View source for August 7th, 2019 IRC Meeting

== Review ==

=== Congress of Corrections Protest ===

== Decisions/Endorsements ==

=== Formation of the National party ===

=== Boston's Operation Cleansweep ===

Last night Boston PD forced homeless from a place they were camping, confiscated their stuff and crushed it in garbage trucks. People lost their wheel chairs, bags and possibly medicine. See:
* https://twitter.com/Classymscassie/status/1158920814470844416
* https://twitter.com/Dinahlew/status/1158907669618536448
* https://twitter.com/Classymscassie/status/1158906763334291458
* https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2019/08/07/operation-clean-sweep-wheelchairs/
* https://twitter.com/i/moments/1159242959088492544

Make a statement supporting the 4th Amendment rights of the homeless and the need for ending homelessness?

== Projects ==

Goals for Q2:
* Organize meetups
* Organize election
* Organize Fundraiser(s)
* Organize candidate trainings
* Revise platform

=== Regional Meetings ===

Leader: 

=== Video Newsletter ===

Leader: Joseph

* Next pirate news recording?

=== Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) ===

July 13th Meeting
* srevilak updated blog theme. jokeefe and srevilak corrected any items that were wrong as a result of the update;
* jokeefe updated [https://discuss.masspirates.org/riot/#/welcome our Riot/Matrix client] to the latest stable version. Started work on a splash page for discuss.masspirates.org.
* srevilak & jokeefe tested camera / microphone setup and figured out that the reason the recording was so soft in the video we took at the Pirate Planning Picnic was that the speakers were too far away from the microphones.

jokeefe noticed that [https://cctv.masspirates.org our CCTV camera map] no longer shows the locations of cameras.  Fixed.

Next meeting will be August 10th. 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).

== Tasks ==

=== Statement on Alabama/Ohio/Georgia Abortion ban bills/laws ===

=== Fight bills to make the Film Credit Permanent ===

[https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H2419/ 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.

=== National Platform reform/remake ===

== Tabled Projects ==

These have been on our agenda for a long time. How do we make them a reality?

=== Boston Sex Worker Petition ===

===Non-pirate guest speakers for Pirate News===

=== CCTV camera map ===

=== Computer Donations ===

https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations

=== Video Newsletter guest speakers===

=== 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 ==

* 8/10, 11am-1pm, '''Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting''', Arlington
* 8/13, 7-9pm, ''Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting'', Democracy Center, Cambridge
* 8/20, 7-9pm, ''Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting''
* 8/24, '''Lowell Pirate Picnic''', Lowell
* 8/27, 7-9pm, ''Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting''
* 8/28, 6-9pm, ''Somerville Cryptoparty'', The Sprouts
* ?, ?, '''Holyoke Pirate Meetup''', Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke
* 9/3, 7-9pm, ''Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting'', Industry Lab, Cambridge
* 9/10, 7-9pm, ''Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting'', Democracy Center, Cambridge

== Participants ==

* jokeefe
* Pirate_Joe
* Malt 
* srevilak

=== Observers ===

* bonelesspepsi
* davidd
* hvxgr
* MikaelaSuomalainen
* mikey

== Summary ==

Steve provides summary of American Correctional Association demonstration in Copley Square.

Straight Pride counter demonstration on Aug 31st.  See https://www.facebook.com/events/2233546250067653.  Currently planned for 11:00 am on Aug 31st, somewhere around Copley Square.

Still working out organization of national party.  Several states are interested in participating.

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