February 20th, 2019 IRC Meeting
Review
Decisions/Endorsements
Projects
Goals for Q1:
- Organize meetups
- Organize Fundraiser(s)
- Organize candidate trainings
- Revise platform
Officer/Pirate Council Elections
Dates:
- Nominations open when we announce and post the form (before 2/20).
- Nominations due by 4/8
- Ballots sent out by 4/12
- Ballot due by 4/23
Boston Sex Worker Petition
Regional Meetings
Tech/Outreach
- find discussion/voting system
- update blog theme
- update civicrm software
- set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
- post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)
Video Newsletter
Post individual autonomy plank
Mesh Net
Cryptoparties
Election Campaigns
Bills to make the Film Credit Permanent
The Boston Globe reported that there is an effort to make the film tax credit permanent. It should expire in January 2023. This effort has happened in the past 2013, 2017. The current house bill has 100+ signatures this time around. There isn't a hearing date for it yet, but suggest that we be active in opposing this bill.
Budget
Update Platform
CCTV camera map
Other To Dos
These have been on our agenda for a long time. How do we make them a reality?
Computer Donations
On hold - https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations
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.
Upcoming Events
- 2/26, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
- 3/5, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
- early March?, morning, Boston-area Pirate Meetup, Boston
- late March?, Lowell-area Pirate Meetup, Lowell
- early April?, Worcester-area Pirate Meetup, Worcester
Participants
Observers
- ChanServ
- hvxgr_
- davidd
- Mikaela_Suomalainen
- bonelesspepsi[m]
- igel[m]