July 18th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Review

• Net Neutrality Day

Decisions/Endorsements

S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017

S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017 would add expand the definition of “financial institution” in 31 U.S. Code § 5312 - Definitions and application to include an issuer, redeemer, or cashier of digital currencies. This would allow them to monitor Bitcoin exchanges and the like.

Pirate Picnic

Finalize the date based on the recent poll.

Social Media

Only a small number of people post to our social media accounts reliably. We have to change that.

Projects

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

Need a write up so we can put the word out (Malt)

Other To Dos

• Review regular IRC meeting day - send new poll with earlier times (jokeefe)
• email Loomio invite to supporters (jokeefe)
• email/post about support of Internet-wid Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)
• finish setup of myBB (jokeefe)
• install mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)

Upcoming Events

• 7/20, Boston Socialists cryptoparty, 7-9pm, e5
• 7/26, Somerville cryptoparty, 6-9pm, The Sprouts
• 7/27, Fixit event in JP
• Sept., South Boston public library cryptoparty

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

Observers

• davidd
• igel
• papegaa
• razz
• Techrev