August 19th, 2020 IRC Meeting
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Review
Decisions/Endorsements
Projects
Goals for Q3 2020:
- Organize meetups
- Revise platform
- Organize Fundraiser
- Organize candidate trainings
Bills
Federal
- EARN IT Act
- PATRIOT Act renewal
State
- Legislature extended session
- Push to get Right to Repair bill to a vote.
- Some of facial recognition moratorium is in the police reform bill
Video Newsletter/Podcast
Leader: Joseph
- Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed
Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)
Set for 8/29, 11am-1pm
Regional Meetings/Events
Leader: jokeefe
- Surveillance Mapping Event
- Come up with a how to video
- Boston (jokeefe) - Sept 12th
- Worcester (Malt) - Oct 17th
- Party Conference - Fall
- 2021 Boston Pride Festival
- table booked
- setup signup sheet
- Announce
- Need to purchase insurance
- Need volunteer sign up form
- Tie to an activity, mapping the CCTV cameras in Boston or along the Pride parade route?
Computer donations
Platform Discussion
Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion
Other To Do
- Application to PPI
- Post statement on Archive.org Suit
- Post statement on our support for Question 1: open access to vehicle telematics systems.
- Post statement on our opposition to S.4051 - Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act.
- Post statement on retaining section 230 protections. Docket RM-11862
Tabled Projects
National Party
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
- Every Tuesday, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, on-line
- 8/20, 11am-noon, Link to the live stream is EARN IT Act Call-a-thon, on-line
- 8/29, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
- 9/12, Boston Surveillance Mapping Outing
- 10/17, Worcester Surveillance Mapping Outing
- Fall, Party Conference
Participants
- srevilak
- jokeefe
- Malt
Observers
- davidd
- ChanServ
- hvxgr
- Deffy
- mikey