July 17th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Review

National Party

Decisions/Endorsements

Mass. Legislation

An Act to establish a taskforce to develop a uniform code for police body-worn cameras and their recordings (H.2120) contains language to exemption of body camera recordings from the definition of “public record”. More at:
- https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/07/11/police-bodycams-public-records
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/10/bill-would-limit-public-access-police-video-massachusetts/OqpSjpHvD86yXd1GbAggAM/story.html

Federal Legislation

The CASE Act (H2426) would create a copyright infringement small claims court, thus leading to more copyright trolling.

Congress of Corrections

Boston is hosting the Congress of Corrections, Aug 1-6. It will be at the Hynes Convention Center, Halls C&D. It is sponsored by private prison and ICE detention investors.

Projects

Goals for Q2:

Organize meetups
Organize election
Organize Fundraiser(s)
Organize candidate trainings
Revise platform

Regional Meetings

jokeefe will post poll for October party conference by Friday.

Leader:

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

July 13th Meeting

srevilak updated blog theme. jokeefe and srevilak corrected any items that were wrong as a result of the update;
jokeefe updated our Riot/Matrix client to the latest stable version. Started work on a splash page for discuss.masspirates.org.
srevilak & jokeefe tested camera / microphone setup and figured out that the reason the recording was so soft in the video we took at the Pirate Planning Picnic was that the speakers were too far away from the microphones.

jokeefe noticed that our CCTV camera map no longer shows the locations of cameras. Will look at it.

Next meeting will be August 10th. Topics are:

find discussion/voting system;
update CCTV cameras to include older cameras outside North America we didn't include;
write an app to record the location/ownership of CCTV cameras;
set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds);
post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak).

Tasks

Statement on Alabama/Ohio/Georgia Abortion ban bills/laws

Fight bills to make the Film Credit Permanent

H.2419 would make the film tax credit permanent. It is supposed to expire in 2023. The bill has 100+ signatures this time around. jokeefe will submit testimony.

National Platform reform/remake

Tabled Projects

These have been on our agenda for a long time. How do we make them a reality?

Boston Sex Worker Petition

Non-pirate guest speakers for Pirate News

CCTV camera map

Computer Donations

https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations

Video Newsletter guest speakers

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.

Upcoming Events

7/16, Voter Choice MA RCV Lobby Day
7/17, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
7/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
7/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
7/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts
8/6, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
8/10, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington
8/24, Lowell Pirate Picnic, Lowell
?, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke

Participants

srevilak
jokeefe
Pirate_Joe
Malt

Observers

bonelesspepsi
davidd
hvxgr
hvxgr_
MikaelaSuomalainen
igel[m]
cortex (briefly)

Summary

National Party Updates. Forming as a 527, as that provides more options for raising capital. Busy with development on the national party site. National elections are coming up soon.

Discussion of https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H2120, which proposes to exempt law enforcement body and dashboard camera footage from public records requests. 3-0 vote in opposition to the bill. Steve to draft statement of opposition.

Discussion of CASE Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2426/text. EFF's opinion: https://act.eff.org/action/prevent-copyright-trolling-tell-the-senate-that-copyright-claims-can-t-be-treated-like-traffic-tickets. 4-0 vote in favor of opposing the bill.

Boston is hosting the Congress of Corrections, Aug 1-6. Seems like a trade show for the prison industry. Not sure if there are plans for local opposition.

Questionnairre for regional meeting is up.