August 21st, 2018 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

• Move meeting?
• 8/22, 9pm, National Meeting

Projects

Freedom Rally

• Table?
• MeshNet site plan - in progress
• Other things to do: Day Against DRM, Survey, Map CCTV cameras

Day Against DRM

• Working with FSF to set up a planning call next week

Party Conference

Set for 9/29

• Site walk through
• Setup pirate pad
• Setup Registration (jokeefe)
• Setup page (jokeefe)
• Write announcement blog post (jokeefe)
• Email volunteers
• Write weekly blog post reminders (jokeefe)

Statements

• Donate Your Vote campaign (jokeefe)
• S.2823 - A bill to modernize copyright law, and for other purposes - posted. jokeefe will create petition
• Free Reality Winner - Approved. jokeefe will write a statement
• US S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017 - Approved our opposition to S.1241. Need statement (Joe)
• MA Bill H.3641: An Act relative to electronic tolling - Approved our opposition to it. Past position is to remove the tolls on the Pike since it has long been paid for. Bill did not get out of committee (jokeefe)

Computer Donations

https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations

Other To Dos

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

• install a Matrix server (jokeefe)
• email Loomio invite to supporters (jokeefe)
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)

Upcoming Events

• 8/21, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 8/22, 9-10pm, National Party IRC Meeting - moved
• 8/28, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 8/29, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• Aug/Sep, Boston-area Chapter Meeting
• Aug, Democracy/IT meeting. Email info@masspirates.org for the location
• Aug, Freedom Rally Mesh Net Site Review', Boston Common
• 9/4, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 9/8, Worcester Pride Parade, Registration
• 9/10, Cambridge Carnival & Parade
• 9/11, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 9/15-17, Freedom Rally, Sign Up Form
• 9/18, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 9/18, Day Against DRM
• 9/19, International Talk Like a Pirate Day
• 9/23-30, Together Boston, Cambridge
• Sept., Party Conference
• 9/25, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 9/26, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville

Participants

• jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
• Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
• Malt

Observers

• ChanServ
• hvxgr

Minutes

 


[9:03pm] Malt: Welcome~
[9:03pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:03pm] hvxgr: ahoy ( Tom Rodman/Milwaukee - observing )
[9:04pm] Pirate_78725 joined the chat room.
[9:04pm] Malt: Sam Capradae, Worcester
[9:04pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:04pm] jokeefe: Agenda https://masspirates.org/wiki/August_21st,_2018_IRC_Meeting
[9:04pm] jokeefe: guess we started with ids
[9:04pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:05pm] jokeefe: how are you all?
[9:06pm] Malt: No complaints!
[9:06pm] Pirate_78725: Meh.
[9:06pm] jokeefe: Sorry to hear that Pirate_78725
[9:06pm] Malt: got the national meeting tomorrow night
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Aye
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Same bat time, Different bat channel
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Anything to add to the agenda?
[9:08pm] hvxgr: no / I will be quiet, I think. /
[9:09pm] Malt: I was going to ask if we wanted to endorse the national prisoner's strike
[9:09pm] Malt: i can send out an e-mail
[9:10pm] jokeefe: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-strike-launches-over-underpaid-labor-and-prison-conditions.html
[9:11pm] jokeefe: We outlawed slavery (though not if you are a prisoner).
[9:11pm] Pirate_78725: ah, thank you for the link. The 13th amendment, yeah.
[9:11pm] Malt: there's a push for vote-trading, i've had luck reaching one of my non-voting friends who is interested in the idea
[9:11pm] Malt: they're also asking for statements of solidarity to send to the prisoners
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Labor only has dignity if it is fairly compensated. plus it is wrong to have tiny wage workers competing with minimum+ wage workers
[9:12pm] Pirate_78725: I'm confused how prisons are a private business, but don't our tax dollars fund some of it?
[9:13pm] jokeefe: We said we would support telling people about vote trading, IIRC
[9:13pm] jokeefe: I have no objection to supporting an honest days wage for an honest days labor
[9:14pm] hvxgr: In MKE we have a terrible jail downtown (17 deaths), tonight I went to a meeting w/about 6 attending to "close MSDF" #CLOSEMSF.  This group is active in the strike.
[9:14pm] Malt: gotcha
[9:15pm] Malt: niiiice!
[9:15pm] hvxgr: (about 60)
[9:15pm] hvxgr: Thx.
[9:15pm] Pirate_78725: MSDF - Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility
[9:16pm] Pirate_Joe joined the chat room.
[9:16pm] Pirate_Joe: Ahoy
[9:16pm] jokeefe: Some prisions are private. Muckrock had a whole series on them
[9:16pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:16pm] Pirate_78725: Yarp
[9:17pm] Malt: So, e-mail to the activist list about supporting the strike, and a blog post about vote trading?
[9:17pm] Pirate_Joe: Sry for the delay
[9:17pm] jokeefe: fine by me, Malt