May 30th, 2017 IRC Meeting
Review
Decisions/Endorsements
Projects
Our Elections
Email sent. Nominations by today. Election ballot by the 30th. Seven days after it is sent out. To Do:
Send email reminder about nominations this week and nextSetup ballot (srevilak). For this election, we are implementing Voting Tokens- Send out ballot this week and before polls close (jokeefe)
PirateCon
- Videos processed. Need to upload to sites and torrent.
Planks & Other Discussions
- Discussion
- Reviewed Loomio instance. Looks good. Looking at how to invite people.
- myBB installed, but not setup completely (jokeefe)
- Installing mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)
- Installed Matrix client (Riot), but we would need our own server to not be dependent on matrix.org servers.
- Previous work in this area: https://github.com/masspirates/planks
- Results of the PirateCon discussion posted
Local Chapters
Somerville meeting in two weeks.
Boston Pride Parade
Day against DRM
Day Against DRM is Sunday, July 9th. The FSF is looking for people to setup events worldwide and asked if we wanted to help organize an event in Massachusetts.
Upcoming Events
- 5/24, 6-7pm, Somerville Pirates Meeting, Diesel Cafe
- 5/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
- 6/3, 5-7pm, LGBT-focused Cryptoparty, Make Shift Boston, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston
- 6/10, Boston Pride Parade, Boston
- 6/21, Edward Snowden's Birthday
- 6/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
- 7/9, Day against DRM
See: 2017 calendar
Participants
- srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
Observers
Summary
Chelsea Manning party went well. Folks can donate at https://www.gofundme.com/welcomehomechelsea
Our elections. Planning to have ballot mailed by Wed.
Planks & Other discussions. Loomio looks pretty good. Would be nice to tie logins together across tools (e.g., LDAP or OpenID), but that's a future project.
Local Chapters. Somerville has a chapter meeting tomorrow. Jamie will follow-up with contacts, re: Boston and Lowell chapters.
Boston Pride. Have facebook event and signup form.
Day against DRM.