June 12th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Leadership/activist/volunteer picnic

6/29, 2-4pm, Somerville

Mayfirst Voting To Change Its Structure

1. -- Should we approve these new by-laws that make us a non-profit membership organization -- the non-profit version of a coop?
2. -- If you vote "yes" on the new by-laws, should we adopt a "special relationship" (as defined by these new by-laws) with the May First coop in Mexico?
3. -- If you vote "yes" on the new by-laws, should we authorize the current Leadership Committee to continue in its current role until the elections for the new Board of Directors can be held (probably sometime in September)?

Bylaws - https://mayfirst.org/files/bylaws.en.pdf

Discussion - https://comment.mayfirst.org/t/discuss-the-proposed-coop-by-laws/1245

Projects

Goals for Q2:

• Organize meetups
• Organize election
• Organize Fundraiser(s)
• Organize candidate trainings
• Revise platform

Regional Meetings

Leader:

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording?

Mesh Net

Leader: igel[m]

Cryptoparties

Leader:

Tech/Outreach

• meeting scheduled June 15th
• find discussion/voting system
• update blog theme
• update civicrm software
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)

Tasks

Fight bills to make the Film Credit Permanent

HD388 would make the film tax credit permanent. It is supposed to expire in 2023. The bill has 100+ signatures this time around. There isn't a hearing date for it yet.

Action items:

• Tell our supporters how to oppose it
• Look out for a hearing date
• If possible, reach out to other groups to organize a lobby day

Tabled Projects

These have been on our agenda for a long time. How do we make them a reality?

Computer Donations

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

• 6/18, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 6/22, 11am-4pm, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke
• 6/25, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 6/25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts
• 6/29, 2pm-4pm, Leadership/Activist/Volunteer Meetup, Somerville
• 7/1, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting

Participants

Observers

• bonelesspepsi
• davidd
• hvxgr
• hvxgr_
• MikaelaSuomalainen