November 9th, 2015 IRC Meeting

Review & Decisions

• H.2170 – An Act promoting the use of body-worn cameras by law enforcement – Here is Alex Marthew’s take;
• Boston Police Body Camera Use & Procedure ordinance.

Also, since we backed the car right to repair bill, I wouldn't think there would be any issue with H.3383 – An Act relative to the digital right to repair.

Upcoming Events

1. 11/15, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting, Pizzeria Regina, 353 Cambridge St, Allston
2. 11/21, 9am-5:30pm, Building Sustainable Security, Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall
3. 11/21-22, 10am-6pm, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Student Center, Boston University
4. 11/25, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, Somerville
5. 12/6, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting, Pizzeria Regina, 353 Cambridge St, Allston
6. Dec. IT Meeting?
7. 12/30, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville

Campaigns Status

2016 Campaigns & Policies Update

What tasks should we add?

Also, writing up a doc on using git & commenting on & voting on changes (jokeefe)

Election Bills

Writing position based on our testimony from last year (jokeefe)

Other Bills for consideration

Going to put at least one for discussion at every IRC meeting and just get through them.

PirateCon 2015 Videos (jokeefe)

Ordered them in ease of processing / priority:

1. Building 3rd party coalitions
2. Lightning talks
3. Keynote: How we won Net Neutrality
4. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and you
5. Rethinking the City
6. Income Inequality

Newsletter (Kendra)

• Design & Feedback
• Distribution Planning (besides emailing a pdf)
  • Gather list of people to mail it to (?)
  • Gather a list of places to distribute it (?)
  • Decide on the print run (?)
• Distribute

Tech

see for priorities

• Bitcoin + Credit card gateway in CiviCRM (srevilak, js0000, Kendra)
• Improve UI navigation of wiki & expose more wiki bits on blog (Noe, jokeefe)
• Allow distributed organizing on CiviCRM (and pointers to get started) (Kendra, srevilak, Chris, jokeefe)
• js0000 and jokeefe will work on building a tool to manage twitter:
  • design (jokeefe) - posted at Twitter API design
  • coding (js0000 & jokeefe)
• Forum (or needed now that lists are publicized?)

Administrative

• Media
  • Updated media list (noe)
  • Nov. - 2016 Elections
• Blog posts
  • Local/regional contacts (jokeefe) - Regional page up. Working on local pages.
• Materials
  • Stickers (igel)
  • Flyers
    • Need update to general flyer
      • ideas: UK Pirate Party materials / design ideas

Tasks: Wiki list, PiratePad version.

Helping with BINJ CCTV camera mapping project

Looking for someone to work on this.

Upcoming Events

1. 11/15, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting, Pizzeria Regina, 353 Cambridge St, Allston
2. 11/21, 9am-5:30pm, Building Sustainable Security, Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall
3. 11/21-22, 10am-6pm, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Student Center, Boston University
4. 11/25, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, Somerville
5. 12/6, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting, Pizzeria Regina, 353 Cambridge St, Allston
6. Dec. IT Meeting?
7. 12/30, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville

Every Thu., Digital Fourth meeting, 11:20am-1:30pm, Voltage Cafe, Third Street, Cambridge

Participants

• bestpiggy (olivia Píñeyro, Boston)
• Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero, Medway)
• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• JTIII (Joe Thornton, Boston Ma)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak - arlington, MA)
• Kendra (Kendra Moyer, Michigan)
• igel (william fleurant arling[Cton)
• aquaticonions

Observers

• davidd
• Pharyngeal

Summary

Body camera legislation. ACLU's model legislation for municipalities is https://aclum.org/app/uploads/2015/09/ACLUM-Model-Municipal-Body-Camera-Policy-9-16-15.pdf. There are similarities between this and the proposed Boston legislation, but the two are not identical.

We vote in favor of supporting H.2170 (6-0).

BPCAT’s Boston Police Body Camera Use & Procedure ordinance. Vote in favor of supporting (4-0).

H3383. We identify some positive points, but some significant limitations (sections 7 & 8). Vote to endorse as a small step forward, while calling out limitations. Passes (6-0). Steve to draft statement.