September 30th, 2020 IRC Meeting: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 20:20, 30 September 2020

Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Ballot questions statement?

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
Fall, Party Conference

Participants

jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Berkshires)
srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
Malt (Sam capradae, Worcester)

Observers

ChanServ
hvxgr
Deffy
mikey

Summary

Statements on Ballot Questions. jokeefe receives kudos on his draft, and will post tomorrow.

Video newsletter. Meet at 7:00pm Sunday. We'll try to stream live. Stream to start at 7:30p, so we have 30 minutes for setup.

Tech. Next Meeting on Sunday Oct 10th.

Minutes

 
21:03 <@jokeefe>
       https://masspirates.org/wiki/September_30th,_2020_IRC_Meeting
21:03 <@jokeefe> ids
21:03 <@jokeefe> James O’Keefe, Somerville
21:03 < srevilak> Steve Revilak, Arlington
21:03 <@jokeefe> anything to add?
21:03 < Joe> Joseph Onoroski, Berkshires
21:04 < Joe> I have to put my baby to bed, one moment please.
21:04 <@jokeefe> sure
21:06 < Joe> ok, back
21:06 < Joe> ty
21:06 < srevilak> hai malt!
21:06 < Malt> Sam capradae, Worcester
21:06 < Malt> Thanks for waiting
21:07 <@jokeefe> no worries
21:07 <@jokeefe> welcome
21:08 <@jokeefe> Decisions/Endorsements
21:08 <@jokeefe> Are ballot questions statements I wrote ok?
21:08 < srevilak> I thought they were great
21:08 < Malt> Loved em
21:09 <@jokeefe> awe!
21:09 <@jokeefe> ;-)
21:09 <@jokeefe> I’ll post tomorrow then
21:09 <@jokeefe> Projects
21:09 <@jokeefe> Video Newsletter/Podcast - Recording Sunday 7pm ok?
21:09 < srevilak> yes
21:10 < Joe> I am coming back Saturday so there should be no issues.
21:10 <@jokeefe> cool
21:10 <@jokeefe> should we try to make it a real live stream and announce
       it a head of time?
21:11 < Joe> we could.
21:11 < srevilak> In that case, announce for 7:30, to give us time to
       get things in order
21:11 < srevilak> We should still meet up at 7p
21:12 < Malt> Yup
21:12 <@jokeefe> ok, will schedule for then and send connection details
       to Joe
21:12 < Joe> sounds good. Gives us proper setup time.
21:13 <@jokeefe> Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) - had a good meeting -
       https://masspirates.org/wiki/September_26th,_2020_Tech_Meeting
21:13 <@jokeefe> Next meeting scheduled for 10/10.
21:13 <@jokeefe> Will touch base with people who offered to help with
       live streaming
21:14 < srevilak> Oh no -- they killed Malt!
21:14 < srevilak> Bastards!
21:14 <@jokeefe> lol
21:14 < Joe> lol
21:14 <@jokeefe> The survey is due Friday.  Will get an email reminder
       out tomorrow.
21:15 <@jokeefe> That is all I have.
21:15 <@jokeefe> The gravity sink of work is pulling me toward it.
21:15 <@jokeefe> Unless there is anything else, shall we adjourn?
21:15 < Joe> lol. 2nd
21:16 < srevilak> aye
21:16 < srevilak> will post transcript
21:16 <@jokeefe> aye
21:16 < Joe> Im just relaxing here in the mountains. ^.^
21:16 <@jokeefe> thank
21:16 <@jokeefe> you both
21:16 <@jokeefe> sounds lovely
21:16 <@jokeefe> have a great evening!
21:16 < Joe> like a staycation but with less tech to pull me back.
21:17 < Joe> gn gents
21:17 <@jokeefe> we finished early Malt