November 4th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Set schedule for the conference

Saturday

• noon-12:15pm - Captain's Introduction and Year Review
• 12:15-1pm - Where do we go from here?
• 1-2pm - Platform Discussion
• 2-2:30pm - Break
• 2:30-3:30pm - Speakers
• 3:30-4:30pm - Platform Discussion
• 4:30+ - Pirate Beer

Sunday

• noon-12:30pm - Quartermaster's Introduction and Finances Report
• 12:30-2:00pm - Platform Discussion
• 2-2:30pm - Break
• 2:30-3:30pm - Platform Discussion
• 3:30-4:30pm - Platform Discussion

Speakers:

• Steve Revilak

How housing polices were used to segregate communities in the 20th century. There will be emphasis on zoning, which is generally the domain of local governments.

• Alexander Isavnin

State activities related to censorship, surveillance, political oppression on examples from Russia and neighboring countries.

• James O'Keefe

Running for office (can be prerecorded)

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)

Surveillance Mapping

• Come up with a how to instructions
  • Paper - done
  • iPhone - done
  • Android
• Come up with how to videos

Regional Meetings/Events

In-person events, including outdoor events, on hold until COVID-19 numbers go down.

Leader: jokeefe

Party Conference

• Schedule regular posts on blog
• Dividing up the platform and coming up with draft items

Dec. 4th Day Against DRM

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. - done

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
• 10/31, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
• 11/14-15, Party Conference

Participants

• Olivia_: Olivia Kristiann, PPI volunteer
• jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
• Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
• Malt: Sam capradae, Worcester

Observers

• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey

Summary

11am Saturday. Test video system for piratecon

7pm Sunday. Pirate news recording.

Conference planning: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2020PartyConferencePlanning

Minutes

 
21:16 <@jokeefe> Oh, ok.  It should be live now.
21:16 <@jokeefe> ahoy srevilak
21:16 < Joe> I can but currently under lock down
21:16 < Joe> ahoy
21:16 < srevilak> hi all, just saw email that we were meeting tonight
21:16 < Malt> Welcome!
21:17 <@jokeefe> no worries.
21:17 <@jokeefe> Schedule look good for you?
      https://masspirates.org/wiki/November_4th,_2020_IRC_Meeting#Set_schedule_for_the_conference
21:17 <@jokeefe> If you can edit the video Joe, that would be great.
21:18 < srevilak> Looks good
21:18 < Joe> can you upload it to mass youtube as a private video?
21:18 <@jokeefe> great
21:19 <@jokeefe> I would need to download the video first from youtube
21:21 <@jokeefe> Choose date to date video conference software
21:21 < Joe> is it on there already on there?
21:21 <@jokeefe> I have the account for the video conference
      software. When could we test it?
21:21 < srevilak> What is "date to date video conference software"?
21:22 <@jokeefe> srevilak, did we agree to try Saturday at 11am?
21:22 < srevilak> Not sure, but I can make it
21:22 <@jokeefe> corrected - Choose date to test video conference software
21:23 < srevilak> ah!
21:23 <@jokeefe> Joe, could you do a test Saturday at 11am?
21:23 <@jokeefe> Also Malt?
21:24 < Joe> Right before the conference?
21:24 <@jokeefe> I updated OS and now IRC chat doesn’t automatically
      show the latest messages
21:24 <@jokeefe> Week before the conference
21:24 <@jokeefe> this Saturday
21:25 < Malt> I can, yes
21:25 < Malt> That's a fun bug!
21:25 < Joe> I can do a test this weekend but will be quite distracted.
21:25 <@jokeefe> Have to keep scrolling up, Malt. It is a bit annoying.
21:26 < Joe> should not be an issue so long as it is only a test.
21:26 <@jokeefe> Saturday, 11am it is. Will send out email to
      democracy/activists lists
21:26 <@jokeefe> Projects
21:27 <@jokeefe> Video Newsletter/Podcast - Sunday 7pm recording ok?
21:27 < Malt> Yup!
21:27 < srevilak> yes
21:28 < Joe> Aye
21:28 <@jokeefe> Topic ideas?
21:28 < Joe> Pirate conference really.
21:29 < srevilak> Does the rise and fall of fascism occur in cycles?
21:29 < srevilak> Too much?
21:29 < Joe> like the tides
21:29 <@jokeefe> Pirate conference promo would be good
21:29 <@jokeefe> srevilak, lol
21:29 < Joe> on a scale of human social memory.
21:30 < srevilak> Make 1946 great again!
21:30 <@jokeefe> seems too early to discuss it going out with the tides
21:30 <@jokeefe> aye, srevilak
21:30 < Joe> lol
21:30 < srevilak> One of my co-workers thinks it's a 100-year tide.
      So, just starting to come in
21:31  * Joe sighs.
21:31 < Malt> I thought it was 250ish
21:31 < srevilak> Malt: Think 1920's
21:31 < Malt> Oh
21:31 < Malt> Hm
21:31 < srevilak> shit ...
21:32 < srevilak> Sorry, I'm just grumpy tonight
21:32 < Joe> Biden is winning at least.
21:32 <@jokeefe> got the popular vote at least
21:32 < Joe> silver linings
21:33 < Joe> this year the choice was either crazy or senile.
21:33 < Joe> lets really start preparing for running candidates again
21:34 <@jokeefe> aye that
21:34 <@jokeefe> Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) - meeting set for 11am sat.
21:35 < Malt> Pissed we lost q2
21:35 <@jokeefe> Regional Meetings/Events - Party Conference
21:35 <@jokeefe> Setup an etherpad:
      https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2020PartyConferencePlanning
21:36 < srevilak> Malt: yeah, Q2 was disappointing
21:36 <@jokeefe> Agree Malt, but it took three ballot initiatives to get
      greyhound racing banned.  I think there are things we can do to improve
      the results next time.
21:38 <@jokeefe> They only got proportional representation in New Zealand
      when they kept electing minority governments with FPTP.
21:38 < Malt> Get it on the front page? I heard some folk didn't turn
      theirs over
21:38 < Joe> a lot of people seemed to be misinformed about RCV. they
      think the old system has work for 200+ years, why change...
21:38 <@jokeefe> That would help
21:39 <@jokeefe> Will have to look at the official results and see how
      many didn’t make a choice.
21:39 < srevilak> What read do you get from this map:
      https://www.bostonglobe.com/elections/2020/ma/Question/2%20-%20Create%20Ranked-Choice%20Voting/
21:40 <@jokeefe> Doesn’t list abstains, unfortunately.
21:41 < srevilak> I was thinking more in terms of the clusters of cities
      that voted yes, vs the ones that didn't
21:41 <@jokeefe> good point
21:43 <@jokeefe> Boston area Rt 2 corridor and Pioneer Valley, parts of
      the Berkshires
21:43 < srevilak> Compare with Q1:
      https://www.bostonglobe.com/elections/2020/ma/Question/1%20-%20Amend%20Right%20to%20Repair%20Law/
21:43 < Malt> The dem establishment seemed lukewarm
21:43 < srevilak> Of cities reporting, Georgetown is the only one that
      went no
21:45 <@jokeefe> Springfield total vote is 47,000, which seems small
21:46 < srevilak> Indeed.  Population is 153k
21:46 < Joe> I do not have much to add tonight, sorry. very distracted
      by my son whom is still awake.
21:46 < Malt> I can't focus worth a single gosh darn
21:48 <@jokeefe> Let’s end then. Please add conference planning items
      to https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2020PartyConferencePlanning
21:49 < srevilak> will do
21:49 < srevilak> Next, off to $work call at 22:00.
21:49 < srevilak> will post transcript