October 2nd, 2019 IRC Meeting: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:20, 2 October 2019

Review

9/27 Flood the Seaport Protest

Decisions/Endorsements

Projects

Goals for Q3:

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

Regional Meetings

Leader: jokeefe

Looking at November for the Holyoke meetup.

Worcester meetup moved to Spring 2020.

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday Sept 8th, 18:30.

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).

National Party

Other Events

Boston Anarchist Bookfair is Nov. 9-10. Location hasn't been announced. MassMesh is getting table. Would be a good to chip in for all or part of the table and use it for outreach.

Computer Donations

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

Tasks

Statement on Alabama/Ohio/Georgia Abortion ban bills/laws

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.

National Platform reform/remake

Tabled Projects

These have been on our agenda for a long time. How do we make them a reality?

Boston Sex Worker Petition

Non-pirate guest speakers for Pirate News

CCTV camera map

Video Newsletter guest speakers

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

10/5, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington
10/8, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
10/15, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
10/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
10/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
11/5, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
11/9-10, Boston Anarchist Bookfair
11/12, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
Nov/Dec, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke
Spring 2020, ?, Worcester Pirate Meetup

Participants

Observers

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

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 === National Party ===
+=== Other Events ===
+* [http://bostonanarchistbookfair.org Boston Anarchist Bookfair] is Nov. 9-10. Location hasn't been announced. MassMesh is getting table. Would be a good to chip in for all or part of the table and use it for outreach.
 === Computer Donations ===
-* jokeefe contacting friend who refurbishes computers for a non-profit
+* jokeefe contacted friend who refurbishes computers for a non-profit
 * Archived https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations - move to wiki