January 26th, 2023 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://ca.meet.coop/mas-ub4-8ox-vtj.

Recording:

Reports

OCPF

EoY Report filed: https://ocpf.us/Reports/DisplayReport?menuHidden=true&id=867519

Decisions/Endorsements

Renew mailbox?

Our PO Box expires the end of January. Yearly renewal cost is $216.

Projects

2/18/2023 Party Conference

• Conference page up: https://masspirates.org/blog/conference/
• Blog post up
• Email update will go out this weekend.

Planning for 2023 Local Elections

• https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2023LocalElections

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Bill Reviews

Bills have been submitted to the legislature. Should we:

• organize a review of their language
• how should the review be done

This would be for the purpose of deciding which to support/oppose.

Other To Do

• Application to PPI

Upcoming Events

• Party Conference, noon, January 21st, 2023.

Participants

• Jamie
• Steve
• John

Summary

OCPF end of year report filed.

Steve renewed PO Box. Will treat as in-kind contribution. Sent receipt to joe.

Party conference. Page up. Email update will go out this weekend.

Local outreach. In Somerville, meeting on Feb 13th about Comcast cable agreement. There's a group of folks who're more interesting with building a municipal internet, and in challenging agreement to get better access and lower costs.