August 5th, 2020 IRC Meeting

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Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

  • Organize meetups
  • Organize Fundraiser
  • Organize candidate trainings
  • Revise platform

Bills

Federal

  • Push to vote on EARN IT Act without debate
    • Will put up a petition to contact Senators asking them to help Wyden put a hold on it
    • Can also attempt to flood them with calls, but everything goes to voice mail
    • Especially need to find local Markey campaign events and ask him there, but all of his events are phonebanks
  • PATRIOT Act renewal

State

  • Legislature extended session
  • Push to get Right to Repair bill to a vote.
  • Some of facial recognition moratorium is in the police reform bill

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

  • Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

  • Surveillance Mapping Event
    • Boston (jokeefe) - Sept 12th
    • Worcester (Malt) - Oct 17th
  • Party Conference - Fall
  • 2021 Boston Pride Festival
    • table booked
    • setup signup sheet
    • Announce
    • Need to purchase insurance
    • Need volunteer sign up form
    • Tie to an activity, mapping the CCTV cameras in Boston or along the Pride parade route?

Computer donations

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Sent out email asking for date suggestions.

Other To Do

Tabled Projects

National Party

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

  • Every Tuesday, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, on-line
  • 8/?, 2pm-4pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
  • 9/12, Boston Surveillance Mapping Outing
  • 10/17, Worcester Surveillance Mapping Outing
  • Party Conference - Fall

Participants

  • jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
  • srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)

Observers

  • davidd
  • ChanServ
  • hvxgr
  • Deffy
  • mikey

Summary

MA legislature has extended their session beyond July 31st, to deal with bill reconciliation and COVID-related things.

Need to contact senators re: EARN IT act.

jokeefe and srevilak to test video recording on Saturday 5pm. Actual recording Sunday at 7pm.

There are a number of bills attempting to weaken or eliminate section 230

t-act-looking-to-sneak-vote-through-without-debate.shtml

jokeefe working on survey for regional events.

pirate tech meeting: Aug 29th, 11am.

Minutes
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