August 21st, 2019 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3:

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

Regional Meetings & Party Conference

Leader: jokeefe

Most votes for weekend of 9/21 for the party conference. E5 has openings that weekend as well as the two weekends after.

Looking at late October or November for the Holyoke meetup.

Perhaps a Worcester meetup the month after the Holyoke meetup?

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be October 5th, 11am-1pm, possibly at 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).

Tasks

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.

Tabled Projects

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

Computer Donations

https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations

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

• 8/24, 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
• ?, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington

Participants

• jokeefe
• igel
• DesmondRavenston
• srevilak
• Malt
• designanddraft

Observers

• bonelesspepsi[m]
• davidd
• hvxgr
• MikaelaSuomalainen
• Deffy
• haskal

Summary

Party conference on Sep 21st. Will reserve E5.

Pirate Picnic is this Saturday, starting at 1p. See https://masspirates.org/blog/2019/08/13/lowell-pirate-picnic-august-24th/

National party is opening a bank account, etc.

Next Tech meeting Oct 5th 11a - 1p @ E5.

Minutes

 
21:02 <@jokeefe> Agenda:
        https://masspirates.org/wiki/August_21st,_2019_IRC_Meeting
21:02 <@jokeefe> ids
21:02 <@jokeefe> James O’Keefe, Somerville
21:02 < DesmondRavenstone> Desmond Ravenstone, Boston (Roslindale)
21:02 < igel[m]> william fleurant, arlington
21:03 <@jokeefe> Anything to add?
21:03 < igel[m]> ahoy :]
21:03  * igel[m] looking at agenda
21:03 < srevilak> Steve Revilak, Arlington
21:04 <@jokeefe> Nothing for review or decisions, skipping to projects
21:05 <@jokeefe> Regional Meetings & Party Conference
21:05 < igel[m]> no, none
21:05 < DesmondRavenstone> From the posts on the activist list, looks
        like we'll be at Encuerto 5, yes?
21:06 <@jokeefe> Yes. The poll had 9/21 as the best date and Encuentro
        5 is open. Cost is $200. They have a screen and sound system.
21:06 <@jokeefe> and projector.
21:06 <@jokeefe> Shall we confirm for that date?
21:07 < DesmondRavenstone> Sounds good to me.
21:07 < srevilak> go for it!
21:08 <@jokeefe> Ask for space for 9am to 6pm?  Start at 10am and cleanup
        by 6pm?
21:08 < srevilak> Those times sound reasonable
21:08 < DesmondRavenstone> Aye
21:08 <@jokeefe> All in favor?
21:08 < DesmondRavenstone> Aye
21:08 < srevilak> aye
21:09 <@jokeefe> aye
21:09 <@jokeefe> Any opposed?
21:09 < srevilak> nay
21:10 < srevilak> (Not opposed :)
21:10 <@jokeefe> :-)
21:10 <@jokeefe> Motion passes. Will confirm with E5 by tomorrow and
        announce it as well
21:11 < srevilak> Thank you!
21:11 < DesmondRavenstone> :)
21:11 <@jokeefe> Lowell picnic is this Saturday
        starting at 1pm. Updated the location at
        https://masspirates.org/blog/2019/08/13/lowell-pirate-picnic-august-24th/
21:13 < srevilak> hai Malt!
21:13 < Malt> Sam capradae, Worcester
21:13 <@jokeefe> I reached out to our Holyoke contact about having the
        meetup there in Nov/Dec.
21:13 < Malt> Sorry for the delay, baby class at hospital
21:13 <@jokeefe> welcome Malt
21:13 <@jokeefe> That is a priority
21:13 < srevilak> baby class is important
21:14 <@jokeefe> Malt - what do you think about a Worcester meetup
        in Nov/Dec?
21:14 < Malt> Learning all the new sciences, like Perpetual Feeding
21:14 < Malt> Would be a good way to respond to the last election
21:14 <@jokeefe> true
21:15 <@jokeefe> Would you see what spaces/dates are open, Malt?
21:15 < Malt> Sure
21:15 <@jokeefe> thanks
21:15 <@jokeefe> National Party
21:16 <@jokeefe> They are starting a bank account
21:16 <@jokeefe> and all that
21:17 <@jokeefe> Since the national party coop rules would have a vote a
        state, Pirate_Joe wanted to know how we thought decisions should be made.
21:18 < DesmondRavenstone> Would make sense if he brought agenda items
        in advance to this forum for discussion and consensus/vote
21:18 <@jokeefe> I think decisions should be on a two week schedule:
        1. Announce proposal, 2. States review and approve or offer amendments
        3. national reps adjusts and votes
21:19 <@jokeefe> Agreed DesmondRavenstone
21:19 <@jokeefe> Thoughts?
21:19 < Malt> Neat
21:19 < DesmondRavenstone> Sounds good
21:21 < Malt> Works for me
21:22 <@jokeefe> Any other thoughts?
21:22 < designanddraft> ways to accommodate for disputes as majority
        does not rule?
21:22 <@jokeefe> such as?
21:24 < DesmondRavenstone> Remember that consensus isn't just "unanimous
        vote" but a process of discerning common ground, taking "minority"
        concerns into account
21:25 < Malt> A roadblock process might be useful
21:25 < DesmondRavenstone> You don't just vote "yes" or "no" but come
        up with an answer to the question, even if that answer is different from
        the original proposal
21:25 < Malt> Ultimately it's hard to know what problems well run into
        beforehand
21:26 <@jokeefe> Will suggest it.
21:26 <@jokeefe>
        https://wiki.pirate-party.us/Pirate_National_Committee_(PNC)/Bylaws
21:26 <@jokeefe> thanks
21:26 < designanddraft> thx
21:26 <@jokeefe> Video Newsletter
21:26 < igel[m]> whats by roadblock?
21:27 <@jokeefe> Sunday 10am for next pirate news recording?
21:27 < DesmondRavenstone> Topics?
21:27 < srevilak> I'll be traveling
21:27 < designanddraft> roadblock guessing...no pass if someone definitely
        opposed
21:28 < Malt> An intractable problem
21:29 < igel[m]> aah ok so this question is recursive even when in
        discussion about it :]
21:29 <@jokeefe> consensus decisionmaking allows 1 or more to have a
        blocking concern
21:30 <@jokeefe> once are concerns are resolved, the motion
        passes. assumes concerns are honest though
21:31 < igel[m]> ok
21:31 < igel[m]> (w/ me)
21:32 <@jokeefe> Topics: ooo so many. Mass. facial surveillance bill,
        Amazon’s deal with police to make warrantless review of their
        surveillance cameras, FCC as free speech police, …
21:34 < Malt> That Amazon police bill seems like easy leverage
21:34 < Malt> The agreements aren't producing much fruit for the cops
21:34 < Malt> Could be an easy push to get Boston to step back also
21:34 < Malt> Frame it as a cost concern
21:36 <@jokeefe> Cool. So 10am Sunday?
21:37 < designanddraft> new topics?...talked by phone with christine
        and joseph, i am volunteering for national presidential ticket on pirate
        party platform, decentralize banking and laws off my body, etc
21:37 < Malt> Ok w/me
21:37 < Malt> Neat!
21:37 < srevilak> nice!
21:38 < DesmondRavenstone> :)
21:38 <@jokeefe> Great. Will send notice to the activists list
21:38 <@jokeefe> Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)
21:38 <@jokeefe> Next meeting will be October 5th, 11am-1pm
21:39 <@jokeefe> I asked E5 if we can meet there. Cost is around $30.
21:39 < srevilak> Works for me
21:39 <@jokeefe> DesmondRavenstone - should we retire the Boston Sex
        Worker Petition?
21:40 < DesmondRavenstone> No, let's keep it up … Could prompt more
        inquiries later on, perhaps a surge if things develop. Remember every
        signature gets a notice sent to the police Commissioner.
21:41 <@jokeefe> ok
21:42 <@jokeefe> That is all there is on the agenda
21:42 <@jokeefe> If there isn’t anything else, shall we adjourn?
21:42 < DesmondRavenstone> Sounds like a plan
21:43 < srevilak> aye
21:43 <@jokeefe> aye
21:43 < srevilak> will post transcript
21:43 <@jokeefe> thank you.