February 1st, 2016 IRC Meeting

Review & Decisions

Mass. Senate came out with a public records reform bill that is better than the awful House version. Bay State Examiner has a good review in the Weekly Dig.

On Thursday, the 4th at 10am, the Body Cameras bill will have its State House hearing in room B-1 - We support it.

• Who can write a testimony for the hearing about why we support it?
• Who can speak at it?

Campaigns Status

Regional Convention & Contacting Members

• bestpiggy is calling Boston
• Lulu is calling Worcester & South
• srevilak, noe, aquaticonions & jokeefe are finding a location for a regional convention North/West of Boston.

2016 Campaign

2016 Campaign Plan & Task Status

Pirate Pads:

1. text for campaign site

Candidate Status

• jokeefe will post blog and send email asking for candidates Tuesday
• srevilak merging potential candidates into list, starting calling
• noe not running, jokeefe/noe will encourage others to run in greater-Somerville

PirateCon 2016

• Location
• Date

Upcoming Events

1. 2/4, 10am, Body Cameras bill hearing, State House, room B-1 - We support it. Who can speak at it/write a statement about it?
2. 2/8, 7pm - 8:30pm, Using Intelligent Algorithms to Design Intelligent Algorithms, The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
3. 2/11, 6pm - 8pm, Boston Security Meetup: "Where Security Meets Privacy, Government Surveillance and Web", LogMeIn, 333 Summer St, Boston
4. 2/16, 12pm - 1:30pm, Bruce Schneier on "Security and Privacy in the World-Sized Web.", Berkman, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge - RSVP, live stream
5. 2/24, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty
6. 3/19-20, LibrePlanet 2016 conference, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge, Edward Snowden is the keynote speaker
7. 3/30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty

Every Wed., Digital Fourth meeting, 11:20am-1:30pm, Voltage Cafe, Third Street, Cambridge

Participants

Observers

• davidd
• Pharyngeal
• zby

Minutes

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