March 7th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Projects

Planks

Previous work in this area: https://github.com/masspirates/planks

Projects On Hold For the Moment

First two of these could be topics for future hackathons.

CCTV Camera Map

Looking at organizing a map-a-thon.

Upcoming Events

• 3/19, 1:30-4:30pm, Rhode Island Cryptoparty, Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903
• 3/24, 3-5pm, Annoying Legislators for Freedom: A talk with Alex Marthews, National Director of Restore the 4th, Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston
• 3/25, afternoon, LGBT-focused Cryptoparty (tentative), Make Shift Boston, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston
• 3/25-26, 9am-5:30pm, MassAlliance Grassroots Campaign Training, Greater Boston
• 3/25-26, LibrePlanet 2017, MIT, Cambridge
• 3/29, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• srevilak: Steve Revilak, ARlington
• jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
• Moses
• random_letter: G- Lowell
• ovenbirdmash: Chris Foran - Roxbury

Observers

• davidd
• igel
• Portable_Cheese
• sankey

Summary

Moses described a project he is working on to get public domain crafting instructions into libraries:

• first freeing documents that are being falsely protected, i.e products with overreaching copyright notices
• second part is formatting and preparing and working with libraries
• mostly been preparing jurisprudance and legal framework

We have raised $280 from 5 people.

Minutes

 

[9:08pm] jokeefe: Agenda - https://masspirates.org/wiki/March_7th,_2017_IRC_Meeting
[9:08pm] papegaai: Title: March 7th, 2017 IRC Meeting - Mass Pirate Wiki (at masspirates.org)
[9:08pm] jokeefe: ids please
[9:08pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:09pm] random_letter: G- Lowell
[9:09pm] srevilak: Steve Revilak, ARlington
[9:09pm] srevilak: jokeefe: I guess you're changing that one 
[9:09pm] jokeefe: and will again
[9:11pm] jokeefe: done
[9:11pm] jokeefe: Anything to review?
[9:12pm] random_letter: the world is exploding
[9:13pm] random_letter: we all been watching these Vault 7 things? crazy
[9:13pm] random_letter: but i tthink i'm digressing.
[9:14pm] jokeefe: It is pretty significant
[9:14pm] Moses: can I add something
[9:14pm] jokeefe: ok
[9:15pm] Moses: I would breifly like to discribe a project i'm working on to get public domain crafting instructions into libraries
[9:16pm] jokeefe: sure
[9:16pm] random_letter: do it up
[9:16pm] Moses: now?
[9:17pm] jokeefe: do you want to talk about it at PirateCon?
[9:17pm] Moses: can i skype in ?
[9:17pm] ovenbirdmash joined the chat room.
[9:18pm] ovenbirdmash: Chris Foran - Roxbury
[9:18pm] jokeefe: ahoy ovenbirdmash
[9:18pm] jokeefe: we could see Moses
[9:18pm] jokeefe: Could you describe your project Moses?
[9:19pm] Moses: Its a two parter
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Agenda - https://masspirates.org/wiki/March_7th,_2017_IRC_Meeting
[9:19pm] papegaai: Title: March 7th, 2017 IRC Meeting - Mass Pirate Wiki (at masspirates.org)
[9:19pm] Moses: first freeing documents that are being falsely protected
[9:19pm] Moses: i.e products with overreaching copyright notices
[9:20pm] Moses: second part is formatting and preparing and working with libraries
[9:20pm] Moses: i've just started
[9:20pm] Moses: i've mostly been preparing jursprudance and legal farmework
[9:21pm] jokeefe: cool
[9:23pm] jokeefe: Projects
[9:23pm] jokeefe: Planks: at the last meeting we agreed to update our platform
[9:23pm] jokeefe: we started at  https://github.com/masspirates/planks
[9:23pm] papegaai: Title: GitHub - masspirates/planks: A place to define the Massachusetts Pirate Party planks (platform) (at github.com)
[9:24pm] random_letter: that's a lot of stuff
[9:25pm] random_letter: how do we maintain the center with so many planks? 
[9:26pm] jokeefe: need a way have people comment and decide how to update
[9:26pm] jokeefe: loomio is open source
[9:27pm] random_letter: what's loomio?
[9:29pm] random_letter: i'm reading these planks.... erm... we don't have a parliament in the US
[9:30pm] jokeefe: yes, there needs to be some editing
[9:30pm] jokeefe: It came from the german pirates
[9:30pm] jokeefe: https://www.loomio.org/
[9:30pm] papegaai: Title: Loomio | Make Decisions Together (at www.loomio.org)
[9:31pm] random_letter: some, indeed
[9:31pm] random_letter:
[9:31pm] ovenbirdmash left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
[9:32pm] jokeefe: Conference - Have 5 people ask to be speakers
[9:32pm] ovenbirdmash joined the chat room.
[9:32pm] jokeefe: srevilak booked us the Community church
[9:32pm] random_letter: what was the date again, i'll put it in my calendar
[9:33pm] jokeefe: 4/29 10am-6pm
[9:34pm] random_letter: word
[9:35pm] jokeefe: Fundraising
[9:37pm] jokeefe: We have raised $280 from 5 people
[9:37pm] jokeefe: srevilak, any others come in in the mail?
[9:41pm] srevilak: nothing else
[9:42pm] jokeefe: we have a potential place/date for an April campaign workshop, but may need to move it again
[9:43pm] jokeefe: Message board application/Tech meeting update?
[9:46pm] jokeefe: do we have the date for the next one?
[9:48pm] ovenbirdmash left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
[9:48pm] jokeefe: I don’t have any update on the Somerville local surveillance ordinance
[9:50pm] jokeefe: Cryptoparties are doing well
[9:52pm] jokeefe: That is all I have
[9:53pm] random_letter: word
[9:53pm] random_letter: i have nothing to add to the "official business" 
[9:56pm] random_letter: so how about all this Russophobia?
[9:56pm] random_letter: i posted a link about it on the page... to interesting results. lol
[9:57pm] jokeefe: gotta keep the war merchants happy
[9:57pm] jokeefe: anything else?
[9:57pm] random_letter: what else? 
[9:59pm] jokeefe: enjoying the CIA hacking revelations
[9:59pm] random_letter: yo i told you the toasters were listening
[9:59pm] random_letter: and the cars are trying to kill us
[9:59pm] random_letter: lol
[9:59pm] random_letter: but noooooooooooo
[10:00pm] jokeefe: only way to keep your tv from spying on you is don’t connect it to the internet
[10:01pm] random_letter: well, if you have a wifi enabled device it still connects on back channels you don't know about. so the only way is to not have the ability to connect.
[10:01pm] jokeefe: unplug it
[10:01pm] jokeefe: yeah, hastings death looked weird
[10:01pm] random_letter: sure, well that works until you want to use it 
[10:02pm] jokeefe: thing is that the tech isn’t for nations only
[10:02pm] random_letter: chinese corporations were using toasters to spy on US businesses
[10:02pm] jokeefe: and fridges 
[10:02pm] random_letter: McAfee was warning about it in 2016 during his campaign attempt
[10:03pm] random_letter: literally anything that can connect to a network will do so
[10:04pm] ovenbirdmash joined the chat room.
[10:04pm] jokeefe: don’t even need to be hackable to be useful to a bot net
[10:04pm] jokeefe: any how, motion to adjourn?
[10:05pm] random_letter: all this stuff parliament stuff
[10:05pm] random_letter: aye seconded, your motion
[10:05pm] random_letter:
[10:05pm] random_letter: there be barely three of us to parlay, anyways
[10:05pm] ovenbirdmash: Wasn't George Clinton in that group?
[10:05pm] random_letter:
[10:06pm] jokeefe: well, we can edit that
[10:06pm] jokeefe: all in favor of adjourning?
[10:06pm] ovenbirdmash: yup
[10:06pm] random_letter: nay
[10:06pm] random_letter:
[10:07pm] jokeefe: funny letter
[10:07pm] random_letter: actually i meant that i was in favor. yay
[10:07pm] random_letter:
[10:07pm] jokeefe: I got the transcript
[10:07pm] srevilak: thanks, jokeefe
[10:08pm] jokeefe: thanks all