September 4th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3:

• Organize meetups
• Organize election
• Organize Fundraiser(s)
• Organize candidate trainings
• Revise platform

Freedom Rally Table

MassMesh is looking to setup a table on the common. Join them? What should we bring?

Party Conference

Party Conference is 9/21 at Encuentro 5

ToDo list - https://pad.riseup.net/p/2019MAPPConference-keep

Regional Meetings

Leader: jokeefe

Looking at late October or November for the Holyoke meetup.

Malt is looking for a place/date for a Worcester meetup the month after the Holyoke meetup.

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday Sept 8th, 18:30.

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be October 5th, 11am-1pm, possibly at E5. Topics are:

• find discussion/voting system;
• update CCTV cameras to include older cameras outside North America we didn't include;
• write an app to record the location/ownership of CCTV cameras;
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds);
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak).

Computer Donations

• jokeefe contacting friend who refurbishes computers for a non-profit
• Archived https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations - move to wiki

Tasks

Fight bills to make the Film Credit Permanent

H.2419 would make the film tax credit permanent. It is supposed to expire in 2023. The bill has 100+ signatures this time around. jokeefe will submit testimony.

Tabled Projects

These have been on our agenda for a long time. How do we make them a reality?

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

• 9/10, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• 9/13-15, Freedom Rally, Boston Common
• 9/17, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 9/21, 9-6pm, Party Conference, Encuentro 5, Park Street, Boston
• 9/24, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 9/35, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts
• 10/1, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 10/5, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington
• 10/8, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• 10/15, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 10/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 10/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 11/5, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 11/12, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• Nov/Dec, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke
• Nov/Dec, ?, Worcester Pirate Meetup

Participants

Observers

• bonelesspepsi[m]
• davidd
• hvxgr
• MikaelaSuomalainen
• Deffy
• haskal[m]

Minutes

 


[9:03pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/September_4th,_2019_IRC_Meeting
[9:03pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:03pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:03pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
[9:04pm] jokeefe: Anything to add?
[9:05pm] Joe: Just todo. need to respond to people whom reach out to us.
[9:05pm] Joe: I have an email I owe Norm, the gentleman whom came to the party
[9:05pm] jokeefe: Christine is working on that
[9:06pm] Joe: And doing a better job at it than I
[9:06pm] jokeefe: No time like the present
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Don’t think there is anything to review
[9:07pm] Joe: Yeah, to many irons in the fire for me atm. Hoping things slow down a little
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Decisions/Endorsements
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Statement on Police Violence last Saturday?
[9:07pm] Joe: Link?
[9:07pm] jokeefe: so many twitter threads ...
[9:09pm] Malt: Baby is 9 days old
[9:10pm] jokeefe: so no time
[9:10pm] Malt: Yeaaaa
[9:10pm] Malt: Sorry
[9:10pm] Malt: Everything happened at once
[9:11pm] jokeefe: Will draft something and send to the email list.
[9:11pm] jokeefe: for review
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Here is one I found helpful - https://digboston.com/too-many-cops/
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Projects
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Freedom Rally Table
[9:13pm] jokeefe: MassMesh is interested in tabling
[9:14pm] Joe: Not enough support?
[9:15pm] jokeefe: wanted to see if we could join them
[9:16pm] Joe: Please clarify? I thought we supported them already
[9:17pm] jokeefe: was thinking we should setup a table with them. does that work?
[9:17pm] Joe: at the freedom rally?
[9:18pm] Joe: I support either way
[9:18pm] Joe: Just seeking clarity
[9:19pm] jokeefe: no worries. will ask for volunteers then
[9:20pm] jokeefe: Party Conference
[9:22pm] jokeefe: Will share the link to the planning doc - https://pad.riseup.net/p/2019MAPPConference-keep
[9:24pm] jokeefe: reaching out to volunteers
[9:24pm] Joe: Activist list?
[9:25pm] jokeefe: and volunteers
[9:27pm] jokeefe: sorry, rather tired
[9:27pm] jokeefe: I don’t have any more updates
[9:28pm] jokeefe: I tried to release the video we recorded, but it thinks it is a scheduled event and there isn’t any video there.
[9:29pm] jokeefe: Joe, would you have time to test our recording methods before we record at 6:30pm on Sunday.
[9:29pm] Joe: Yeah, I'm not sure what happened to it
[9:29pm] jokeefe: I thought it was there
[9:29pm] Joe: I'm sure the issue is on my end, I don't think my PC can handle it anymore without some proper maintainance.
[9:30pm] Joe: *maintenance
[9:30pm] jokeefe: if you can walk me through it, I can try on mine computer
[9:30pm] Joe: What type do you have, apple or pc?
[9:31pm] Joe: or linx
[9:31pm] jokeefe: apple
[9:31pm] Malt: Or freebsd
[9:31pm] jokeefe: technically macos is freebsd 
[9:31pm] Malt: OS/2
[9:31pm] Malt: LOL
[9:32pm] jokeefe: have worked on all of them
[9:33pm] Malt: PalmOS?
[9:33pm] Joe: I use xsplit broadcaster
[9:33pm] Joe: But I am also on a PC
[9:34pm] jokeefe: will look at it
[9:34pm] Pirate_81293 joined the chat room.
[9:34pm] Joe: I will try to record as well
[9:35pm] Joe: see if I can work out a few bugs
[9:35pm] jokeefe: could just record and then upload
[9:35pm] Pirate_81293: Greetings fellow pirates
[9:35pm] Joe: Ahoy
[9:36pm] jokeefe: ahoy