January 26th, 2023 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://ca.meet.coop/mas-ub4-8ox-vtj.

Recording:

Reports

OCPF

EoY Report filed: https://ocpf.us/Reports/DisplayReport?menuHidden=true&id=867519

Decisions/Endorsements

Renew mailbox?

Our PO Box expires the end of January. Yearly renewal cost is $216.

Projects

2/18/2023 Party Conference

• Conference page up: https://masspirates.org/blog/conference/
• Blog post up
• Email update will go out this weekend.

Planning for 2023 Local Elections

• https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2023LocalElections

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Bill Reviews

Bills have been submitted to the legislature. Should we:

• organize a review of their language
• how should the review be done

This would be for the purpose of deciding which to support/oppose.

Other To Do

• Application to PPI

Upcoming Events

• Party Conference, noon, January 21st, 2023.

Participants

• Jamie
• Steve
• John

Summary

OCPF end of year report filed.

Steve renewed PO Box. Will treat as in-kind contribution. Sent receipt to joe.

Party conference. Page up. Email update will go out this weekend.

Local outreach. In Somerville, meeting on Feb 13th about Comcast cable agreement. There's a group of folks who're more interesting with building a municipal internet, and in challenging agreement to get better access and lower costs. There's also a desire to get access to the actual text of the agreement.

Local elections. Jamie getting list of what elections are happening on when.

Pirate news on schedule for this Sunday.

Our friends at Warrantless.org noted that all bills have been submitted to state legislature; now is a good time to review them, to see if any are interest to us. Will ask (via email) if anyone is interested in helping to review legislation.

No update on PPI application this week.

Next meeting on Feb 9th.