August 12th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Question 1

From Ballotpedia:

"Question 1 (2020) would require manufacturers that sell motor vehicles equipped with telematics systems to install a standardized open data platform beginning with model year 2022. Vehicle owners could then access telematics system data through a mobile device application and then give consent for independent repair facilities to access that data and send commands to the system for repair, maintenance, and diagnostic testing. Currently, the 2013 "right to repair law" exempts telematics systems from wireless accessibility by vehicle owners and independent repair facilities."

Suggest support.

There are only two ballot questions in 2020 and we already support the Question 2: RCV

S.4051 - Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act

bill text - Suggest oppose

FCC comment period for the “Censor the Internet” Executive Order

The FCC recently opened a comment period on Trump's “Censor the Internet” Executive Order, to gut Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and allow FCC chairman Ajit Pai to police online free speech. Comments can be posted at Docket RM-11862.

Draft and post statement and post for others to use in their filings?

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

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

Bills

Federal

• EARN IT Act
  • Petition
  • Call-a-thon
• PATRIOT Act renewal

State

• Legislature extended session
• Push to get Right to Repair bill to a vote.
• Some of facial recognition moratorium is in the police reform bill

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Set for 8/29, 11am-1pm

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Surveillance Mapping Event
  • Boston (jokeefe) - Sept 12th
  • Worcester (Malt) - Oct 17th
• Party Conference - Fall
• 2021 Boston Pride Festival
  • table booked
  • setup signup sheet
  • Announce
  • Need to purchase insurance
  • Need volunteer sign up form
  • Tie to an activity, mapping the CCTV cameras in Boston or along the Pride parade route?

Computer donations

• Rules
• Sign up form

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Other To Do

• Application to PPI
• Conference survey
• Statement on Archive.org Suit

Tabled Projects

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

• Every Tuesday, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, on-line
• 8/13, noon-1pm, [Link to the live stream is https://youtu.be/MjWAi5Xb0Zw EARN IT Act Call-a-thon, on-line]
• 8/29, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
• 9/12, Boston Surveillance Mapping Outing
• 10/17, Worcester Surveillance Mapping Outing
• Party Conference - Fall

Participants

• Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Lowell)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlignton)
• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)

Observers

• davidd
• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey

Summary

Unanimous support in favor of open access to vehicle telematics systems.

Unanimous opposition to S.4051 - Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act.

Retaining section 230 protections. Support, 2-0-1 (Job abstains) https://www.axios.com/fcc-takes-next-step-on-trumps-social-media-executive-order-3e83e54e-1399-4757-85dc-ad6d1f218511.html

EARN IT act. Petition is up. jokeefe and Malt organizing a call-a-thon tomorrow.

Next pirate news recording. Sunday 7pm.

Pirate tech meeting. Next one schedule for Aug 29th

Survey form for next piratecon. https://masspirates.org/crew/forms/2020-pirate-party-conference-questionnaire