September 12th, 2018 IRC Meeting
From Mass Pirate Wiki
Review
Decisions/Endorsements
Projects
Freedom Rally
- Decide on setup plan
- MeshNet site plan - going forward
- Flyers ordered
- FSF says they will join our table
- Setup announcement on youtube channel
Day Against DRM
- FSF setup some events on the 18th. Waiting for details
Party Conference
Set for 9/29
Video Newsletter
Freedom Rally?
Statements
- Donate Your Vote campaign (jokeefe)
- S.2823 - A bill to modernize copyright law, and for other purposes - posted. jokeefe will create petition
- Free Reality Winner - Approved. jokeefe will write a statement
- US S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017 - Approved our opposition to S.1241. Need statement (Joe)
- 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. Bill did not get out of committee (jokeefe)
Computer Donations
https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations
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
- install a Matrix server (jokeefe)
- email Loomio invite to supporters (jokeefe)
- set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
- post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)
Upcoming Events
- 9/15-16, Freedom Rally, Sign Up Form
- 9/16, 10am, Rally to uphold transgender rights, Copley Sq., Boston
- 9/18, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
- 9/18, Day Against DRM
- 9/19, International Talk Like a Pirate Day
- 9/23-30, Together Boston, Cambridge
- Sept., Party Conference
- 9/25, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
- 9/26, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
- Sep/Oct, Boston-area Chapter Meeting
- Sep/Oct, Democracy/IT meeting. Email info@masspirates.org for the location
Participants
Observers
- ChanServ
- hvxgr, Tom Rodman / Milwaukee
