October 9th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3:

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

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Looking at November for the Holyoke meetup.
• Worcester meetup moved to Spring 2020.
• Boston Anarchist Bookfair is Nov. 9-10. Location hasn't been announced. MassMesh is getting table. Would be a good to chip in for all or part of the table and use it for outreach.

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 contacted 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

• 10/12-13, HONK! & XR protest, Somerville
• 10/15, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• 10/21, 1-5pm, Right of Repair Hearing, Gardner Auditorium, State House, Boston
• 10/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 10/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 11/2, 11am-1pm, Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• 11/5, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 11/9-10, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Union, BU, Boston
• 11/?, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington
• 11/12, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• 11/24, 10:30am-3:30pm, Holyoke Meetup, Holyoke Public Library, 250 Chestnut Street, Holyoke
• Nov/Dec, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke
• Spring 2020, ?, Worcester Meetup

Participants

Observers

• davidd
• hvxgr
• Deffy