July 17th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Mass. Legislation

• An Act to establish a taskforce to develop a uniform code for police body-worn cameras and their recordings (H.2120) contains language to exemption of body camera recordings from the definition of “public record”. More at:
  • https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/07/11/police-bodycams-public-records
  • https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/10/bill-would-limit-public-access-police-video-massachusetts/OqpSjpHvD86yXd1GbAggAM/story.html

Federal Legislation

• The CASE Act (H2426) would create a copyright infringement small claims court, thus leading to more copyright trolling.

Congress of Corrections

Boston is hosting the Congress of Corrections, Aug 1-6. It will be at the Hynes Convention Center, Halls C&D. It is sponsored by private prison and ICE detention investors.

Projects

Goals for Q2:

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

Regional Meetings

jokeefe will post poll for October party conference by Friday.

Leader:

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

July 13th Meeting

• srevilak updated blog theme. jokeefe and srevilak corrected any items that were wrong as a result of the update;
• jokeefe updated our Riot/Matrix client to the latest stable version. Started work on a splash page for discuss.masspirates.org.
• srevilak & jokeefe tested camera / microphone setup and figured out that the reason the recording was so soft in the video we took at the Pirate Planning Picnic was that the speakers were too far away from the microphones.

jokeefe noticed that our CCTV camera map no longer shows the locations of cameras. Will look at it.

Next meeting will be August 10th. Topics are:

• find discussion/voting system;
• update CCTV cameras to include older cameras outside North America we didn't include;
• write an app to record the location/ownership of CCTV cameras;
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds);
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak).

Tasks

Fight bills to make the Film Credit Permanent

H.2419 would make the film tax credit permanent. It is supposed to expire in 2023. The bill has 100+ signatures this time around. jokeefe will submit testimony.

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

• 7/16, Voter Choice MA RCV Lobby Day
• 7/17, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 7/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 7/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 7/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts
• 8/6, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 8/10, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington
• 8/24, Lowell Pirate Picnic, Lowell
• ?, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke

Participants

• srevilak
• jokeefe
• Pirate_Joe
• Malt

Observers

• bonelesspepsi
• davidd
• hvxgr
• hvxgr_
• MikaelaSuomalainen
• igel[m]
• cortex (briefly)