November 4th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Set schedule for the conference

Saturday

• noon-12:15pm - Captain's Introduction and Year Review
• 12:15-1pm - Where do we go from here?
• 1-2pm - Platform Discussion
• 2-2:30pm - Break
• 2:30-3:30pm - Speakers
• 3:30-4:30pm - Platform Discussion
• 4:30+ - Pirate Beer

Sunday

• noon-12:30pm - Quartermaster's Introduction and Finances Report
• 12:30-2:00pm - Platform Discussion
• 2-2:30pm - Break
• 2:30-3:30pm - Platform Discussion
• 3:30-4:30pm - Platform Discussion

Speakers:

• Steve Revilak

How housing polices were used to segregate communities in the 20th century. There will be emphasis on zoning, which is generally the domain of local governments.

• Alexander Isavnin

State activities related to censorship, surveillance, political oppression on examples from Russia and neighboring countries.

• James O'Keefe

Running for office (can be prerecorded)

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

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

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Surveillance Mapping

• Come up with a how to instructions
  • Paper - done
  • iPhone - done
  • Android
• Come up with how to videos

Regional Meetings/Events

In-person events, including outdoor events, on hold until COVID-19 numbers go down.

Leader: jokeefe

Party Conference

• Schedule regular posts on blog
• Dividing up the platform and coming up with draft items

Dec. 4th Day Against DRM

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?

Campaigns

• Free the Moderna Vaccine
  • Planning meeting upcoming. Contact jokeefe for details if you want to attend.
  • Planning new event
• Yes on 1
  • Post on our support for it
  • Who could reach out to campaign to ask how we can help?
• Yes on 2
  • Post reminder of our support for it
  • jokeefe reached out to campaign on helping. Will followup.
  • Yard signs available.

Bills

Federal

• EARN IT Act
  • Petition
• 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

Computer donations

• Rules
• Sign up form

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. Per TechDirt, 9/17 is the last date for submissions for the 2nd round. - done

Tabled Projects

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
• 10/31, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
• 11/14-15, Party Conference

Participants

• Olivia_: Olivia Kristiann, PPI volunteer
• jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
• Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
• Malt: Sam capradae, Worcester

Observers

• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey