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=== Support Lobby Day for  S.899 (An Act relative to forfeiture reform) ===
=== Support Lobby Day for  S.899 (An Act relative to forfeiture reform) ===


Restore the 4th Massachusetts is organizing a lobby day for S.899 (An Act relative to forfeiture reform) for Tuesday, January 21st, 2020, 10am-3pm.  The aim is to get voters to lobby the Judiciary committee to vote it out of committee. They would like us to endorse it and ask pirates to come out for it.
Restore the 4th Massachusetts is organizing a lobby day for [https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S899 S.899 (An Act relative to forfeiture reform)] for Tuesday, January 21st, 2020, 10am-3pm.  The aim is to get voters to lobby the Judiciary committee to vote it out of committee. They would like us to endorse it and ask pirates to come out for it.


== Projects ==
== Projects ==

Revision as of 10:20, 11 December 2019

Review

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Decisions/Endorsements

Support Lobby Day for S.899 (An Act relative to forfeiture reform)

Restore the 4th Massachusetts is organizing a lobby day for S.899 (An Act relative to forfeiture reform) for Tuesday, January 21st, 2020, 10am-3pm. The aim is to get voters to lobby the Judiciary committee to vote it out of committee. They would like us to endorse it and ask pirates to come out for it.

Projects

Goals for Q1 2020:

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

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

  • Worcester meetup moved to 1/17/2020 at Stone Soup

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

  • Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be in January. 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).

Tabled Projects

National Party

Boston Sex Worker Petition

Computer Donations

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.

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.

Upcoming Events

  • 12/17, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
  • 12/24, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
  • 1/?, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, ?
  • 1/7, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, ?
  • 1/14, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
  • 1/17, 7pm, ?, Worcester Meetup, Stone Soup, 4 King St, Worcester
  • 1/21, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
  • 1/28, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
  • 2/?, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Diesel Cafe, Somerville
  • 2/4, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
  • 2/11, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
  • Spring 2020, ?, Springfield Meetup
  • Spring 2020, ?, Boston Meetup

Participants

Observers

  • igel[m]
  • davidd
  • Deffy
  • haskal[m]
  • MikaelaSuomalainen
  • ChanServ

Summary

Minutes
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