August 15th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Move Surveillance Camera Picnic to 8/26

There are two rallies scheduled opposite each other during the time of the picnic. Have received comments from supporters and attendees that we move the picnic to another day. In light of the attacks in Charlottesville and the heinous attack of peaceful protesters by a white supremacist, I suggest we move the picnic to Saturday, August 26th, 11am-3pm. Also suggest we hand out fliers about the picnic this Saturday.

Having a presence at the rallies

Sam and James recommend that we have productive visible presence at the rallies. Sam suggests that we setup one of these:

Eyecare Station

Needed: Water bottles, liquid antacid.

Pepper spray has been pretty ubiquitous at these events, we could help supplement medical staff by providing liquid antacid to people affected by pepper spray. There’s the chance we won’t be needed, but if we are needed, it implies the situation has Escalated Somewhat. Maybe we don’t want to be there when that happens.

Know Your Rights pamphleting

Needed: Informational pamphlets.

Might be cool if we found/created some broadsheets to hand out to the police about the rights of people to film the police and gather for protests. Or, if we had something to give to members of the alt-right about how to exit hate groups, that might be effective.

Tech Tent/ Livestreaming Station

Needed: Tent, portable internet connection, generator or batteries

I don’t think we’ve got the supplies on-hand, but for future events, a People’s Media Center might be a great way to network with local activists and news folk. On the other hand, that’s a decent amount of expensive equipment to keep track of if things start going south.

Projects

Freedom Rally Planning

• How can we make our presence at this year's Freedom Rally better?
• What do we need to make it happen?

8/19 Pirate Picnic

Schedule:

• noon-1pm: food and training;
• 1pm-2:30pm: map cameras;
• 2:30pm-3:30pm: come back and debrief.

Planning Pad

To Do:

• blog post
• email
• Facebook event
• Email act-ma
• Post to other event listings
• call members (jokeefe, Malt, Joe, Matt, Aaron)
• make poster - asked designer, jokeefe followed up
• put up posters
• write how-tos
• post press release

Possible picnic in Worcester on 9/30.

Other To Dos

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

Approved our opposition to S.1241. Need statement (Joe)

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.

Tech/Outreach

• Review regular IRC meeting day. Poll sent to email list - Sent (jokeefe)
• email Loomio invite to supporters (jokeefe)
• 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)

Mayfirst is looking at setting up a Discourse instance we could use.

Upcoming Events

• 8/19, noon-3:30pm, Pirate Picnic/Surveillance Camera Mapping Outing, Boston Common, Boston
• 8/30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 9/15-17, Freedom Rally, Sign Up Form
• 9/19, International Talk Like a Pirate Day
• 9/27, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• Fundraiser
• 10/4, Wikileaks' 10th Birthday Party
• 10/25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 11/4, 11am-2pm, South Boston Cryptoparty, South Boston BPL Branch, 646 East Broadway
• 11/8, City Election Day
• 11/11-12, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, Boston University George Sherman Union
• 11/29, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 12/17, Chelsea Manning's Birthday
• 12/27, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

Observers

• davidd
• igel
• hvxgr
• papegaai