March 21st, 2017 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

March for Science

The March for Science is April 22nd. Mass. locations are: Amherst, Boston, Falmouth, Pittsfield, Woods Hole and Worcester. Should we endorse and get people out to it?

Projects

Planks

Previous work in this area: https://github.com/masspirates/planks

Conference

Topics so far:

• Fact Checking Real News vs. Fake News Using the CRAAP Method
• The need for the voice of the people; The need for democracy
• How storytelling and narrative can help raise awareness to issues around privacy, transparency, and overall civil rights in a digital age
• The power of community around technology, music, and art
• Ranked Choice Voting -- what it is, why it is important, and how the statewide educational campaign is progressing
• badmirror.tv - a personalized video broadcasting system that connects viewers with their local and global communities
• Using the lessons learned from Occupy to build a web-enabled democratic movement and platform for future governance
• Cryptocurrency regulations and its effects on privacy, exchangers, and entrepreneurs and why you should be concerned (Lightning Talk)
• Passing local surveillance ordinances
• Piracy on the Internet
• How to FOIA

• Independent media/fake news

Projects On Hold For the Moment

First two of these could be topics for future hackathons.

CCTV Camera Map

Looking at organizing a map-a-thon.

Upcoming Events

• 3/24, 3-5pm, Annoying Legislators for Freedom: A talk with Alex Marthews, National Director of Restore the 4th, Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston
• 3/25, afternoon, LGBT-focused Cryptoparty (tentative), Make Shift Boston, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston
• 3/25-26, 9am-5:30pm, MassAlliance Grassroots Campaign Training, Greater Boston
• 3/25-26, LibrePlanet 2017, MIT, Cambridge
• 3/29, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• Moses
• onesevensevenseas (G, Lowell)

Observers

• davidd
• igel
• papegaai