May 8th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Organizing Neighbors to End Exploitation Statement

Projects

Goals for Q2:

Organize meetups
Organize election
Organize Fundraiser(s)
Organize candidate trainings
Revise platform

Regional Meetings

Video Newsletter

Next pirate news recording?
Make a video supporting the European Pirates in the upcoming EU election?

Mesh Net

Cryptoparties

Tech/Outreach

need to schedule a May meeting
find discussion/voting system
update blog theme
update civicrm software
set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)

Election Campaigns

Bills to make the Film Credit Permanent

HD388 would make the film tax credit permanent. It is supposed to expire in 2023. The bill has 100+ signatures this time around. There isn't a hearing date for it yet.

Action items:

Tell our supporters how to oppose it
Look out for a hearing date
If possible, reach out to other groups to organize a lobby day

Update Platform

Tabled Projects

These have been on our agenda for a long time. How do we make them a reality?

Boston Sex Worker Petition

Non-pirate guest speakers

Sargon of Akkad

Bearing

CCTV camera map

Computer Donations

https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations

Video Newsletter guest speakers

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.

Upcoming Events

5/14, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
5/18, 10:30am-1:45pm, Somerville-area Pirate Meetup, Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Ave., Somerville
5/21, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
5/23-26, European Parliamentary Elections, #VotePirate
5/28, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
6/4, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
6/11, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
6/22, 11am-4pm, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke

Participants

Observers

ChanServ
hvxgr
hvxgr_
davidd
Mikaela_Suomalainen

Summary

Agreed to support the Stop & Shop Strikers. jokeefe will ask Moses to write a statement
Will record the next pirate news show on Sunday, 8pm.
Agreed to push the date that ballot are due back two days to 4/27.