August 21st, 2019 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3:

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

Regional Meetings & Party Conference

Leader: jokeefe

Most votes for weekend of 9/21 for the party conference. E5 has openings that weekend as well as the two weekends after.

Looking at late October or November for the Holyoke meetup.

Perhaps a Worcester meetup the month after the Holyoke meetup?

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be October 5th, 11am-1pm, possibly at 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).

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?

Computer Donations

https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations

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

• 8/24, Lowell Pirate Picnic, Lowell
• 8/27, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 8/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts
• ?, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke
• 9/3, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 9/10, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• ?, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington

Participants

• jokeefe
• igel
• DesmondRavenston
• srevilak
• Malt
• designanddraft

Observers

• bonelesspepsi[m]
• davidd
• hvxgr
• MikaelaSuomalainen
• Deffy
• haskal

Summary

Party conference on Sep 21st. Will reserve E5.

Pirate Picnic is this Saturday, starting at 1p. See https://masspirates.org/blog/2019/08/13/lowell-pirate-picnic-august-24th/

National party is opening a bank account, etc.

Next Tech meeting Oct 5th 11a - 1p @ E5.