September 13th, 2026 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-member-meeting/

Recording:

Decisions/Endorsements

BSides Cambridge / Member Meeting Conflict?

The BSides Cambridge event is on the same day as our 10/25/2026 Member Meeting. They don't overlap, but since some of us will be teaching people how to protect their privacy at BSides Cambridge, do we want to move this meeting to the week before?

Planning for 2027 Conference

The 2026 national conference functioned as our conference, but our last conference was in 2025. Suggest we:

• contact The Center for Arts at the Armory and see when the ROOTED Café will be open from January 2027 to May 2027 and what the price will be for a 6-8 hour block;
• put out a call for other locations that are accessible, near public transit and parking.

Projects/Events

Fall Surveillance Mapping Events

I am scheduling four upcoming Surveillance Mapping outings prior to the Boston Anarchist Bookfair on Nov. 7-8. I haven't heard whether we can have a table at it.

The event days are:

• 9/12
• 9/19
• 10/10
• 10/31

I objectives would be to:

1. finish mapping all the camera locations around the Cambridge Community Center;
2. map the exact locations of all the Shotspotters in Cambridge;
3. map surveillance devices in Salem for Halloween (10/31).

2027 Campaigns & Voter Outreach

Leader: Jamie

2027 Campaign Plan

Pirate News

Leader: Joseph

Pirate news recording scheduled for every other Sunday, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Suggest at this one we cover a cryptoparty topic.

Review Ballot Questions

• https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_2026_ballot_measures

Upcoming Events

• 9/12, Surveillance Mapping, Cambridge
• 9/19, Surveillance Mapping, Cambridge
• 10/10, Surveillance Mapping, Cambridge
• 10/25, BSides Cambridge MA, The Center for Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville
• 10/31, Surveillance Mapping, Cambridge or Salem
• 11/7-8, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender St, Cambridge

Participants

• Jamie
• Joe
• Steve

Summary

Cambridge forming some sort of committee to hear public testimony about shotspotter, and make a recommendation on whether to continue using the devices.

A host of municipalities have decided to get rid of their flock cameras. Yay.

We won't have a meeting after BSides. We'll meet the following Sunday.

2027 Member Meeting. Sometime between January and May of 2027. Will do a survey that asks people to suggest locations.

USPP updates. Tonight there will be discussion on where to hold the next conference. There are some growing pains from new Member states (which isn't a bad problem to have).

Camera Mapping. Was a glitch when our hosting provider moved cctv.masspirates.org to new infrastructure. In the process of straightening that out.

BSide Cambridge. Security conference. We're doing a cryptoparty.

2027 Campaigns and voter outreach.

Pirate News. Still one that needs to be edited and posted. We'll record one next Sunday at 8pm.

Ballot questions.

• Question 4. Election Day Voter Registration
  • Currently, one must register 10 days before an election in order to vote. This will allow same-day registration
  • MA currently allows same-day registration for early voting.
  • Would not allow voters to change party on election day for primaries.
  • We support this.
• Question 5. State Revenue Limits
  • Would change the way that state calculates the maximum amount of taxes the state can collection. Could potentially reduce amt of revenue collected year over year.
  • We oppose this.