April 3rd, 2018 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Email newsletter

This week's email newsletter

• April 9th deadline for Right of Repair bill
• FOSTA Update - with survey on whether we should moderate comments or not?
• Pirate News Videos
• Milford Town Elections Videos
• Call for teachers for MOS cryptoparty
• Signup for Boston Pride Parade

Next week's email newsletter

• Signup for Boston Pride Parade
• Pirate News Videos
• Yearly Conference survey

Projects

Yearly Conference

Once we set dates for the trainings we will put up a poll asking about our 2018 conference and whether to change it into several regional conferences.

The electronic election for our officers went well in 2017, and we should consider doing it again. Such a change would allow us to decentralize our yearly conference and hold multiple regional conferences in different parts of the state. We could schedule monthly conferences starting in March or April. We could limit them to about 4-5 hours long, with the first half being training and the second half being discussion. If we want to go this route, we should ask our members soon and see who wants to organize their regional conference.

Computer Donations

https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations

Statements In Process

• MA Bill H.3641: An Act relative to electronic tolling - Approved our opposition to it. Past position is to remove the tolls on the Pike since it has long been paid for.
• US S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017 - Approved our opposition to S.1241. Need statement (Joe)

Other To Dos

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

• 4/8, Somerville Pirate Brunch, noon
• 4/25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 4/?, ?pm, Democracy/IT meeting. Email info@masspirates.org for the location
• April/May, Cambridge Pirate Meetup