab June 2019	Sat 29 June 2019, 2:00pm	Expression – Koning Albertplein 14 2800 Mechelen

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Resources

• Resources and documentation page
• ITNow

Projects

• Improve the wiki use by organising wiki workshops.
• Lab to write a Pirate Manifesto
• Workshop to improve decision making in GAs