October 28th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Party Conference

Set hours for the conference.

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

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

National Party

Election night recording - Looking for participants

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

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

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next one set for for 10/31, 11am-1pm

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

Party Conference

• Emailing list about schedule
• Asking members for topics
• Setting up sign up sheet
• Updating conference page
• Posting on blog
• Dividing up the platform

Surveillance Mapping Event

• Come up with a how to instructions
  • Paper - done
  • iPhone - done
  • Android
• Come up with how to videos
• Boston (jokeefe) - Sept 12th - done
• Worcester (Malt) - Oct 17th - done

Nov. Anarchist Book Fair

Dec. 4th Day Against DRM

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?

Campaigns

• Free the Moderna Vaccine
  • Planning meeting upcoming. Contact jokeefe for details if you want to attend.
  • Planning new event
• Yes on 1
  • Post on our support for it
  • Who could reach out to campaign to ask how we can help?
• Yes on 2
  • Post reminder of our support for it
  • jokeefe reached out to campaign on helping. Will followup.
  • Yard signs available.

Bills

Federal

• EARN IT Act
  • Petition
• 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

Computer donations

• Rules
• Sign up form

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Other To Do

• Application to PPI
• Post statement on Archive.org Suit
• Post statement on our support for Question 1: open access to vehicle telematics systems.
• Post statement on our opposition to S.4051 - Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act.
• Post statement on retaining section 230 protections. Docket RM-11862. Per TechDirt, 9/17 is the last date for submissions for the 2nd round. - done

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
• 10/31, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
• 11/14-15, Party Conference

Participants

Observers

• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey

Minutes

 


[9:06pm] jokeefe: Let’s start then
[9:06pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/October_28th,_2020_IRC_Meeting
[9:06pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:06pm] jokeefe: Anything to add to the agenda?
[9:06pm] Olivia_: Olivia Kristiann, PPI volunteer
[9:06pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:06pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Decisions/Endorsements
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Party Conference
[9:07pm] Olivia_: election night
[9:07pm] jokeefe: I signed us up for meet.coop. Waiting to get the login credentials
[9:07pm] Malt joined the chat room.
[9:07pm] jokeefe: ahoy Malt
[9:07pm] jokeefe: we are just starting
[9:07pm] Malt: Sam capradae, Worcester
[9:07pm] Malt: Hi pals
[9:08pm] Olivia_: Hello!
[9:08pm] Olivia_: I don't know what meet.coop is.
[9:08pm] jokeefe: we need to set the hours for the conference.
[9:08pm] Joe: sup Malt
[9:09pm] jokeefe: it is a big blue button hosting provider
[9:09pm] Malt: I'm fine. I think 4 hours in the afternoon Is enough?
[9:10pm] jokeefe: Also, Saturday at 3pm is the PPInt’s Pirate Beer
[9:10pm] jokeefe: thought we could add that in as the end activity
[9:10pm] Malt: Neat!
[9:10pm] jokeefe: what about 11am-4pm?
[9:10pm] Malt: Works for me
[9:10pm] Olivia_: I can anytime.
[9:11pm] Olivia_: If international appear that's a great start time too.
[9:11pm] jokeefe: Joe?
[9:12pm] Joe: I will do my best to accommodate any time.
[9:12pm] jokeefe: do you think that is a good time range?
[9:12pm] jokeefe: or is there a better one?
[9:13pm] Olivia_: For the United States yes on all coasts.
[9:13pm] jokeefe: could do noon-5pm, and encourage people to eat lunch before
[9:13pm] Joe: if it's the weekend, yes.
[9:14pm] Joe: regular breaks are important.
[9:14pm] jokeefe: others ok with noon-5pm?
[9:14pm] Malt: Noon to 5 sounds smart
[9:14pm] jokeefe: agreed on the regular breaks.
[9:15pm] jokeefe: Hour long sessions with 10 min break at the end?
[9:16pm] Joe: 5 minutes on the hour with 1 larger break?
[9:16pm] Joe: just enough time for smoking but not long enough to lose people's interest.
[9:17pm] Malt: Ime 5 minute breaks default to 10
[9:17pm] jokeefe: how long?
[9:17pm] Joe: or in my case fatness replenishing breaks.
[9:18pm] Malt: Call it 5 but plan for 10
[9:18pm] jokeefe: how long for the 1 larger break?
[9:18pm] Joe: 30 minutes
[9:18pm] Malt: Yea
[9:20pm] Joe: standard webinar breaks really. Done in a way that keeps people intellectually interested.
[9:21pm] jokeefe: I think a larger break is good, but perhaps this schedule would work:
[9:22pm] jokeefe: two sessions, 30 minute break, two sessions
[9:23pm] jokeefe: noon-4:30?
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