February 29th, 2016 IRC Meeting
Review & Decisions
No Phone Backdoors Protest
Discussion of Senate FOIA bill
- MA Senate's public records bill: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/Senate/S2120
- Marked up copy of the original bill 2015 S.2120 An Act to improve public records
- Marked up copy of the amended bill 2015 S.2127 An Act to improve public records
- Bay State Examiner's take on public records law
Campaigns Status
PirateCon 2016
Emailed notice about the survey. Post scheduled.
Looking at streaming options.
2016 Campaign
2016 Campaign Plan & Task Status
Regional Convention & Contacting Members
- Joe Thornton offered to call Boston
- Lulu is calling Worcester & South
- jokeefe calling volunteers
Candidate Status
- Noe, Steve and jokeefe are calling potential candidates
Upcoming Events
- 3/1, Mass. Presidential Primary
- 3/19-20, LibrePlanet 2016 conference, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge, Edward Snowden is the keynote speaker. Our crypto-corner is the last half of lunch, into the first session after lunch (around two hours), both Saturday and Sunday.
- 3/26, 1pm, Cryptoparty, South Coast Innovator Labs, Building A, 1380 Bay Street, Taunton
- 3/30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville
Every Wed., Digital Fourth meeting, 11:20am-1:30pm, Voltage Cafe, Third Street, Cambridge
Participants
- jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
- Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero, Medway)
- srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
- aquaticonions (Eli Haber, Lexington MA)
- igel (William Fleurant, Arlington MA)
Observers
- Pharyngeal
- davidd
Summary
No Phone Backdoors protest (aka no FBiOS) went well. 30 participants. Good press coverage. Follow-up blog post: https://masspirates.org/blog/2016/02/29/tuesdays-no-phone-backdoor-rally-was-a-success.
Senate FOIA bill. Main bill was S.2120. A later numbered bill, S.2127 is S.2120, with amendments. Marked up copy at 2015 S.2127 An Act to improve public records. Will take some time to digest changes with amendments; plan to bring bill back up for discussion in two weeks (March 14th), during our usual IRC meeting.
PirateCon 2016. Survey mailed out; post goes up soon.
Minutes
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