May 23rd, 2017 IRC Meeting

Projects

Our Elections

Email sent. Nominations by today. Election ballot by the 30th. To Do:

• Send email reminder about nominations this week and next
• Setup ballot (jokeefe)
• Send out ballot this week and before polls close (jokeefe)

Planks & Other Discussions

• Discussion
  • Reviewed Loomio instance. Looks good. Looking at how to invite people.
  • myBB installed, but not setup completely (jokeefe)
  • Installing mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)
  • Installed Matrix client (Riot), but we would need our own server to not be dependent on matrix.org servers.
• Previous work in this area: https://github.com/masspirates/planks
• Results of the PirateCon discussion posted

Day against DRM

Day Against DRM is Sunday, July 9th. The FSF is looking for people to setup events worldwide and asked if we wanted to help organize an event in Massachusetts.

Upcoming Events

• 5/24, 6-7pm, Somerville Pirates Meeting, Diesel Cafe
• 5/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 6/3, 5-7pm, LGBT-focused Cryptoparty, Make Shift Boston, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston
• 6/10, Boston Pride Parade, Boston
• 6/21, Edward Snowden's Birthday
• 6/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• hvxgr (Tom Rodman - Milwaukee)
• Moses (Moses - West Tisbury)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)

Observers

• davidd
• papegaai
• igel

Summary

Chelsea Manning party went well. Folks can donate at https://www.gofundme.com/welcomehomechelsea

Our elections. Planning to have ballot mailed by Wed.

Planks & Other discussions. Loomio looks pretty good. Would be nice to tie logins together across tools (e.g., LDAP or OpenID), but that's a future project.

Local Chapters. Somerville has a chapter meeting tomorrow.