July 29th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

• Organize meetups
• Organize Fundraiser
• Organize candidate trainings
• Revise platform

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Surveillance Mapping Event
  • Boston (jokeefe)
  • Worcester (Malt)
• Sex Worker event?
• 2021 Boston Pride Festival
  • table booked
  • setup signup sheet
  • Announce
  • Need to purchase insurance
  • Need volunteer sign up form
  • Tie to an activity, mapping the CCTV cameras in Boston or along the Pride parade route?

Computer donations

• Rules
• Sign up form

Bills

• Push to get Right to Repair bill to a vote.
• Some of facial recognition moratorium is in the police reform bill
• Don't have an update on EARN IT Act or PATRIOT Act renewal

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Sent out email asking for date suggestions.

Other To Do

• Application to PPI
• Conference survey
• Statement on Archive.org Suit
• Statement on Extending the Eviction Moratorium
• Statement on Right to Repair bill
• Statement on RCV ballot initiative being on the ballot
• Condemnation of Use of Federal LEOs in Portland and elsewhere

Tabled Projects

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

• Summer 2020, ?, Boston Meetup
• Summer 2020, ?, Worcester Meetup
• Summer 2020, ?, Springfield Meetup
• ?/?, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Culture House, Harvard Square
• ?/?, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNe Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• ?/?, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• ?/?, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 5/?, 2pm-4pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Lowell)
• Malt (Sam capradae, Worcester)

Observers

• davidd
• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey

Summary

Next Pirate News recording - Sunday 7pm.

Regional Meetings. Desmond suggests focusing on the EARN IT act. See

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-act-violates-constitution for background.
• https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3398/text for text.
• https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200701/11302244826/senate-waters-down-earn-it-last-minute-gives-civil-liberties-groups-no-time-to-point-out-many-remaining-problems.shtml for more background

Perhaps a call-a-thon (contact your senator, urge them not to support)

jokeefe and srevilak will try to contact offices of Warren and Markey, to get a sense of their positions.

Surveillance Camera Mapping Event. Tentative date - Sept 12th.