December 26th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Discussion

Informal Meeting.

Minutes

 


[9:00pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:02pm] Malt joined the chat room.
[9:02pm] tick is now known as AndyK.
[9:02pm] AndyK: ahoy
[9:02pm] Malt: Howdy y'all
[9:03pm] Malt: Howdy
[9:04pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:04pm] Malt: Happy Kwanzaa
[9:05pm] Malt: Umoja!
[9:05pm] Pirate_50190 joined the chat room.
[9:05pm] jokeefe: how is everyone?
[9:06pm] Pirate_50190: Ahoy!
[9:06pm] Pirate_50190: Cold
[9:06pm] Malt: Same
[9:06pm] Malt: Sick
[9:06pm] jokeefe: aye to that
[9:07pm] Pirate_50190: brb
[9:07pm] jokeefe: what would you all like to discuss?
[9:08pm] Pirate_50190: Funding ? 
[9:08pm] Pirate_50190 is now known as Joe.
[9:08pm] Malt: We need to get ahead of this poison pill net neutrality bill
[9:09pm] Joe: I think the next vid is on it. I have been having some trouble with my main pc so the vids were a bit challenging to get.
[9:09pm] jokeefe: municipal wifi
[9:10pm] jokeefe: not much we can do on the federal level, unfortunately, but can push for state laws as well
[9:11pm] Joe: Sadly, I think they will generally push that one down to the local level. But I would be happy to fight for it here in Lowell
[9:11pm] Malt: The FCC removed states ability to regulate Muni internet
[9:12pm] Malt: I've got the crypto party at the worcshop tomorrow
[9:12pm] jokeefe: as long as they cannot prevent it
[9:13pm] jokeefe: cool. I plan to make the one in January
[9:13pm] Malt: Wait no, next week, NVM
[9:13pm] Malt: It's not Jan yet
[9:14pm] Malt: Fundraiser idea, sell pirate braned USB sticks with OSS software?
[9:14pm] Malt: For a donation
[9:14pm] Joe: I did come up with something that I want to do. Do we have a batch of magnets that we can distribute?
[9:15pm] Joe: I would also like tee-shirts for a donation as well.
[9:16pm] Joe: The lower the cost the easier the donation.
[9:16pm] jokeefe: As long as we can verify that USB sticks don’t have viruses, that is fine
[9:17pm] Malt: Your friends in the fight for freedom
[9:17pm] Malt: The pirate party
[9:18pm] Malt: Hah, deliberately loading malware for disgruntled employees to unleash on corporate networks?
[9:18pm] Joe: oOo, that reminds me, I have a slogan I wanted to throw at you peoples.
[9:18pm] jokeefe: ok
[9:18pm] Malt: That's pirating at Max capacity
[9:18pm] Joe: I would not recommend that.
[9:18pm] Malt: Aw!
[9:18pm] Joe: Then we could be held for damages and that whole mess.
[9:19pm] Malt: Iirc there's already product s like that, protected from liability
[9:20pm] Malt: USB sticks that fry main boards
[9:20pm] Malt: Eh, anyway
[9:21pm] Joe: Anyways, the slogan I was thinking was...... "Mass Pirates, fighting for a real democracy!"
[9:21pm] jokeefe: yeah, not a good idea to fry people’s computers
[9:21pm] AndyK: haha
[9:22pm] Joe: Or instead of Mass pirates, The Pirate Party.
[9:22pm] Joe: Toasted computers make me sad, I break enough of them as it is, lol
[9:22pm] jokeefe: heh
[9:23pm] Joe: Though I do love a good frankiencomp 
[9:24pm] Joe: Do we have spare items we could slap on a webpage?
[9:24pm] jokeefe: It looks like a good slogan
[9:25pm] jokeefe: which spare items?
[9:25pm] Joe: Well, to be true to it, we should put it to a vote for the entire party.
[9:25pm] Joe: Like shirts, usbs or magnets it would seem.
[9:26pm] Joe: Though, as usual, I am open to many possiblities.
[9:30pm] Malt: We could do an e waste drive?
[9:30pm] Joe: I would be happy to support that.
[9:30pm] jokeefe: well, if someone(s) wants to work on it and get something that works, then we can determine how much we can put to expanding it
[9:31pm] Malt: That wouldn't cost much to setup, could charge people to come take their junk computers and laptops
[9:31pm] jokeefe: where do we put it when we have it?
[9:31pm] Malt: Boston metro, where our base is
[9:32pm] jokeefe: the ewaste?
[9:32pm] Joe: one of the companies I was planning to make was to process that, but there are a few options I could give you as well.
[9:32pm] Malt: Seems like y'all would have more e waste sites
[9:32pm] Joe: We need one in Lowell, the other guy just shut down.
[9:33pm] Malt: It would be a good way to get dead machines for the right to repair graveyard idea I had back in October
[9:33pm] jokeefe: I know that Somerville will take it
[9:33pm] Joe: It's a tough gig if you don't have the right equipment for the job due to the needed regulations for toxic disposal.
[9:33pm] jokeefe: What about other municipalities
[9:33pm] jokeefe: ?
[9:34pm] Malt: Yeah I think it's usually done in 3rd world countries by child slaves
[9:34pm] Malt: But we don't need to tell folks that
[9:34pm] Joe: We could look in to the cost to rent a box truck and make sure it goes to a proper disposal facility.
[9:35pm] Malt: If we're offering home pickup starting with one town seems smart
[9:35pm] Malt: Depending on turnout we might need many drivers
[9:36pm] Joe: I can see that growing in to an operation all by itself
[9:36pm] Malt: Obvs pickup is for stuff bigger than a phone
[9:37pm] Joe: True. Plus a lot of money can be made if done right.
[9:37pm] Joe: I was working on such a thing with a chemist in CA