September 16th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

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

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed

Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)

Work continues on streaming options.

Next one set for for 9/26, 11am-1pm

Regional Meetings/Events

Leader: jokeefe

• Surveillance Mapping Event
  • Come up with a how to instructions
    • Paper - done
    • iPhone - done
    • Android
  • Come up with how to videos
  • Boston (jokeefe) - Sept 12th - done
  • Worcester (Malt) - Oct 17th
• Party Conference
  • Working on streaming options
  • Posted date survey. due 9/25
• Nov. Anarchist Book Fair
• 2021 Boston Pride Festival
  • table booked
  • setup signup sheet
  • Announce
  • Need to purchase insurance
  • Need volunteer sign up form
  • Tie to an activity, mapping the CCTV cameras in Boston or along the Pride parade route?

Campaigns

• Free the Moderna Vaccine
  • Planning meeting upcoming. Contact jokeefe for details if you want to attend.
  • Planning new event
• Yes on 1
  • Post on our support for it
  • Who could reach out to campaign to ask how we can help?
• Yes on 2
  • Post reminder of our support for it
  • jokeefe reached out to campaign on helping. Will followup.
  • Yard signs available.

Bills

Federal

• EARN IT Act
  • Petition
• PATRIOT Act renewal

State

• Legislature extended session
• Push to get Right to Repair bill to a vote.
• Some of facial recognition moratorium is in the police reform bill

Computer donations

• Rules
• Sign up form

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Other To Do

• Application to PPI
• Post statement on Archive.org Suit
• Post statement on our support for Question 1: open access to vehicle telematics systems.
• Post statement on our opposition to S.4051 - Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act.
• Post statement on retaining section 230 protections. Docket RM-11862. Per TechDirt, 9/17 is the last date for submissions for the 2nd round. - done

Tabled Projects

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

• Every Tuesday, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, on-line
• 9/26, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
• 10/17, Worcester Surveillance Mapping Outing
• Fall, Party Conference

Participants

• Malt
• Joe
• srevilak
• davidd
• jj

Observers

• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey

Summary

Video Newsletter. 7pm Sunday.

Tech. Akismet service will need renewal soon. Next tech meeting on 9/26.

Events. Camera mapping tutorials. https://masspirates.org/wiki/Mapping_Surveillance

Merch ideas (brainstorm)

• masks
• bandannas
• caps and sunglasses
• eyepatches

Earn it act. Reported out of committee. Not acted on. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s3398.

Joe Believes patriot act went through, with a few measures stripped.

Minutes

 
21:05 < srevilak> Agenda:
       https://masspirates.org/wiki/September_16th,_2020_IRC_Meeting
21:05 < srevilak> ids
21:06 < srevilak> Steve Revilak, Arlington
21:06 < Malt> Sam Capradae, worcester
21:07 < srevilak> Hi davidd - how are things?
21:07 < Joe_> Joseph Onoroski, Lowell
21:07 < davidd> im good, i invited california pirate Olivia here today
21:08 < davidd> i hope she shows up
21:08 < srevilak> ok
21:08 < davidd> she is a new volunteer for uspp
21:08 < Malt> awesome
21:08 < davidd> she was involved in the ppi twitter since 2015
21:08 < Malt> that's really cool
21:08 < srevilak> nice
21:08 < srevilak> davidd: I presume you've heard about
       https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/11/trump_twitter_account_recycled_password/
21:09 < Malt> i lost my shit when i saw that
21:09 < Malt> fucking astonished no one tried that earlier
21:09 < davidd> just saw her post about the mass pirates inviting global
       pirates to think about a date for the piratecon
21:09 < srevilak> nice
21:09 < davidd> it were some dutch guys yes
21:09 < davidd> one of them follows my twitter
21:09 < srevilak> :)
21:09 < davidd> he follows me
21:10 < davidd> did you catch what his actual password was?
21:10 < Malt> YOU'RE FIRED
21:10 < davidd> so his catch phrase is his password
21:10 < srevilak> No.  The article posted the hash, I was tempted to
       install John The Ripper and see what it was
21:10 < davidd> what has his catchphrase been for the last 4 years?
21:10 < Malt> to be fair he's probably changed it since then
21:10 < Malt> YOUREFIRED!
21:10 < davidd> maga!
21:10 < Malt> maybe even YOUREFIRED!69
21:11 < Malt> i saw someone on twitter claimed to have ripped the hash
       and found it was yourefired
21:11 < Joe> prob AshleyYOURFIRED
21:11 < Malt> lol
21:11 < srevilak> So, Video Newsletter
21:11 < srevilak> Sunday 7pm work for folks?
21:11 < Malt> yeeeeee
21:12 < srevilak> (or, proposals for other times?)
21:12 < Joe> yeah, I should be able to record. I would be recording this
       if I was not on my mobile
21:13 < Joe> akimsomething needs to be renewed
21:13 < Joe> for the .org
21:13 < srevilak> askimet.  Anti-spam service for blog comments.
21:14 < srevilak> Check with jokeefe, he may want to do it as in-kind
21:14 < srevilak> It's worth the 12 bucks/year
21:14 < Joe> yeah, probably all of them.
21:14 < Malt> wow, that's not bad at all
21:14 < Malt> i was going to ask if it'd be smarter to just disable
       blog comments
21:15 < Joe> Ahoy JJ
21:15 < jj> Hello hello, apologies for joining late
21:15 < srevilak> no worries
21:15 < Joe> ^
21:16 < srevilak> I'll put down 7pm sunday for next pirate news, and we
       can make last minute reschedules if needed
21:16 < srevilak> Tech/Democracy & Dogfood
21:16 < srevilak> Akismet renewal noted
21:16 < srevilak> Next tech meetup on 9/26 11a-1p
21:17 < srevilak> (No other tech stuff at the moment)
21:18 < Malt> hiya pal
21:19 < srevilak> Events
21:19 < srevilak> We have a few tutorials for OSM camera mapping.
       https://masspirates.org/wiki/Mapping_Surveillance
21:20 < srevilak> Malt - we're planning a mapping event in Worcester in
       Oct, yes?
21:20 < davidd> excuse me to interupt, but this message was just shared
       on the globalpirates channel:
21:20 < davidd> [T] <Tegram> 1.  Help @MassPirates choose the date for
       their Fall Party Conference.
21:20 < davidd>
       (null)https://masspirates.org/blog/2020/09/13/choose-our-conference-date/
       2.  A list of their current events, future
21:20 < davidd>       events, and deadline dates.
21:20 < davidd>
       (null)https://masspirates.org/blog/2020/09/14/pirate-news-current-events-and-what-we-are-doing-about-it/
        3.  Register in
21:20 < davidd>       advance for their next 'Map the Watchmen'
       event. (null)https://masspirates.org/crew/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id
21:20 < Malt> i've been a little preoccupied but yeah
21:20 < Joe> may I add something off topic?
21:21 < srevilak> Joe  -sure
21:21 < Joe> jokeefe recently acquired the credentials to the merch
       account. Any ideas for items you want to see would be welcome.
21:21 < Malt> masks
21:21 < Joe> this is for all us pirates, so anything you add everyone
       will see
21:22 < jj> definitely masks
21:22 < srevilak> Masks are a good idea
21:22 < jj> maybe sunglasses/hat too
21:22 < Malt> bandanas
21:22 < jj> seconding bandanas
21:22 < Malt> oh my god
21:23 < Malt> EYEPATCHES
21:23 < srevilak> :)
21:23 < Joe> I want to add "Fuck anyone who wants to take away your
       rights. I'm a Proud Pirate!"
21:23 < jj> not seconding eye patches
21:23 < Malt> branded plastic hooks?
21:23 < Malt> origami pirate ships
21:24 < Joe> please send your ideas to the SA
21:24 < Joe> Sab list.
21:25 < Joe> we planned on discussing this next week at our Sunday
       meeting if I recall correctly.
21:26 < srevilak> Joe: was merch account for USPP or MAPP?
21:26 < Joe> Thank you Srevilak
21:26 < Joe> uspp
21:26 < srevilak> As davidd points out
21:26 < srevilak>
       https://masspirates.org/blog/2020/09/13/choose-our-conference-date/
21:27 < srevilak> Please choose dates if, like me, you have not done so
21:28 < Joe> j
21:28 < Malt> hrm
21:28 < Joe> jj, please Identify
21:29 < Joe> sorry, mobile is challenging when you have fat fingers
21:29 < jj> ?
21:30 < srevilak> Campaigns - any updates to report?
21:31 < Joe> We were expecting someone from CA to be joining us
21:31 < Malt> sent in the survey
21:31 < srevilak> thx Malt
21:32 < Joe> I am not sure if that is you or not.
21:32 < Joe> I have nothing on that srevilak.
21:33 < srevilak> Bills.
21:33 < srevilak> Anyone know status of earnit act or patriot act renewal?
21:35 < Joe> Patriot act kinda sorta went through with a few provisions
       stripped.
21:35 < Malt> no
21:35 < srevilak> https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s3398 says
       reported out of committee, but not taken up in legislature
21:35 < srevilak> That's earn it act
21:36 < Joe> earnit act not 100% on
21:38 < Joe> looks like it's stuck at the committee level with only a 2%
       chance of passing.
21:38 < Malt> how are you getting percentages?
21:38 < srevilak> That's from the govtrack.us site
21:38 < Joe> aye
21:39 < srevilak> That's all I have for this week
21:39 < srevilak> Other business?
21:40 < Joe> that's all I have as well. Motion to adjourn?
21:40 < srevilak> I'll second.
21:40 < srevilak> All in favor?
21:41 < Joe> aye