July 3rd, 2019 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Support Ranked Choice Voting Lobby Day on July 16?

Voter Choice MA has several bills proposed:

• RCV Local Options bill (S.420/H.635) make it easier for municipalities to adopt RCV without having to go through the Legislature for approval;
• State and Federal RCV Bill (S.414/H.719)

They are having a lobby day on July 16th. Suggest we support it since we support RCV/IRV.

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)

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

• 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
• 7/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts
• ?, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke

Participants

• jokeefe
• DesmondRavenston
• srevilak
• Pirate_Joe

Observers

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