August 24th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Task Status

• PirateCon 2015 Videos (jokeefe, Bluestreak)
• MAAPL form (srevilak, jokeefe, noe, ...)
• Newsletter (Kendra, paper_waves, ?)
  • Design & Feedback
  • Distribution Planning (besides emailing a pdf)
    • Gather list of people to mail it to (?)
    • Gather a list of places to distribute it (?)
    • Decide on the print run (?)
  • Distribute
• Media
  • Updated media list (fish/noe)
  • Sep. - Freedom Rally
  • Oct. - Free Software & Innovation
  • Nov. - 2016 Elections
  • Dec. - ?
• Blog posts
  • Massachusetts GMO labeling bill (H.3242) - (Bluestreak with help from jokeefe)
  • Email lists & Local/regional contacts (jokeefe)
  • TPP/CISA (jokeefe)
  • Other legislation (jokeefe)

Tasks: Wiki list, PiratePad version.

Planning

Event Planning

1. Aug 26, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts
2. Sep. 26th & 27th, Freedom Rally - Sign up form - Planning - have asked for volunteers in email as well, need blog post by July/Aug
3. Sep. 22, 1pm, Public Hearing on Massachusetts GMO labeling bill (H.3242), Gardner Auditorium at the Massachusetts State House
4. Sep. 30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts
5. Oct. 3, 7-11pm, FSF 30th Anniversary Celebration, CIC Boston, 50 Milk St, Boston
6. Oct. 13 (probably), Cory Doctorow Event - Working with other groups
7. Oct. 28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts
8. Nov. event?
9. Nov. 25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts
10. Dec. event?
11. Dec. 30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts

Restarting in September: Every Thu., Digital Fourth meeting, 11:20am-1:30pm, Voltage Cafe, Third Street, Cambridge

Participants

• jokeefe: James O'Keefe, Somerville
• srevilak
• Bluestreak
• kendra
• igel

Observers

• davidd
• itspara
• Pharyngeal

Summary

No progress on Piratecon videos this week.

Discussed newsletter. We have an outline, but it needs flushing out. We'll keep newsletter files at https://masspirates.org/wiki/Newsletter

Minutes

 
21:01 < jokeefe> agenda -
        https://masspirates.org/wiki/August_24th,_2015_IRC_Meeting
21:01 < jokeefe> ids - James O’Keefe, Somerville
21:03 < srevilak> Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA
21:04 < jokeefe> everyone is enjoying summer
21:04 < Bluestreak> Lucia Fiero Medway
21:04 < Bluestreak> I’ve had better summers
21:07 < igel> lo
21:08 < jokeefe> ahoy Kendra & igel
21:08 < jokeefe> agenda -
        https://masspirates.org/wiki/August_24th,_2015_IRC_Meeting
21:08 < jokeefe> Tasks
21:09 < jokeefe> Pirate Con videos - Haven’t gotten a chance to deal
        with the videos.  Bluestreak?
21:09 < Bluestreak> Nope. Too tired.
21:09 < Bluestreak> Sorry.
21:10 < Bluestreak> Asked AJ but he is currently making his own project
21:11 < Kendra> Hi All, just doing some dog sitting chores real quick
21:12 < jokeefe> thanks, Bluestreak
21:13 < jokeefe> MAAPL form?
21:13 < srevilak> we've been making good progress
21:14 < srevilak> Joe went through the majority of the fields,
        reorganized, and cleaned up
21:14 < igel> k
21:14 < srevilak> next step it to write API program to bulk what he
        put together
21:14 < srevilak> my project for the week
21:15 < jokeefe> quite a project.  thank you!
21:15 < jokeefe> Newsletter - I put the pdf up at
        https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Ps3eiAOk5mb2NPUXBwSXBlOGM/view?usp=sharing
21:15 < srevilak> Fortunately, civi has a very nice API for doing
        this stuff
21:15 < jokeefe> good
21:16 < igel> keeping it close to civic app is smart
21:16 < srevilak> Scott Walker Punked in NH?  I didn't hear about that
21:17 < jokeefe> Kendra, will you be able to attend the cryptoparty
        on Wednesday?  Might go over layout ideas with paper_waves
21:18 < Kendra> I sent the latest draft to the list through the Hightail
        service, but I have not gotten it yet.  It was too big.
21:18 < srevilak> I've been derelict in looking at newsletter.
21:18 < srevilak> One observation: page size is european A4
21:19 < jokeefe> Do you want to use the
        style I put together for Noe’s flyers:
        https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Ps3eiAOk5mcWtCNWJUa3VIWGc/view?usp=sharing
21:19 < srevilak> I think we want 5.5 * 8.5 for zine
21:19 < Kendra> The MPP Fall newsletter 3rd Draft file might be in
        quarantine.  Yes, it looks like an 8x10 sheet folded in half is best.
21:20 < jokeefe> Kendra, what version of scribus are you using?
21:20 < srevilak> Kendra: that's what I was thinking
21:20 < Kendra> Something like that is how I reformatted the newsletter.
21:21 < Kendra> I think an old version. 1.4.0, my other computer was
        more up to date.
21:21 < jokeefe> Ok, 1.4 is what I have as well.  See they are on 1.4.5
        or 1.5
21:21 < jokeefe> I suggest keeping it some variation of letter sized
        for easy printing at home
21:22 < Kendra> I sent it to the list, but it may be in quarantine due
        to the size.
21:22 < jokeefe> will check and release it
21:22 < Kendra> It is formatted but could use some photos and a few
        other items.
21:24 < Kendra> 12-14 pages so far so feel free to add edits
21:24 < jokeefe> We have photos at masspirates.org/blog/press
21:25 < srevilak> re: scott walker punked:
        https://twitter.com/wpjenna/status/628226181502996480/photo/1
21:25 < jokeefe> Suggest keeping it in page counts divisible by 4 assuming
        four 5.5x8.5 a double sided page
21:26 < jokeefe> Kendra would you resend it.  Looks like it got denied
        due to size.
21:26 < jokeefe> I upped the limit
21:26 < Kendra> OK, just a minute
21:27 < jokeefe> thanks
21:29 < Kendra> I just resent it
21:29 < jokeefe> thank you
21:32 < jokeefe> here is the pdf -
        https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Ps3eiAOk5mVFF3UG5qeVRVQWM/view?usp=sharing
21:32 < Kendra> I started putting in stuff from the site.  If people
        want to add or shorten some of these submissions that helps.
21:33 < jokeefe> will make a go of it
21:33 < jokeefe> can we share it to the site you have it at?
21:34 < Kendra> 3 sheets=12 pages, 4 sheets = 16.  I borrowed from
        masspirates.org and thw wiki
21:35 < jokeefe> So please send suggestions to Kendra and/or the list.
        Thank you Kendra.
21:36 < jokeefe> On Media - Noe will contact fish about the media list.
21:36 < jokeefe> Need a press release by a week before.
21:37 < jokeefe> Sorry, I haven’t tackled the blog posts.  Will chip
        away at them.
21:38 < jokeefe> So I am rereading Falkvinge’s Swarmwise.  He points
        out the need for a forum, echoing Jamie’s suggestion.
21:38 < jokeefe> I asked Jamie and paper_waves to look into that.
21:39 < jokeefe> Another feature would be a place to share media files.
21:39 < jokeefe> media goblin instance?
21:39 < igel> owncloud?
21:39 < igel> i've set up neither.
21:40 < srevilak> https://share.mayfirst.org
21:40 < jokeefe> possibly.  We have one, but the space seems limited.
21:40 < Kendra> I have an own cloud pass word, I am not sure about having
        our won instance.
21:40 < Kendra> Can anyone log onto there Steve?
21:40 < srevilak> anyone with an MF/PL user account
21:40 < Kendra> May first members only or anyone?
21:41 < srevilak> since we are mf/pl members, we can create user accounts
21:41 < Kendra> That might work best, It was a bit much getting that
        uploaded.
21:41 < srevilak> (person don't have to be an individual member.
        They can be part of a member organization)
21:44 < jokeefe> Worth testing.  igel, have you used ownclowd locally?
21:45 < Kendra> I am having trouble using owncloud, not sure if it is
        due to the DDOS Attacks today.
21:45 < srevilak> yeah, we got hit kind of bad today
21:45 < srevilak> due to some infrastructure changes, we're better
        equipped to deal with that
21:46 < srevilak> as of, quite literally, the last 30 minutes or so
21:46 < Kendra> I can't get into own cloud, but for the mean time goole
        docs will have to do.
21:47 < srevilak> share.m.o seems okay to me right now
21:50 < srevilak> btw - media wiki is another way to share files, and
        it does versioning.  Just putting that out as an option
21:50 < jokeefe> Are there file limits?
21:50 < Kendra> I'll play with that tonight.
21:51 < srevilak> jokeefe: we host the mediawiki installation, so we
        control the limits
21:51 < jokeefe> tis true
21:52 < srevilak> I wouldn't put video footage up there, but pdf and
        scribus files should be fine
21:52 < jokeefe> ok, works for me
21:52 < Kendra> is there a specific url?
21:52 < jokeefe> masspirates.org/wiki
21:53 < srevilak> would suggest linking the files from
        https://masspirates.org/wiki/2015_Media_and_Graphics
21:54 < srevilak> I just added `sla' to the list of allowed file
        extensions
21:55 < jokeefe> I created https://masspirates.org/wiki/Newsletter
21:56 < jokeefe> thanks
21:56 < jokeefe> BTW: I registered votepirate.us
21:57 < igel> naice
21:57 < Kendra> I will upload to Media Wiki once I get my password reset
21:57 < jokeefe> I have some ideas for how to use it, but will need to
        think on it.
21:57 < jokeefe> We are at time
21:57 < jokeefe> Shall we end?
21:57 < Kendra> Move to adjourn?
21:58 < srevilak> 2nd motion
21:58 < jokeefe> 2nd
21:58 < jokeefe> all in favor?
21:58 < Kendra> aye
21:58 < igel> aye
21:58 < Kendra> nite all
21:58 < jokeefe> thanks all
21:58 < jokeefe> srevilak, you have the notes?
21:58 < srevilak> jokeefe: will do
21:58 < jokeefe> thank you