May 16th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Projects

Our Elections

Email sent. Nominations by the 23rd. Election ballot by the 30th. To Do:

• Send email reminder about nominations this week and next
• Need to setup ballot
• Send out ballot this next week and before polls close

Planks & Other Discussions

• Discussion
  • Have Loomio instance. Looking at setting up local instance
  • Have slack instance
  • myBB installed, but not setup completely
  • Installing mattermost as slack alternative
• Schedule September meeting to adopt final platform for 2018 elections. Possible Dates are:
  • 9/9
  • 9/10
  • 9/23
  • 9/24
• Previous work in this area: https://github.com/masspirates/planks
• Results of the PirateCon discussion posted

Local Chapters

• Somerville
• Boston
• Lowell

Boston Pride Parade

• Flyers/pamphlets to distribute?

Upcoming Events

• 5/14-21, Together Boston, Cambridge
• 5/17, Chelsea Manning's Release Party, Somerville
• 5/20, 10am-4pm, March Against Monsanto
• 5/21, 2-4pm, Tech Meeting, Arlington
• 5/24, 6-7pm, Somerville Pirates Meeting, Diesel Cafe
• 5/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 6/3, 5-7pm, LGBT-focused Cryptoparty, Make Shift Boston, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston
• 6/10, Boston Pride Parade, Boston
• 6/21, Edward Snowden's Birthday
• 6/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• Pepe (G, Lowell)
• Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero, Medway)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• hvxgr (Tom Rodman, Milwaukee)

Observers

• papegaai
• davidd
• igel