May 29th, 2018 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

• Oppose the Protect and Serve Act of 2018? - Entire MA Delegation voted for it.
• Join the Donate Your Vote campaign? This campaign aims to reverse this injustice by allowing people on the outside to donate their vote to people on the inside. It mostly looks like it encourages an open dialog with people in prison so their perspective is reflected in your vote.

Projects

Statements

• S.2823 - A bill to modernize copyright law, and for other purposes - posted. jokeefe will create petition
• Free Reality Winner - Approved. jokeefe will write a statement
• US S.1241 - Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017 - Approved our opposition to S.1241. Need statement (Joe)
• MA Bill H.3641: An Act relative to electronic tolling - Approved our opposition to it. Past position is to remove the tolls on the Pike since it has long been paid for. Bill did not get out of committee (jokeefe)

Computer Donations

https://piratenpad.de/p/MassPiratesComputerDonations

Other To Dos

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.

Tech/Outreach

• email Loomio invite to supporters (jokeefe)
• set up torrents for PirateCon videos (creynolds)
• post remaining audio for PirateCon talks (srevilak)
• finish setup of myBB (jokeefe)
• install slack alternative (jokeefe)

Upcoming Events

• 5/29, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 5/30, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 6/5, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 6/7, 6pm, Mass MeshNet General Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 6/12, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 6/19, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 6/26, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge
• 6/27, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• Cambridge Pirate Meetup
• Democracy/IT meeting. Email info@masspirates.org for the location
• Somerville Pirate Meetup

Participants

Observers

• ChanServ
• igel
• hvxgr

Minutes

 


[9:02pm] jokeefe: agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/May_29th,_2018_IRC_Meeting
[9:02pm] jokeefe: ids
[9:02pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Somerville
[9:03pm] malt: Sam Capradae, Worcester
[9:04pm] jokeefe: anything to add?
[9:05pm] malt: poked freedom for all and safe patient limits about posting our support, told they'd get back to me once more
[9:05pm] malt: probably going to get it up on the blog this week
[9:05pm] jokeefe: thanks
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Decisions/Endorsements
[9:09pm] jokeefe: Skipping the Protect and Serve Act of 2018 since Joe was going to work on a statement for it
[9:09pm] malt: strongly oppose that one
[9:09pm] malt: ok!
[9:10pm] jokeefe: Pirate_Joe, did you get a chance to write the statement?
[9:10pm] malt: i support endorsing donate your vote, i think it'd be interesting to try reaching out to non-voters
[9:12pm] Pirate_Joe left the chat room. (Quit: https://webchat.pirateirc.net/)
[9:12pm] malt:
[9:12pm] jokeefe: looks like Pirate_Joe has technical difficulties
[9:13pm] jokeefe: Join the Donate Your Vote campaign? This campaign aims to reverse this injustice by allowing people on the outside to donate their vote to people on the inside. It mostly looks like it encourages an open dialog with people in prison so their perspective is reflected in your vote.
[9:16pm] Pirate_Joe joined the chat room.
[9:16pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:16pm] Pirate_Joe: Sorry
[9:16pm] jokeefe: technical difficulties?
[9:16pm] Pirate_Joe: Si, doing this from my phone
[9:16pm] malt: welcome back!
[9:16pm] Pirate_Joe: Ty
[9:17pm] Pirate_Joe: No, I did not get a chance to do that statement either.
[9:17pm] malt: yeah, I think DYV campaign is an interesting idea
[9:19pm] jokeefe: Encouraging people to talk with people they normally has its benefits
[9:21pm] jokeefe: thoughts?
[9:25pm] jokeefe: Pirate_Joe?
[9:26pm] malt: it'll be an interesting outreach experience
[9:26pm] malt: (sorry had a phone call)
[9:26pm] Pirate_Joe: I am not sure what we are discussing.
[9:26pm] malt: it'll mean talking to people who aren't typically pirates
[9:26pm] jokeefe: Joining the Donate Your Vote campaign?
[9:26pm] Pirate_Joe: An outreach?
[9:26pm] Pirate_Joe: Ahh
[9:27pm] jokeefe: More just endorsing and telling people we endorse it
[9:27pm] Pirate_Joe: I thought it was the Detroit Youth Volume
[9:27pm] Pirate_Joe: If it gets people to vote
[9:28pm] jokeefe: good point
[9:28pm] malt: it'd be interesting to try tabling that
[9:29pm] malt: setup a "Boston nonvoter's group"
[9:29pm] Pirate_Joe: Lol
[9:29pm] malt: get them talking directly with folk who are most adversely affected by the status quo
[9:31pm] jokeefe: good point
[9:31pm] jokeefe: So endorse?
[9:31pm] malt: aye
[9:34pm] Pirate_Joe: Aye
[9:34pm] jokeefe: aye
[9:34pm] jokeefe: ok. I’ll write up a brief statement and tell them.
[9:34pm] jokeefe: Projects
[9:35pm] jokeefe: Video Newsletter - when should we do the next one?
[9:35pm] malt: i'm busy saturday
[9:37pm] jokeefe: This weekend is busy. Sunday the 10th is open
[9:37pm] Pirate_Joe: I am really slammed atm
[9:37pm] Pirate_Joe: Trying to hire additional employees
[9:38pm] malt: i could do sunday
[9:38pm] jokeefe: So not this weekend
[9:38pm] jokeefe: ?
[9:38pm] Pirate_Joe: Let's Nay
[9:38pm] jokeefe: Let’s Nay?
[9:39pm] Pirate_Joe: Lol, sorry. Nay on this Sunday
[9:39pm] jokeefe: What about next Sunday? does that work for either of you?
[9:40pm] Pirate_Joe: Probably. With a rain day of the following Monday
[9:41pm] jokeefe: Monday after work would have to be 9pm for me
[9:41pm] Pirate_Joe left the chat room. (Quit: https://webchat.pirateirc.net/)
[9:42pm] jokeefe: malt?
[9:42pm] malt: sure
[9:46pm] jokeefe: ok
[9:47pm] Pirate_Joe joined the chat room.
[9:47pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[9:47pm] jokeefe: Sunday it is
[9:47pm] Pirate_Joe: Ok
[9:48pm] malt:
[9:48pm] Pirate_Joe: Ty
[9:48pm] jokeefe: the 10th
[9:48pm] jokeefe: Party Conference
[9:49pm] jokeefe: Will post one more notice with a deadline of next week and will then close it
[9:50pm] Pirate_Joe: Ok
[9:50pm] jokeefe: That is all I have. I have to finish the statements I am responsible for this week.
[9:50pm] jokeefe: Anything else?
[9:50pm] Pirate_Joe: Not at this time
[9:50pm] malt: i'm all set
[9:51pm] jokeefe: shall we adjourn then?