February 5th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Review

• Democracy Meeting
• Right of Repair bill voted out of committee

Projects

Goals for Q1 2020:

• Organize meetups
• Organize Fundraiser
• Organize candidate trainings
• Revise platform

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Boston (jokeefe) - Looking for space
• Worcester (Malt)

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be 3/8, 2-4pm, Diesel Cafe, Somerville. 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).

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Tabled Projects

Computer Donations

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

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.

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.

Upcoming Events

• 2/11, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• 2/18, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• 2/25, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 3/8, 2pm-4pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, Mr. Crepe, Somerville
• 3/7, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Culture House, Harvard Square
• Spring 2020, ?, Boston Meetup
• Spring 2020, ?, Worcester Meetup
• Spring 2020, ?, Springfield Meetup
• 4/29, 7-9pm, Boston Cryptoparty, Encuentro 5, Boston

Participants

• jokeefe
• Pirate_Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Lowell)
• Malt
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA)

Observers

• davidd
• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy

Summary

Last Sunday's tech meeting was producing. Next one will be held on March 8th.

Right to Repair bill was voted out of committee. Goes to senate next.

National Politics. A couple of notable things happened this week. Senate acquitted the president on impeachment charges. There was also the IT mess with Iowa's democratic caucus. Perhaps not a very good way to do single-round ranked choice voting. Discussion about renewing efforts for RCV in 2020. See https://voterchoice2020.org/

Next video recording. Sunday at 6pm. May discuss RCV, maybe national politics.