September 2nd, 2020 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Party Conference

There were 11 submissions for our conference survey. I sent the results to the activists email list.

9 would prefer to meet remotely, 5 outsides with masks and social distancing and 3 inside with masks and social distancing.

7 wanted the conference to be one day, 5 over Sat/Sun, 3 over a week. Over two weeks or a month got 1 vote each.

Focus:

• 9: Focus on deciding on a party platform
• 9: How to workshops: protecting your privacy, file sharing, organizing, running for office, etc.
• 8: presentations or groups discussions

Top topic choices were:

8 votes:

• A pirate approach to education
• Running campaigns

7 votes:

• Building third-party coalitions
• Ensuring we all have privacy
• Fostering Free Software
• Proposing local legislation
• Pirate strategy
• Surveillance and countersurveillance

6 votes:

• Corporate power
• Decentralized auditing of governments and corporations
• Income inequality
• Municipal organizing
• Open government
• Universal Basic Income, Job Guarantee and other approaches

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

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

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

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

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

5 in attendance. Set a list of objectives for the month.

Next one set for for 9/26, 11am-1pm

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Surveillance Mapping Event
  • Come up with a how to video
    • Paper
    • iPhone
    • Android
  • 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?

Bills

Federal

• EARN IT Act
  • Petition
• 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

Computer donations

• Rules
• Sign up form

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Other To Do

• Application to PPI
• Post statement on Archive.org Suit
• Post statement on our support for Question 1: open access to vehicle telematics systems.
• Post statement on our opposition to S.4051 - Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act.
• Post statement on retaining section 230 protections. Docket RM-11862

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
• 8/29, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
• 9/12, Boston Surveillance Mapping Outing
• 10/17, Worcester Surveillance Mapping Outing
• Fall, Party Conference

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• BobC (Bob Crowther, Hatfield)
• Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Lowell)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• Malt (Sam capradae, Worcester)

Observers

• davidd
• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey