June 26th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q2:

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

Regional Meetings

Leader:

• What to go over at Sunday's meeting?

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

• update civicrm software - Done
• meeting scheduled July 13th, 11am-1pm, Arlington
• update blog theme
• find discussion/voting system
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)

Mesh Net

Leader: igel[m]

Cryptoparties

Set for June 26th.

Leader:

Tasks

Fight 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

Tabled Projects

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

Computer Donations

https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations

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

• 6/25, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts
• 6/30, 2pm-4pm, Leadership/Activist/Volunteer Meetup, Somerville
• 7/1, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 7/8, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 7/13, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington
• 7/15, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 7/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 7/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• ?, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke

Participants

Observers

• bonelesspepsi
• davidd
• hvxgr
• hvxgr_
• MikaelaSuomalainen
• igel[m]