September 25th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Review

Email systems

ToDo list - https://pad.riseup.net/p/2019MAPPConference-keep

Projects

Goals for Q3:

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

Regional Meetings

Leader: jokeefe

Looking at late October or November for the Holyoke meetup.

Malt is looking for a place/date for a Worcester meetup the month after the Holyoke meetup.

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday Sept 8th, 18:30.

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be October 5th, 11am-1pm, possibly at E5. 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).

Computer Donations

• jokeefe contacting friend who refurbishes computers for a non-profit
• Archived https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations - move to wiki

Tasks

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.

Tabled Projects

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

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

• 9/35, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts
• 10/1, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 10/5, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington
• 10/8, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• 10/15, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 10/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 10/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 11/5, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 11/12, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• Nov/Dec, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke
• Nov/Dec, ?, Worcester Pirate Meetup

Participants

Observers

• bonelesspepsi[m]
• davidd
• hvxgr
• MikaelaSuomalainen
• Deffy
• haskal[m]

Minutes

 


[9:11pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/September_25th,_2019_IRC_Meeting
[9:11pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:11pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
[9:11pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:11pm] jokeefe: Anything to add?
[9:11pm] Joe: email
[9:11pm] Joe: Under review
[9:11pm] Joe: I'll add
[9:12pm] jokeefe: ok
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Review
[9:12pm] jokeefe: Party Conference
[9:13pm] Joe: I think it went pretty well
[9:13pm] Joe: Though we had a tough time with the streaming
[9:14pm] jokeefe: Yeah.
[9:14pm] Joe: We had several guest speakers which each brought their own perspective.
[9:15pm] Joe: And a delegation from NH
[9:17pm] Joe: It seems that the delegation from NH was very active in the legislation.  Makes me want to step up our game.
[9:18pm] jokeefe: well it helps when someon is elected
[9:18pm] jokeefe: Working with srevilak to get the videos processed
[9:19pm] Joe: It seems that they were looking to figure out how we are.  I hope we did not disappoint
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Yes
[9:21pm] jokeefe: Will get the deposit done and enter the attendees
[9:21pm] Joe: If I could get the list so I can share with reporter7
[9:22pm] jokeefe: of course
[9:22pm] Joe: for the OCPF
[9:22pm] jokeefe: absolutely
[9:22pm] Joe: <3
[9:22pm] jokeefe: we’ll need to test the streaming setup and test the internet access ahead of time next time
[9:23pm] jokeefe: Will create a wiki page with the checklist for next time
[9:23pm] Joe: ok
[9:23pm] jokeefe: Projects
[9:23pm] Joe: Sorry the streaming did not work.  It seems to work here but I also pay a lot for internet
[9:24pm] Malt: Fair
[9:24pm] jokeefe: yeah
[9:25pm] jokeefe: i’ll talk with E5 about the wifi issues we encountered. might be a good place for a mesh node, especially if we can get roof access
[9:25pm] jokeefe: Regional Meetings
[9:25pm] Malt: That would be great!
[9:25pm] Joe: email?
[9:25pm] Joe: review?
[9:25pm] jokeefe: sorry
[9:26pm] jokeefe: Email systems
[9:26pm] Joe: No worries, figure this one you could explain better anyways
[9:26pm] Joe: plus you'll prob be quick about it
[9:27pm] jokeefe: We looked over the national database to see how we can contact supporters in it
[9:28pm] jokeefe: Identified some things we need to setup to use it most effectively.
[9:28pm] jokeefe: will talk with the person who set it up
[9:28pm] jokeefe: to add what we need
[9:29pm] Joe: emailing the rest of MA will be much easier now, and we will be able to do so on a regular basis
[9:29pm] jokeefe: We should certainly contact the people in it from New England about joining our list and setting up a New England conference
[9:30pm] jokeefe: Speaking of that, I plan to send out an email from our database soon
[9:31pm] jokeefe: ready to move on to the next topic?
[9:31pm] Joe: Aye
[9:31pm] Joe: Just wanted to to keep it brief
[9:32pm] jokeefe: cool
[9:32pm] jokeefe: Regional Meetings
[9:33pm] jokeefe: focusing on the conference got in the way, but still looking at setting up a Holyoke meeting
[9:33pm] jokeefe: Malt, any luck with Worcester?
[9:36pm] Malt: None
[9:36pm] Malt: I'm just overwhelmed with baby stuff and work
[9:38pm] jokeefe: I quite understand. How about if we try for the Spring?
[9:39pm] Malt: Might be nice
[9:39pm] jokeefe: A good goal, then
[9:39pm] jokeefe: thanks
[9:40pm] jokeefe: Video Newsletter
[9:40pm] jokeefe: When would you like to record the next one?
[9:40pm] Joe: Sunday at noon?
[9:40pm] srevilak joined the chat room.
[9:41pm] Malt: Think that should work
[9:41pm] srevilak: sorry for being late -- meeting @ town hall
[9:41pm] Joe: I have a wedding to go to Saturday night, so I want a little time to recover
[9:41pm] srevilak: ran over
[9:41pm] jokeefe: ahoy srevilak
[9:41pm] Joe: Ahoy!
[9:41pm] jokeefe: I updated the minutes at https://masspirates.org/wiki/September_25th,_2019_IRC_Meeting#Minutes
[9:42pm] jokeefe: so you can catch up
[9:42pm] • srevilak opens web browser to read
[9:42pm] jokeefe: I am busy Saturday morning with erands, but other times are open
[9:43pm] srevilak: for video newsletter?
[9:43pm] srevilak: my weekend is pretty flexible to record an episode
[9:44pm] srevilak: speaking of video - I spot checked several of the recordings
[9:44pm] Joe: Sunday is preferred
[9:44pm] Malt: Oh?
[9:44pm] srevilak: the ones where the camera ran on battery power sound pretty good
[9:45pm] srevilak: once we plugged in the AC adapter, we started picking up ground noise
[9:45pm] srevilak: couldn't hear it in the room, but you can hear on playback
[9:45pm] srevilak: still usable though
[9:45pm] srevilak: So, next time, we go off battery power
[9:45pm] jokeefe: ok. I need to check out the video I got and learn to sync video by the audio
[9:46pm] Joe: I will be getting replacement cord for my set up, so I'll be able to do better recordings soon too
[9:46pm] jokeefe: and have backup batteries
[9:46pm] srevilak: for av sink, we should have done claps
[9:46pm] jokeefe: ?
[9:46pm] srevilak: clap before starting, so you hear and get it on camera
[9:46pm] srevilak: gives you a decent point for syncing
[9:47pm] srevilak: you can see a clap pretty easily on an audio waveform
[9:47pm] srevilak: then, line it up with the image of the clap
[9:47pm] srevilak: like the old film slates with the clackers
[9:48pm] Malt: Action!
[9:48pm] srevilak: aye
[9:48pm] jokeefe: ah
[9:48pm] srevilak: Ah - pirate newsletter sunday @ noon
[9:48pm] srevilak: I can do that
[9:50pm] jokeefe: Does Sunday noon work for you, Joe and Malt?
[9:50pm] Joe: Ok, it's settled then
[9:50pm] Joe: Umm, I'm the one that suggested it. 
[9:50pm] Joe: So Aye
[9:52pm] Malt: Sure
[9:52pm] jokeefe: thanks. wasn’t sure looking back
[9:52pm] jokeefe: great.
[9:54pm] jokeefe: Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)
[9:55pm] jokeefe: scheduled for 10/5. Will be at E5. already paid for it. will submit record for it
[9:55pm] Malt: Well that's easy
[9:56pm] srevilak: I plan to attend
[9:56pm] jokeefe: contacted by someone who wants to look at wireless surveillance cameras. hopefully he will make it
[9:56pm] jokeefe: will post about it and reminding people about it
[9:57pm] jokeefe: Noted that the german pirates website looks better on a mobile phone than ours does.
[9:58pm] jokeefe: might consider looking at that theme since it looks like the moved on to a different theme
[9:58pm] jokeefe: it is at https://github.com/Piratenpartei/Pirate-Rogue/
[9:59pm] jokeefe: this looks interesting https://github.com/Piratenpartei/ekklesia-portal
[9:59pm] jokeefe: Portal of the Ekklesia e-democracy platform.
[9:59pm] Malt: Hmmmm!
[10:00pm] jokeefe: National Party
[10:00pm] jokeefe: what’s the scoop Joe?
[10:01pm] Joe: Still waiting on an update with the bank account.
[10:01pm] Joe: I also plan to reach out to Elisa in the next day or so. Last two days were kind of rough.
[10:01pm] Joe: She was the one whom wanted to run for president
[10:02pm] Joe: I still think we can salvage a good working relationship but she will have to come to an understanding of our current status.
[10:02pm] Joe: And then we have the email systems that jokeefe and I worked on yesterday
[10:03pm] jokeefe: good plan. Also Election dates: 10/7 for nominations and 10/14 for the new election
[10:03pm] Joe: We plan to do a list both for the MAPP and Nationally
[10:03pm] Joe: and the elections
[10:03pm] Joe: I plan on running for chair if I have all of your support
[10:04pm] srevilak: aye
[10:04pm] jokeefe: I have no objection
[10:04pm] jokeefe: any hoo, that is all I have
[10:04pm] Joe: Malt?
[10:04pm] jokeefe: anything else?
[10:04pm] Joe: Any word on computer donations?
[10:05pm] Malt: I'm all set
[10:05pm] jokeefe: not at this time. will contact the friend I know
[10:05pm] Joe: So no, you don't want me to run for chair or yes, I have your support?
[10:05pm] Joe: I may have another place to donate, but I have to check with them first
[10:06pm] jokeefe: wonderful
[10:06pm] jokeefe: shall we adjourn?
[10:06pm] Joe: 2nd
[10:06pm] srevilak: aye
[10:07pm] jokeefe: aye
[10:07pm] Malt: You got my support
[10:07pm] Joe: Ty Malt