October 24th, 2017 IRC Meeting

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Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Next meeting is on Halloween. Will turn out be low? Move to another day?

Projects

Fundraiser

Monthly Video Magazine

Planning for 2018 Elections & Organizing

Training schedule:

  • 11/18, Milford Training
  • 12/9 or 12/10: Holyoke (finalizing date and location with local organizer)
  • January: Boston
  • February: Worcester

Once we set dates for the trainings we will put up a poll asking about our 2018 conference and whether to change it into several regional conferences.

In 2018, towns decide when their elections are held, but most are held in the first half of the year. State & county elections are in November. What offices are up in 2018 is listed here. We have been asked to hold a town election training in Milford this year.

Nomination papers for federal/state/county elections are available in mid-February. State/county candidates have until the end of May to gather all of their signatures, while federal candidates have until the end of July. The number of signatures needed vary from 150 for State Rep. to 2000 for US House of Representatives.

The electronic election for our officers went well in 2017, and we should consider doing it again. Such a change would allow us to decentralize our yearly conference and hold multiple regional conferences in different parts of the state. We could schedule monthly conferences starting in March or April. We could limit them to about 4-5 hours long, with the first half being training and the second half being discussion. If we want to go this route, we should ask our members soon and see who wants to organize their regional conference.

Digital Right of Repair

Details. Making calls to volunteers and members.

Other To Dos

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

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.

Tech/Outreach

  • 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

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

Observers

  • davidd
  • igel_
  • papegaai

Summary

Minutes

 


[9:03pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/October_24th,_2017_IRC_Meeting
[9:03pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:03pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:03pm] hvxgr: Tom Rodman - Milwaukee
[9:04pm] Malt: samuel capradae, worcester
[9:04pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
[9:05pm] jokeefe: Anything to add?
[9:06pm] Joe: Nay
[9:06pm] hvxgr: no
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Anything to review?
[9:07pm] Malt: some progress on booking space in worcester
[9:08pm] Joe: Can we open a pirate pad for the bill. I have my quick notes but have some kind of mental block in order to get it started
[9:08pm] jokeefe: which bill?
[9:08pm] Joe: S1241
[9:09pm] Joe: The one I have been slacking on for weeks, I want to attack it tonight after the meeting
[9:09pm] jokeefe: ok
[9:10pm] jokeefe: lets discuss under projects
[9:10pm] jokeefe: Decisions/Endorsements
[9:10pm] jokeefe: next meeting is on halloween, move to another day?
[9:11pm] Malt: agreed!
[9:11pm] Malt: thursday works for me
[9:11pm] Joe: Not for me though
[9:11pm] Joe: but I agree in moving it as well
[9:11pm] Malt: i host an event on weds which ends at 9 exactly, i might be late on weds
[9:11pm] jokeefe: Wednesday?
[9:12pm] Joe: How about Monday?
[9:12pm] jokeefe: I have a community meeting that may go late
[9:12pm] Malt: i usually read at an open mic
[9:12pm] Malt: i could attend on my phone but i wouldn't be able to contribute much
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Sunday night?
[9:12pm] Malt: assuming i had anything to contribute?
[9:13pm] Malt: sunday works
[9:13pm] jokeefe: or move later to Wednesday, 9:30pm or 10pm?
[9:13pm] Joe: Either works for me
[9:14pm] Moses joined the chat room.
[9:14pm] jokeefe: ahoy Moses
[9:14pm] Joe: Ahoy
[9:15pm] Malt: i could do 930 weds
[9:15pm] Moses: ahoy
[9:15pm] jokeefe: Moses, We are deciding when to move the next meeting since it is on Halloween
[9:15pm] Moses: oooo right
[9:16pm] Moses: what are the options?
[9:16pm] jokeefe: choices seem to be Sunday night or Wednesday night, but starting at 9:30 or 10pm
[9:16pm] jokeefe: I can do either, but Wednesday night would be better
[9:17pm] jokeefe: preferences?
[9:17pm] Joe: Lets do Wednesday but later
[9:18pm] Malt: wednesday it is i guess
[9:18pm] jokeefe: Moses?
[9:18pm] Joe: That way we can meet up for that stuff on Sunday
[9:18pm] jokeefe:
[9:18pm] Moses: yea wed 9!
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Wed 9:30-10:30pm, ok?
[9:19pm] Malt: ok!
[9:19pm] Joe: I second
[9:19pm] Joe: <3
[9:20pm] jokeefe: all in favor?
[9:20pm] Joe: Aye
[9:20pm] Moses: i!
[9:20pm] Malt: aye
[9:20pm] jokeefe: ok, it is done then
[9:21pm] jokeefe: Projects
[9:21pm] jokeefe: Fundraiser - Joe, you had some ideas?
[9:21pm] Joe: Yes
[9:22pm] Joe: I think that the dinner is the most plausible solution to come up with the money. Charge $100 per plate and have a catered event at either a lodge or hotel conference.
[9:23pm] Moses left the chat room. (Quit: https://webchat.pirateirc.net/)
[9:24pm] Joe: The reason I would promote the dinner at such a place is that it would encourage open discussion as it did at your house while still being in a professional setting.
[9:25pm] Malt: what about a pay what you can brakelight repair event? i don't think we
[9:25pm] Malt: 're going to attract a lot of folk at $100 a plate
[9:25pm] jokeefe: So we would need to find a place to host / cater it and people to organize it
[9:26pm] Joe: If we did it at a lodge, we could swing 50 a plate and still make money on the event
[9:27pm] Joe: https://www.uniquevenues.com/non-profit
[9:27pm] Malt: i think if we had a more established base, like a bigger party, it would work
[9:27pm] Moses joined the chat room.
[9:28pm] Malt: but I don't think we've got something people would be willing to spend $50 to hear
[9:28pm] Joe: If we have food, they will come.
[9:28pm] Malt: well yes, but they might not have $50
[9:29pm] Moses: sorry i got disconnected - $50 to hear what?
[9:29pm] Malt: us talk about the pirate party
[9:29pm] jokeefe: fundraiser
[9:30pm] Joe: Some will, some won't. The point is that if we made it a yearly event, then each year would be something we would be looking forward to. Esp if we plan for this far enough in advance
[9:30pm] jokeefe: I think it would be good if we got together with Aaron and review the fundraising he did
[9:30pm] Malt: local democrats can swing big plates because they've got celebrities folks want to meet
[9:31pm] hvxgr: At last years semi-annual state GP meeting a celeb - David Cobb "shook us down for money", like an auctioneer.  It was a bit uncomfortable, but it worked.
[9:31pm] jokeefe: yup
[9:31pm] Malt: we could expand on the crypto cafe idea
[9:31pm] Malt: antivirus/antimalware cafe. open source geek squad, basically
[9:31pm] jokeefe: those tend to be free, though
[9:31pm] Joe: Sell baked goods at the crypto party?
[9:31pm] Malt: yeah
[9:31pm] Moses: can someone rebreif me?
[9:32pm] Malt: sell baked goods, ask for donations, sell repair tools
[9:32pm] Joe: We are discussing ways to fundraise for the party
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