October 9th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3:

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

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Holyoke Meetup, 11/24, 10:30am-3:30pm, Holyoke Public Library
• Worcester meetup moved to Spring 2020.
• Boston Anarchist Bookfair is Nov. 9-10. at Boston University. MassMesh is getting table. Would be a good to chip in for all or part of the table and use it for outreach.

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be November 2nd, 11am-1pm, 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).

Computer Donations

• jokeefe contacted friend who refurbishes computers for a non-profit
• Archived https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations - move to wiki

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?

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

• 10/12-13, HONK! & XR protest, Somerville
• 10/15, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• 10/21, 1-5pm, Right of Repair Hearing, Gardner Auditorium, State House, Boston
• 10/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 10/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 11/2, 11am-1pm, Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• 11/5, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 11/9-10, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Union, BU, Boston
• 11/?, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington
• 11/12, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• 11/24, 10:30am-3:30pm, Holyoke Meetup, Holyoke Public Library, 250 Chestnut Street, Holyoke
• Nov/Dec, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke
• Spring 2020, ?, Worcester Meetup

Participants

Observers

• davidd
• hvxgr
• Deffy

Minutes

 


[9:07pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/October_9th,_2019_IRC_Meeting
[9:07pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:07pm] Malt: Aw!
[9:07pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:07pm] Malt: Sam capradae, Worcester
[9:07pm] jokeefe: anything to add?
[9:07pm] Malt: Nyet!
[9:09pm] jokeefe: Skipping to Projects
[9:09pm] jokeefe: Regional Meetings/Events
[9:09pm] jokeefe: Holyoke meetup is set for 11/24
[9:09pm] Malt: Nice
[9:11pm] jokeefe: Boston Anarchist Bookfair will be at BU again this year
[9:11pm] Malt: When? I agreed to find a zine guide to distribute
[9:12pm] jokeefe: 11/9 and 11/10
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Thanks. And thanks for pursuing the Worcester meetup location
[9:13pm] jokeefe: Video Newsletter
[9:13pm] Malt: Course, it's surprisingly difficult
[9:13pm] jokeefe: How did the recording go?
[9:14pm] Malt: I wasn't available
[9:15pm] jokeefe: Should we email for when the next one will be?
[9:16pm] Malt: Sure, Sunday am works for me
[9:17pm] jokeefe: Good to know. How early works for you?
[9:18pm] Malt: 10 is use
[9:18pm] Malt: Ideal
[9:18pm] jokeefe: that could work. will check with others then
[9:19pm] Malt: Poifect!
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) - We had a good discussion. I took notes, but haven’t posted them yet.
[9:19pm] Malt: How goes with you?
[9:19pm] Malt: Gotcha
[9:20pm] jokeefe: Tired personally
[9:21pm] Malt: Feel that
[9:22pm] jokeefe: Talked about helping with an effort to FOIA police departments to find out which use RING
[9:23pm] jokeefe: Have some other ideas
[9:23pm] Malt: Yeah? Worcester refuses to comment
[9:23pm] Malt: Getting a better idea would be great
[9:25pm] jokeefe: Hope to have a form you can fill out that.
[9:26pm] Malt: The whole system is fuckin creepy
[9:26pm] Malt: We've also got those busted shot detectors
[9:26pm] Malt: Which never work
[9:27pm] jokeefe: How much is wasted on that?
[9:28pm] jokeefe: Guessing you need a FOIA for that
[9:29pm] Malt: Actually it's fairly well talked about
[9:29pm] Malt: I think some on the council dislike the expense
[9:30pm] jokeefe: that should make it easier to find out
[9:31pm] Malt: One councilor was talking about using vocational students to see fabric bags for retailers
[9:31pm] Malt: Now that we aren't using plastic
[9:32pm] jokeefe: Don’t retailers already sell them?
[9:34pm] jokeefe: Here are a whole bunch of Shotspotter FOIA requests https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?q=shotspotter&status=&user-autocomplete=&agency-autocomplete=&jurisdiction-autocomplete=&projects-autocomplete=&tags-autocomplete=&has_embargo=&has_crowdfund=&minimum_pages=&date_range_0=&date_range_1=&file_types=
[9:34pm] jokeefe: here is one from Springfield: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/springfield-258/springfield-shotspotter-installation-contracts-25770/
[9:35pm] Malt: Neat!
[9:35pm] Malt: Yeah would be curious to see if anyone has been arrested in conjunction with the test
[9:36pm] Malt: Tech
[9:37pm] jokeefe: That would be cool. would also be interesting to see if there were any people falsely accused
[9:38pm] jokeefe: Will keep you up to date so you can file for Worcester
[9:38pm] Malt: Thanks!
[9:38pm] Malt: Baby is finally sleeping in 4 hour blocks
[9:39pm] jokeefe: yay
[9:39pm] jokeefe: !
[9:40pm] jokeefe: that is all I have. unless there is anything, shall we adjourn?
[9:41pm] jokeefe: I expect we both could use more sleep
[9:42pm] Malt: Yeah
[9:42pm] Malt: I think so!
[9:42pm] Malt: See you soon!
[9:42pm] jokeefe: you too! thanks
[9:44pm] Malt: Night
[9:44pm] jokeefe: night