October 7th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Choose Date for Party Conference

Votes were:

November 7th-8th. - 4
November 14th-15th. - 3
November 21st-22nd. - 3
December 5th-6th. - 3
December 12th-13th. - 3

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)

Work continues on streaming options.

Next one set for for 10/10, 11am-1pm

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

Surveillance Mapping Event
- Come up with a how to instructions
  - Paper - done
  - iPhone - done
  - Android
- Come up with how to videos
- Boston (jokeefe) - Sept 12th - done
- Worcester (Malt) - Oct 17th
Party Conference
- Working on streaming options
- Posted date survey. due 9/25
Nov. Anarchist Book Fair
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

National Party

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
10/10, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
10/17, Worcester Surveillance Mapping Outing, Downtown Worcester
Fall, Party Conference

Participants

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

Observers

ChanServ
hvxgr
Deffy
mikey

Summary

Date of party conference set for November 14th-15th.

Pirate News recording set for Sunday, 7pm start, 7:30pm live start. jokeefe will schedule.

Minutes

 

[9:05pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/October_7th,_2020_IRC_Meeting
[9:05pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:05pm] jokeefe: Anything to add?
[9:05pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:05pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
[9:06pm] jokeefe: Decisions/Endorsements
[9:06pm] jokeefe: Choose Date for Party Conference
[9:06pm] jokeefe: Votes were:
[9:06pm] jokeefe: November 7th-8th. - 4
[9:06pm] jokeefe: November 14th-15th. - 3
[9:06pm] jokeefe: November 21st-22nd. - 3
[9:06pm] jokeefe: December 5th-6th. - 3
[9:06pm] jokeefe: December 12th-13th. - 3
[9:07pm] Malt joined the chat room.
[9:07pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:07pm] Joe: split right down the middle.
[9:07pm] Malt: Sam capradae Worcester
[9:07pm] jokeefe: going over the date of the party conference
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Votes were:
[9:07pm] jokeefe: November 7th-8th. - 4
[9:07pm] jokeefe: November 14th-15th. - 3
[9:07pm] jokeefe: November 21st-22nd. - 3
[9:07pm] jokeefe: December 5th-6th. - 3
[9:07pm] jokeefe: December 12th-13th. - 3
[9:08pm] Malt: Cool, if I drop it's cuz I am in the woods
[9:08pm] Malt: JFC that's a split
[9:08pm] Malt: If it's virtual let's go the 7th
[9:08pm] Malt: We will be able to react to whatever the election situation ruin is
[9:08pm] jokeefe: my concern is that give us a month to get things ready
[9:09pm] jokeefe: plus the election is going on
[9:11pm] jokeefe: thoughts?
[9:12pm] Joe: thing is that our con will be all about the election. though that is how everyone voted.
[9:12pm] Malt: 14th then?
[9:13pm] jokeefe: Another week is good
[9:14pm] jokeefe: Joe are you ok with the 14th?
[9:14pm] Joe: I am ok with any date.
[9:15pm] Malt:
[9:16pm] jokeefe: November 14th-15th it is then.
[9:16pm] jokeefe: Pence is purposely going over time
[9:17pm] jokeefe: Projects
[9:17pm] jokeefe: Video Newsletter/Podcast
[9:18pm] jokeefe: Sunday, 7pm start, 7:30pm live start?
[9:18pm] Joe: sounds good but I will have a baby pirate with me.
[9:19pm] jokeefe: later?
[9:19pm] Joe: I have my good mic though
[9:19pm] jokeefe: cool
[9:19pm] Malt left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 258 seconds)
[9:20pm] Joe: thing is he only has been wanting me of late.
[9:20pm] jokeefe: been there
[9:20pm] Joe: it's grew
[9:21pm] Joe: great but oyi
[9:21pm] jokeefe: keep it to Sunday, 7pm start, 7:30pm live start?
[9:22pm] Joe: yes
[9:22pm] jokeefe: great. I will schedule it on youtube send your the connection details
[9:23pm] Joe: sorry, i have to go. my eldest is having trouble.
[9:23pm] jokeefe: no worries
[9:23pm] jokeefe: meeting adjourned