August 29th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Review

8/26 Pirate Picnic

• What went well?
• What didn't?
• What do we need to make it better?
• Next one?

Projects

Freedom Rally Planning

Planning doc: https://piratenpad.de/p/FreedomRally2017

Other To Dos

S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017

Approved our opposition to S.1241. Need statement (Joe)

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.

Tech/Outreach

• Review regular IRC meeting day. Poll sent to email list - Sent (jokeefe)
• email Loomio invite to supporters (jokeefe)
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)
• finish setup of myBB (jokeefe)
• install mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)

Mayfirst is looking at setting up a Discourse instance we could use.

Upcoming Events

• 8/26, noon-3:30pm, Pirate Picnic/Surveillance Camera Mapping Outing, Boston Common, Boston
• 8/30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 9/15-17, Freedom Rally, Sign Up Form
• 9/19, International Talk Like a Pirate Day
• 9/27, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• Fundraiser
• 10/4, Wikileaks' 10th Birthday Party
• 10/25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 11/4, 11am-2pm, South Boston Cryptoparty, South Boston BPL Branch, 646 East Broadway
• 11/8, City Election Day
• 11/11-12, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, Boston University George Sherman Union
• 11/29, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 12/17, Chelsea Manning's Birthday
• 12/27, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
• Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell MA
• Malt/Malt_: Sam Capradae, Worcester MA
• admech: Matt Fealy, Boston

Observers

• davidd
• igel
• hvxgr
• Fatbag/Fatbag_
• papegaai

Summary

8/19 Rallies

45,000+ attended. Festive environment. Handing out cookies and flyers went well. More in the minutes.

8/19 Pirate Picnic

Went through the Planning Pad and updated it. Will ask attendees to also sign up for things. Possible idea of either selling brownies or taking up a collection.

Freedom Rally

Updated the Planning Pad. Will email list asking more people to sign up for things.

Fundraising

Joe suggested a number of ideas:

• Events
• Auction: Have people put up things to auction via secure auction site.
  • Open Source Software: http://www.webidsupport.com/ or http://www.bidhub.org/
• Drives such as can drives or door to door drives
  • Could work well for candidates

Malt will pull together some possible future events and send it to the list.