January 15th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Review

• RT4 FBI surveillance letter - Posting on our site
• Amazon Ring Local PD partnerships post - any changes to the post Malt wrote?
• MassMesh organizing meetup

Decisions/Endorsements

• Statement on War on Iran?
• Get Boston Pride Festival Table?

Projects

Goals for Q1 2020:

• Organize meetups
• Organize Fundraiser
• Organize candidate trainings
• Revise platform

Lobby Day for S.899 (An Act relative to forfeiture reform)

• post announcement (jokeefe) - done
• setup sign up sheet (jokeefe) - done
• setup FB event (jokeefe) - done
• email announcement (jokeefe) - done
• post reminder announcements (jokeefe)

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Worcester (Malt)
• Boston (jokeefe)

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be in February. 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).

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Tabled Projects

Computer Donations

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

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.

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.

Upcoming Events

• 1/21, 10am-3pm, D4 lobby day for S.899 (An Act relative to forfeiture reform)
• 1/21, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• 1/28, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 1/29, 7-9pm, Boston Cryptoparty, Encuentro 5, Boston
• 2/?, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Diesel Cafe, Somerville
• 2/4, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Culture House, Harvard Square
• 2/11, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• Spring 2020, ?, Worcester Meetup
• Spring 2020, ?, Springfield Meetup
• Spring 2020, ?, Boston Meetup

Participants

• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA)
• jokeefe (James O'Keefe, Somerville)
• Malt (Sam capradae, Worcester)

Observers

• davidd
• ChanServ
• hvxgr

Summary

Restore the fourth email went out. Blog post will go up tomorrow.

Amazon Ring/Local PD partnerships. Malt still working on post.

Meshnet Organizing. Had a productive organizing meetup. Planning a follow-up in February. Jokeefe has a recording, but it needs editing.

Boston Pride. Tabling is $140 for 5x10 and $200 for 10x10. Could be an opportunity to talk with people. Massmesh may be willing to share the table. Booths are 10' deep, so we have a choice of 5' frontage or 10' frontage. jokeefe will talk with massmesh, to see if they're interested in sharing a booth.

Projects. S.899 (An Act relative to forfeiture reform).

Regional Meetings. Malt looking into a site for a Worcester meetup.

Video Newsletter. Have had issues with youtube lately. May try mumble, do audio recording, and use background image or black screen for video