Pirate Lab/Meeting/26 09 2015

Pirate Lab in Mons - September 26th, 2015

On Saturday September 26th, 2015 at Café Europa, Mons

Open at 12am, Lab starts at 1pm.

Topics

• 1) General Assembly
• 2) Manifesto
• 3) Symposium

Report

1) GENERAL ASSEMBLY:

end of January/mid February in Gent

crew Gent is looking for a place to do it (Tuin of Eden)

topics and content: via Loomio 'Pirate Open Assembly'

• membership administration and welcoming
• IT and infrastructure: who is maintaining the site? what about mailing lists?
• general internal workings: structures and how they do relate

2) MANIFESTO

difference between program and manifesto:

• manifesto offers a vision, a dream
• program offers details

three strategies:

* 1- group/common manifesto = one text for all of us:

• • better for the political party
  • link with tech pirates?
  • good for the outer world, to convince people who don't know the pirates yet
  • singular, clear, convincing
  • difficult to make one common text, process will be messy
  • we have to find a way to provide a text like that
  • Toon and Damiens are working on a singular text: working on technical solution for 'how can we write that manifesto and make it democratically sustained (with ammendments and way to support them) > will take time!!
  • Vincent: how to merge different texts > http://emerge.shoutwiki.com

* 2- compilation of individual manifesto's:

• • better for the movement
  • link with social/relational pirates?
  • a bit messy, not consistent for the outer world
  • good for the internal group: everyone gives input
  • also possible for groups and crews to write their own manifesto
  • put all the manifesto's in a word cloud > see which topics are huge, and which ones are small

* 3- combination of both: the are compatible

• • make sure that both groups are represented (relational and tech)
  • there is a spectrum with black and white, but also grey: there is much more than social pirates and tech pirates (simplification), we have to focus on the common
  • both approaches can be combined: we can start with the individual manifesto's, and keep working on the tool for the central one
  • make a questionnary as a guidline for writing: why are you a pirate?

TO DO LIST !!!!!

• 1- motivate people to write an individual manifesto (wait a little bit for the questionnary)
• 2- make a questionnary: gather input for the common manifesto (Toon, Danny, Pascal, Jonas, Josse, Tim) > Toon is taking initiative on the Manifesto Working Group on Facebook
• 3- tool to make a common manifesto, we have the input already from the questionnary (Toon and Damiens)

3) SYMPOSIUM

Questions:

1- Is it a pirate event or not?

• Two kinds of approach for events like this:
  • 'these are subject we as pirates are interested in, and that's why we invited authorities'
  • these speakers are pirates and they speak in our name

not all three speakers are 'official pirates', so we chose first approach

• who is organizing and paying?
  • financial account of Pirate Party Belgium
  • organization by P42 (vzw/asbl linked to Brussels pirate crew)
• who is our public?
  • pirates and non-pirates

2- How do we fund the event?

• ask people to pay an entrance fee (idea not supported)
• put a donation box !!!
• sell things? pins or buttons?
• we want to keep it simple

• if speakers want to sell books:
  • they announce it and organize it themselves

3- How do we promote the event?

• boost the event by paying on Facebook:
  • the host of the event (Pirate Party Belgium) can boost it
  • ask supporters to boost it (Promote Event)
  • visibility is very low when you don't pay: Facebook is playing trics
• sharing event on Facebook pages related to basic income (everyone can do this individually)
• spread it through event websites (mention: 'sponsored by Pirate Party Belgium' instead of 'organized by PP Be)
  • Politics.be, basisinkomen.be, Oikos, ...
• Twitter? what about the pirate Twitter accounts?
• flyers?
  • graphic design? (brother of Danny!)
  • flyer in pdf: digital flyers to spread on the internet, people can print it
  • paper prints for universities, student bars, ...

4- Do we stream or film the event?

• no live streaming, can easily go wrong
• record and make a promotion film for social media??
  • we need:
    • cameraman and technical crew
    • someone for montage
    • material: good camera + statief

5- How do we welcome new people and keep in touch?

• information about pirates: flyers
• mailing lists: gather mail adresses on paper !!!
  • note on mailing lists:
    • can be used to send invitation for the event!!
    • mailing lists should be cleaned up
    • huge work: there is no collection of all addresses in one place, there are many different mailinglists and in there you have all the different addresses
    • we have to get it straight before we start using it again: bad impression
    • avoid massive spam

TO DO LIST !!!!!

• start marketing and promotion: share the event through Twitter and Facebook (everyone)
• send event to specialised event websites
• cleaning up mailing lists? (huge work, will be topic of GA)
• camera and staief (Pascal and Toon)
• digital registration form (EventBright?) 'come early, full is full'
• digital flyer (brother Danny)

Pad

direct link to the pad