January 24th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Review

• Democracy/IT Meeting

Projects On Hold For the Moment

Both of these could be topics for future hackathons.

Upcoming Events

1. 1/25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty

See: 2017 calendar

Minutes

 

[9:03pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/January_24th,_2017_IRC_Meeting
[9:03pm] papegaai: Title: January 24th, 2017 IRC Meeting - Mass Pirate Wiki (at masspirates.org)
[9:03pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:03pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:03pm] jokeefe: anyone want to add anything to the agenda?
[9:04pm] G: bo sir nothing i can think of
[9:05pm] BrianShaw: (thinking)
[9:05pm] G: "planning for the inevitable breakdown of society" ?
[9:05pm] jokeefe: heh
[9:05pm] jokeefe: sure
[9:05pm] BrianShaw: planning to be the ones who rebuild it?
[9:05pm] G: yes!
[9:06pm] jokeefe: BTW: if you haven’t filled out the questionnaire for PirateCon 2017, please do
[9:06pm] jokeefe: https://masspirates.org/crew/forms/piratecon-2017-questionnaire
[9:06pm] papegaai: Title: Piratecon 2017 Questionnaire | Mass Pirates Crew (at masspirates.org)
[9:06pm] G: yep i got mine in!
[9:06pm] jokeefe: If you think of anything more to add to the agenda, just speak up
[9:06pm] BrianShaw: I'll come back to that later
[9:06pm] jokeefe: we end at 10pm, though
[9:06pm] BrianShaw: fake news?
[9:07pm] BrianShaw: or - how to ensure information is trustworthy?
[9:07pm] jokeefe: its all fake 
[9:07pm] G: trust nothing
[9:07pm] G:
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Review
[9:07pm] jokeefe: sure we can talk fake news later
[9:07pm] jokeefe: we had the Democracy/IT Meeting on Saturday
[9:07pm] jokeefe: three people attended
[9:08pm] jokeefe: we talked a lot about finding a better way for people to communicate and self organize
[9:08pm] jokeefe: steps are:
[9:08pm] jokeefe: 1. put out a call with our requirements for suggestions for tools to use and other advice
[9:09pm] jokeefe: 2. take the suggestions and setup three or so options
[9:09pm] jokeefe: 3. let people play with the options
[9:09pm] jokeefe: 4. go with the one that works
[9:10pm] G: erm... technology options? like programs?
[9:10pm] jokeefe: discussion was about message boards vs tools like slack, but one person suggested that reddit code is open source so that might work better
[9:10pm] jokeefe: yes
[9:10pm] G: i'm embarssaingly lowtech
[9:10pm] jokeefe: no worries, that is one of the requirements
[9:10pm] BrianShaw: as are a lot of the people we want voting for us
[9:10pm] jokeefe: aye
[9:11pm] jokeefe: and we need ways that people can plug in easily and find pirates in their area and self organize
[9:12pm] jokeefe: email isn’t cutting it, at least the way we are using it
[9:12pm] G: we'll need this to get that senate seat 
[9:12pm] jokeefe: or 40
[9:12pm] jokeefe: or were you thinking Federal?
[9:12pm] G: Warren. lol
[9:12pm] G: i might have started a fire on our FB page
[9:12pm] jokeefe: 9 house reps are a good target as well
[9:12pm] G:  
[9:13pm] jokeefe: oh?
[9:13pm] G: i shared one link suggesting Warren's seat was up
[9:13pm] jokeefe: ah, yeah heard that poll.  haven’t looked at the cross tabs yet
[9:13pm] G: some people were very..... excited about it
[9:14pm] jokeefe: well we have local offices they can run for. much easier.
[9:14pm] G: yep, much more realistically
[9:14pm] G:
[9:15pm] jokeefe: we set the date for the next one for 2/18.  it is up at https://masspirates.org/wiki/2017_Event_Calendar
[9:15pm] papegaai: Title: 2017 Event Calendar - Mass Pirate Wiki (at masspirates.org)
[9:16pm] jokeefe: Endorsements - any suggestions we should consider, or skip?
[9:16pm] Castaway_ joined the chat room.
[9:16pm] jokeefe: ahoy Castaway_
[9:16pm] jokeefe: ids appreciated
[9:16pm] Castaway_: Ahoy!
[9:16pm] jokeefe: Agenda - https://masspirates.org/wiki/January_24th,_2017_IRC_Meeting
[9:16pm] G: Garret Kirkland, Lowell
[9:16pm] papegaai: Title: January 24th, 2017 IRC Meeting - Mass Pirate Wiki (at masspirates.org)
[9:16pm] jokeefe: on Endorsements