June 13th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Review

• MassCann/NORML Rally
• Boston Pride Parade

Projects

Our Elections

Email sent. Nominations by today. Election ballot by the 30th. Seven days after it is sent out. To Do:

• Send email reminder about nominations this week and next
• Setup ballot (srevilak). For this election, we are implementing Voting Tokens
• Send out ballot this week (jokeefe)
• Send out reminder ballots before polls close (jokeefe)
• Close polls (srevilak)
• Count results (srevilak/jokeefe)
• Publish results - 6/14 (jokeefe)
• Setup meeting with new office holders (jokeefe)
• Review regular IRC meeting day

PirateCon

• Videos:
  • processed and uploaded (jokeefe)
  • putting on finishing touches (jokeefe)
  • announce and update piratecon page (jokeefe)
  • setting up torrents (creynolds)
• Audio for one panel posted. More audio to edit (srevilak)

Planks & Other Discussions

• Discussion
  • Reviewed Loomio instance. Looks good. Looking at how to invite people.
  • myBB installed, but not setup completely (jokeefe)
  • Installing mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)
  • Installed Matrix client (Riot), but we would need our own server to not be dependent on matrix.org servers.
• Previous work on planks: https://github.com/masspirates/planks

Local Chapters

• Somerville meeting 6/21

Day against DRM

Day Against DRM is Sunday, July 9th. FSF is ok with plan to flier, reaching out to Boston contact to see if we can turn it into an organizing opportunity for Boston

Upcoming Events

• 6/20, 6:30pm+, Dorchester Cryptoparty, Fields Corner BPL Branch, 1520 Dorchester Avenue
• 6/21, Edward Snowden's Birthday
• 6/24, 11am-1pm, South Boston Cryptoparty, South Boston BPL Branch, 646 East Broadway
• 6/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 7/9, Day against DRM
• 7/12, INTERNET-WIDE DAY OF ACTION TO SAVE NET NEUTRALITY

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe)
• hvxgr (Tom Rodman - Milwaukee)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• Riastradh

Observers

• davidd
• papegaai
• Techrev
• igel

Summary

Steve gives short summary of Left Forum.

Jamie spoke at Judiciary committee hearings, addressing drones and stingrays.

MassCANN rally tomorrow. Jamie planning to attend.

There's support for Fight For the Future's campaign to save net neutrality.

Elections end at noon on June 10th. Jamie will send out reminders, for folks that haven't voted.

Pride parade. Flyers printed. Hoping for a nice turnout on Saturday. Lineup should be posted tomorrow.

Piratecon. Jamie finishing up video editing. Steve hopes to get more audio editing done this weekend.

We conclude with a short followup to last week's discussion on agile activism.