September 18th, 2019 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Support the Global Climate Strike?

Actions on 9/20 and 9/27:

• https://globalclimatestrike.net/
• https://actionnetwork.org/events/boston-climate-strike-2?
• https://xrmass.org/

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 scheduled for Sunday Sept 8th, 18:30.

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

• 9/21, 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
• 10/15, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 10/22, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 10/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 11/5, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, Cambridge
• 11/12, 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
• srevilak
• Malt

Observers

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

Summary

National meeting. We voted no to presidential candidate; too big a task at this point. Next national meeting will focus on platform.

Global climate strike. Voted in favor of endorsing.

Party conference. Steve to bring A/V equipment. Will stream from Joe or Jamie's laptop.

Minutes

 
21:04 <@jokeefe> Let’s start
21:04 <@jokeefe> Agenda:
        https://masspirates.org/wiki/September_18th,_2019_IRC_Meeting
21:04 <@jokeefe> ids
21:04 <@jokeefe> James O’Keefe, Somerville
21:04 < Joe> Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
21:04 <@jokeefe> anything to add?
21:04 < srevilak> Steve Revilak, Arlington
21:05 < Joe> review, national meeting
21:05 < Joe> instead of projects
21:05 < Joe> I am not on my main pc tonight, I can change it later
21:07 <@jokeefe> Review
21:07 <@jokeefe> National Meeting
21:08 < Joe> We voted no to the presidential candidate.
21:08 <@jokeefe> Running any presidential candidate would be difficult
        for us
21:09 < Joe> All were unsatisfied with any answer she gave as well,
        when she gave them
21:09 < Joe> We set the next meeting to be about the platform we will
        be running
21:10 < Joe> The main plan is the take a EU platform and mod it to
        our laws
21:10 < Joe> jokeefe was mind behind this, so that is very appreciated.
21:11 < Joe> That's all I have on that
21:11 <@jokeefe> Copy Paste culture ;-)
21:11 < Joe> Your thoughts Jokeefe?
21:11 <@jokeefe> that is a good summary.
21:12 <@jokeefe> Decisions/Endorsements
21:13 <@jokeefe> Support the Global Climate Strike?
21:13 <@jokeefe> links in the agenda
21:14 < srevilak> I support
21:14 < Joe> I support it, the world is changing and the amount of fish
        is dropping by loads....
21:15 < Joe> millions depend on the ocean as a food source.
21:15 <@jokeefe> I support as well
21:16 <@jokeefe> Any other views?
21:18 < srevilak> This is an issue where I really think we're doomed.
        But I support people's efforts to try
21:18 < Joe> We could stop pumping carbon into the ocean
21:18 <@jokeefe> We can always try to make it less worse
21:19 <@jokeefe> motion passes. I’ll write something up and post it
21:19 <@jokeefe> Projects
21:19 < srevilak> thx
21:19 <@jokeefe> Party Conference
21:19 <@jokeefe> https://pad.riseup.net/p/2019MAPPConference-keep
21:20  * srevilak volunteers to be the AV guy
21:20 < srevilak> :)
21:20 <@jokeefe> I can bring the setup we went with last time, but is
        there a non-youtube streaming solution we could use?
21:20 <@jokeefe> srevilak, does Mayfirst have anything?
21:21 < srevilak> jokeefe: mayfirst has an icecast server, which we've
        used in the past
21:21 < Joe> We have the goPro as well
21:21 < srevilak> Though I would have to cross my fingers and hope
        streaming scripts still worked
21:21 <@jokeefe> I can bring that, but I don’t have a may to mount it
        on a tripod
21:22 < Joe> Well, that's not a streaming solution
21:22 <@jokeefe> would you be able to test it out before hand, srevilak?
21:22 < srevilak> Will try
21:22 <@jokeefe> I can bring an old iphone, tripod and something to
        connect the two
21:23 < srevilak> as a backup, I can provide a USB cable with audio
        + video
21:23 < Joe> Should I bring the screen?
21:23 < Joe> Projector?
21:23 <@jokeefe> more ways of recording things the better
21:23 < srevilak> e5 has screen and projector
21:24 <@jokeefe> you have the audio setup srevilak?
21:24 < srevilak> if you or joe have laptop that can broadcast to youtube,
        that would work as plan b
21:24 < srevilak> yes, new mixer this year :)
21:24 < srevilak> very low noise floor
21:24 < Joe> I will just need internet access
21:24 < Joe> and a USB camera
21:24 <@jokeefe> they have wifi
21:24 < Joe> Mine is cheap and poor
21:25 <@jokeefe> The phones can use wifi
21:25 < srevilak> I have camera -> HDMI capture box -> USB 3.0.
21:25 < Joe> usb 3 is perfect
21:25 <@jokeefe> I’ll try testing it before hand as well.
21:25 < Joe> I'll bring my beast
21:26 <@jokeefe> you can park briefly in front of E5.
21:26 <@jokeefe> to unload
21:27 <@jokeefe> Joe, are you driving Christine?
21:27 < Joe> I can
21:27 < srevilak> jokeefe - we've used my setup to stream from your
        place before.  IIRC, it worked pretty well
21:27 <@jokeefe> yes
21:27 <@jokeefe> thanks, Joe
21:28 < srevilak> jokeefe: you have E5 access code?
21:28 <@jokeefe> I do. Tested it yesterday for the MassMesh meeting
21:29 < srevilak> awesome
21:29 <@jokeefe> if there anything on the list you can commit to bringing
        from https://pad.riseup.net/p/2019MAPPConference-keep that would be great
21:29 < srevilak> was going through that earlier tonight.
21:30 <@jokeefe> thanks. I updated it
21:30 <@jokeefe> Will also email to see who else can update it.
21:31 <@jokeefe> I paid for the site and the 10/5 tech meeting. will
        send out the details for the records
21:33 <@jokeefe> I think the conference is our video newsletter for the
        week. I’ll put a post up about the one we recorded last weekend
21:33 <@jokeefe> Ahoy Malt
21:33 < Makt> Sam capradae, Worcester
21:33 < Makt> Sorry I'm late
21:34 <@jokeefe> Talking about the Party Conference
21:34 < Makt> Gotcha
21:34 <@jokeefe> If there is anything you can commit to doing in
        https://pad.riseup.net/p/2019MAPPConference-keep that would be great
21:35 < Makt> I can do Craigslist
21:35 <@jokeefe> Thanks!
21:36 <@jokeefe> Malt, did you get a chance to check on a place for a
        Worcester meetup?
21:39 <@jokeefe> I haven’t heard anything about Holyoke
21:40 <@jokeefe> I don’t have any other updates
21:41 < Makt> There's stone soup
21:41 < Makt> I think they ask for a nominal fee though
21:42 <@jokeefe> We have had events there in the past
21:42 < Makt> Nice! What time of year were we looking for?
21:44 <@jokeefe> Anarchist Bookfair is early November. MassMesh is
        getting a table. We could share the table with them.
21:44 <@jokeefe> Perhaps you could see what weekend dates are available
        and we could decide next week?
21:44 < Makt> Ok
21:45 <@jokeefe> thank you
21:45 <@jokeefe> Anything else to discuss?
21:45 < srevilak> nothing here
21:46 < Joe> Motion to adjourn
21:46 <@jokeefe> 2nd
21:46 <@jokeefe> all in favor?
21:46 < Joe> Aye
21:46 < srevilak> aue
21:46 < srevilak> aye
21:46 <@jokeefe> aye
21:47 <@jokeefe> Thanks all.
21:47 < srevilak> will post transcript