August 8th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Projects

8/19 Pirate Picnic

Near Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common. Schedule:

• noon-1pm: food and training;
• 1pm-2:30pm: map cameras;
• 2:30pm-3:30pm: come back and debrief.

Planning Pad

To Do:

• blog post
• email
• Facebook event
• Email act-ma
• Post to other event listings
• call members
• make poster - asked designer, jokeefe will follow
• put up posters
• write how-tos

S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017

Approved our opposition to S.1241. Need statement (Joe)

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

Need a write up so we can put the word out (Malt)

Other To Dos

• Review regular IRC meeting day. Poll sent to email list - Sent (jokeefe)
• email Loomio invite to supporters (jokeefe)
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)
• finish setup of myBB (jokeefe)
• install mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)

Mayfirst is looking at setting up a Discourse instance we could use.

Upcoming Events

• 8/19, noon-3:30pm, Pirate Picnic/Surveillance Camera Mapping Outing, Boston Common, Boston
• 8/30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• Oct., South Boston public library cryptoparty

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

Observers

• davidd
• igel
• razz
• Fatbag
• hvxgr
• papegaai

Summary

Got started late and ended a bit early.

Pirate/Surveillance Camera Mapping Picnic on the 19th is moving forward. Planning pad: https://piratenpad.de/p/2017MAPPPicnic Please update with how you can help.

Malt will look at the 30th for a similar event in Worcester.

Worcester Pride Parade in the 9th. $20 fee to march. Malt will see what interest there is among pirates in Worcester.

Talked about the FOSS training for local farmers. 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.