June 6th, 2017 IRC Meeting

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Review

Decisions/Endorsements

MassCANN rally

MassCann/NORML Rally tomorrow - https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/

Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality

June 12th - https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2017-06-06-major-web-companies-and-public-interest-groups/

Projects

Our Elections

Email sent. Nominations by today. Election ballot by the 30th. Seven days after it is sent out. To Do:

  • Send email reminder about nominations this week and next
  • Setup ballot (srevilak). For this election, we are implementing Voting Tokens
  • Send out ballot this week (jokeefe)
  • Send out reminder ballots before polls close (jokeefe)
  • Close polls
  • Count results
  • Publish results
  • Setup meeting with new office holders

Boston Pride Parade

PirateCon

  • Videos:
    • processed and uploaded
    • putting on finishing touches
    • announce and update piratecon page
    • setting up torrents
  • Audio for one panel posted. More audio to edit.

Planks & Other Discussions

  • Discussion
    • Reviewed Loomio instance. Looks good. Looking at how to invite people.
    • myBB installed, but not setup completely (jokeefe)
    • Installing mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)
    • Installed Matrix client (Riot), but we would need our own server to not be dependent on matrix.org servers.
  • Evaluating issue tracking/proj management sw (alternatives to jira), for dealing w/tech issues, or "agile activism"?
  • Previous work on planks: https://github.com/masspirates/planks
  • Results of the PirateCon discussion posted

Local Chapters

Somerville meeting soon.

Day against DRM

Day Against DRM is Sunday, July 9th. Emailed FSF about our idea to hand out fliers.

Upcoming Events

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

Observers

Summary

Minutes