June 6th, 2017 IRC Meeting

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Review

  • Left Forum
  • Judiciary Committee hearings

Decisions/Endorsements

MassCANN rally

MassCann/NORML Rally tomorrow - https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/

Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality

June 12th - https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2017-06-06-major-web-companies-and-public-interest-groups/

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 next
  • Setup ballot (srevilak). For this election, we are implementing Voting Tokens
  • Send out ballot this week (jokeefe)
  • Send out reminder ballots before polls close (jokeefe)
  • Close polls
  • Count results
  • Publish results
  • Setup meeting with new office holders

Boston Pride Parade

PirateCon

  • Videos:
    • processed and uploaded
    • putting on finishing touches
    • announce and update piratecon page
    • setting up torrents
  • Audio for one panel posted. More audio to edit.

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 on planks: https://github.com/masspirates/planks

Local Chapters

Somerville meeting soon.

Day against DRM

Day Against DRM is Sunday, July 9th. Emailed FSF about our idea to hand out fliers.

Upcoming Events

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

  • jokeefe (James O’Keefe)
  • hvxgr (Tom Rodman - Milwaukee)
  • srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)

Observers

  • davidd
  • papegaai
  • Techrev
  • igel

Summary

Steve gives short summary of Left Forum.

Jamie spoke at Judiciary committee hearings, addressing drones and stingrays.

MassCANN rally tomorrow. Jamie planning to attend.

Minutes
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