August 1st, 2017 IRC Meeting

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.

Planning Pad

To Do:

• blog post
• email
• Facebook event
• Email act-ma
• Post to other event listings
• call members
• make poster
• put up posters
• write how-tos

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

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 - 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

• 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

Observers

• davidd
• igel
• papegaai