September 19th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Review

Freedom Rally

Planning doc: https://piratenpad.de/p/FreedomRally2017

Decisions/Endorsements

SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act)

https://piratenpad.de/p/SESTAStatement

Projects

Digital Right of Repair

Hearing on the 26th. Details: https://masspirates.org/blog/2017/09/18/digital-right-of-repair-hearing-on-sept-26th/

Other To Dos

S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017

Approved our opposition to S.1241. Need statement (Joe)

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.

Tech/Outreach

• Review regular IRC meeting day. Poll sent to email list - Sent (jokeefe)
• email Loomio invite to supporters (jokeefe)
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)
• finish setup of myBB (jokeefe)
• install mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)

Mayfirst is looking at setting up a Discourse instance we could use.

Upcoming Events

• 9/15-17, Freedom Rally, Sign Up Form
• 9/19, International Talk Like a Pirate Day
• 9/27, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• Fundraiser
• 10/4, Wikileaks' 10th Birthday Party
• 10/25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 11/4, 11am-2pm, South Boston Cryptoparty, South Boston BPL Branch, 646 East Broadway
• 11/8, City Election Day
• 11/11-12, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, Boston University George Sherman Union
• 11/29, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 12/17, Chelsea Manning's Birthday
• 12/27, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• jokeefe
• Mose
• AsamonDajin

Observers

• davidd
• hvxgr
• igel
• papegaai

Summary

Had some technical difficulties that had us moving to the Discord instance.

Updated the SESTA statement: https://piratenpad.de/p/SESTAStatement

Minutes

 

IRC:

[9:05pm] jokeefe: Joe is having difficulty getting in
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Have you had the opportunity to look at the email I sent out about SESTA and https://piratenpad.de/p/SESTAStatement ?
[9:09pm] Pirate_19084: yeah!
[9:09pm] Pirate_19084: i'm haviing trouble understanding the diffrence between SESTA and DMCA
[9:09pm] Pirate_19084: err rather
[9:10pm] jokeefe: there is a bit of overlap
[9:11pm] jokeefe: Joe requests we try the discord server - https://discordapp.com/invite/FND2QwU
[9:11pm] papegaai: Title: Discord (at discordapp.com)
[9:13pm] Pirate_19084: Safe harbor provision of the DMCA
[9:14pm] jokeefe: do you want to try it?
[9:15pm] jokeefe: instead of IRC.
[9:16pm] Pirate_19084: are you asking me?
[9:16pm] jokeefe: yes, but perhaps we should just discuss https://piratenpad.de/p/SESTAStatement directly.  on that page
[9:17pm] test_user left the chat room. (Quit: http://www.kiwiirc.com/ - A hand-crafted IRC client)
[9:21pm] Pirate_19084: alright

Discord:

jokeefe - Today at 9:17 PM
ahoy - shall we just discuss https://piratenpad.de/p/SESTAStatement at that page?
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:17 PM
Ahoy!
If you select the main deck you should be able to hear me as well
One moment to get caught up.
jokeefe - Today at 9:19 PM
ok
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:20 PM
Ok, ty
Would you like this meeting recorded and posted to Youtube via private site or public?
My computer is getting really hot. I need to shut it down soon.
I am sorry, but I will try to get the problem rectified as soon as possible.
jokeefe - Today at 9:42 PM
no worries. we can finish it via email
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:42 PM
Ok Jamie, let me know if there is anything else I can do.
jokeefe - Today at 9:42 PM
thanks
Mose - Today at 9:43 PM
cool
jokeefe - Today at 9:43 PM
ahoy
Mose - Today at 9:43 PM
ahoy
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:43 PM
O yeah, I have discord on my phone!
jokeefe - Today at 9:43 PM
lol
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:45 PM
I just realized that I can go for a walk and still be in the meeting!?!?!?!?!
jokeefe - Today at 9:46 PM
the beauty of modern technology
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:47 PM
Lol, right. Get my government to listen to me huff and puff. ^.^
Mose - Today at 9:50 PM
v important
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:53 PM
How did this weekend go?
jokeefe - Today at 9:54 PM
Well. Malt and Matt got a lot of signups on Saturday
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:55 PM
I saw I missed a few calls from Malt.
jokeefe - Today at 9:55 PM
I have them and will enter them to crew
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:57 PM
How do you feel about a weekly broadcast? Pirate Publications?
jokeefe - Today at 9:57 PM
worth a try
perhaps start monthly
AsamonDajin - Today at 9:59 PM
I think a bit will depend on content as well.
jokeefe - Today at 10:01 PM
agreed
Mose - Today at 10:02 PM
how long?
AsamonDajin - Today at 10:02 PM
I would also recommend we keep our videos short. I was going to attempt to make the an edited video of the rally to remove the excessive down times.
jokeefe - Today at 10:02 PM
Please do
Mose - Today at 10:05 PM
soundsgood
microblogging
under ' Pirate Publications'
AsamonDajin - Today at 10:06 PM
Yay! I coined something!
jokeefe - Today at 10:06 PM
:smiley:
AsamonDajin - Today at 10:07 PM
I do my best thinking when in motion.
I swear.
jokeefe - Today at 10:11 PM
Shall we adjourn and take any final updates to the email list?
AsamonDajin - Today at 10:11 PM
I second.
jokeefe - Today at 10:13 PM
Mose?
Well two in favor at least. Have a good night to you both.
AsamonDajin - Today at 10:17 PM
Good night to both of you as well.
Mose - Today at 10:18 PM
sure!