April 10th, 2018 IRC Meeting

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Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Email newsletter

Topics for next newsletter:

  • Signup for Boston Pride Parade
  • Pirate News Videos
  • Call for teachers for MOS cryptoparty
  • Yearly Conference survey

8th Anniversary Dinner/Party?

Projects

Video Newsletter

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

Participants

Observers

  • ChanServ
  • hvxgr

Summary

Minutes

 


[9:01pm] jokeefe: agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/April_10th,_2018_IRC_Meeting
[9:01pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:01pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:01pm] Malt: Samuel Capradae, Worcester
[9:02pm] jokeefe: anything to add?
[9:02pm] Malt: working on the solidarity statements for patient limits and trans rights now
[9:03pm] jokeefe: thank you
[9:03pm] jokeefe: I find it helps to send them to the mailing list for others to comment on and help improve
[9:03pm] jokeefe: Decisions/Endorsements
[9:04pm] jokeefe: Email newsletter went out
[9:04pm] jokeefe: Working on the next one
[9:04pm] Malt: will do
[9:04pm] Malt: nice@
[9:05pm] jokeefe: any topics to add?
[9:05pm] Malt: giddy cackling about trump's lawyer getting busted?
[9:05pm] Malt: cuz EEEHEHEHEHEHEHEH
[9:05pm] Malt: but no
[9:06pm] jokeefe: interesting times
[9:06pm] jokeefe: I was reviewing the calendar and noticed that our 8th Anniversary is coming up.
[9:06pm] Malt: oh fun!
[9:07pm] hvxgr_: ahoy ( Tom Rodman / Milwaukee )
[9:07pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:08pm] Malt: hi
[9:08pm] jokeefe: Would be good to have a dinner party to celebrate it. Possibly a fundraiser. Can post a poll about the date/location.  Was thinking of the weekend after May 9th.
[9:09pm] Malt: may 11 worcester city gov't invited me to do a pun event at city hall
[9:09pm] Malt: might be fun to do something appropriately pirate themed
[9:09pm] Malt: rum tasting party? 
[9:10pm] jokeefe: lol
[9:11pm] jokeefe: Projects
[9:11pm] Dmitri joined the chat room.
[9:12pm] jokeefe: ahoy Dmitri
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