October 16th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3:

• Organize meetups
• Organize election
• Organize Fundraiser(s)
• Organize candidate trainings
• Revise platform

Hearings next week

Two hearings coming up next:

• Mon., 10/21, 1-5pm, Right of Repair Hearing, Gardner Auditorium, State House, Boston
• Tue., 10/22, 1-5pm, Facial Recognition Hearing, Room A-1, State House, Boston

To do:

• Email supporters
• Put up blog posts
• Create event sign up forms
• Create events on other platforms
• Promote on social media
• Reminder email/blog posts

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Boston Anarchist Bookfair is Nov. 9-10. at Boston University. We will join MassMesh in getting table.
• Holyoke Meetup, 11/24, 10:30am-3:30pm, Holyoke Public Library
• Worcester meetup moved to Spring 2020.

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be November 2nd, 11am-1pm, E5. 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

Computer Donations

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

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.

Fight bills to make the Film Credit Permanent

H.2419 would make the film tax credit permanent. It is supposed to expire in 2023. The bill has 100+ signatures this time around. jokeefe will submit testimony.

Upcoming Events

• 10/21, 1-5pm, Right of Repair Hearing, Gardner Auditorium, State House, Boston
• 10/22, 1-5pm, Facial Recognition Hearing, Room A-1, State House, Boston
• 10/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 10/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 11/2, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• 11/5, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 11/9-10, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Union, BU, Boston
• 11/12, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• 11/19, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• 11/24, 10:30am-3:30pm, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, 250 Chestnut Street, Holyoke
• 10/26, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• Spring 2020, ?, Worcester Meetup

Participants

• jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
• Pirate_Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
• Malt: Sam capradae Worcester

Observers

• igel[m]
• davidd
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• haskal[m]
• MikaelaSuomalainen
• ChanServ

Minutes

 



[9:06pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/October_16th,_2019_IRC_Meeting
[9:06pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:06pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:06pm] Pirate_Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
[9:06pm] jokeefe: Anything to add?
[9:07pm] Pirate_Joe: Nay
[9:07pm] Malt: Catherine seems I'll
[9:07pm] Malt: Ccan we send a card to our injured Ally?
[9:08pm] jokeefe: that is a good idea
[9:08pm] Pirate_Joe: Aye
[9:09pm] Malt: I can take lead
[9:09pm] jokeefe: Thanks!
[9:09pm] jokeefe: Review
[9:10pm] jokeefe: Honk/XR Boston march
[9:10pm] jokeefe: Well attended as you can see from the video I posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4XDynQvync
[9:11pm] jokeefe: Talked about how we can help. Have some ideas I will share on the list.
[9:12pm] Malt: Rad!
[9:12pm] Malt: Honk is a party
[9:12pm] jokeefe: It certainly is
[9:13pm] jokeefe: Projects
[9:14pm] jokeefe: BTW: We cannot march as a political party, but there were lots of non-party groups, so could march as a Pirate marching band
[9:14pm] jokeefe: Hearings next week
[9:14pm] jokeefe: There are two hearings next week.
[9:14pm] jokeefe: Monday is on Digital Right of Repair
[9:14pm] Malt: Huh!
[9:14pm] jokeefe: Tuesday is on Facial Recognition ban
[9:14pm] Malt: Drums are always good to bring
[9:14pm] jokeefe: both at the state house
[9:15pm] jokeefe: Yes, drums are good and easy
[9:15pm] jokeefe: Would need to practice, which is a good excuse to get together
[9:16pm] Malt left the chat room. (Quit: https://webchat.pirateirc.net/)
[9:18pm] Malt joined the chat room.
[9:18pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:18pm] Malt: I'm back
[9:18pm] Pirate_Joe: wb
[9:18pm] Malt: Sorry, I'm also prepping for a class tomorrow
[9:18pm] jokeefe: No worries. I put together a to do list:
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Email supporters
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Put up blog posts
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Create event sign up forms
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Creste Facebook events
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Promote on social media
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Reminder email/blog posts
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Anything to add to it?
[9:20pm] Malt: Trying to get two sets of subtitles on this Simpson's episode
[9:20pm] Malt: That seems fairly complete
[9:21pm] Malt: Are there other orgs to reach out to?
[9:21pm] jokeefe: ACLU is doing the lead on the face recognition hearing
[9:22pm] jokeefe: the right of repair have the other hearing
[9:22pm] jokeefe: so best to focus on our folks
[9:22pm] Malt: I saw a fella collecting signatures for r2r at the big y
[9:23pm] jokeefe: really? cool
[9:23pm] jokeefe: see a lot of RCV folks out getting signatures
[9:24pm] Malt left the chat room. (Quit: https://webchat.pirateirc.net/)
[9:24pm] Malt joined the chat room.
[9:25pm] jokeefe: So does the todo list look complete?
[9:25pm] Pirate_Joe: It does
[9:26pm] Malt left the chat room. (Client Quit)
[9:27pm] jokeefe: I can get some of the tasks like the email and blog post, but if there are others you would be willing to take, that would help
[9:28pm] Pirate_Joe: Promote on social media seems like I can get done.
[9:29pm] jokeefe: Thanks. Will send you the links by tomorrow.
[9:29pm] Malt joined the chat room.
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: kk, ty
[9:29pm] Malt: I have 4 kittens also
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: @jokeefe
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: I can get some of the tasks like the email and blog post, but if there are others you would be willing to take, that would help
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: Pirate_Joe
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: Promote on social media seems like I can get done.
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: @jokeefe
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: Thanks. Will send you the links by tomorrow.
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: → Malt has joined
[9:31pm] Malt: Haaaaaayyyy
[9:33pm] jokeefe: I’ll send reminders to the list as well
[9:33pm] jokeefe: Regional Meetings/Events
[9:34pm] jokeefe: I’ll put out an announcement for the upcoming events in the next email newsletter
[9:35pm] jokeefe: Will have sign up pages for them
[9:35pm] jokeefe: Video Newsletter
[9:36pm] jokeefe: Would be good to have one to talk about the hearings and events at least
[9:36pm] Pirate_Joe: Aye
[9:36pm] Pirate_Joe: I should be able to do 10am Sunday if that works for you both
[9:37pm] jokeefe: Possible. Will check with the family. Earlier might be better for me.
[9:37pm] jokeefe: Malt?
[9:38pm] Malt: I might be trqvelli g
[9:39pm] Malt: But if I'm here I'll be available
[9:39pm] jokeefe: Sounds good. Will email when I know for sure.
[9:39pm] Pirate_Joe: Ok, thank you
[9:40pm] jokeefe: Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) - no change. Meeting 11/2
[9:40pm] jokeefe: National Party - Would you share an update, Pirate_Joe?
[9:41pm] Pirate_Joe: We failed to send out the email for nominations, so that just went out this week.  Final nominations are due Sunday.
[9:42pm] Pirate_Joe: Vote will be on Monday for the national committee.
[9:42pm] Malt: Was I supposed to nominate anyone
[9:42pm] Malt: I'm dropping responsibility, I have a cat scan tomorrow and shits weird
[9:42pm] Pirate_Joe: You could nominate yourself.  There are many posts and not enough heads.
[9:42pm] Malt: Noooooooooo
[9:42pm] Malt: I don't have spoons
[9:43pm] jokeefe: Oh no, Malt! Hope the results are good
[9:43pm] Pirate_Joe: ^
[9:43pm] jokeefe: spoons?
[9:43pm] Malt: Mental resources
[9:44pm] jokeefe: yeah. cannot you just spin up another instance of you. they do it with computers 
[9:45pm] jokeefe: that’s all i have.
[9:45pm] jokeefe: rains started here at least
[9:45pm] Pirate_Joe: Motion to adjourn?
[9:46pm] jokeefe: 2nd
[9:46pm] jokeefe: all in favor?
[9:46pm] Pirate_Joe: Aye
[9:47pm] jokeefe: aye
[9:47pm] Malt: Aye
[9:47pm] Pirate_Joe: good night!
[9:48pm] jokeefe: thanks! have a great week