July 25th, 2017 IRC Meeting: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 20:53, 25 July 2017
Review
Decisions/Endorsements
S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017
S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017 would add expand the definition of “financial institution” in 31 U.S. Code § 5312 - Definitions and application to include an issuer, redeemer, or cashier of digital currencies. This would allow them to monitor Bitcoin exchanges and the like.
Projects
Pirate Picnic
Scheduled for August 19th, near Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common. Schedule:
- noon-1pm: food and training;
- 1pm-2:30pm: map cameras;
- 2:30pm-3:30pm: come back and debrief.
To Do:
blog postemail- Facebook event
- Other events
- Email act-ma
- make poster
- put up posters
- write how-tos
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
Need a write up so we can put the word out (Malt)
Other To Dos
- Review regular IRC meeting day. Poll sent to email list (jokeefe)
- email Loomio invite to supporters (jokeefe)
- email/post about support of Internet-wid Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
- 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.
Fundraiser
Upcoming Events
- 7/26, Somerville cryptoparty, 6-9pm, The Sprouts
- 7/27, Fixit event in JP
- 8/19, noon-3:30pm, Pirate Picnic/Surveillance Camera Mapping Outing, Boston Common, Boston
- Sept., South Boston public library cryptoparty
See: 2017 calendar
Participants
- jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
- Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
Observers
- davidd
- igel
- papegaai