November 18th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Review

Conference

Decisions/Endorsements

Platform Topic Order

Abolishment Of Compulsory Membership
Addiction Policy
Copyright And Non-commercial Reproduction
Drug Policy
Education
Energy
Environment
For More Diversity
Free Democratically Controlled Technical Infrastructure
Gender And Family Policy
Government Transparency
Law
Laws For Freedom Of Information
Participation In Digital Life
Patents
Privacy And Data Protection
Protection Of Whistleblowers
Right To Secure Livelihood And Social Participation
Risking More Democracy

Day Against DRM

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

Organize meetups
Revise platform
Organize Fundraiser
Organize candidate trainings

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Surveillance Mapping

Come up with a how to instructions
- Paper - done
- iPhone - done
- Android
Come up with how to videos

Regional Meetings/Events

In-person events, including outdoor events, on hold until COVID-19 numbers go down.

Leader: jokeefe

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 new event

Bills

Federal

EARN IT Act
- Petition
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

Participants

Observers

ChanServ
hvxgr
Deffy
mikey

Summary

Minutes

 


[9:18pm] jokeefe: Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/November_18th,_2020_IRC_Meeting
[9:18pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:18pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:18pm] jokeefe: agenda look ok?
[9:21pm] malt: sure, no complaints here
[9:21pm] malt: sam capradae, worcester
[9:21pm] jokeefe: Review - Conference
[9:21pm] malt: i think the conference went well. we kinda got bogged down sunday but we powered through it
[9:24pm] malt: did we get many views on the livestream?
[9:24pm] jokeefe: Some
[9:24pm] malt: well that's neat
[9:25pm] malt: i loved the video from the italian party
[9:25pm] malt: real surprising how similar the anti-freedom playbook is
[9:25pm] srevilak joined the chat room.
[9:26pm] malt: aaaaaaytyyyyyy
[9:26pm] • srevilak is in town meeting
[9:26pm] malt: owp
[9:26pm] malt: (you did a real good talk buddy)
[9:26pm] srevilak: (have to head back now)
[9:26pm] malt: (sorry i missed part of it cuz my cat puked everywhere
[9:27pm] srevilak: wet food puke or dry food puke?
[9:27pm] malt: that time it was dry food
[9:27pm] malt: but also a post-vet stress puke
[9:27pm] malt: so it went EVERYWHERE
[9:28pm] jokeefe: yeah, on the similarity of the anti-freedom advocates
[9:28pm] jokeefe: welcome srevilak
[9:29pm] jokeefe: will send email to registrants with the links to the recordings
[9:31pm] jokeefe: srevilak, we are reviewing the conference