November 11th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Conference Planning

See: Conference planning doc

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

Organize meetups
Revise platform
Organize Fundraiser
Organize candidate trainings

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Surveillance Mapping

Come up with a how to instructions
- Paper - done
- iPhone - done
- Android
Come up with how to videos

Regional Meetings/Events

In-person events, including outdoor events, on hold until COVID-19 numbers go down.

Leader: jokeefe

Dec. 4th Day Against DRM

2021

Boston Pride Festival

table booked
setup signup sheet
Announce
Need to purchase insurance
Need volunteer sign up form
Tie to an activity, mapping the CCTV cameras in Boston or along the Pride parade route?

Campaigns

Free the Moderna Vaccine
- Planning meeting upcoming. Contact jokeefe for details if you want to attend.
- Planning new event
Yes on 1
- Post on our support for it
- Who could reach out to campaign to ask how we can help?
Yes on 2
- Post reminder of our support for it
- jokeefe reached out to campaign on helping. Will followup.
- Yard signs available.

Bills

Federal

EARN IT Act
- Petition
PATRIOT Act renewal

State

Legislature extended session
Push to get Right to Repair bill to a vote.
Some of facial recognition moratorium is in the police reform bill

Computer donations

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Other To Do

Application to PPI
Post statement on Archive.org Suit
Post statement on our support for Question 1: open access to vehicle telematics systems.
Post statement on our opposition to S.4051 - Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act.
Post statement on retaining section 230 protections. Docket RM-11862. Per TechDirt, 9/17 is the last date for submissions for the 2nd round. - done

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

Every Tuesday, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, on-line
11/14-15, Party Conference

Participants

davidd
jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Lowell)
Malt (sam capradae, worcester)

Observers

ChanServ
hvxgr
Deffy
mikey

Summary

Minutes

 
21:03 <@jokeefe> Agenda:
      https://masspirates.org/wiki/November_11th,_2020_IRC_Meeting
21:04 < davidd> i fear in the future this will still be considered the
      beginning of the real pandamic
21:04 < Malt> hi buddy
21:04 <@jokeefe> you may be right davidd
21:04 <@jokeefe> ids
21:04 <@jokeefe> James O’Keefe, Somerville
21:05 < Malt> sam capradae, worcester
21:05 < srevilak> Steve Revilak, Arlington
21:05 < Joe> Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
21:05 <@jokeefe> anything to add?
21:05 < Malt> non
21:06 <@jokeefe> Decisions/Endorsements - Conference Planning
21:06 <@jokeefe>
      https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2020PartyConferencePlanning
21:08 < Malt> i can e-mail supporters
21:08 <@jokeefe> Thanks
21:09 < Joe> I have had an issue with the live stream software
21:09 <@jokeefe> I have to send a final email announcement tomorrow, but
      if you could reach out to people in Worcester or surrounding communities,
      that would be wonderful
21:09 <@jokeefe> What is the issue, Joe?
21:10 < Joe> It seems that I can't have the other accounts logged in
      at the same time. A forced update messed up the Youtube live bot I was
      using and there does not seem to be an update for it yet.
21:10 < Joe> It will take some tinkering to resolve
21:11 <@jokeefe> I am happy to help you test it
21:12 <@jokeefe> I will set up the links to the meetings and set it up
      to email participants
21:13 <@jokeefe> I can setup the scheduled live streams. Should be done
      by tomorrow.
21:14 < Joe> I will notify you via signal when I have resolved the issue.
21:14 <@jokeefe> 14 people signed up on the FB event, but I expect they
      need a reminder to sign in to our form
21:15 <@jokeefe> ok, thanks Joe.
21:16 < Malt> Alexander asked about getting the link as well
21:17 <@jokeefe> On the topic of “Create draft platform
      topics to start discussion” I wondered if we should use
      https://github.com/masspirates/planks as the basis for the start of the
      discussion along with changes from our past discussions.
21:17 < Malt> that seems like a great starting off point
21:17 < Malt> this is what we stand for, how do we move forward
21:18 <@jokeefe> Will make sure he gets it.
21:18 <@jokeefe> There are 17 sign ups
21:19 < Malt> neat
21:19 <@jokeefe> Joe, have you figured out when you want to your Education
      speaker on?
21:20 < Joe> Sunday right after me.
21:20 <@jokeefe> ok, will update it
21:21 < Malt> cool
21:21 < Joe> I plan to have my discussion similar to hers, as we
      discussed.
21:21 < Joe> 10 minutes of me droning on, with 15-20 for questions.
21:21 <@jokeefe> ok
21:23 <@jokeefe> anyone able to take on some plank editing?
21:24 < Joe> Sorry, I would not be able to do it justice.
21:25 <@jokeefe> Do you have time Malt?
21:25 < Malt> wtf ok
21:26 < Malt> i've got childcare next two days
21:26 <@jokeefe> If it helps, I’ll send you some planks and the items
      to add
21:27 < Malt> okay, yeah
21:27 < Malt> i can do that
21:27 < Malt> that's way more approachable than editing them all
21:28 <@jokeefe> thanks
21:30 <@jokeefe> That is all I have. Just focusing on the conference.
21:30 < Joe> Motion to adjourn?
21:31 <@jokeefe> 2nd
21:31 < srevilak> aye
21:31 <@jokeefe> all in favor?
21:31 < Joe> aye
21:31 < Malt> aye
21:31 <@jokeefe> aye
21:31 <@jokeefe> have a great night all
21:32 < Malt> you too!
21:32 <@jokeefe> hope you get to the top of the ticket davidd!
21:32 < Joe> gnight!