October 28th, 2020 IRC Meeting
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Review
Decisions/Endorsements
Party Conference
Set hours for the conference.
Projects
Goals for Q3 2020:
- Organize meetups
- Revise platform
- Organize Fundraiser
- Organize candidate trainings
National Party
Election night recording - Looking for participants
Video Newsletter/Podcast
Leader: Joseph
- Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed
Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)
Next one set for for 10/31, 11am-1pm
Regional Meetings/Events
Leader: jokeefe
Party Conference
- Emailing list about schedule
- Asking members for topics
- Setting up sign up sheet
- Updating conference page
- Posting on blog
- Dividing up the platform
Surveillance Mapping Event
- Come up with a how to instructions
- Paper - done
- iPhone - done
- Android
- Come up with how to videos
- Boston (jokeefe) - Sept 12th - done
- Worcester (Malt) - Oct 17th - done
Nov. Anarchist Book Fair
Dec. 4th Day Against DRM
2021 Boston Pride Festival
- table booked
- setup signup sheet
- Announce
- Need to purchase insurance
- Need volunteer sign up form
- Tie to an activity, mapping the CCTV cameras in Boston or along the Pride parade route?
Campaigns
- Free the Moderna Vaccine
- Planning meeting upcoming. Contact jokeefe for details if you want to attend.
- Planning new event
- Yes on 1
- Post on our support for it
- Who could reach out to campaign to ask how we can help?
- Yes on 2
- Post reminder of our support for it
- jokeefe reached out to campaign on helping. Will followup.
- Yard signs available.
Bills
Federal
- EARN IT Act
- PATRIOT Act renewal
State
- Legislature extended session
- Push to get Right to Repair bill to a vote.
- Some of facial recognition moratorium is in the police reform bill
Computer donations
Platform Discussion
Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion
Other To Do
- Application to PPI
- Post statement on Archive.org Suit
- Post statement on our support for Question 1: open access to vehicle telematics systems.
- Post statement on our opposition to S.4051 - Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act.
- Post statement on retaining section 230 protections. Docket RM-11862. Per TechDirt, 9/17 is the last date for submissions for the 2nd round. - done
Tabled Projects
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
- Every Tuesday, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, on-line
- 10/31, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
- 11/14-15, Party Conference
Participants
Observers
- ChanServ
- hvxgr
- Deffy
- mikey
Summary
Minutes
[9:06pm] jokeefe: Let’s start then [9:06pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/October_28th,_2020_IRC_Meeting [9:06pm] jokeefe: ids [9:06pm] jokeefe: Anything to add to the agenda? [9:06pm] Olivia_: Olivia Kristiann, PPI volunteer [9:06pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville [9:06pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell [9:07pm] jokeefe: Decisions/Endorsements [9:07pm] jokeefe: Party Conference [9:07pm] Olivia_: election night [9:07pm] jokeefe: I signed us up for meet.coop. Waiting to get the login credentials [9:07pm] Malt joined the chat room. [9:07pm] jokeefe: ahoy Malt [9:07pm] jokeefe: we are just starting [9:07pm] Malt: Sam capradae, Worcester [9:07pm] Malt: Hi pals [9:08pm] Olivia_: Hello! [9:08pm] Olivia_: I don't know what meet.coop is. [9:08pm] jokeefe: we need to set the hours for the conference. [9:08pm] Joe: sup Malt [9:09pm] jokeefe: it is a big blue button hosting provider [9:09pm] Malt: I'm fine. I think 4 hours in the afternoon Is enough? [9:10pm] jokeefe: Also, Saturday at 3pm is the PPInt’s Pirate Beer [9:10pm] jokeefe: thought we could add that in as the end activity [9:10pm] Malt: Neat! [9:10pm] jokeefe: what about 11am-4pm? [9:10pm] Malt: Works for me [9:10pm] Olivia_: I can anytime. [9:11pm] Olivia_: If international appear that's a great start time too. [9:11pm] jokeefe: Joe?
