June 6th, 2017 IRC Meeting
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Review
Decisions/Endorsements
MassCANN rally
MassCann/NORML Rally tomorrow - https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/
Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
June 12th - https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2017-06-06-major-web-companies-and-public-interest-groups/
Projects
Our Elections
Email sent. Nominations by today. Election ballot by the 30th. Seven days after it is sent out. To Do:
Send email reminder about nominations this week and nextSetup ballot (srevilak). For this election, we are implementing Voting TokensSend out ballot this week (jokeefe)- Send out reminder ballots before polls close (jokeefe)
- Close polls
- Count results
- Publish results
- Setup meeting with new office holders
Boston Pride Parade
- Posted to the website
- Announcement made in ballot
- Facebook event setup - https://www.facebook.com/events/1932372283705942/
- Send another announcement this week
PirateCon
- Videos:
- processed and uploaded
- putting on finishing touches
- announce and update piratecon page
- setting up torrents
- Audio for one panel posted. More audio to edit.
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 on planks: https://github.com/masspirates/planks
Local Chapters
Somerville meeting soon.
Day against DRM
Day Against DRM is Sunday, July 9th. Emailed FSF about our idea to hand out fliers.
Upcoming Events
- 6/10, Boston Pride Parade, Boston
- 6/21, Edward Snowden's Birthday
- 6/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
- 7/9, Day against DRM
See: 2017 calendar
Participants
- jokeefe (James O’Keefe)
- hvxgr (Tom Rodman - Milwaukee)
- srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
Observers
- davidd
- papegaai
- Techrev
- igel