Meeting minutes for Wednesday, 20 September 2017
In attendance: Jeff, Barbara, Bob, Tilo, Ayisha, Leo, Marsha
Welcome and Introductions
Welcome newcomers Ayisha and Leo.
Reports
Coordinator's report [Jeff]: "Yay Us!"
Treasurer's report [Tilo]
Social media director's report [Barbara]
Announcements
Malvern Harvest Oktoberfest was a success! Met lots of people, many signed up for e-mail. Thank-you card to the event director, Lisa, thanking her for giving us free booth space.
Actions
- "The Malvern Three" [Marsha]
- Death penalty in Iran [Brendan]
Updates
- Russian human rights defender Valentina Cheravatenko [Barbara]
- "I Want Those Addresses" [Jeff]
- Free the Berks kids [Jeff]
Old Business
New location for our Write for Rights event [Barbara]
- Ayisha suggested a movie fundraiser (via Gathr) in King of Prussia
- Marsha suggested Barnes & Noble in Exton, will send into to Barbara
Five-Minute University
Bob: "Tech Tools for Activism, or How to be a Snowden" (information from network23.org/ttfa)
- e-mail (privacy, encryption, anonymity)
- safe/anonymous blogging and microblogging (e.g., Twitter)
- browsing the Internet safely (e.g., don't expose IP address, use TOR network)
- mobile phone security important but not covered in this presentation
New Business
- Could we get a table at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women in October?
- Should we change our meeting date to something other than the third Wednesday of the month?
- Marsha will mock up t-shirt designs and send them to the group
- Next month Ayisha will give a five-minute university on marketing and getting e-mail addresses.
- 2017 AIUSA Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
- Saturday, 4 November, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- Early-bird rate available through 1 October
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