February 12th, 2020 IRC Meeting

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Review

Fight bills to make the Film Credit Permanent

H.2419 went to study.

Decisions/Endorsements

Projects

Goals for Q1 2020:

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

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

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

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

  • Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday?

Computer Donations

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Next meeting will be 3/8, 2-4pm, Mr Crêpe, 51 Davis Sq, 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).

Tabled Projects

National Party

Boston Sex Worker Petition

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

  • 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 Crêpe, 51 Davis Sq, Somerville
  • 3/7, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Culture House, Harvard Square
  • 3/14, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
  • Spring 2020, ?, Boston Meetup
  • Spring 2020, ?, Worcester Meetup
  • Spring 2020, ?, Springfield Meetup
  • 4/29, 7-9pm, Boston Cryptoparty, Encuentro 5, Boston

Participants

  • jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
  • srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
  • Pirate_Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Lowell)

Observers

  • davidd
  • ChanServ
  • hvxgr
  • Deffy

Summary

Film tax credit bill went out to study. Means it won't come up for a vote this term.

Regional Meetings. Joe would like to have an April meeting in Lowell. Joe will try to book the library. We're planning on 10:00--14:00, March 21st.

Next Pirate news: Sunday 6pm.

Computer Donations. Pirate Joe interested in doing a computer drive for the wish foundation

Minutes