September 16th, 2020 IRC Meeting

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 9/26, 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

• Rules
• Sign up form

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
• 9/26, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
• 10/17, Worcester Surveillance Mapping Outing
• Fall, Party Conference

Participants

• Malt
• Joe
• srevilak
• davidd
• jj

Observers

• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey

Summary

Video Newsletter. 7pm Sunday.

Tech. Akismet service will need renewal soon. Next tech meeting on 9/26.

Events. Camera mapping tutorials. https://masspirates.org/wiki/Mapping_Surveillance

Merch ideas (brainstorm)

• masks
• bandannas
• caps and sunglasses
• eyepatches