September 9th, 2020 IRC Meeting

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)

Work continues on streaming options.

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
  • Working on streaming options
  • Posting survey. When should it be due by?
• 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?

Campaigns

• Free the Moderna Vaccine
  • Planning meeting upcoming. Contact jokeefe for details if you want to attend.
  • Planning new event
• Yes on 1
  • Post on our support for it
  • Who could reach out to campaign to ask how we can help?
• Yes on 2
  • Post reminder of our support for it
  • jokeefe reached out to campaign on helping. Will followup.
  • Yard signs available.

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. Per TechDirt, 9/17 is the last date for submissions for the 2nd round.

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)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)

Observers

• davidd
• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey

Summary

Free the Moderna Vaccine protest. Well attended. Last for around an hour. See https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2c_9B8YzXl_Ed4-a0y1646RuAcLOKme for video. The organizers are planning future events.

No Pirate news recording this week.

Party Conference. Remote conference was the predominant choice. One day event most popoular. Focus on deciding a party platform and presentations/group discussions. General feeling is to hold the conference after the election. Will do survey for dates and speakers. General feeling is for two days rather than one, even if the two days are shorter.

Joe and jokeefe post some articles about protests in Kenosha

• https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-police-arrest-3-journalists-during-violent-protests/
• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/police-federal-agents-arrest-seattle-based-riot-kitchen-crew-that-stopped-in-kenosha-to-serve-free-food/

Tech meeting. Went well. Next meeting set for Sep 26th.

Ranked Choice Voting. jokeefe reaching out to Yes on 2, to see if we can help.