August 28th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3:

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

Party Conference

Party Conference is 9/21 at Encuentro 5

ToDo list - https://pad.riseup.net/p/2019MAPPConference-keep

Regional Meetings

Leader: jokeefe

Looking at late October or November for the Holyoke meetup.

Malt is looking for a place/date for a Worcester meetup the month after the Holyoke meetup.

Video Newsletter

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording?

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be October 5th, 11am-1pm, possibly at E5. Topics are:

• find discussion/voting system;
• update CCTV cameras to include older cameras outside North America we didn't include;
• write an app to record the location/ownership of CCTV cameras;
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds);
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak).

Computer Donations

• jokeefe contacting friend who refurbishes computers for a non-profit
• Archived https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations - move to wiki

Tasks

Fight bills to make the Film Credit Permanent

H.2419 would make the film tax credit permanent. It is supposed to expire in 2023. The bill has 100+ signatures this time around. jokeefe will submit testimony.

Tabled Projects

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

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

• 9/3, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 9/10, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• 9/13-15, Freedom Rally, Boston Common
• 9/17, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 9/21, 9-6pm, Party Conference, Encuentro 5, Park Street, Boston
• 9/24, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 9/35, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts
• 10/1, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 10/5, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Arlington
• 10/8, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• Nov/Dec, ?, Holyoke Pirate Meetup, Board Room, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke
• Nov/Dec, ?, Worcester Pirate Meetup

Participants

• jokeefe
• Joe
• Ceynolds87
• srevilak

Observers

• bonelesspepsi[m]
• davidd
• hvxgr
• MikaelaSuomalainen
• Deffy
• haskal[m]

Summary

Picnic. One new person attended. Good food. Good conversations.

Conference. Planning information at https://pad.riseup.net/p/2019MAPPConference-keep

Regional meetings. Hope to have some dates set before the conference.

Video Newsletter. Numerous schedule conflicts this week. Next one will be Sunday Sept 8th, 18:30.