February 12th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Review

Fight bills to make the Film Credit Permanent

H.2419 went to study.

Projects

Goals for Q1 2020:

• Organize meetups
• Organize Fundraiser
• Organize candidate trainings
• Revise platform

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Boston (jokeefe) - Looking for space
• Worcester (Malt)

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday?

Computer Donations

• jokeefe contacted friend who refurbishes computers for a non-profit
• Archived https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations - move to wiki

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be 3/8, 2-4pm, Mr Crêpe, 51 Davis Sq, Somerville. Topics are:

• find discussion/voting system;
• update CCTV cameras to include older cameras outside North America we didn't include;
• write an app to record the location/ownership of CCTV cameras;
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds);
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak).

Tabled Projects

FOSS Tutorials

Worcester farm group is interested in having some FOSS tutorials. Perhaps:

• how to do basic labels in GIMP,
• work through a few sample spreadsheets related to seed cost and
• similarly applicable real-world situations, depending on the needs of the group

Basically how to do graph design & product management with open source tools. Malt will put together a one paragraph description of what we need and we can mail it out to ask pirates to help.

Upcoming Events

• 2/18, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• 2/25, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 3/8, 2pm-4pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Mr Crêpe, 51 Davis Sq, Somerville
• 3/7, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Culture House, Harvard Square
• 3/14, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• Spring 2020, ?, Boston Meetup
• Spring 2020, ?, Worcester Meetup
• Spring 2020, ?, Springfield Meetup
• 4/29, 7-9pm, Boston Cryptoparty, Encuentro 5, Boston

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• Pirate_Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Lowell)

Observers

• davidd
• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy

Summary

Film tax credit bill went out to study. Means it won't come up for a vote this term.

Regional Meetings. Joe would like to have an April meeting in Lowell. Joe will try to book the library. We're planning on 10-noon, March 21st.