August 5th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

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

Bills

Federal

• Push to vote on EARN IT Act without debate
  • Will put up a petition to contact Senators asking them to help Wyden put a hold on it
  • Can also attempt to flood them with calls, but everything goes to voice mail
  • Especially need to find local Markey campaign events and ask him there, but all of his events are phonebanks
• PATRIOT Act renewal

State

• Legislature extended session
• Push to get Right to Repair bill to a vote.
• Some of facial recognition moratorium is in the police reform bill

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) - Sept 12th
  • Worcester (Malt) - Oct 17th
• Party Conference - Fall
• 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

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

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

• Every Tuesday, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, on-line
• 8/?, 2pm-4pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
• 9/12, Boston Surveillance Mapping Outing
• 10/17, Worcester Surveillance Mapping Outing
• Party Conference - Fall

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)

Observers

• davidd
• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey

Summary

MA legislature has extended their session beyond July 31st, to deal with bill reconciliation and COVID-related things.

Need to contact senators re: EARN IT act.

jokeefe and srevilak to test video recording on Saturday 5pm. Actual recording Sunday at 7pm.