November 4th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Set schedule for the conference

Saturday

noon-12:15pm - Captain's Introduction and Year Review
12:15-1pm - Where do we go from here?
1-2pm - Platform Discussion
2-2:30pm - Break
2:30-3:30pm - Speakers
3:30-4:30pm - Platform Discussion
4:30+ - Pirate Beer

Sunday

noon-12:30pm - Quartermaster's Introduction and Finances Report
12:30-2:00pm - Platform Discussion
2-2:30pm - Break
2:30-3:30pm - Platform Discussion
3:30-4:30pm - Platform Discussion

Speakers:

Steve Revilak

How housing polices were used to segregate communities in the 20th century. There will be emphasis on zoning, which is generally the domain of local governments.

Alexander Isavnin

State activities related to censorship, surveillance, political oppression on examples from Russia and neighboring countries.

James O'Keefe

Running for office (can be prerecorded)

Choose date to test video conference software

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

Party Conference

Schedule regular posts on blog
Dividing up the platform and coming up with draft items

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
10/31, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
11/14-15, Party Conference

Participants

Olivia_: Olivia Kristiann, PPI volunteer
jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
Malt: Sam capradae, Worcester

Observers

ChanServ
hvxgr
Deffy
mikey

Summary

11am Saturday. Test video system for piratecon

7pm Sunday. Pirate news recording.

Conference planning: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2020PartyConferencePlanning

Minutes

 

[9:04pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/November_4th,_2020_IRC_Meeting
[9:05pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:05pm] jokeefe: Anything to add?
[9:05pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
[9:05pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Review
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Should we review the election or did we do that last night?
[9:07pm] Malt left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 258 seconds)
[9:07pm] Malt joined the chat room.
[9:08pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:08pm] jokeefe: Should we review the election or did we do enough of that last night?
[9:09pm] Malt: Thanked
[9:09pm] Malt: I'm set
[9:09pm] jokeefe: Decisions/Endorsements
[9:09pm] jokeefe: I put up a proposed schedule at: https://masspirates.org/wiki/November_4th,_2020_IRC_Meeting#Set_schedule_for_the_conference
[9:10pm] jokeefe: Look good or should we move anything around/change items?
[9:12pm] Malt: Fine here!
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Joe? Anyone else?
[9:13pm] Joe: looks great.
[9:13pm] Joe: we should probably review the video. maybe make edits to upload
[9:14pm] jokeefe: We have 11 signups
[9:14pm] jokeefe: My how to run video?
[9:15pm] Joe: Sorry, I was referring to the national one.
[9:15pm] jokeefe: If someone wants to edit the video, i create, that would be great.
[9:16pm] jokeefe: Oh, ok.  It should be live now.
[9:16pm] srevilak joined the chat room.
[9:16pm]

[9:16pm] jokeefe: ahoy srevilak
[9:16pm] Joe: I can but currently under lock down
[9:16pm] Joe: ahoy
[9:16pm] srevilak: hi all, just saw email that we were meeting tonight
[9:16pm] Malt: Welcome!
[9:17pm] jokeefe: no worries.
[9:17pm] jokeefe: Schedule look good for you? https://masspirates.org/wiki/November_4th,_2020_IRC_Meeting#Set_schedule_for_the_conference
[9:17pm] jokeefe: If you can edit the video Joe, that would be great.
[9:18pm] srevilak: Looks good
[9:18pm] Joe: can you upload it to mass youtube as a private video?
[9:18pm] jokeefe: great
[9:19pm] jokeefe: I would need to download the video first from youtube
[9:20pm] jokeefe: Choose date to date video conference software
[9:21pm] Joe: is it on there already on there?
[9:21pm] jokeefe: I have the account for the video conference software. When could we test it?
[9:21pm] Malt left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 258 seconds)
[9:21pm] srevilak: What is "date to date video conference software"?
[9:22pm] jokeefe: srevilak, did we agree to try Saturday at 11am?
[9:22pm] srevilak: Not sure, but I can make it
[9:22pm] jokeefe: corrected - Choose date to test video conference software
[9:22pm] srevilak: ah!
[9:23pm] Malt joined the chat room.
[9:23pm] jokeefe: Joe, could you do a test Saturday at 11am?
[9:23pm] jokeefe: Also Malt?
[9:23pm] Joe: Right before the conference?
[9:24pm] jokeefe: I updated OS and now IRC chat doesn’t automatically show the latest messages
[9:24pm] jokeefe: Week before the conference
[9:24pm] jokeefe: this Saturday
[9:24pm] Malt: I can, yes
[9:25pm] Malt: That's a fun bug!
[9:25pm] Joe: I can do a test this weekend but will be quite distracted.
[9:25pm] jokeefe: Have to keep scrolling up, Malt. It is a bit annoying.
[9:26pm] Joe: should not be an issue so long as it is only a test.
[9:26pm] jokeefe: Saturday, 11am it is. Will send out email to democracy/activists lists
[9:26pm] jokeefe: Projects
[9:27pm] jokeefe: Video Newsletter/Podcast - Sunday 7pm recording ok?
[9:27pm] Malt: Yup!
[9:27pm] srevilak: yes
[9:28pm] Joe: Aye
[9:28pm] jokeefe: Topic ideas?
[9:28pm] Joe: Pirate conference really.
[9:29pm] srevilak: Does the rise and fall of fascism occur in cycles?
[9:29pm] srevilak: Too much?
[9:29pm] Joe: like the tides
[9:29pm] jokeefe: Pirate conference promo would be good
[9:29pm] jokeefe: srevilak, lol
[9:29pm] Joe: on a scale of human social memory.
[9:30pm] srevilak: Make 1946 great again!
[9:30pm] jokeefe: seems too early to discuss it going out with the tides
[9:30pm] jokeefe: aye, srevilak
[9:30pm] Joe: lol
[9:30pm] srevilak: One of my co-workers thinks it's a 100-year tide.  So, just starting to come in
[9:31pm] • Joe sighs.
[9:31pm] Malt: I thought it was 250ish
[9:31pm] srevilak: Malt: Think 1920's
[9:31pm] Malt: Oh
[9:31pm] Malt: Hm
[9:31pm] srevilak: shit ...
[9:31pm] srevilak: Sorry, I'm just grumpy tonight
[9:32pm] Joe: Biden is winning at least.
[9:32pm] jokeefe: got the popular vote at least
[9:32pm] Joe: silver linings
[9:33pm] Joe: this year the choice was either crazy or senile.
[9:33pm] Joe: lets really start preparing for running candidates again
[9:33pm] jokeefe: aye that
[9:34pm] jokeefe: Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) - meeting set for 11am sat.
[9:34pm] Malt: Pissed we lost q2
[9:35pm] jokeefe: Regional Meetings/Events - Party Conference
[9:35pm] jokeefe: Setup an etherpad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2020PartyConferencePlanning
[9:35pm] srevilak: Malt: yeah, Q2 was disappointing
[9:36pm] jokeefe: Agree Malt, but it took three ballot initiatives to get greyhound racing banned.  I think there are things we can do to improve the results next time.
[9:38pm] jokeefe: They only got proportional representation in New Zealand when they kept electing minority governments with FPTP.
[9:38pm] Malt: Get it on the front page? I heard some folk didn't turn theirs over
[9:38pm] Joe: a lot of people seemed to be misinformed about RCV. they think the old system has work for 200+ years, why change...
[9:38pm] jokeefe: That would help
[9:39pm] jokeefe: Will have to look at the official results and see how many didn’t make a choice.
[9:39pm] srevilak: What read do you get from this map: https://www.bostonglobe.com/elections/2020/ma/Question/2%20-%20Create%20Ranked-Choice%20Voting/
[9:40pm] jokeefe: Doesn’t list abstains, unfortunately.
[9:41pm] srevilak: I was thinking more in terms of the clusters of cities that voted yes, vs the ones that didn't
[9:41pm] jokeefe: good point
[9:42pm] Malt left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 258 seconds)
[9:43pm] Malt joined the chat room.
[9:43pm] jokeefe: Boston area Rt 2 corridor and Pioneer Valley, parts of the Berkshires
[9:43pm] srevilak: Compare with Q1: https://www.bostonglobe.com/elections/2020/ma/Question/1%20-%20Amend%20Right%20to%20Repair%20Law/
[9:43pm] Malt: The dem establishment seemed lukewarm
[9:43pm] srevilak: Of cities reporting, Georgetown is the only one that went no
[9:45pm] jokeefe: Springfield total vote is 47,000, which seems small
[9:46pm] srevilak: Indeed.  Population is 153k
[9:46pm] Joe: I do not have much to add tonight, sorry. very distracted by my son whom is still awake.
[9:46pm] Malt: I can't focus worth a single gosh darn
[9:48pm] jokeefe: Let’s end then. Please add conference planning items to https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2020PartyConferencePlanning
[9:49pm] srevilak: will do
[9:49pm] srevilak: Next, off to $work call at 22:00.
[9:49pm] srevilak: will post transcript