June 6th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

MassCANN rally

MassCann/NORML Rally tomorrow - https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/

Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality

June 12th - https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2017-06-06-major-web-companies-and-public-interest-groups/

Projects

Our Elections

Email sent. Nominations by today. Election ballot by the 30th. Seven days after it is sent out. To Do:

• Send email reminder about nominations this week and next
• Setup ballot (srevilak). For this election, we are implementing Voting Tokens
• Send out ballot this week (jokeefe)
• Send out reminder ballots before polls close (jokeefe)
• Close polls
• Count results
• Publish results
• Setup meeting with new office holders

Boston Pride Parade

• Posted to the website
• Announcement made in ballot
• Facebook event setup - https://www.facebook.com/events/1932372283705942/
• Send another announcement this week

PirateCon

• Videos:
  • processed and uploaded
  • putting on finishing touches
  • announce and update piratecon page
  • setting up torrents
• Audio for one panel posted. More audio to edit.

Planks & Other Discussions

• Discussion
  • Reviewed Loomio instance. Looks good. Looking at how to invite people.
  • myBB installed, but not setup completely (jokeefe)
  • Installing mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)
  • Installed Matrix client (Riot), but we would need our own server to not be dependent on matrix.org servers.
• Previous work on planks: https://github.com/masspirates/planks

Local Chapters

Somerville meeting soon.

Day against DRM

Day Against DRM is Sunday, July 9th. Emailed FSF about our idea to hand out fliers.

Upcoming Events

• 6/10, Boston Pride Parade, Boston
• 6/21, Edward Snowden's Birthday
• 6/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 7/9, Day against DRM

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• jokeefe
• hvxgr
• srevilak

Observers

• davidd
• papegaai
• Techrev
• igel