May 22nd, 2021 Community Organizing Discussion

Attendees

Six people attended, of which at least four were from Massachusetts and one was from Texas.

What should we do more of?

• on-line events
• advocating for solutions. People already know the problems of centralization, security and privacy
  • free software
  • decentralized networks
  • Swarm economy
• come up with the minimal pirate tech stack in next 6 months
  • Something like https://prism-break.org/en/, but constrained to what we recommend
• Regular Pirate Onboarding
  • What are our ideals & history
  • Things to do there
  • What role can I take / how can I found out what needs doing
  • Where to find resources
  • Who are the local contacts/leaders
  • What tools we have / how to talk with other pirates?
  • Checkout XR onboarding
• Day of Freedom event perhaps in late September or 10/2 (10-2?)
  • Have people doing trainings
  • tables where people can learn about/try out some tech things like Signal
  • Virtual event: Have people doing trainings, some recorded, with scheduled times to ask questions
• Have author event with Gregory Scott Katsoulis about his books including All Rights Reserved (http://gregorykatsoulis.com/) - micky will ask him. if he is ok, we can approach Somerville public library
• Sunday (tomorrow) Movie Night on http://communityBridge.com

Next one: 6/26 - 4-6pm

Sites/software discussed:

• https://lbry.org/
• https://odysee.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/c/BraxMe/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHatedOne/videos
• https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Swarm_Economy
• https://falkvinge.net/pirate-wheel/principles/swarm-economy/
• https://framasoft.org/en/
• http://decidim.org decision making created by city of Barcelona and NYC is using it now
• https://www.participate.nyc.gov/
• https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461
• https://ustechworkercoops.org/
• Book - All Rights Reserved
• https://inkscape.org/
• Croodle - https://www.systemli.org/poll/
• Agaric's civiCRM host - https://www.symbiotic.coop/en