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= PPI Board Meetings =<br />
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! style="width:10%"| Meeting Nr. | !! style="width:10%"| Board Nr. !! style="width:10%"| Day!! style="width:5"|Date !! style="width:10%"| Time !! class="unsortable" style="width:10%" | Minutes !! class="unsortable"| Remarks<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 320 || style="text-align:center"| 14 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday|| 23.01.2024|| 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2024-01-23|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 319 || style="text-align:center"| 14 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 07.01.2024|| 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2024-01-07|Minutes]] || First meeting of the 14th board<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 09.12.2023 || 12:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-12-09|Minutes]] || Winter GA<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 318 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 06.12.2023 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-12-06|Minutes]] || Final Meeting of 13th Board<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 317 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 15.11.2023 || 05:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-11-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 316 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 11.10.2023 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-10-11|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 315 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 13.09.2023 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-09-13|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 314 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 16.08.2023 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-08-16|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 29.07.2023 || 08:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-07-29|Minutes]] || Cancelled GA<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 313 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 19.07.2023 || 05:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-07-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 312 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 21.06.2023 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-06-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 311 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 24.05.2023 || 05:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-05-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 310 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 23.04.2023 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-04-23|Minutes]] || With continuation on 01.05.2023<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 309 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday || 29.03.2023 || 16:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-03-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 308 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 05.03.2023 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-03-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 307 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 14.02.2023 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-02-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 28.01.2023 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_GA_JAN_2023|Minutes]] || GA Minutes<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 306 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 24.01.2023 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-01-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 305 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 03.01.2023 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-01-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 304 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 06.12.2022 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-12-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 303 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 15.11.2022 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-11-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 302 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 25.10.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-10-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 04.10.2022 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-10-04|Minutes]] || Quorum not reached<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 301 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 13.09.2022 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-09-13|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 300 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 23.08.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-08-23|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 299 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 02.08.2022 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-08-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 298 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 12.07.2022 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-07-12|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 02.07.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_GA_JUL_2022_2|Minutes]] || Summer 2022 GA<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 297 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 21.06.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-06-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 296 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 31.05.2022 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-05-31|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 295 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 10.05.2022 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-05-10|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 294 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 19.04.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-04-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 293 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 29.03.2022 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-03-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 292 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 08.03.2022 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-03-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 291 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 15.02.2022 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-02-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 290 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 23.01.2022 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-01-23|Minutes]] || First meeting of the 12th board<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday || 08.01.2022 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_GA_DEC_2022_1_Day1|Minutes]] || January 2022 GA<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 289 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 29.12.2021 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-12-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 288 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 08.12.2021 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-12-08|Minutes]] || Some board members joining in from the IGF in Katowice<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 287 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 17.11.2021 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-11-17|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 286 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 27.10.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-10-27|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 285 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 06.10.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-10-06|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 284 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 15.09.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-09-15|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 283 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 25.08.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-08-25|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 282 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 04.08.2021 || 14:30 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-08-04|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 281 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 14.07.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-07-14|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 03.07.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_GA_JUL_2021|Minutes]] || Summer 2021 GA<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 280 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 23.06.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-06-23|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 279 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 02.06.2021 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-06-02|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 278 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 12.05.2021 || 12:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-05-12|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 277 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 21.04.2021 || 12:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-04-21|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 276 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 31.03.2021 || 12:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-03-31|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 275 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 20.03.2021 || 12:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-03-20|Minutes]] || 2nd joint PPI-PPEU board meeting<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 274 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 10.03.2021 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-03-13|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 273 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 17.02.2021 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-02-17|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 272 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 27.01.2021 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-01-27|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 271 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 06.01.2021 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-01-06|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 270 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 20.12.2020 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020-12-20|Minutes]] || First meeting of the 11th board<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 06.12.2020 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_12_06|Minutes]] || Winter 2020 GA Day 2<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 05.12.2020 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_12_05|Minutes]] || Winter 2020 GA Day 1<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 269 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 02.12.2020 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_12_02|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 268 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 11.11.2020 || 16:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_11_11|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 267 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 20.10.2020 || 16:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_10_20|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 266 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 30.09.2020 || 16:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_09_30|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 265 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 09.09.2020 || 18:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_09_09|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 264 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 19.08.2020 || 18:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_08_19|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 263 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 29.07.2020 || 18:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_07_29|Minutes]] || UTC time is 2 hours prior to CEST<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 262 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 08.07.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_07_08|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 261 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 17.06.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_06_17|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 30.05.2020 || 11:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30|Minutes]] || GA Minutes (online)<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 260 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 27.05.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_27|Minutes]] || GA Prep Meeting<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 259 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 17.05.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_17|Minutes]] || 1st joint PPI-PPEU board meeting<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 258 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 13.05.2020 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_13|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 257 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 22.04.2020 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_04_19|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 256 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 01.04.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_04_01|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 255 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 11.03.2020 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_03_11|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 254 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 19.02.2020 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_02_19|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_02_19ab|MinutesNOFORMATING]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 253 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 26.01.2020 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_01_26|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 252 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 04.01.2020 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_01_04|Minutes]] || [https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/efDjpEGRfKqe4gR Audio Recordings] First official meeting of the 10th board<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 251 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 18.12.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_12_18|Minutes]] || Orientation Meeting<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 08.12.2019 || 11:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_12_08|Minutes]] || GA Day 2<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 07.12.2019 || 10:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_12_07|Minutes]] || GA Day 1<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 250 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 04.12.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_12_04|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 249 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 27.11.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_11_27|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 248 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 20.11.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_11_20|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 247 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 06.11.2019 || 17:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_11_06|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 246 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday|| 22.10.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_10_22|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 245 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday|| 08.10.2019 || 17:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_10_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 244 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 23.09.2019 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_09_23|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 243 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 09.09.2019 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_09_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 242 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 02.09.2019 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_09_02|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 241 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 12.08.2019 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_08_12|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 240 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 29.07.2019 || 16:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_07_29|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 239 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 14.07.2019 || 16:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_07_14|Minutes]] || <br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 01.07.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_07_01|Minutes]] ||meeting was postponed<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 238 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 17.06.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_06_17|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 237 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 03.06.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_06_03|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 20.05.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_05_20|Minutes]] || meeting canceled<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 06.05.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_05_06|Minutes]] || informal meeting held, no notes<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 22.04.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_04_22|Minutes]] || Meeting postponed<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 236 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 08.04.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_04_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 235 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 24.03.2019 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_03_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 234 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 11.03.2019 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_03_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 233 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 24.02.2019 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_02_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 232 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 11.02.2019 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_02_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 231 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 27.01.2019 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_01_27|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 230 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 14.01.2019 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_01_14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 30.12.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_12_30|Minutes]] || meeting canceled<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 229 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 17.12.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_12_17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 228 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 02.12.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_12_02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 227 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 19.11.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_11_19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.11.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_11_03|Minutes]] || GA Minutes (online continuation)<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 226 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.11.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_11_08|Minutes]] || Special Pre Part 2 GA Meeting<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.11.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_11_03|Minutes]] || GA Minutes (Munich)<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 225 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 22.10.2018 || 09:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_10_22|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 224 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 07.10.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_10_07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 223 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 24.09.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_09_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 222 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 09.09.2018 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_09_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 221 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 27.08.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_08_27|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 220 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 12.08.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_08_12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 219 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Thursday || 02.08.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_08_02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 218 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 02.07.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_07_02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 217 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 17.06.2018 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_06_17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 216 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 04.06.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_06_04|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 215 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 20.05.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_05_20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 214 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 07.05.2018 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_05_07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 22.04.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_04_22|Minutes]] || Meeting postponed to 07/05/2018<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 213 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 09.04.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_04_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 212 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 25.03.2018 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_03_25|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 211 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 12.03.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_03_12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 210 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 25.02.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_02_25|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 209 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 12.02.2018 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_02_12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 208 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 28.01.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_01_28|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 207 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 08.01.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_01_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 206 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Thursday || 28.12.2017 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_12_28|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 205 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 10.12.2017 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_12_10|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 20.11.2017 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_11_20|Minutes]] || GA Minutes<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 204 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Friday || 10.11.2017 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_11_10|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 203 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 23.10.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_10_23|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 202 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 08.10.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_10_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 201 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 18.09.2017 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_09_18|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 200 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 03.09.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_09_03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 199 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 21.08.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_08_21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 198 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 06.08.2017 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_08_06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 197 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 24.07.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_07_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 196 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 09.07.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_07_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 195 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 26.06.2017 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_06_26|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 194 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 11.06.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_06_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 193 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 22.05.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_05_22|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 192 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 07.05.2017 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_05_07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 191 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 24.04.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_04_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 190 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 09.04.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_04_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 189 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 20.03.2017 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_03_20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 188 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 05.03.2017 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_03_05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 187 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 20.02.2017 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_02_20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 186 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 05.02.2017 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_02_05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 185 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 23.01.2017 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_01_23|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 184 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 08.01.2017 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_01_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 183 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 26.12.2016 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_12_26|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 182 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 11.12.2016 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_12_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 181 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 14.11.2016 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_11_21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 180 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 06.11.2016 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_11_06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 179 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 24.10.2016 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_10_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 178 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 09.10.2016 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_10_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 177 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 26.09.2016 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_09_26|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 176 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 11.09.2016 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_09_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 175 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 29.08.2016 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_08_29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 174 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 14.08.2016 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_08_14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 173 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 31.07.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_07_31|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.07.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_07_23|Minutes]] || GA Minutes<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.07.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_07_19|Minutes]] || no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 172 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.07.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_07_05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 171 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.06.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_06_21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 170 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.06.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_06_07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 169 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.05.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_05_17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.05.2016 || 22:00 CEST || || no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 168 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.04.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_04_19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 167 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.04.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_04_05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 166 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.03.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_03_15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 165 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.03.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_03_01|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 164 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 16.02.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_02_16|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 163 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.02.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016-02-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 162 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.01.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016-01-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 161 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.01.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016-01-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 160 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.12.2015 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-12-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.12.2015 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-12-01|Minutes]] || no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 159 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.11.2015 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-11-17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 158 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.11.2015 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-11-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 157 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.10.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-10-20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 156 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.10.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-10-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 155 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.09.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-09-22|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.09.2015 || 22:00 CEST || style="text-align:center"| || no quorum - no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 154 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.08.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-08-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.08.2015 || 22:00 CEST || style="text-align:center"| || no quorum - no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 153 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.07.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-07-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 152 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.07.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-07-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 151 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 12.07.2015 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-07-12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 150 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.06.2015 || 20:15 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-06-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 149 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.06.2015 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-06-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 148 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 16.06.2015 || 20:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-06-16|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 147 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.06.2015 || 10:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-06-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 146 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.05.2015 || 10:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-05-23|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 145 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.05.2015 || 20:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-05-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 144 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.05.2015 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-05-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 143 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.04.2015 || 20:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-04-07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 142 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.03.2015 || 20:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-03-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 141 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.03.2015 || 20:30 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-03-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 140 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.02.2015 || 18:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-02-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 139 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.02.2015 || 15:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-02-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 138 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.02.2015 || 15:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-02-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 137 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.02.2015 || 20:30 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-02-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 136 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.01.2015 || 09:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-01-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 135 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.01.2015 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-01-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 134 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.12.2014 || 09:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-12-27|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 133 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 09.12.2014 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-12-09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 132 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.11.2014 || 09:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-11-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 131 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.11.2014 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-11-11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 130 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.11.2014 || 09:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-11-01|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 129 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.10.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-10-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 128 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 30.09.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-09-30|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 127 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 16.09.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-09-16|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 126 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.08.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-08-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 125 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.08.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-08-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 124 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.07.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-07-22|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 123 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.-06.07.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-07-05|Minutes]] || AFK meeting in London<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 122 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.07.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-07-22|Minutes]] || with offers for hosting the next GA<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 121 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.06.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-06-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 120 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.06.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-06-10|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 119 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.05.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-05-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 118 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 13.05.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-05-13|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 117 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.04.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-04-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 116 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.04.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-04-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 115 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.04.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-04-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 114 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.04.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-04-01|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 113 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 18.03.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-03-18|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 112 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 18.02.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-02-18|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 111 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.01.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-01-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 110 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.01.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-01-07|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 109 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 12.11.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-11-12|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 108 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.10.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-10-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 107 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.10.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-10-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 106 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.10.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-10-01|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 105 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.09.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-09-17|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.09.2013 || || style="text-align:center"| || Informal meting during PPEU conference in Luxembourg<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 104 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.08.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-08-20|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 103 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.08.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-08-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 102 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.07.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-07-23|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 101 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.06.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-06-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 100 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.06.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-06-11|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 99 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.05.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-05-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 98 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.05.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-05-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 97 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 30.04.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-04-30|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 96 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 16.04.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-04-16|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 95 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.04.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-04-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 94 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.03.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-03-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 93 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.03.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-03-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 92 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.02.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-02-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 91 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.02.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-02-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 90 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.01.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-01-22|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 89 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.01.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-01-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 88 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.01.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-01-03|Minutes]] || PPI GA offers meeting<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 87 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 18.12.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-12-18|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 86 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 04.12.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-12-04|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 85 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.11.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-11-20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 84 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.11.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-11-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 83 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.10.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-10-23|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 82 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 09.10.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-10-09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 81 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.09.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-09-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 80 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.09.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-09-11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 79 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.08.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-08-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 78 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.08.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-08-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 77 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 31.07.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-07-31|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 76 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.07.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-07-17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 75 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.07.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-07-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 74 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.06.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-06-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 73 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.06.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-06-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 72 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.05.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-05-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 71 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.05.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-05-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 70 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.05.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-05-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 69 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.05.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-05-01|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 68 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.04.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-24-04|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 67 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.04.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-10-04|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 66 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.03.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-27-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 65 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 13.03.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-13-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 64 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.02.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-02-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 63 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.01.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-01-17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 62 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.01.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-01-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 61 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.12.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-12-20|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 60 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.12.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-12-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 59 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.11.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-11-22|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 58 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.11.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-11-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 57 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.10.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-10-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 56 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.10.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-10-11|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 55 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.09.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-09-27|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 54 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 13.09.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-09-13|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 53 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.08.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-08-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 52 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.06.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-06-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 51 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.06.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-06-07|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 50 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.05.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-05-10|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 49 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 26.04.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-04-26|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 48 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 12.04.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-04-12|Minutes]] || no quorum established but meeting took place<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 47 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.03.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-03-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 46 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.03.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-03-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 45 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.03.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-03-08|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-03-08| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 44 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.03.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-03-01|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-03-01| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 43 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.02.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-02-22|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-02-22| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 42 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.02.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-02-15|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-02-15| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 41 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.02.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-02-01|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-02-01| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 40 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.01.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-01-25|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-01-25| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 39 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 18.01.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-01-18|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-01-18| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 38 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.01.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-01-11|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-01-11| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 37 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 04.01.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-01-04|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-01-04| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 36 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 30.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-30|Minutes]] || Extraordinary meeting for deciding on conference offers<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 35 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-28|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-12-28| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 34 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-21|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-12-21| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 33 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-14|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-12-14| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 32 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-07|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-12-07| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 31 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 30.11.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-11-30|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 30 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.11.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-11-23|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-11-23| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 29 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 09.11.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-11-09|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-11-09| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 28 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.11.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-11-02|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-11-02| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 27 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 26.10.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-10-26|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-10-26| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 26 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.10.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-10-19|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-10-19| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 25 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 12.10.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-10-12|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-10-12| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 24 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.10.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-10-05|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-10-05| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 23 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.09.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-09-28|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-09-28| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 22 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.09.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-09-21|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-09-21| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 21 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.09.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-09-14|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-09-14| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 20 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.09.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-09-07|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-09-07| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 19 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 31.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-31|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-31| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 18 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-24|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-24| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 17 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-17|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-17| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 16 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-10|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-10| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 15 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-03|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-03| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 14 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.07.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-07-27|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-07-27| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 13 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.07.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-07-20|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-07-20| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 12 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 13.07.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-07-13 (unofficial)| Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-07-13| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 11 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.07.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-07-06|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-07-06| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 10 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-06-29|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-06-29| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 9 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-06-22|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-06-22| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 8 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-06-15|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-06-15| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 7 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-06-08|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-06-08| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 6 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-31|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-31| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 5 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.05.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-25|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-25| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 4 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.05.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-17|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-17| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 3 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.05.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-10|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-10| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 2 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.05.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-03|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-03| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 1 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 26.04.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-04-26|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-04-26| Agenda]]<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:Board]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Members_of_the_PPI&diff=7878Members of the PPI2023-12-11T16:16:54Z<p>Dichter: </p>
<hr />
<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties International are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-au}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Australia Pirate Party Australia]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Belgium) Pirate Party of Belgium]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Brazil Pirate Party of Brazil]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Catalonia Pirate Party of Catalonia]<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Chile Pirate Party of Chile]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Pirate_Party Czech Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Pirate_Party Estonian Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(France) Pirate Party of France]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany Pirate Party Germany]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Greece Pirate Party of Greece]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Hungary Pirate Party of Hungary]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Israel Pirate Party of Israel]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Italy) Pirate Party of Italy]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Luxembourg Pirate Party Luxembourg]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Netherlands) Pirate Party of Netherlands]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_New_Zealand Pirate Party of New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with IP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand) Internet Party New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with PP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Norway Pirate Party of Norway]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Pirate_Party Polish Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Portugal Pirate Party of Portugal]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Russia Pirate Party of Russia]<br />
# {{Flag-rs}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Serbia Pirate Party of Serbia]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} Pirate Party - Slovakia (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Switzerland Pirate Party Switzerland]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Tunisia) Pirate Party of Tunisia]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} Pirate Party of Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with new Pirate Party Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Turkey Pirate Party Turkey] (1/2 vote; vote shared with old Pirate Party of Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Ukraine Ukrainian Pirate Community]<br />
# {{Flag-us}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party United States Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} Pirate Party of Venezuela<br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Ireland) Pirate Party of Ireland] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012.<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Iceland) Icelandic Pirate Party] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Canada Pirate Party Canada] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Denmark Pirate Party of Denmark] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Croatia) Pirate Party of Croatia] - by decision of the CoA declared a non-member due to dissolution on 6.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland] - by PPFI's own decision; notification duly delivered on January 11th 2021<br />
* {{Flag-bg}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bulgaria Pirate Party of Bulgaria] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Kazakhstan Pirate Party of Kazakhstan] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ma}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Morocco Pirate Party of Morocco] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ba}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kr}} Pirate Party of Korea (South) - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new) - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-at}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Austria Pirate Party of Austria] - quit PPI on December 10th 2022<br />
* {{Flag-sk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_the_Slovak_Republic Pirate Party of Slovakia] (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia) - deregistered in 2021<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* {{Flag-fr}} [https://piratelobby.wordpress.com/ Pirate Lobby], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[File:Flag of New York.svg|16px]] [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* {{Flag-de-nw}} [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7] (old)<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland]<br />
* {{Flag-eu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Pirate_Party European Pirate Party]<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new)<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia]<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain]<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania]<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_UK Pirate Party UK]<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)] - dissolved 2014<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
--><br />
[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Members_of_the_PPI&diff=7877Members of the PPI2023-12-11T16:16:16Z<p>Dichter: /* Former ordinary members */</p>
<hr />
<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties International are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-au}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Australia Pirate Party Australia]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Belgium) Pirate Party of Belgium]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Brazil Pirate Party of Brazil]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Catalonia Pirate Party of Catalonia]<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Chile Pirate Party of Chile]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Pirate_Party Czech Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Pirate_Party Estonian Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(France) Pirate Party of France]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany Pirate Party Germany]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Greece Pirate Party of Greece]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Hungary Pirate Party of Hungary]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Israel Pirate Party of Israel]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Italy) Pirate Party of Italy]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Luxembourg Pirate Party Luxembourg]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Netherlands) Pirate Party of Netherlands]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_New_Zealand Pirate Party of New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with IP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand) Internet Party New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with PP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Norway Pirate Party of Norway]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Pirate_Party Polish Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Portugal Pirate Party of Portugal]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Russia Pirate Party of Russia]<br />
# {{Flag-rs}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Serbia Pirate Party of Serbia]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} Pirate Party - Slovakia (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Switzerland Pirate Party Switzerland]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Tunisia) Pirate Party of Tunisia]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} Pirate Party of Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with new Pirate Party Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Turkey Pirate Party Turkey] (1/2 vote; vote shared with old Pirate Party of Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Ukraine Ukrainian Pirate Community]<br />
# {{Flag-uk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_UK Pirate Party UK]<br />
# {{Flag-us}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party United States Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} Pirate Party of Venezuela<br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Ireland) Pirate Party of Ireland] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012.<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Iceland) Icelandic Pirate Party] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Canada Pirate Party Canada] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Denmark Pirate Party of Denmark] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Croatia) Pirate Party of Croatia] - by decision of the CoA declared a non-member due to dissolution on 6.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland] - by PPFI's own decision; notification duly delivered on January 11th 2021<br />
* {{Flag-bg}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bulgaria Pirate Party of Bulgaria] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Kazakhstan Pirate Party of Kazakhstan] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ma}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Morocco Pirate Party of Morocco] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ba}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kr}} Pirate Party of Korea (South) - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new) - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-at}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Austria Pirate Party of Austria] - quit PPI on December 10th 2022<br />
* {{Flag-sk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_the_Slovak_Republic Pirate Party of Slovakia] (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia) - deregistered in 2021<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* {{Flag-fr}} [https://piratelobby.wordpress.com/ Pirate Lobby], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[File:Flag of New York.svg|16px]] [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* {{Flag-de-nw}} [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7] (old)<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland]<br />
* {{Flag-eu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Pirate_Party European Pirate Party]<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new)<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia]<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain]<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania]<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)] - dissolved 2014<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
--><br />
[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Members_of_the_PPI&diff=7876Members of the PPI2023-12-11T16:16:01Z<p>Dichter: </p>
<hr />
<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties International are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-au}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Australia Pirate Party Australia]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Belgium) Pirate Party of Belgium]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Brazil Pirate Party of Brazil]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Catalonia Pirate Party of Catalonia]<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Chile Pirate Party of Chile]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Pirate_Party Czech Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Pirate_Party Estonian Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(France) Pirate Party of France]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany Pirate Party Germany]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Greece Pirate Party of Greece]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Hungary Pirate Party of Hungary]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Israel Pirate Party of Israel]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Italy) Pirate Party of Italy]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Luxembourg Pirate Party Luxembourg]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Netherlands) Pirate Party of Netherlands]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_New_Zealand Pirate Party of New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with IP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand) Internet Party New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with PP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Norway Pirate Party of Norway]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Pirate_Party Polish Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Portugal Pirate Party of Portugal]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Russia Pirate Party of Russia]<br />
# {{Flag-rs}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Serbia Pirate Party of Serbia]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} Pirate Party - Slovakia (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Switzerland Pirate Party Switzerland]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Tunisia) Pirate Party of Tunisia]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} Pirate Party of Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with new Pirate Party Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Turkey Pirate Party Turkey] (1/2 vote; vote shared with old Pirate Party of Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Ukraine Ukrainian Pirate Community]<br />
# {{Flag-uk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_UK Pirate Party UK]<br />
# {{Flag-us}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party United States Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} Pirate Party of Venezuela<br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Ireland) Pirate Party of Ireland] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012.<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Iceland) Icelandic Pirate Party] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Canada Pirate Party Canada] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Denmark Pirate Party of Denmark] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Croatia) Pirate Party of Croatia] - by decision of the CoA declared a non-member due to dissolution on 6.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland] - by PPFI's own decision; notification duly delivered on January 11th 2021<br />
* {{Flag-bg}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bulgaria Pirate Party of Bulgaria] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Kazakhstan Pirate Party of Kazakhstan] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ma}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Morocco Pirate Party of Morocco] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ba}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kr}} Pirate Party of Korea (South) - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new) - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-at}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Austria Pirate Party of Austria] - quit PPI on December 10th 2022<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_the_Slovak_Republic Pirate Party of Slovakia] (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia) - deregistered in 2021<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* {{Flag-fr}} [https://piratelobby.wordpress.com/ Pirate Lobby], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[File:Flag of New York.svg|16px]] [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* {{Flag-de-nw}} [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7] (old)<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland]<br />
* {{Flag-eu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Pirate_Party European Pirate Party]<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new)<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia]<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain]<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania]<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)] - dissolved 2014<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
--><br />
[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Members_of_the_PPI&diff=7875Members of the PPI2023-12-11T16:15:46Z<p>Dichter: </p>
<hr />
<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties International are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-au}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Australia Pirate Party Australia]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Belgium) Pirate Party of Belgium]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Brazil Pirate Party of Brazil]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Catalonia Pirate Party of Catalonia]<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Chile Pirate Party of Chile]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Pirate_Party Czech Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Pirate_Party Estonian Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(France) Pirate Party of France]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany Pirate Party Germany]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Greece Pirate Party of Greece]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Hungary Pirate Party of Hungary]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Israel Pirate Party of Israel]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Italy) Pirate Party of Italy]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Luxembourg Pirate Party Luxembourg]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Netherlands) Pirate Party of Netherlands]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_New_Zealand Pirate Party of New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with IP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand) Internet Party New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with PP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Norway Pirate Party of Norway]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Pirate_Party Polish Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Portugal Pirate Party of Portugal]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Russia Pirate Party of Russia]<br />
# {{Flag-rs}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Serbia Pirate Party of Serbia]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} Pirate Party - Slovakia (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Switzerland Pirate Party Switzerland]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Tunisia) Pirate Party of Tunisia]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} Pirate Party of Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with new Pirate Party Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Turkey Pirate Party Turkey] (1/2 vote; vote shared with old Pirate Party of Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Ukraine Ukrainian Pirate Community]<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_UK Pirate Party UK]<br />
# {{Flag-us}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party United States Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} Pirate Party of Venezuela<br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Ireland) Pirate Party of Ireland] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012.<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Iceland) Icelandic Pirate Party] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Canada Pirate Party Canada] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Denmark Pirate Party of Denmark] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Croatia) Pirate Party of Croatia] - by decision of the CoA declared a non-member due to dissolution on 6.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland] - by PPFI's own decision; notification duly delivered on January 11th 2021<br />
* {{Flag-bg}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bulgaria Pirate Party of Bulgaria] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Kazakhstan Pirate Party of Kazakhstan] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ma}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Morocco Pirate Party of Morocco] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ba}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kr}} Pirate Party of Korea (South) - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new) - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-at}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Austria Pirate Party of Austria] - quit PPI on December 10th 2022<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_the_Slovak_Republic Pirate Party of Slovakia] (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia) - deregistered in 2021<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* {{Flag-fr}} [https://piratelobby.wordpress.com/ Pirate Lobby], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[File:Flag of New York.svg|16px]] [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* {{Flag-de-nw}} [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7] (old)<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland]<br />
* {{Flag-eu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Pirate_Party European Pirate Party]<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new)<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia]<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain]<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania]<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)] - dissolved 2014<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
--><br />
[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board/Board_Meetings&diff=7758PPI Board/Board Meetings2023-06-21T21:54:27Z<p>Dichter: </p>
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<div>{{PPI_Topnavigation}}<br />
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= PPI Board Meetings =<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|+ style="padding-bottom:1em"| Board Meetings Pirate Parties International<br />
|- class="blue"<br />
! style="width:10%"| Meeting Nr. | !! style="width:10%"| Board Nr. !! style="width:10%"| Day!! style="width:5"|Date !! style="width:10%"| Time !! class="unsortable" style="width:10%" | Minutes !! class="unsortable"| Remarks<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 314 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 17.08.2023 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-08-17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 313 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 19.07.2023 || 05:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-07-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 312 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 21.06.2023 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-06-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 311 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 24.05.2023 || 05:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-05-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 310 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 23.04.2023 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-04-23|Minutes]] || With continuation on 01.05.2023<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 309 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday || 29.03.2023 || 16:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-03-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 308 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 05.03.2023 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-03-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 307 || style="text-align:center"| 13 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 14.02.2023 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-02-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 28.01.2023 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_GA_JAN_2023|Minutes]] || GA Minutes<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 306 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 24.01.2023 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-01-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 305 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 03.01.2023 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2023-01-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 304 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 06.12.2022 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-12-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 303 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 15.11.2022 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-11-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 302 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 25.10.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-10-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 04.10.2022 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-10-04|Minutes]] || Quorum not reached<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 301 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 13.09.2022 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-09-13|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 300 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 23.08.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-08-23|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 299 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 02.08.2022 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-08-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 298 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 12.07.2022 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-07-12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 02.07.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_GA_JUL_2022_2|Minutes]] || Summer 2022 GA<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 297 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 21.06.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-06-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 296 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 31.05.2022 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-05-31|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 295 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 10.05.2022 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-05-10|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 294 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 19.04.2022 || 09:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-04-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 293 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 29.03.2022 || 20:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-03-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 292 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 08.03.2022 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-03-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 291 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday || 15.02.2022 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-02-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 290 || style="text-align:center"| 12 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 23.01.2022 || 21:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2022-01-23|Minutes]] || First meeting of the 12th board<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday || 08.01.2022 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_GA_DEC_2022_1_Day1|Minutes]] || January 2022 GA<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 289 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 29.12.2021 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-12-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 288 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 08.12.2021 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-12-08|Minutes]] || Some board members joining in from the IGF in Katowice<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 287 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 17.11.2021 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-11-17|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 286 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 27.10.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-10-27|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 285 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 06.10.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-10-06|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 284 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 15.09.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-09-15|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 283 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 25.08.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-08-25|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 282 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 04.08.2021 || 14:30 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-08-04|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 281 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 14.07.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-07-14|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 03.07.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_GA_JUL_2021|Minutes]] || Summer 2021 GA<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 280 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 23.06.2021 || 14:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-06-23|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 279 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 02.06.2021 || 15:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-06-02|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 278 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 12.05.2021 || 12:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-05-12|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 277 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 21.04.2021 || 12:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-04-21|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 276 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 31.03.2021 || 12:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-03-31|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 275 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 20.03.2021 || 12:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-03-20|Minutes]] || 2nd joint PPI-PPEU board meeting<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 274 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 10.03.2021 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-03-13|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 273 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 17.02.2021 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-02-17|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 272 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 27.01.2021 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-01-27|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 271 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 06.01.2021 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2021-01-06|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 270 || style="text-align:center"| 11 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 20.12.2020 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020-12-20|Minutes]] || First meeting of the 11th board<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 06.12.2020 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_12_06|Minutes]] || Winter 2020 GA Day 2<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 05.12.2020 || 10:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_12_05|Minutes]] || Winter 2020 GA Day 1<br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 269 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 02.12.2020 || 13:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_12_02|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 268 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 11.11.2020 || 16:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_11_11|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 267 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 20.10.2020 || 16:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_10_20|Minutes]] || <br />
|- <br />
| style="text-align:center"| 266 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 30.09.2020 || 16:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_09_30|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 265 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 09.09.2020 || 18:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_09_09|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 264 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 19.08.2020 || 18:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_08_19|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 263 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 29.07.2020 || 18:00 UTC || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_07_29|Minutes]] || UTC time is 2 hours prior to CEST<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 262 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 08.07.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_07_08|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 261 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 17.06.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_06_17|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 30.05.2020 || 11:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30|Minutes]] || GA Minutes (online)<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 260 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 27.05.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_27|Minutes]] || GA Prep Meeting<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 259 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 17.05.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_17|Minutes]] || 1st joint PPI-PPEU board meeting<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 258 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 13.05.2020 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_13|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 257 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 22.04.2020 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_04_19|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 256 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 01.04.2020 || 20:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_04_01|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 255 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 11.03.2020 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_03_11|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 254 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 19.02.2020 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_02_19|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_02_19ab|MinutesNOFORMATING]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 253 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 26.01.2020 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_01_26|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 252 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 04.01.2020 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2020_01_04|Minutes]] || [https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/efDjpEGRfKqe4gR Audio Recordings] First official meeting of the 10th board<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 251 || style="text-align:center"| 10 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 18.12.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_12_18|Minutes]] || Orientation Meeting<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 08.12.2019 || 11:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_12_08|Minutes]] || GA Day 2<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Saturday|| 07.12.2019 || 10:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_12_07|Minutes]] || GA Day 1<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 250 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 04.12.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_12_04|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 249 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 27.11.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_11_27|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 248 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 20.11.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_11_20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 247 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Wednesday|| 06.11.2019 || 17:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_11_06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 246 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday|| 22.10.2019 || 19:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_10_22|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 245 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Tuesday|| 08.10.2019 || 17:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_10_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 244 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 23.09.2019 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_09_23|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 243 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 09.09.2019 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_09_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 242 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 02.09.2019 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_09_02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 241 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 12.08.2019 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_08_12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 240 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 29.07.2019 || 16:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_07_29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 239 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 14.07.2019 || 16:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_07_14|Minutes]] || <br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 01.07.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_07_01|Minutes]] ||meeting was postponed<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 238 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 17.06.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_06_17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 237 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 03.06.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_06_03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 20.05.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_05_20|Minutes]] || meeting canceled<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 06.05.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_05_06|Minutes]] || informal meeting held, no notes<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 22.04.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_04_22|Minutes]] || Meeting postponed<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 236 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 08.04.2019 || 19:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_04_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 235 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 24.03.2019 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_03_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 234 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 11.03.2019 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_03_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 233 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 24.02.2019 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_02_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 232 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 11.02.2019 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2019_02_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 231 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 27.01.2019 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_01_27|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 230 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 14.01.2019 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_01_14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 30.12.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_12_30|Minutes]] || meeting canceled<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 229 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 17.12.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_12_17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 228 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 02.12.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_12_02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 227 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 19.11.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_11_19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.11.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_11_03|Minutes]] || GA Minutes (online continuation)<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 226 || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.11.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_11_08|Minutes]] || Special Pre Part 2 GA Meeting<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 9 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.11.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_11_03|Minutes]] || GA Minutes (Munich)<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 225 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 22.10.2018 || 09:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_10_22|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 224 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 07.10.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_10_07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 223 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 24.09.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_09_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 222 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 09.09.2018 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_09_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 221 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday|| 27.08.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_08_27|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 220 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday|| 12.08.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_08_12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 219 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Thursday || 02.08.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_08_02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 218 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 02.07.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_07_02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 217 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 17.06.2018 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_06_17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 216 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 04.06.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_06_04|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 215 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 20.05.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_05_20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 214 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 07.05.2018 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_05_07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 22.04.2018 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_04_22|Minutes]] || Meeting postponed to 07/05/2018<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 213 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 09.04.2018 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_04_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 212 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 25.03.2018 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_03_25|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 211 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 12.03.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_03_12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 210 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 25.02.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_02_25|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 209 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 12.02.2018 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_02_12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 208 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 28.01.2018 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_01_28|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 207 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 08.01.2018 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2018_01_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 206 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Thursday || 28.12.2017 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_12_28|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 205 || style="text-align:center"| 8 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 10.12.2017 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_12_10|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 20.11.2017 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_11_20|Minutes]] || GA Minutes<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 204 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Friday || 10.11.2017 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_11_10|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 203 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 23.10.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_10_23|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 202 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 08.10.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_10_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 201 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 18.09.2017 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_09_18|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 200 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 03.09.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_09_03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 199 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 21.08.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_08_21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 198 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 06.08.2017 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_08_06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 197 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 24.07.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_07_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 196 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 09.07.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_07_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 195 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 26.06.2017 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_06_26|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 194 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 11.06.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_06_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 193 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 22.05.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_05_22|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 192 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 07.05.2017 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_05_07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 191 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 24.04.2017 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_04_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 190 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 09.04.2017 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_04_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 189 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 20.03.2017 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_03_20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 188 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 05.03.2017 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_03_05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 187 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 20.02.2017 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_02_20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 186 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 05.02.2017 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_02_05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 185 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 23.01.2017 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_01_23|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 184 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 08.01.2017 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2017_01_08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 183 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 26.12.2016 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_12_26|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 182 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 11.12.2016 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_12_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 181 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 14.11.2016 || 14:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_11_21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 180 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 06.11.2016 || 08:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_11_06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 179 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 24.10.2016 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_10_24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 178 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 09.10.2016 || 14:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_10_09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 177 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 26.09.2016 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_09_26|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 176 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 11.09.2016 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_09_11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 175 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Monday || 29.08.2016 || 08:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_08_29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 174 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 14.08.2016 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_08_14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 173 || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| Sunday || 31.07.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_07_31|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 7 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.07.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_07_23|Minutes]] || GA Minutes<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.07.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_07_19|Minutes]] || no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 172 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.07.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_07_05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 171 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.06.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_06_21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 170 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.06.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_06_07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 169 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.05.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_05_17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.05.2016 || 22:00 CEST || || no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 168 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.04.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_04_19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 167 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.04.2016 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_04_05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 166 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.03.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_03_15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 165 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.03.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_03_01|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 164 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 16.02.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016_02_16|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 163 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.02.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016-02-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 162 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.01.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016-01-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 161 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.01.2016 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2016-01-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 160 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.12.2015 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-12-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.12.2015 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-12-01|Minutes]] || no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 159 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.11.2015 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-11-17|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 158 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.11.2015 || 22:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-11-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 157 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.10.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-10-20|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 156 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.10.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-10-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 155 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.09.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-09-22|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.09.2015 || 22:00 CEST || style="text-align:center"| || no quorum - no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 154 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.08.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-08-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.08.2015 || 22:00 CEST || style="text-align:center"| || no quorum - no formal meeting held<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 153 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.07.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-07-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 152 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.07.2015 || 22:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-07-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 151 || style="text-align:center"| 6 ||style="text-align:right"| || 12.07.2015 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-07-12|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 150 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.06.2015 || 20:15 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-06-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 149 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.06.2015 || 21:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-06-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 148 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 16.06.2015 || 20:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-06-16|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 147 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.06.2015 || 10:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-06-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 146 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.05.2015 || 10:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-05-23|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 145 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.05.2015 || 20:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-05-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 144 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.05.2015 || 18:00 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-05-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 143 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.04.2015 || 20:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-04-07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 142 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.03.2015 || 20:30 CEST || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-03-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 141 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.03.2015 || 20:30 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-03-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 140 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.02.2015 || 18:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-02-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 139 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.02.2015 || 15:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-02-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 138 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.02.2015 || 15:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-02-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 137 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.02.2015 || 20:30 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-02-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 136 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.01.2015 || 09:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-01-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 135 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.01.2015 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2015-01-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 134 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.12.2014 || 09:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-12-27|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 133 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 09.12.2014 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-12-09|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 132 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.11.2014 || 09:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-11-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 131 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.11.2014 || 21:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-11-11|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 130 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.11.2014 || 09:00 CET || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-11-01|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 129 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.10.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-10-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 128 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 30.09.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-09-30|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 127 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 16.09.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-09-16|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 126 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.08.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-08-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 125 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.08.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-08-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 124 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.07.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-07-22|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 123 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.-06.07.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-07-05|Minutes]] || AFK meeting in London<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 122 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.07.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-07-22|Minutes]] || with offers for hosting the next GA<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 121 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.06.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-06-24|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 120 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.06.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-06-10|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 119 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.05.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-05-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 118 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 13.05.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-05-13|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 117 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.04.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-04-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 116 || style="text-align:center"| 5 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.04.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-04-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 115 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.04.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-04-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 114 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.04.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-04-01|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 113 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 18.03.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-03-18|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 112 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 18.02.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-02-18|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 111 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.01.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-01-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 110 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.01.2014 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2014-01-07|Minutes]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 109 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 12.11.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-11-12|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 108 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.10.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-10-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 107 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.10.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-10-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 106 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.10.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-10-01|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 105 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.09.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-09-17|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| - || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.09.2013 || || style="text-align:center"| || Informal meting during PPEU conference in Luxembourg<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 104 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.08.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-08-20|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 103 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.08.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-08-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 102 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.07.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-07-23|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 101 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.06.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-06-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 100 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.06.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-06-11|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 99 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.05.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-05-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 98 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.05.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-05-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 97 || style="text-align:center"| 4 ||style="text-align:right"| || 30.04.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-04-30|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 96 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 16.04.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-04-16|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 95 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.04.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-04-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 94 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.03.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-03-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 93 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.03.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-03-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 92 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.02.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-02-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 91 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.02.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-02-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 90 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.01.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-01-22|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 89 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.01.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-01-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 88 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.01.2013 || || [[PPI_Minutes_2013-01-03|Minutes]] || PPI GA offers meeting<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 87 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 18.12.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-12-18|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 86 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 04.12.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-12-04|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 85 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.11.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-11-20|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 84 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.11.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-11-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 83 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.10.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-10-23|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 82 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 09.10.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-10-09|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 81 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.09.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-09-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 80 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.09.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-09-11|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 79 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.08.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-08-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 78 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.08.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-08-14|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 77 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 31.07.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-07-31|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 76 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.07.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-07-17|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 75 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.07.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-07-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 74 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.06.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-06-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 73 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.06.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-06-05|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 72 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.05.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-05-29|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 71 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.05.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-05-15|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 70 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.05.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-05-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 69 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.05.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-05-01|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 68 || style="text-align:center"| 3 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.04.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-24-04|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 67 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.04.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-10-04|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 66 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.03.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-27-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 65 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 13.03.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-13-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 64 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.02.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-02-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 63 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.01.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-01-17|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 62 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.01.2012 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2012-01-03|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 61 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.12.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-12-20|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 60 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.12.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-12-06|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 59 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.11.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-11-22|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 58 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.11.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-11-08|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 57 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.10.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-10-25|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 56 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.10.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-10-11|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 55 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.09.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-09-27|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 54 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 13.09.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-09-13|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 53 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.08.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-08-02|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 52 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.06.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-06-21|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 51 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.06.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-06-07|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 50 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.05.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-05-10|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 49 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 26.04.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-04-26|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 48 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 12.04.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-04-12|Minutes]] || no quorum established but meeting took place<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 47 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.03.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-03-28|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 46 || style="text-align:center"| 2 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.03.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-03-19|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 45 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.03.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-03-08|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-03-08| Agenda]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center"| 44 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.03.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-03-01|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-03-01| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 43 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.02.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-02-22|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-02-22| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 42 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.02.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-02-15|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-02-15| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 41 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.02.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-02-01|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-02-01| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 40 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.01.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-01-25|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-01-25| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 39 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 18.01.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-01-18|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-01-18| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 38 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 11.01.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-01-11|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-01-11| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 37 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 04.01.2011 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2011-01-04|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-01-04| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 36 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 30.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-30|Minutes]] || Extraordinary meeting for deciding on conference offers<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 35 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-28|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-12-28| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 34 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-21|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-12-21| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 33 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-14|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-12-14| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 32 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.12.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-12-07|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-12-07| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 31 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 30.11.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-11-30|Minutes]] ||<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 30 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 23.11.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-11-23|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-11-23| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 29 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 09.11.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-11-09|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-11-09| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 28 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 02.11.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-11-02|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-11-02| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 27 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 26.10.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-10-26|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-10-26| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 26 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 19.10.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-10-19|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-10-19| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 25 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 12.10.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-10-12|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-10-12| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 24 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 05.10.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-10-05|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-10-05| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 23 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 28.09.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-09-28|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-09-28| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 22 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 21.09.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-09-21|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-09-21| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 21 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 14.09.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-09-14|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-09-14| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 20 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 07.09.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-09-07|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-09-07| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 19 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 31.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-31|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-31| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 18 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 24.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-24|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-24| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 17 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-17|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-17| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 16 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-10|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-10| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 15 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.08.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-08-03|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-08-03| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 14 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 27.07.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-07-27|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-07-27| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 13 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 20.07.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-07-20|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-07-20| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 12 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 13.07.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-07-13 (unofficial)| Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-07-13| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 11 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 06.07.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-07-06|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-07-06| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 10 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 29.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-06-29|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-06-29| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 9 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 22.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-06-22|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-06-22| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 8 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 15.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-06-15|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-06-15| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 7 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 08.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-06-08|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-06-08| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 6 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 01.06.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-31|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-31| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 5 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 25.05.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-25|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-25| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 4 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 17.05.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-17|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-17| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 3 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 10.05.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-10|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-10| Agenda]]<br />
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| style="text-align:center"| 2 || style="text-align:center"| 1 ||style="text-align:right"| || 03.05.2010 || || [[PPI_Board_Minutes_2010-05-03|Minutes]] || [[PPI_Board_Agenda_2010-05-03| Agenda]]<br />
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[[Category:Board]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board/Rules_of_Procedure&diff=7736PPI Board/Rules of Procedure2023-05-01T21:20:21Z<p>Dichter: include the Code of Conduct into RoP as decided on May 1st 2023</p>
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<div>The Board has passed the rules of procedure on its meeting on the 03. March 2011,<br />
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* changed on 02. August 2011,<br />
* changed on 06. December 2011,<br />
* changed on 15. Mai 2012,<br />
* changed on 21. February 2015,<br />
* changed on 12. February 2016,<br />
* changed on 25. April 2016,<br />
* changed on 31. July 2016,<br />
* changed on 17. June 2019,<br />
* changed on 01. May 2023<br />
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'''§1 Board meetings'''<br />
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# Regular board meetings will take place no less than once a month. At the end of each meeting the date and time of the next meeting will be announced.<br />
# Each board meeting is announced publicly<br />
# Extraordinary meetings can be called by any member of the board for urgent matters.<br />
# Alternative: If the board meeting is taking longer than 1:30 a break of 15 minutes is scheduled and the meeting adjournes.<br />
# If 3 board members (including alternate board members) are present the board makes quorum.<br />
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'''§2 Agenda'''<br />
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# Every member of the Pirate Parties International can propose an agenda item to the board.<br />
# An agenda item shall be submitted 3 days ahead to the [[mailto:board@pp-international|Board]] of the meeting using [[https://ga.pp-international.net/c/ppiboard/31|template]] to be regularly tabled within the published Agenda.<br />
# The provisional agenda of the regular board meetings shall be published and send out to the Board before the meeting. Publishing the provisional agenda is responsibility of the Boards General Secretary.<br />
# New items to the agenda can be brought in during the meeting and will be discussed at the end of the scheduled Agenda.<br />
# Items on the agenda shall have foundational documents, descriptions or spreadsheets linked in the agenda where that is natural so members can prepare properly<br />
# '''Agenda approval''': After approval of minutes from previous meeting (§ 6), the agenda of the meeting should be voted upon.<br />
# Approved items from the agenda, that are not closed on the meeting, are put on the next meeting agenda. <br />
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'''§3 Publicity'''<br />
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# The board meetings are public, unless the board votes in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting has to be motivated.<br />
# Guests are allowed to speak up during a meeting if requested to do so by the chairman.<br />
# Guests can ask to take the stand.<br />
# Guests that disrupt the meeting can be excluded by the chairman.<br />
# The board meetings are recorded for historical & information purposes, if a participant requests that the meeting shall not to be recorded, a 2/3 majority vote from the board is required to do.<br />
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'''§4 Procedure'''<br />
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# At the beginning of each meeting a chairman and secretary will be appointed.<br />
# The secretary of the meeting will write the meeting minutes.<br />
# The chair of the meeting moderates the discussions and makes sure the rules of procedure are respected.<br />
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'''§5 Votes'''<br />
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# Only members of the board are entitled to vote.<br />
# Decisions are taken by a majority of board members present at the meeting.<br />
# Vote in absentia of the board members - The board members may vote in absentia using any of the following means:<br />
## Updating the decision on the Project Management Referential with their vote.<br />
## Using Discourse, Discord, Wire, or email to cast their votes.<br />
## Emailing the board mailing list citing the object and their vote.<br />
# A tally of the vote shall be maintained in the decision record on the minutes saved in the PPI Wiki.<br />
# Board members not present at the meeting can vote on a proposal published in the provisional agenda by citing the proposal and expressing their vote in an e-mail sent to board@pp-international.net (postal vote) or casting a vote in Discourse, Discord, or Wire. The postal votes shall be added to the votes cast at the meeting if the proposals are exactly the same. The postal votes shall be mentioned in the provisional agenda and can be superseded by subsequent email, a change to the postal vote, or by a vote cast at the meeting.<br />
## Board members may delegate their vote to another specific board member, or they may delegate their vote to an alternate board member. The most senior ranking alternate board member will take the first delegated vote, and each additional delegated vote will be given to the next in line. No alternate board member can hold more than one delegated vote. All board members who cannot attend should delegate their vote in advance.<br />
# Any financial decisions can be made by the board with a 2/3 majority vote if the decision falls within the GA approved budget. Otherwise, the treasurer, or its designated deputy, has to pre-approve the financial engagement prior to the board meeting, during the 48 hour time period between the end of submission of regular agenda items and the board meeting.<br />
# Any decision related to political issues can be challenged in a referendum by 5 voting members of the PPI. An e-voting tally shall be organised congruant to the bylaws of PPI in the shortest possible timeframe using any of the following means:<br />
## Updating the decision on the Project Management Referential (i.e. Discourse, Discord, or Wire) with their vote<br />
## Using Discourse, Discord, Wire, or Email to cast their votes <br />
## Emailing the board citing the object and their vote.<br />
# The duration of the vote will be no more of 1 week<br />
# Each Board shall present an approved vote of its members, according to the respective by-laws for each voting member, along with any resolutions designating a permanent delegate and a deputy.<br />
# If 3 board members (including alternate board members) are present, unanimous votes are necessary to approve a proposal. If 4 votes are present, 3 votes are still necessary to approve a decision. If more members are present, a majority of votes are necessary to approve the decision, with a minimum of 3 affirmative votes.<br />
# Abstentions do not count against a majority vote.<br />
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'''§6 Meeting minutes'''<br />
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# The minutes of the meeting will be published before the next meeting and not later than 48 hours prior to the next scheduled meeting.<br />
# The General Secretary is responsible for publishing the meeting minutes and links to the published meeting recordings on the PPI wiki.<br />
# The minutes of the meeting are resolution minutes and contain the wording of motions and resolutions that had been voted on. In case of an non-public meeting the minutes contain instead the motivated resolution to have the non-public meeting (ref §4.1). Any board member can submit within 24 hours after the meeting a text of personal statement to the minutes explaining his or her particular vote to a motion or resolution.<br />
# The minutes of the meeting should be approved by a vote on the start of next meeting. <br />
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'''§7 Tasks'''<br />
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# All decisions, projects and tasks must have one single person named as responsible. Said person is also responsible for establishing the task and inputting it into a task management system. (not yet selected)<br />
# By the end of their term of office, each board member should create a text report of their activities.<br />
# Any member of the board can approve the application for a supporting membership.<br />
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'''§7a Code of Conduct Manifesto'''<br />
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# Respect for Diversity & Inclusion<br />
: We avoid comments, actions or propaganda that encourages discrimination related to gender, gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, sexual characteristics, physical appearance, disability, or age.<br />
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# Respect Freedom of Expression<br />
: We support an individual’s freedom of expression and will strive to better understand each other by not assuming experiences or beliefs, clarifying meanings, and making an effort to speak clearly, avoiding jargon and acronyms.<br />
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# Commitment to Non-Violence<br />
: We will not engage in any type of violence or aggression, including verbal threats or complaints, intimidation, stalking or harassment, whether physically or psychologically.<br />
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# Rejection of Sexual Harassment<br />
: We understand sexual harassment as unwanted physical contact or insinuation of a sexual nature, as well as displaying images, drawings or visual representations of any kind that objectify members of any gender or reinforce oppression.<br />
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# Respect for Privacy<br />
: Safeguard the privacy of members, individuals and participants in PPI events, and agree to follow the Code of Conduct as well as the CoC Council’s recommendations.<br />
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# Facilitate Participation & Collaboration<br />
: We work to create an environment that facilitates participation for all participants, and that session presenters are given respect. We will not engage in sustained disruption of sessions or events, interrupt conversations in a way that negatively impacts collaboration, or engage in toxic behaviors to attract negative attention to an attendee.<br />
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# We Care about the Integrity and Health of the Community<br />
: We value the health of the community and will not engage in behavior that can negatively impact it.<br />
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# Support Positive Interactions Among members<br />
: We are committed to engaging constructively with others at all times. We will not tolerate bullying, including requesting or mobilizing others, either in person or online, to bully others.<br />
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'''§8 General provisions'''<br />
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# These rules of procedure can be modified at any time by the board.<br />
# These rules of procedure are immediately applicable.<br />
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Annotation: Chair/man in the text above is the Chairman of the meeting.<br />
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[[Category:Board]]<br />
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[[Category:Rules of Procedure]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Statutes&diff=7685Statutes2023-01-30T14:49:57Z<p>Dichter: /* XIII. Functions of the Board */</p>
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<div>Note: You can find some more information on [[Statutes history]] page<br />
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=Statutes of Pirate Parties International (PPI)=<br />
* Amended on 28th of January 2023 at [[PPI_GA_JUL_2023_1|Online GA]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=5605}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=7682&oldid=5605}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on 30th of May 2020 at [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30|Online GA]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=5567}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=5567&oldid=5246}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on 07th December 2019 at [[PPI_General_Assembly_2019]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4813}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4813&oldid=4812}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 3rd November 2018 in [[PPI_Conference_2018|Munich, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4812}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4812&oldid=4751}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 23 and 24th 2016 in [[PPI_Conference_2016|Berlin, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=363200}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=363199&oldid=362702}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 5 and 6th 2015 in [[PPI_Conference_2015|Warsaw, Poland]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=362593}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=362593&oldid=362429}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on April, 13 2014 in [[PPI_Conference_2014|Paris, France]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 22 2013 in [[PPI_Conference_2013|Kazan, Russia]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 15 2012 in [[PPI_Conference_2012|Prague, Czech Republic]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=8333}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=8333&oldid=8331}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on March,12 2011 in [[PPI_Conference_2011|Friedrichshafen, Germany]]([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=7531}} Versionslink])<br />
* Signed on 18 April 2010 at the [[International_Conference_2010|PPI Founding conference]] in Brussels, Belgium.<br />
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==Preamble==<br />
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Pirate Parties International exists to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world.<br />
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==Introductory statements==<br />
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===I. Name===<br />
(1) The name of the association is Pirate Parties International. The official<br />
abbreviation is PPI.<br />
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(2) The association is not for profit. The rights and duties of the association and its Members shall be disjunct.<br />
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(3) The seat of the association is Geneva, Switzerland.<br />
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==Tasks and goals==<br />
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===II. Goals===<br />
(1) The goals of the association are: <br />
:a) to act according to the major interests and goals of its Members,<br />
:b) to raise awareness and widen the spread of the pirate movement, and<br />
:c) to support the pirate movement and strengthen its bonds internally and externally,<br />
:d) to promote and support Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.<br />
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(2) To accomplish these objectives the association shall, among other things:<br />
:a) provide for and extend communication between the Members of the association,<br />
:b) assist in the foundation of new pirate parties,<br />
:c) organize and coordinate global campaigns and events,<br />
:d) act as mediator or arbitrator for any disputes between Members if requested to do so,<br />
:e) share information and coordinate research on the core pirate topics,<br />
:f) contact NGO's, administrations and international organizations, and<br />
:g) act as a contact centre for the pirate movement.<br />
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==Membership==<br />
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===III. Membership===<br />
(1) Membership in the Pirate Parties International is open to Parties and other<br />
organizations. <br />
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(2) The number of Members is unlimited, but may not be less than two.<br />
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(3) Requests for Membership shall be submitted in writing to the Board at<br />
least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly. They shall<br />
include contact information and a statement on the adoption of the<br />
statutes and internal regulations of the Pirate Parties International, in<br />
addition to a copy of the statutes and by-laws and the political program of<br />
the applicant and information on the background and organization of said<br />
applicant. The Board will transmit the application to all Members at least<br />
two weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
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(4) The General Assembly is authorized to grant, at its own discretion, the applicant one of the following Member status in Pirate Parties International<br />
:a) Ordinary Member<br />
:b) Observer Member <br />
:c) Supporting Member<br />
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(5) The Members are obliged to respect the Statutes, internal regulations and rules of procedure, in particular abide by the decisions of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
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===IV. Ordinary Members===<br />
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(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
:a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes, and<br />
:b) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
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(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members. <br />
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(3) The General Assembly is authorized to grant Member status in Pirate Parties International to any Pirate party, which subscribes to the association’s principles and accepts its statutes and internal regulations. <br />
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(4) Ordinary Members have the right to<br />
:a) sit and vote in the General Assembly,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
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===V. Observer Members===<br />
(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
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(2) Observer Members have the right to <br />
:a) sit in the General Assembly but with no voting right,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
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===V. a. Supporting Member===<br />
(1) Individuals and other organizations who care to actively support Pirate Parties International can become Supporting Member.<br />
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(2) Supporting Members shall be entitled to attend the General Assembly as non-voting participant. They shall not be entitled to vote unless they are appointed as delegates by a member organization.<br />
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(3) The minimum annual subscription for Supporting Members shall be fixed by the Board.<br />
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(4) No Supporting Member shall be accepted against the objections of an Ordinary Member of the country of applicants residence or of the Board of Pirate Parties International. In the case that no Ordinary Member exists in the country of applicants residence, admission is decided directly by the Board of Pirate Parties International. Details of the application and admission process shall be regulated in the Rules of Procedures of the Board.<br />
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(5) Member Parties are encouraged to solicit PPI supporting membership during their own regular campaigns.<br />
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===VI. Multiple applicants from one sovereign state===<br />
(1) If there are multiple applicants for Ordinary Membership status, they are encouraged to join together into a Federation or Confederation based on the common Pirate purpose. It is the responsibility of each Federation or Confederation to ensure that all its constituent Associations meet the requirements of these statutes.<br />
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(2) If a Federation or Confederation cannot be agreed on, the voting power of this state is split between these Members. The splitting method is, in order of preference :<br />
:a) consensus between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state ;<br />
:b) compromise between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state, with the help of a Registered Moderator from the Court of Arbitration ;<br />
:c) decision by the Court of Arbitraton within the limits contained in proposals given by Ordinary Members from the sovereign state.<br />
(3) As long as none of the preferred methods comes into action, the voting power of the sovereign state is split equally between its Ordinary Members.<br />
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===VII. Termination of Membership===<br />
(1) Any Member may resign from Pirate Parties International at any time. The Member gives notice to the Board of the decision to resign. This shall be done in a traceable way. Members that resign are obliged to fulfill their financial obligations toward the association for all previous years. <br />
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(2) The decisions on the changes of Membership, such as suspension, reinstatement and exclusion, fall within the competence of the Court of Arbitration, and can be appealed to the General Assembly. If the Member appeals, the decision becomes effective at the end of theMeeting of the General Assembly, unless the General Assembly decides otherwise. A proposal for decisions on the change of Membership to Court of Arbitration may only be submitted by the Board, or by group of tenth of Ordinary Members.<br />
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(3) A Member’s affiliation ceases automatically upon dissolution, disqualification, liquidation or in cases of temporary administration, court-ordered settlement or insolvency. The Membership also ends automatically when this Member does no longer fulfill the criteria that were necessary for its preliminary recognition as a Member.<br />
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(4) Resigning, deceased / dissolved / bankrupt or excluded members and their successors or rightful claimants shall have no entitlement to the assets of the Association.<br />
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(5) They may not claim restitution or reimbursement of membership fees or payments made.<br />
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(6) They may not demand or claim a report, statement of accounts, sealing or inventory.<br />
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=== VIII. Membership Register ===<br />
The Board keeps a Membership register at the PPI Headquarters of Pirate Parties International. This register lists the name, legal form, address of the registered office, identity of the representative and, where applicable, the registration number in accordance with existing legislation and regulations. All Members may consult the register of organizations at the registered office of the PPI Headquarters. <br />
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==General Assembly==<br />
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===IX. General Assembly ===<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association. The General Assembly shall meet at least once a year.<br />
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(2) Extraordinary sessions can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the Board.<br />
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(3) The General Assembly decides with the majority of the votes, one vote per sovereign state that has at least one Ordinary Member.<br />
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(4) Member Organizations are represented at any meeting of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
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(5) The physical or remote presence of Ordinary Members gathering one third of the total voting power shall constitute a quorum. <br />
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(5a) If the quorum is not reached, a new General Assembly shall be convened without delay, which shall always have a quorum. The number of those present and entitled to vote (whether remotely or in attendance) constitutes the quorum for the calculation of voting majorities.<br />
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(6) The General Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure.<br />
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(7) Meetings of the General Assembly will be announced at least five weeks prior to the meeting. The invitation will be sent out by the Board to all Members and published on the homepage of Pirate Parties International website.<br />
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===X. Functions of the General Assembly===<br />
The functions of the General Assembly are: <br />
:a) to consider the policies and standards of the Pirate Movement throughout the world and take such action as shall further the goals of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:b) to formulate the general policy of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:c) to consider applications for Membership and decide as to the exclusion of Members, <br />
:d) to hold elections of the Board, and other committees,<br />
:e) to consider reports and recommendations presented by the Board,<br />
:f) to consider recommendations brought forward by Member Organizations, <br />
:g) to consider proposed amendments to these statutes,<br />
:h) to accept internal regulations for the Pirate Parties International and to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes, and<br />
:i) to define specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-framed goals for the upcoming period. The goals should be prioritized if possible.<br />
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===XI. Voting===<br />
(1) All votes are public.<br />
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(1a) Each sovereign state with at least one Ordinary Member shall have one vote and resolutions shall be taken by a simple majority of the sum of the votes of the Ordinary Members present or represented and voting. In the event of a tie, the motion is defeated. <br />
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(2) Decisions concerning the admission of new Members ([[#iii_membership|section III.]] paragraph 4), the exclusion of Members ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|section VII]], paragraph 2), the determination of the annual affiliation fee ([[#xviaffiliation_fees|section XVI]], paragraph 1) and the amendment of this Statutes ([[#xx_amendments|section XX]]), shall be passed by a two thirds majority of the votes cast. <br />
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(3) An Ordinary Member which is unable to be present at a meeting of the General Assembly may vote by proxy given to another Member, but no Member may accept more than one proxy. <br />
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(4) A permanent online e-Democracy system allowing for decision making of General Assembly between its meetings shall be put in place where issues can be raised, initiatives started, suggestions made, and progress checked until a final vote can be cast.<br />
* a) Issues and initiatives <ref group="*">Initiatives are competing motions on the same issue</ref> can be raised and started by the Board and anyone else who can submit motions to the General Assembly;<br />
* b) An issue not raised by the Board needs a support of one third of the Members in order for its initiatives to be voted.<br />
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(5) Any Ordinary Member which has failed to pay its annual affiliation fee up to and including the end of the fiscal year preceding the General Assembly meeting shall forfeit its right to vote at that meeting of the General Assembly, unless remission or postponement of dues has received prior authorization from the Board.<br />
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(6) Remote elections and voting on the points described in [[#xi_voting|XI (2)]] shall be<br />
possible for all meetings of the General Assembly.<br />
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===XIa. Revocation===<br />
(1) At any time, Ordinary Members wielding at least a fifth of the voting power can initiate the revocation of a PPI officer by calling upon the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration can reject the revocation request if it is not supported by enough of the Ordinary Members, if an election for the seat took place less than a month ago or will take place within a month, or another revocation process of the same PPI officer is already in progress.<br />
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(2) When the request is valid, within seven days the Council of the Court of Arbitration warns the Members of the revocation process, and opens an internal consultation of seven days to collect grievances against the concerned PPI officer. The Council of the Court of Arbitration then has seven days to send him a synthesis of the grievances.<br />
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(3) The PPI officer has seven days to answer. At reception of his answer, or at the end of the time, the Council of the Court of Arbitration organizes a postal referendum on the revocation of the PPI officer with the synthesis of the grievances and, if any, his answer. If the revocation is voted, the PPI officer's seat is treated as vacant and this person cannot occupy the same seat until the following General Assembly.<br />
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==Board==<br />
===XII. Board===<br />
(1) Pirate Parties International is managed by the Board, the executive organ.<br />
The members of the Board shall consider the interests of the Pirate<br />
movement as a whole and shall neither consider themselves, nor be<br />
considered, as representing any particular Member or non-member<br />
Organization or region.<br />
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(2) The Board and the Alternate Members are elected for two years by the General Assembly at the regular sessions or if an extraordinary session is requested for that purpose.<br />
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(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
:a) one Chairperson,<br />
:b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
:c) seven additional Board Members<br />
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(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
:a) a Treasurer,<br />
:b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
:c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson if the seat became vacant.<br />
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No Board Member shall fulfil more than one office.<br />
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(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
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(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
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(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
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(8) Alternate Members following-up on the Board shall have no office, but may be elected into one by a majority vote of the Board.<br />
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===XIII. Functions of the Board===<br />
(1) The functions of the Board are:<br />
:a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly between its meetings; to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies; and to represent it at international and national events,<br />
:b) to promote the Pirate Movement throughout the world by means of visits, correspondence, training courses and other appropriate action,<br />
:c) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
:d) to recommend the admission of Organizations applying for Membership, <br />
:e) to prepare the agenda and procedure of the meetings of the General Assembly, giving consideration to suggestions from Member Organizations, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting,<br />
:f) to appoint the Secretary General of Pirate Parties International, and to appoint his Deputy or Deputies upon a recommendation of the Secretary General; and to supervise the management of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:g) to approve the annual budget and financial statements of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:h) to accept the responsibility for the raising of additional funds, and<br />
:i) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes.<br />
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(2) The Board performs actions according to the decisions of the General<br />
Assembly and the spirit of the Pirate Movement.<br />
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(3) One natural person named by each Ordinary Member shall be admitted<br />
with the right to participate in the Board meetings without the right to vote.<br />
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(4) The Board adopts rules of procedure that specify the provisions of internal regulations and voting rules. <br />
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(5) The Chairman or the vice chairman convenes, opens, suspends, and closes the sessions and meetings and presides over them to ensure the observance of procedure, communicates the points of concern, and informs the Board about absences. In the absence of both Chairmen another Member of the Board may be appointed to perform all these functions by the rest of the board.<br />
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(6) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a month. The form of the meeting is free.<br />
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(7) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published not less than two weeks after the meeting. The Board has to inform the General Assembly on its next meeting on the fact of non-public meetings.<br />
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(8) A Board member may resign at any moment. After resignation, death, long term disease or if a Member of the Board does not execute its functions for more than three months, his seat becomes vacant. If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote. The concerned Board Member may appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration within the period of a month. The Court of Arbitration shall pass judgement not later than a month after the appeal was filed. Pending the decision of the Court of Arbitration or until the decision of the Board cannot be appealed anymore the seat shall not be taken by an Alternate Member, but all rights of the concerned Board Member will be suspended.<br />
<br />
(9) If the Board has less than three remaining Members, an extraordinary session of the General Assembly has to be held within the next six months, if an ordinary session is not scheduled within this period.<br />
<br />
==PPI Headquarters==<br />
===XIV. PPI Headquarters===<br />
(1) PPI Headquarters shall be incorporated in accordance with the law of the country in which its international headquarters are located in order to enjoy the status of a legal person and a non-profit organization<br />
<br />
(2) The PPI Headquarters shall serve as the Secretariat of Pirate Parties International. It shall comprise the Secretary General of the Pirate Parties International and such staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary General shall be appointed by the Board and shall be the chief administrative officer of Pirate Parties International. <br />
<br />
(3) The PPI Headquarters shall consist of its international headquarters and any regional offices.<br />
<br />
(4) The PPI Headquarters shall be responsible for all administrative and financial matters, and shall report on them and present them for confirmation to the Board at least once a year.<br />
<br />
== Court of Arbitration ==<br />
===XIVa. Court of Arbitration===<br />
(0) The Court of Arbitration shall be constituted by a Council composed of individuals and a deciding Jury composed of all the Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
(1) The exclusive power to resolve internal disputes shall be vested to the<br />
Court of Arbitration. All other organs and officers are required to cooperate<br />
with the Court of Arbitration to the extend needed for the proper exercise<br />
of its functions.<br />
<br />
(2) Complaints may be sent by the organs and officers of the PPI and by<br />
the Members. A complaint may be regulated with a fee to be returned if<br />
the complaint is reasonable. The complainant may participate in the<br />
investigation.<br />
<br />
(3) In particular, the Court of Arbitration has the exclusive power to<br />
:a) issue a preliminary ruling in an urgent matter of its competence,<br />
:b) declare matters of fact when necessary for the functioning of the PPI,<br />
:c) decide the disputes between the officers and the organs of the PPI,<br />
:d) decide on the restrictions on persons who breach the Statutes and the internal regulations and in these cases degrade an official or declare his further incapability to be elected,<br />
:e) decide on the validity of legal acts of the organs of the PPI,<br />
:f) decide on the matters of Membership ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|Art. VII par. 2]]).<br />
<br />
(4) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Mediators. This register<br />
lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the<br />
Ordinary Members who are willing to help solve the disputes between the<br />
Members. All Members may consult this register and choose a Mediator<br />
who can help them solve the dispute.<br />
<br />
(5) If the mediation fails, each of the Members or applicants who are in a dispute may present an agreement to the Court of Arbitration, which contains their description of the dispute, their solution and their consent to abide by the decision of the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration will present an independent solution within the limits of opposing views. Other solutions may also be presented to the Court of Arbitration by independent third parties. The Jury of the Court of Arbitration will decide the dispute by casting a preferential vote using an appropriate single-method election system that ensures a condorcet criterion.<br />
<br />
(6) The Council of the Court of Arbitration may answer the preliminary questions of the organs and individuals about the interpretation of the Statutes and the internal regulations; such answers act through their persuasiveness only.<br />
<br />
(7) The Council of the Court of Arbitration shall have between three and seven Members. The provisions concerning the election of the Members of the Board and vacancies apply accordingly.<br />
<br />
(8) A member of the Board cannot be also a member of the Council of the Court of Arbitration. In case the results in the General Assembly elections would put the person in position to occupy a seat in both Board and Council of the Court of Arbitration, she must immediately relinquish one of the two. In case the person is not able to choose:<br />
<br />
*if she already occupied one of the seats before the General Assembly then she relinquishes this position for the new one,<br />
*otherwise it is considered by default that she relinquishes any seat position in the Council of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
<br />
(9) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Investigators. This register lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the Ordinary Members who are willing to help investigate on any matter the Court of Arbitration has authority on. All Members and PPI officers may consult this register and ask, anonymously or not, an Investigator to constitute a file. Any Investigator can ask the Court of Arbitration to rule on a case. Members of the Court of Arbitration or of the Board cannot be Investigators.<br />
<br />
==Finance==<br />
===XV. Funding===<br />
Pirate Parties International expenditure shall be covered by:<br />
:a) [[Finances#Budget_.26_Affiliation_fees|affiliation fees]] from the Ordinary Members parties and those with Observer status, <br />
:b) donations, or<br />
:c) other legal contributions.<br />
<br />
===XVI. Affiliation Fees===<br />
(1) The amount of the fee is determined annually by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(2) The affiliation fees and contributions shall be fixed in relation to the finances and membership of parties. <br />
<br />
===XVII. Treasurer===<br />
(1) The Treasurer, in agreement with the Board, drafts the budget and the financial procedure, which must then be approved by the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
(2) The Treasurer supervises the Pirate Parties International budget and reports to the Board every three months.<br />
<br />
(3) The Board is responsible for the sound financial management of Pirate Parties International.<br />
<br />
===XVIII. Borrowing Powers===<br />
(1) Those officials empowered to operate the bank accounts of Pirate Parties International have the authority to borrow money as follows:<br />
:a) Up to ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of the Secretary General.<br />
:b) Over ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of threequarters of the Board.<br />
<br />
===XIX. Lay Auditors===<br />
Three [[Lay_Auditors|lay auditors]] shall be appointed by the General Assembly to inspect the accounts of Pirate Parties International on a yearly basis.<br />
<br />
==Amendments==<br />
===XX. Amendments===<br />
(1) These Statutes can only be amended by a vote of at least two thirds of the voting power of the attending Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on a regular or extraordinary meeting called for this purpose.<br />
<br />
(2) The amendments can be proposed by any Member of Pirate Parties International at least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly in writing to the Board. The Board will send out the proposals to all Members at least one week before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(3) Unless otherwise specified, the amendments shall come into force immediately.<br />
<br />
===XXI. Liquidation===<br />
(1) The organization can only be dissolved by a vote of at least two thirds of the total voting power of the Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on an extraordinary meeting called for this purpose only.<br />
<br />
(2)In the event of the liquidation of Pirate Parties International, after the settlement of contractual obligations to staff and other obligations, the remaining financial means shall be transferred to an NGO that is acting in the spirit of the the principles of Pirate Parties International as defined by the Statutes.<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Found]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Statutes&diff=7684Statutes2023-01-30T14:49:44Z<p>Dichter: /* XIII. Functions of the Board */ fixing (5) according to the SAP4 that has passed in Berlin in 2016 see: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Conference_2016/Minutes and https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Conference_2016/Statutes_Amendments</p>
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=Statutes of Pirate Parties International (PPI)=<br />
* Amended on 28th of January 2023 at [[PPI_GA_JUL_2023_1|Online GA]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=5605}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=7682&oldid=5605}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on 30th of May 2020 at [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30|Online GA]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=5567}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=5567&oldid=5246}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on 07th December 2019 at [[PPI_General_Assembly_2019]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4813}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4813&oldid=4812}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 3rd November 2018 in [[PPI_Conference_2018|Munich, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4812}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4812&oldid=4751}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 23 and 24th 2016 in [[PPI_Conference_2016|Berlin, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=363200}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=363199&oldid=362702}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 5 and 6th 2015 in [[PPI_Conference_2015|Warsaw, Poland]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=362593}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=362593&oldid=362429}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on April, 13 2014 in [[PPI_Conference_2014|Paris, France]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 22 2013 in [[PPI_Conference_2013|Kazan, Russia]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 15 2012 in [[PPI_Conference_2012|Prague, Czech Republic]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=8333}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=8333&oldid=8331}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on March,12 2011 in [[PPI_Conference_2011|Friedrichshafen, Germany]]([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=7531}} Versionslink])<br />
* Signed on 18 April 2010 at the [[International_Conference_2010|PPI Founding conference]] in Brussels, Belgium.<br />
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<br />
==Preamble==<br />
<br />
Pirate Parties International exists to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world.<br />
<br />
==Introductory statements==<br />
<br />
===I. Name===<br />
(1) The name of the association is Pirate Parties International. The official<br />
abbreviation is PPI.<br />
<br />
(2) The association is not for profit. The rights and duties of the association and its Members shall be disjunct.<br />
<br />
(3) The seat of the association is Geneva, Switzerland.<br />
<br />
==Tasks and goals==<br />
<br />
===II. Goals===<br />
(1) The goals of the association are: <br />
:a) to act according to the major interests and goals of its Members,<br />
:b) to raise awareness and widen the spread of the pirate movement, and<br />
:c) to support the pirate movement and strengthen its bonds internally and externally,<br />
:d) to promote and support Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.<br />
<br />
(2) To accomplish these objectives the association shall, among other things:<br />
:a) provide for and extend communication between the Members of the association,<br />
:b) assist in the foundation of new pirate parties,<br />
:c) organize and coordinate global campaigns and events,<br />
:d) act as mediator or arbitrator for any disputes between Members if requested to do so,<br />
:e) share information and coordinate research on the core pirate topics,<br />
:f) contact NGO's, administrations and international organizations, and<br />
:g) act as a contact centre for the pirate movement.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
<br />
===III. Membership===<br />
(1) Membership in the Pirate Parties International is open to Parties and other<br />
organizations. <br />
<br />
(2) The number of Members is unlimited, but may not be less than two.<br />
<br />
(3) Requests for Membership shall be submitted in writing to the Board at<br />
least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly. They shall<br />
include contact information and a statement on the adoption of the<br />
statutes and internal regulations of the Pirate Parties International, in<br />
addition to a copy of the statutes and by-laws and the political program of<br />
the applicant and information on the background and organization of said<br />
applicant. The Board will transmit the application to all Members at least<br />
two weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(4) The General Assembly is authorized to grant, at its own discretion, the applicant one of the following Member status in Pirate Parties International<br />
:a) Ordinary Member<br />
:b) Observer Member <br />
:c) Supporting Member<br />
<br />
(5) The Members are obliged to respect the Statutes, internal regulations and rules of procedure, in particular abide by the decisions of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
<br />
===IV. Ordinary Members===<br />
<br />
(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
:a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes, and<br />
:b) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
<br />
(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members. <br />
<br />
(3) The General Assembly is authorized to grant Member status in Pirate Parties International to any Pirate party, which subscribes to the association’s principles and accepts its statutes and internal regulations. <br />
<br />
(4) Ordinary Members have the right to<br />
:a) sit and vote in the General Assembly,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
===V. Observer Members===<br />
(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(2) Observer Members have the right to <br />
:a) sit in the General Assembly but with no voting right,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
<br />
===V. a. Supporting Member===<br />
(1) Individuals and other organizations who care to actively support Pirate Parties International can become Supporting Member.<br />
<br />
(2) Supporting Members shall be entitled to attend the General Assembly as non-voting participant. They shall not be entitled to vote unless they are appointed as delegates by a member organization.<br />
<br />
(3) The minimum annual subscription for Supporting Members shall be fixed by the Board.<br />
<br />
(4) No Supporting Member shall be accepted against the objections of an Ordinary Member of the country of applicants residence or of the Board of Pirate Parties International. In the case that no Ordinary Member exists in the country of applicants residence, admission is decided directly by the Board of Pirate Parties International. Details of the application and admission process shall be regulated in the Rules of Procedures of the Board.<br />
<br />
(5) Member Parties are encouraged to solicit PPI supporting membership during their own regular campaigns.<br />
<br />
===VI. Multiple applicants from one sovereign state===<br />
(1) If there are multiple applicants for Ordinary Membership status, they are encouraged to join together into a Federation or Confederation based on the common Pirate purpose. It is the responsibility of each Federation or Confederation to ensure that all its constituent Associations meet the requirements of these statutes.<br />
<br />
(2) If a Federation or Confederation cannot be agreed on, the voting power of this state is split between these Members. The splitting method is, in order of preference :<br />
:a) consensus between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state ;<br />
:b) compromise between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state, with the help of a Registered Moderator from the Court of Arbitration ;<br />
:c) decision by the Court of Arbitraton within the limits contained in proposals given by Ordinary Members from the sovereign state.<br />
(3) As long as none of the preferred methods comes into action, the voting power of the sovereign state is split equally between its Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
===VII. Termination of Membership===<br />
(1) Any Member may resign from Pirate Parties International at any time. The Member gives notice to the Board of the decision to resign. This shall be done in a traceable way. Members that resign are obliged to fulfill their financial obligations toward the association for all previous years. <br />
<br />
(2) The decisions on the changes of Membership, such as suspension, reinstatement and exclusion, fall within the competence of the Court of Arbitration, and can be appealed to the General Assembly. If the Member appeals, the decision becomes effective at the end of theMeeting of the General Assembly, unless the General Assembly decides otherwise. A proposal for decisions on the change of Membership to Court of Arbitration may only be submitted by the Board, or by group of tenth of Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
(3) A Member’s affiliation ceases automatically upon dissolution, disqualification, liquidation or in cases of temporary administration, court-ordered settlement or insolvency. The Membership also ends automatically when this Member does no longer fulfill the criteria that were necessary for its preliminary recognition as a Member.<br />
<br />
(4) Resigning, deceased / dissolved / bankrupt or excluded members and their successors or rightful claimants shall have no entitlement to the assets of the Association.<br />
<br />
(5) They may not claim restitution or reimbursement of membership fees or payments made.<br />
<br />
(6) They may not demand or claim a report, statement of accounts, sealing or inventory.<br />
<br />
<br />
=== VIII. Membership Register ===<br />
The Board keeps a Membership register at the PPI Headquarters of Pirate Parties International. This register lists the name, legal form, address of the registered office, identity of the representative and, where applicable, the registration number in accordance with existing legislation and regulations. All Members may consult the register of organizations at the registered office of the PPI Headquarters. <br />
<br />
==General Assembly==<br />
<br />
===IX. General Assembly ===<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association. The General Assembly shall meet at least once a year.<br />
<br />
(2) Extraordinary sessions can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the Board.<br />
<br />
(3) The General Assembly decides with the majority of the votes, one vote per sovereign state that has at least one Ordinary Member.<br />
<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any meeting of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
<br />
(5) The physical or remote presence of Ordinary Members gathering one third of the total voting power shall constitute a quorum. <br />
<br />
(5a) If the quorum is not reached, a new General Assembly shall be convened without delay, which shall always have a quorum. The number of those present and entitled to vote (whether remotely or in attendance) constitutes the quorum for the calculation of voting majorities.<br />
<br />
(6) The General Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure.<br />
<br />
(7) Meetings of the General Assembly will be announced at least five weeks prior to the meeting. The invitation will be sent out by the Board to all Members and published on the homepage of Pirate Parties International website.<br />
<br />
===X. Functions of the General Assembly===<br />
The functions of the General Assembly are: <br />
:a) to consider the policies and standards of the Pirate Movement throughout the world and take such action as shall further the goals of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:b) to formulate the general policy of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:c) to consider applications for Membership and decide as to the exclusion of Members, <br />
:d) to hold elections of the Board, and other committees,<br />
:e) to consider reports and recommendations presented by the Board,<br />
:f) to consider recommendations brought forward by Member Organizations, <br />
:g) to consider proposed amendments to these statutes,<br />
:h) to accept internal regulations for the Pirate Parties International and to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes, and<br />
:i) to define specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-framed goals for the upcoming period. The goals should be prioritized if possible.<br />
<br />
===XI. Voting===<br />
(1) All votes are public.<br />
<br />
(1a) Each sovereign state with at least one Ordinary Member shall have one vote and resolutions shall be taken by a simple majority of the sum of the votes of the Ordinary Members present or represented and voting. In the event of a tie, the motion is defeated. <br />
<br />
(2) Decisions concerning the admission of new Members ([[#iii_membership|section III.]] paragraph 4), the exclusion of Members ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|section VII]], paragraph 2), the determination of the annual affiliation fee ([[#xviaffiliation_fees|section XVI]], paragraph 1) and the amendment of this Statutes ([[#xx_amendments|section XX]]), shall be passed by a two thirds majority of the votes cast. <br />
<br />
(3) An Ordinary Member which is unable to be present at a meeting of the General Assembly may vote by proxy given to another Member, but no Member may accept more than one proxy. <br />
<br />
(4) A permanent online e-Democracy system allowing for decision making of General Assembly between its meetings shall be put in place where issues can be raised, initiatives started, suggestions made, and progress checked until a final vote can be cast.<br />
* a) Issues and initiatives <ref group="*">Initiatives are competing motions on the same issue</ref> can be raised and started by the Board and anyone else who can submit motions to the General Assembly;<br />
* b) An issue not raised by the Board needs a support of one third of the Members in order for its initiatives to be voted.<br />
<br />
(5) Any Ordinary Member which has failed to pay its annual affiliation fee up to and including the end of the fiscal year preceding the General Assembly meeting shall forfeit its right to vote at that meeting of the General Assembly, unless remission or postponement of dues has received prior authorization from the Board.<br />
<br />
(6) Remote elections and voting on the points described in [[#xi_voting|XI (2)]] shall be<br />
possible for all meetings of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===XIa. Revocation===<br />
(1) At any time, Ordinary Members wielding at least a fifth of the voting power can initiate the revocation of a PPI officer by calling upon the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration can reject the revocation request if it is not supported by enough of the Ordinary Members, if an election for the seat took place less than a month ago or will take place within a month, or another revocation process of the same PPI officer is already in progress.<br />
<br />
(2) When the request is valid, within seven days the Council of the Court of Arbitration warns the Members of the revocation process, and opens an internal consultation of seven days to collect grievances against the concerned PPI officer. The Council of the Court of Arbitration then has seven days to send him a synthesis of the grievances.<br />
<br />
(3) The PPI officer has seven days to answer. At reception of his answer, or at the end of the time, the Council of the Court of Arbitration organizes a postal referendum on the revocation of the PPI officer with the synthesis of the grievances and, if any, his answer. If the revocation is voted, the PPI officer's seat is treated as vacant and this person cannot occupy the same seat until the following General Assembly.<br />
<br />
==Board==<br />
===XII. Board===<br />
(1) Pirate Parties International is managed by the Board, the executive organ.<br />
The members of the Board shall consider the interests of the Pirate<br />
movement as a whole and shall neither consider themselves, nor be<br />
considered, as representing any particular Member or non-member<br />
Organization or region.<br />
<br />
(2) The Board and the Alternate Members are elected for two years by the General Assembly at the regular sessions or if an extraordinary session is requested for that purpose.<br />
<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
:a) one Chairperson,<br />
:b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
:c) seven additional Board Members<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
:a) a Treasurer,<br />
:b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
:c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson if the seat became vacant.<br />
<br />
No Board Member shall fulfil more than one office.<br />
<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
<br />
(8) Alternate Members following-up on the Board shall have no office, but may be elected into one by a majority vote of the Board.<br />
<br />
===XIII. Functions of the Board===<br />
(1) The functions of the Board are:<br />
:a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly between its meetings; to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies; and to represent it at international and national events,<br />
:b) to promote the Pirate Movement throughout the world by means of visits, correspondence, training courses and other appropriate action,<br />
:c) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
:d) to recommend the admission of Organizations applying for Membership, <br />
:e) to prepare the agenda and procedure of the meetings of the General Assembly, giving consideration to suggestions from Member Organizations, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting,<br />
:f) to appoint the Secretary General of Pirate Parties International, and to appoint his Deputy or Deputies upon a recommendation of the Secretary General; and to supervise the management of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:g) to approve the annual budget and financial statements of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:h) to accept the responsibility for the raising of additional funds, and<br />
:i) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes.<br />
<br />
(2) The Board performs actions according to the decisions of the General<br />
Assembly and the spirit of the Pirate Movement.<br />
<br />
(3) One natural person named by each Ordinary Member shall be admitted<br />
with the right to participate in the Board meetings without the right to vote.<br />
<br />
(4) The Board adopts rules of procedure that specify the provisions of internal regulations and voting rules. <br />
<br />
(5) The Chairman ore the vice chairman convenes, opens, suspends, and closes the sessions and meetings and presides over them to ensure the observance of procedure, communicates the points of concern, and informs the Board about absences. In the absence of both Chairmen another Member of the Board may be appointed to perform all these functions by the rest of the board.<br />
<br />
(6) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a month. The form of the meeting is free.<br />
<br />
(7) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published not less than two weeks after the meeting. The Board has to inform the General Assembly on its next meeting on the fact of non-public meetings.<br />
<br />
(8) A Board member may resign at any moment. After resignation, death, long term disease or if a Member of the Board does not execute its functions for more than three months, his seat becomes vacant. If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote. The concerned Board Member may appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration within the period of a month. The Court of Arbitration shall pass judgement not later than a month after the appeal was filed. Pending the decision of the Court of Arbitration or until the decision of the Board cannot be appealed anymore the seat shall not be taken by an Alternate Member, but all rights of the concerned Board Member will be suspended.<br />
<br />
(9) If the Board has less than three remaining Members, an extraordinary session of the General Assembly has to be held within the next six months, if an ordinary session is not scheduled within this period.<br />
<br />
==PPI Headquarters==<br />
===XIV. PPI Headquarters===<br />
(1) PPI Headquarters shall be incorporated in accordance with the law of the country in which its international headquarters are located in order to enjoy the status of a legal person and a non-profit organization<br />
<br />
(2) The PPI Headquarters shall serve as the Secretariat of Pirate Parties International. It shall comprise the Secretary General of the Pirate Parties International and such staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary General shall be appointed by the Board and shall be the chief administrative officer of Pirate Parties International. <br />
<br />
(3) The PPI Headquarters shall consist of its international headquarters and any regional offices.<br />
<br />
(4) The PPI Headquarters shall be responsible for all administrative and financial matters, and shall report on them and present them for confirmation to the Board at least once a year.<br />
<br />
== Court of Arbitration ==<br />
===XIVa. Court of Arbitration===<br />
(0) The Court of Arbitration shall be constituted by a Council composed of individuals and a deciding Jury composed of all the Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
(1) The exclusive power to resolve internal disputes shall be vested to the<br />
Court of Arbitration. All other organs and officers are required to cooperate<br />
with the Court of Arbitration to the extend needed for the proper exercise<br />
of its functions.<br />
<br />
(2) Complaints may be sent by the organs and officers of the PPI and by<br />
the Members. A complaint may be regulated with a fee to be returned if<br />
the complaint is reasonable. The complainant may participate in the<br />
investigation.<br />
<br />
(3) In particular, the Court of Arbitration has the exclusive power to<br />
:a) issue a preliminary ruling in an urgent matter of its competence,<br />
:b) declare matters of fact when necessary for the functioning of the PPI,<br />
:c) decide the disputes between the officers and the organs of the PPI,<br />
:d) decide on the restrictions on persons who breach the Statutes and the internal regulations and in these cases degrade an official or declare his further incapability to be elected,<br />
:e) decide on the validity of legal acts of the organs of the PPI,<br />
:f) decide on the matters of Membership ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|Art. VII par. 2]]).<br />
<br />
(4) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Mediators. This register<br />
lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the<br />
Ordinary Members who are willing to help solve the disputes between the<br />
Members. All Members may consult this register and choose a Mediator<br />
who can help them solve the dispute.<br />
<br />
(5) If the mediation fails, each of the Members or applicants who are in a dispute may present an agreement to the Court of Arbitration, which contains their description of the dispute, their solution and their consent to abide by the decision of the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration will present an independent solution within the limits of opposing views. Other solutions may also be presented to the Court of Arbitration by independent third parties. The Jury of the Court of Arbitration will decide the dispute by casting a preferential vote using an appropriate single-method election system that ensures a condorcet criterion.<br />
<br />
(6) The Council of the Court of Arbitration may answer the preliminary questions of the organs and individuals about the interpretation of the Statutes and the internal regulations; such answers act through their persuasiveness only.<br />
<br />
(7) The Council of the Court of Arbitration shall have between three and seven Members. The provisions concerning the election of the Members of the Board and vacancies apply accordingly.<br />
<br />
(8) A member of the Board cannot be also a member of the Council of the Court of Arbitration. In case the results in the General Assembly elections would put the person in position to occupy a seat in both Board and Council of the Court of Arbitration, she must immediately relinquish one of the two. In case the person is not able to choose:<br />
<br />
*if she already occupied one of the seats before the General Assembly then she relinquishes this position for the new one,<br />
*otherwise it is considered by default that she relinquishes any seat position in the Council of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
<br />
(9) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Investigators. This register lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the Ordinary Members who are willing to help investigate on any matter the Court of Arbitration has authority on. All Members and PPI officers may consult this register and ask, anonymously or not, an Investigator to constitute a file. Any Investigator can ask the Court of Arbitration to rule on a case. Members of the Court of Arbitration or of the Board cannot be Investigators.<br />
<br />
==Finance==<br />
===XV. Funding===<br />
Pirate Parties International expenditure shall be covered by:<br />
:a) [[Finances#Budget_.26_Affiliation_fees|affiliation fees]] from the Ordinary Members parties and those with Observer status, <br />
:b) donations, or<br />
:c) other legal contributions.<br />
<br />
===XVI. Affiliation Fees===<br />
(1) The amount of the fee is determined annually by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(2) The affiliation fees and contributions shall be fixed in relation to the finances and membership of parties. <br />
<br />
===XVII. Treasurer===<br />
(1) The Treasurer, in agreement with the Board, drafts the budget and the financial procedure, which must then be approved by the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
(2) The Treasurer supervises the Pirate Parties International budget and reports to the Board every three months.<br />
<br />
(3) The Board is responsible for the sound financial management of Pirate Parties International.<br />
<br />
===XVIII. Borrowing Powers===<br />
(1) Those officials empowered to operate the bank accounts of Pirate Parties International have the authority to borrow money as follows:<br />
:a) Up to ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of the Secretary General.<br />
:b) Over ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of threequarters of the Board.<br />
<br />
===XIX. Lay Auditors===<br />
Three [[Lay_Auditors|lay auditors]] shall be appointed by the General Assembly to inspect the accounts of Pirate Parties International on a yearly basis.<br />
<br />
==Amendments==<br />
===XX. Amendments===<br />
(1) These Statutes can only be amended by a vote of at least two thirds of the voting power of the attending Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on a regular or extraordinary meeting called for this purpose.<br />
<br />
(2) The amendments can be proposed by any Member of Pirate Parties International at least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly in writing to the Board. The Board will send out the proposals to all Members at least one week before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(3) Unless otherwise specified, the amendments shall come into force immediately.<br />
<br />
===XXI. Liquidation===<br />
(1) The organization can only be dissolved by a vote of at least two thirds of the total voting power of the Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on an extraordinary meeting called for this purpose only.<br />
<br />
(2)In the event of the liquidation of Pirate Parties International, after the settlement of contractual obligations to staff and other obligations, the remaining financial means shall be transferred to an NGO that is acting in the spirit of the the principles of Pirate Parties International as defined by the Statutes.<br />
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=Statutes of Pirate Parties International (PPI)=<br />
* Amended on 28th of January 2023 at [[PPI_GA_JUL_2023_1|Online GA]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=5605}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=7682&oldid=5605}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on 30th of May 2020 at [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30|Online GA]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=5567}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=5567&oldid=5246}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on 07th December 2019 at [[PPI_General_Assembly_2019]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4813}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4813&oldid=4812}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 3rd November 2018 in [[PPI_Conference_2018|Munich, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4812}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4812&oldid=4751}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 23 and 24th 2016 in [[PPI_Conference_2016|Berlin, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=363200}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=363199&oldid=362702}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 5 and 6th 2015 in [[PPI_Conference_2015|Warsaw, Poland]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=362593}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=362593&oldid=362429}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on April, 13 2014 in [[PPI_Conference_2014|Paris, France]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 22 2013 in [[PPI_Conference_2013|Kazan, Russia]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 15 2012 in [[PPI_Conference_2012|Prague, Czech Republic]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=8333}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=8333&oldid=8331}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on March,12 2011 in [[PPI_Conference_2011|Friedrichshafen, Germany]]([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=7531}} Versionslink])<br />
* Signed on 18 April 2010 at the [[International_Conference_2010|PPI Founding conference]] in Brussels, Belgium.<br />
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<br />
==Preamble==<br />
<br />
Pirate Parties International exists to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world.<br />
<br />
==Introductory statements==<br />
<br />
===I. Name===<br />
(1) The name of the association is Pirate Parties International. The official<br />
abbreviation is PPI.<br />
<br />
(2) The association is not for profit. The rights and duties of the association and its Members shall be disjunct.<br />
<br />
(3) The seat of the association is Geneva, Switzerland.<br />
<br />
==Tasks and goals==<br />
<br />
===II. Goals===<br />
(1) The goals of the association are: <br />
:a) to act according to the major interests and goals of its Members,<br />
:b) to raise awareness and widen the spread of the pirate movement, and<br />
:c) to support the pirate movement and strengthen its bonds internally and externally,<br />
:d) to promote and support Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.<br />
<br />
(2) To accomplish these objectives the association shall, among other things:<br />
:a) provide for and extend communication between the Members of the association,<br />
:b) assist in the foundation of new pirate parties,<br />
:c) organize and coordinate global campaigns and events,<br />
:d) act as mediator or arbitrator for any disputes between Members if requested to do so,<br />
:e) share information and coordinate research on the core pirate topics,<br />
:f) contact NGO's, administrations and international organizations, and<br />
:g) act as a contact centre for the pirate movement.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
<br />
===III. Membership===<br />
(1) Membership in the Pirate Parties International is open to Parties and other<br />
organizations. <br />
<br />
(2) The number of Members is unlimited, but may not be less than two.<br />
<br />
(3) Requests for Membership shall be submitted in writing to the Board at<br />
least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly. They shall<br />
include contact information and a statement on the adoption of the<br />
statutes and internal regulations of the Pirate Parties International, in<br />
addition to a copy of the statutes and by-laws and the political program of<br />
the applicant and information on the background and organization of said<br />
applicant. The Board will transmit the application to all Members at least<br />
two weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(4) The General Assembly is authorized to grant, at its own discretion, the applicant one of the following Member status in Pirate Parties International<br />
:a) Ordinary Member<br />
:b) Observer Member <br />
:c) Supporting Member<br />
<br />
(5) The Members are obliged to respect the Statutes, internal regulations and rules of procedure, in particular abide by the decisions of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
<br />
===IV. Ordinary Members===<br />
<br />
(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
:a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes, and<br />
:b) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
<br />
(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members. <br />
<br />
(3) The General Assembly is authorized to grant Member status in Pirate Parties International to any Pirate party, which subscribes to the association’s principles and accepts its statutes and internal regulations. <br />
<br />
(4) Ordinary Members have the right to<br />
:a) sit and vote in the General Assembly,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
===V. Observer Members===<br />
(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(2) Observer Members have the right to <br />
:a) sit in the General Assembly but with no voting right,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
<br />
===V. a. Supporting Member===<br />
(1) Individuals and other organizations who care to actively support Pirate Parties International can become Supporting Member.<br />
<br />
(2) Supporting Members shall be entitled to attend the General Assembly as non-voting participant. They shall not be entitled to vote unless they are appointed as delegates by a member organization.<br />
<br />
(3) The minimum annual subscription for Supporting Members shall be fixed by the Board.<br />
<br />
(4) No Supporting Member shall be accepted against the objections of an Ordinary Member of the country of applicants residence or of the Board of Pirate Parties International. In the case that no Ordinary Member exists in the country of applicants residence, admission is decided directly by the Board of Pirate Parties International. Details of the application and admission process shall be regulated in the Rules of Procedures of the Board.<br />
<br />
(5) Member Parties are encouraged to solicit PPI supporting membership during their own regular campaigns.<br />
<br />
===VI. Multiple applicants from one sovereign state===<br />
(1) If there are multiple applicants for Ordinary Membership status, they are encouraged to join together into a Federation or Confederation based on the common Pirate purpose. It is the responsibility of each Federation or Confederation to ensure that all its constituent Associations meet the requirements of these statutes.<br />
<br />
(2) If a Federation or Confederation cannot be agreed on, the voting power of this state is split between these Members. The splitting method is, in order of preference :<br />
:a) consensus between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state ;<br />
:b) compromise between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state, with the help of a Registered Moderator from the Court of Arbitration ;<br />
:c) decision by the Court of Arbitraton within the limits contained in proposals given by Ordinary Members from the sovereign state.<br />
(3) As long as none of the preferred methods comes into action, the voting power of the sovereign state is split equally between its Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
===VII. Termination of Membership===<br />
(1) Any Member may resign from Pirate Parties International at any time. The Member gives notice to the Board of the decision to resign. This shall be done in a traceable way. Members that resign are obliged to fulfill their financial obligations toward the association for all previous years. <br />
<br />
(2) The decisions on the changes of Membership, such as suspension, reinstatement and exclusion, fall within the competence of the Court of Arbitration, and can be appealed to the General Assembly. If the Member appeals, the decision becomes effective at the end of theMeeting of the General Assembly, unless the General Assembly decides otherwise. A proposal for decisions on the change of Membership to Court of Arbitration may only be submitted by the Board, or by group of tenth of Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
(3) A Member’s affiliation ceases automatically upon dissolution, disqualification, liquidation or in cases of temporary administration, court-ordered settlement or insolvency. The Membership also ends automatically when this Member does no longer fulfill the criteria that were necessary for its preliminary recognition as a Member.<br />
<br />
(4) Resigning, deceased / dissolved / bankrupt or excluded members and their successors or rightful claimants shall have no entitlement to the assets of the Association.<br />
<br />
(5) They may not claim restitution or reimbursement of membership fees or payments made.<br />
<br />
(6) They may not demand or claim a report, statement of accounts, sealing or inventory.<br />
<br />
<br />
=== VIII. Membership Register ===<br />
The Board keeps a Membership register at the PPI Headquarters of Pirate Parties International. This register lists the name, legal form, address of the registered office, identity of the representative and, where applicable, the registration number in accordance with existing legislation and regulations. All Members may consult the register of organizations at the registered office of the PPI Headquarters. <br />
<br />
==General Assembly==<br />
<br />
===IX. General Assembly ===<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association. The General Assembly shall meet at least once a year.<br />
<br />
(2) Extraordinary sessions can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the Board.<br />
<br />
(3) The General Assembly decides with the majority of the votes, one vote per sovereign state that has at least one Ordinary Member.<br />
<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any meeting of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
<br />
(5) The physical or remote presence of Ordinary Members gathering one third of the total voting power shall constitute a quorum. <br />
<br />
(5a) If the quorum is not reached, a new General Assembly shall be convened without delay, which shall always have a quorum. The number of those present and entitled to vote (whether remotely or in attendance) constitutes the quorum for the calculation of voting majorities.<br />
<br />
(6) The General Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure.<br />
<br />
(7) Meetings of the General Assembly will be announced at least five weeks prior to the meeting. The invitation will be sent out by the Board to all Members and published on the homepage of Pirate Parties International website.<br />
<br />
===X. Functions of the General Assembly===<br />
The functions of the General Assembly are: <br />
:a) to consider the policies and standards of the Pirate Movement throughout the world and take such action as shall further the goals of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:b) to formulate the general policy of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:c) to consider applications for Membership and decide as to the exclusion of Members, <br />
:d) to hold elections of the Board, and other committees,<br />
:e) to consider reports and recommendations presented by the Board,<br />
:f) to consider recommendations brought forward by Member Organizations, <br />
:g) to consider proposed amendments to these statutes,<br />
:h) to accept internal regulations for the Pirate Parties International and to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes, and<br />
:i) to define specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-framed goals for the upcoming period. The goals should be prioritized if possible.<br />
<br />
===XI. Voting===<br />
(1) All votes are public.<br />
<br />
(1a) Each sovereign state with at least one Ordinary Member shall have one vote and resolutions shall be taken by a simple majority of the sum of the votes of the Ordinary Members present or represented and voting. In the event of a tie, the motion is defeated. <br />
<br />
(2) Decisions concerning the admission of new Members ([[#iii_membership|section III.]] paragraph 4), the exclusion of Members ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|section VII]], paragraph 2), the determination of the annual affiliation fee ([[#xviaffiliation_fees|section XVI]], paragraph 1) and the amendment of this Statutes ([[#xx_amendments|section XX]]), shall be passed by a two thirds majority of the votes cast. <br />
<br />
(3) An Ordinary Member which is unable to be present at a meeting of the General Assembly may vote by proxy given to another Member, but no Member may accept more than one proxy. <br />
<br />
(4) A permanent online e-Democracy system allowing for decision making of General Assembly between its meetings shall be put in place where issues can be raised, initiatives started, suggestions made, and progress checked until a final vote can be cast.<br />
* a) Issues and initiatives <ref group="*">Initiatives are competing motions on the same issue</ref> can be raised and started by the Board and anyone else who can submit motions to the General Assembly;<br />
* b) An issue not raised by the Board needs a support of one third of the Members in order for its initiatives to be voted.<br />
<br />
(5) Any Ordinary Member which has failed to pay its annual affiliation fee up to and including the end of the fiscal year preceding the General Assembly meeting shall forfeit its right to vote at that meeting of the General Assembly, unless remission or postponement of dues has received prior authorization from the Board.<br />
<br />
(6) Remote elections and voting on the points described in [[#xi_voting|XI (2)]] shall be<br />
possible for all meetings of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===XIa. Revocation===<br />
(1) At any time, Ordinary Members wielding at least a fifth of the voting power can initiate the revocation of a PPI officer by calling upon the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration can reject the revocation request if it is not supported by enough of the Ordinary Members, if an election for the seat took place less than a month ago or will take place within a month, or another revocation process of the same PPI officer is already in progress.<br />
<br />
(2) When the request is valid, within seven days the Council of the Court of Arbitration warns the Members of the revocation process, and opens an internal consultation of seven days to collect grievances against the concerned PPI officer. The Council of the Court of Arbitration then has seven days to send him a synthesis of the grievances.<br />
<br />
(3) The PPI officer has seven days to answer. At reception of his answer, or at the end of the time, the Council of the Court of Arbitration organizes a postal referendum on the revocation of the PPI officer with the synthesis of the grievances and, if any, his answer. If the revocation is voted, the PPI officer's seat is treated as vacant and this person cannot occupy the same seat until the following General Assembly.<br />
<br />
==Board==<br />
===XII. Board===<br />
(1) Pirate Parties International is managed by the Board, the executive organ.<br />
The members of the Board shall consider the interests of the Pirate<br />
movement as a whole and shall neither consider themselves, nor be<br />
considered, as representing any particular Member or non-member<br />
Organization or region.<br />
<br />
(2) The Board and the Alternate Members are elected for two years by the General Assembly at the regular sessions or if an extraordinary session is requested for that purpose.<br />
<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
:a) one Chairperson,<br />
:b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
:c) seven additional Board Members<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
:a) a Treasurer,<br />
:b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
:c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson if the seat became vacant.<br />
<br />
No Board Member shall fulfil more than one office.<br />
<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
<br />
(8) Alternate Members following-up on the Board shall have no office, but may be elected into one by a majority vote of the Board.<br />
<br />
===XIII. Functions of the Board===<br />
(1) The functions of the Board are:<br />
:a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly between its meetings; to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies; and to represent it at international and national events,<br />
:b) to promote the Pirate Movement throughout the world by means of visits, correspondence, training courses and other appropriate action,<br />
:c) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
:d) to recommend the admission of Organizations applying for Membership, <br />
:e) to prepare the agenda and procedure of the meetings of the General Assembly, giving consideration to suggestions from Member Organizations, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting,<br />
:f) to appoint the Secretary General of Pirate Parties International, and to appoint his Deputy or Deputies upon a recommendation of the Secretary General; and to supervise the management of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:g) to approve the annual budget and financial statements of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:h) to accept the responsibility for the raising of additional funds, and<br />
:i) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes.<br />
<br />
(2) The Board performs actions according to the decisions of the General<br />
Assembly and the spirit of the Pirate Movement.<br />
<br />
(3) One natural person named by each Ordinary Member shall be admitted<br />
with the right to participate in the Board meetings without the right to vote.<br />
<br />
(4) The Board adopts rules of procedure that specify the provisions of internal regulations and voting rules. <br />
<br />
(5) One of the Co-Chairmen convenes, opens, suspends, and closes the sessions and meetings and presides over them to ensure the observance of procedure, communicates the points of concern, and informs the Board about absences. In the absence of both of the Co-Chairmen another Member of the Board may be appointed to perform all these functions.<br />
<br />
(6) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a month. The form of the meeting is free.<br />
<br />
(7) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published not less than two weeks after the meeting. The Board has to inform the General Assembly on its next meeting on the fact of non-public meetings.<br />
<br />
(8) A Board member may resign at any moment. After resignation, death, long term disease or if a Member of the Board does not execute its functions for more than three months, his seat becomes vacant. If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote. The concerned Board Member may appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration within the period of a month. The Court of Arbitration shall pass judgement not later than a month after the appeal was filed. Pending the decision of the Court of Arbitration or until the decision of the Board cannot be appealed anymore the seat shall not be taken by an Alternate Member, but all rights of the concerned Board Member will be suspended.<br />
<br />
(9) If the Board has less than three remaining Members, an extraordinary session of the General Assembly has to be held within the next six months, if an ordinary session is not scheduled within this period.<br />
<br />
==PPI Headquarters==<br />
===XIV. PPI Headquarters===<br />
(1) PPI Headquarters shall be incorporated in accordance with the law of the country in which its international headquarters are located in order to enjoy the status of a legal person and a non-profit organization<br />
<br />
(2) The PPI Headquarters shall serve as the Secretariat of Pirate Parties International. It shall comprise the Secretary General of the Pirate Parties International and such staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary General shall be appointed by the Board and shall be the chief administrative officer of Pirate Parties International. <br />
<br />
(3) The PPI Headquarters shall consist of its international headquarters and any regional offices.<br />
<br />
(4) The PPI Headquarters shall be responsible for all administrative and financial matters, and shall report on them and present them for confirmation to the Board at least once a year.<br />
<br />
== Court of Arbitration ==<br />
===XIVa. Court of Arbitration===<br />
(0) The Court of Arbitration shall be constituted by a Council composed of individuals and a deciding Jury composed of all the Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
(1) The exclusive power to resolve internal disputes shall be vested to the<br />
Court of Arbitration. All other organs and officers are required to cooperate<br />
with the Court of Arbitration to the extend needed for the proper exercise<br />
of its functions.<br />
<br />
(2) Complaints may be sent by the organs and officers of the PPI and by<br />
the Members. A complaint may be regulated with a fee to be returned if<br />
the complaint is reasonable. The complainant may participate in the<br />
investigation.<br />
<br />
(3) In particular, the Court of Arbitration has the exclusive power to<br />
:a) issue a preliminary ruling in an urgent matter of its competence,<br />
:b) declare matters of fact when necessary for the functioning of the PPI,<br />
:c) decide the disputes between the officers and the organs of the PPI,<br />
:d) decide on the restrictions on persons who breach the Statutes and the internal regulations and in these cases degrade an official or declare his further incapability to be elected,<br />
:e) decide on the validity of legal acts of the organs of the PPI,<br />
:f) decide on the matters of Membership ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|Art. VII par. 2]]).<br />
<br />
(4) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Mediators. This register<br />
lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the<br />
Ordinary Members who are willing to help solve the disputes between the<br />
Members. All Members may consult this register and choose a Mediator<br />
who can help them solve the dispute.<br />
<br />
(5) If the mediation fails, each of the Members or applicants who are in a dispute may present an agreement to the Court of Arbitration, which contains their description of the dispute, their solution and their consent to abide by the decision of the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration will present an independent solution within the limits of opposing views. Other solutions may also be presented to the Court of Arbitration by independent third parties. The Jury of the Court of Arbitration will decide the dispute by casting a preferential vote using an appropriate single-method election system that ensures a condorcet criterion.<br />
<br />
(6) The Council of the Court of Arbitration may answer the preliminary questions of the organs and individuals about the interpretation of the Statutes and the internal regulations; such answers act through their persuasiveness only.<br />
<br />
(7) The Council of the Court of Arbitration shall have between three and seven Members. The provisions concerning the election of the Members of the Board and vacancies apply accordingly.<br />
<br />
(8) A member of the Board cannot be also a member of the Council of the Court of Arbitration. In case the results in the General Assembly elections would put the person in position to occupy a seat in both Board and Council of the Court of Arbitration, she must immediately relinquish one of the two. In case the person is not able to choose:<br />
<br />
*if she already occupied one of the seats before the General Assembly then she relinquishes this position for the new one,<br />
*otherwise it is considered by default that she relinquishes any seat position in the Council of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
<br />
(9) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Investigators. This register lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the Ordinary Members who are willing to help investigate on any matter the Court of Arbitration has authority on. All Members and PPI officers may consult this register and ask, anonymously or not, an Investigator to constitute a file. Any Investigator can ask the Court of Arbitration to rule on a case. Members of the Court of Arbitration or of the Board cannot be Investigators.<br />
<br />
==Finance==<br />
===XV. Funding===<br />
Pirate Parties International expenditure shall be covered by:<br />
:a) [[Finances#Budget_.26_Affiliation_fees|affiliation fees]] from the Ordinary Members parties and those with Observer status, <br />
:b) donations, or<br />
:c) other legal contributions.<br />
<br />
===XVI. Affiliation Fees===<br />
(1) The amount of the fee is determined annually by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(2) The affiliation fees and contributions shall be fixed in relation to the finances and membership of parties. <br />
<br />
===XVII. Treasurer===<br />
(1) The Treasurer, in agreement with the Board, drafts the budget and the financial procedure, which must then be approved by the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
(2) The Treasurer supervises the Pirate Parties International budget and reports to the Board every three months.<br />
<br />
(3) The Board is responsible for the sound financial management of Pirate Parties International.<br />
<br />
===XVIII. Borrowing Powers===<br />
(1) Those officials empowered to operate the bank accounts of Pirate Parties International have the authority to borrow money as follows:<br />
:a) Up to ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of the Secretary General.<br />
:b) Over ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of threequarters of the Board.<br />
<br />
===XIX. Lay Auditors===<br />
Three [[Lay_Auditors|lay auditors]] shall be appointed by the General Assembly to inspect the accounts of Pirate Parties International on a yearly basis.<br />
<br />
==Amendments==<br />
===XX. Amendments===<br />
(1) These Statutes can only be amended by a vote of at least two thirds of the voting power of the attending Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on a regular or extraordinary meeting called for this purpose.<br />
<br />
(2) The amendments can be proposed by any Member of Pirate Parties International at least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly in writing to the Board. The Board will send out the proposals to all Members at least one week before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(3) Unless otherwise specified, the amendments shall come into force immediately.<br />
<br />
===XXI. Liquidation===<br />
(1) The organization can only be dissolved by a vote of at least two thirds of the total voting power of the Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on an extraordinary meeting called for this purpose only.<br />
<br />
(2)In the event of the liquidation of Pirate Parties International, after the settlement of contractual obligations to staff and other obligations, the remaining financial means shall be transferred to an NGO that is acting in the spirit of the the principles of Pirate Parties International as defined by the Statutes.<br />
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=Statutes of Pirate Parties International (PPI)=<br />
* Amended on 30th of May 2020 at [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30|Online GA]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=5567}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=5567&oldid=5246}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on 07th December 2019 at [[PPI_General_Assembly_2019]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4813}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4813&oldid=4812}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 3rd November 2018 in [[PPI_Conference_2018|Munich, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4812}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4812&oldid=4751}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 23 and 24th 2016 in [[PPI_Conference_2016|Berlin, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=363200}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=363199&oldid=362702}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 5 and 6th 2015 in [[PPI_Conference_2015|Warsaw, Poland]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=362593}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=362593&oldid=362429}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on April, 13 2014 in [[PPI_Conference_2014|Paris, France]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 22 2013 in [[PPI_Conference_2013|Kazan, Russia]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 15 2012 in [[PPI_Conference_2012|Prague, Czech Republic]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=8333}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=8333&oldid=8331}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on March,12 2011 in [[PPI_Conference_2011|Friedrichshafen, Germany]]([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=7531}} Versionslink])<br />
* Signed on 18 April 2010 at the [[International_Conference_2010|PPI Founding conference]] in Brussels, Belgium.<br />
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<br />
==Preamble==<br />
<br />
Pirate Parties International exists to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world.<br />
<br />
==Introductory statements==<br />
<br />
===I. Name===<br />
(1) The name of the association is Pirate Parties International. The official<br />
abbreviation is PPI.<br />
<br />
(2) The association is not for profit. The rights and duties of the association and its Members shall be disjunct.<br />
<br />
(3) The seat of the association is Geneva, Switzerland.<br />
<br />
==Tasks and goals==<br />
<br />
===II. Goals===<br />
(1) The goals of the association are: <br />
:a) to act according to the major interests and goals of its Members,<br />
:b) to raise awareness and widen the spread of the pirate movement, and<br />
:c) to support the pirate movement and strengthen its bonds internally and externally,<br />
:d) to promote and support Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.<br />
<br />
(2) To accomplish these objectives the association shall, among other things:<br />
:a) provide for and extend communication between the Members of the association,<br />
:b) assist in the foundation of new pirate parties,<br />
:c) organize and coordinate global campaigns and events,<br />
:d) act as mediator or arbitrator for any disputes between Members if requested to do so,<br />
:e) share information and coordinate research on the core pirate topics,<br />
:f) contact NGO's, administrations and international organizations, and<br />
:g) act as a contact centre for the pirate movement.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
<br />
===III. Membership===<br />
(1) Membership in the Pirate Parties International is open to Parties and other<br />
organizations. <br />
<br />
(2) The number of Members is unlimited, but may not be less than two.<br />
<br />
(3) Requests for Membership shall be submitted in writing to the Board at<br />
least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly. They shall<br />
include contact information and a statement on the adoption of the<br />
statutes and internal regulations of the Pirate Parties International, in<br />
addition to a copy of the statutes and by-laws and the political program of<br />
the applicant and information on the background and organization of said<br />
applicant. The Board will transmit the application to all Members at least<br />
two weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(4) The General Assembly is authorized to grant, at its own discretion, the applicant one of the following Member status in Pirate Parties International<br />
:a) Ordinary Member<br />
:b) Observer Member <br />
:c) Supporting Member<br />
<br />
(5) The Members are obliged to respect the Statutes, internal regulations and rules of procedure, in particular abide by the decisions of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
<br />
===IV. Ordinary Members===<br />
<br />
(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
:a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes, and<br />
:b) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
<br />
(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members. <br />
<br />
(3) The General Assembly is authorized to grant Member status in Pirate Parties International to any Pirate party, which subscribes to the association’s principles and accepts its statutes and internal regulations. <br />
<br />
(4) Ordinary Members have the right to<br />
:a) sit and vote in the General Assembly,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
===V. Observer Members===<br />
(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(2) Observer Members have the right to <br />
:a) sit in the General Assembly but with no voting right,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
<br />
===V. a. Supporting Member===<br />
(1) Individuals and other organizations who care to actively support Pirate Parties International can become Supporting Member.<br />
<br />
(2) Supporting Members shall be entitled to attend the General Assembly as non-voting participant. They shall not be entitled to vote unless they are appointed as delegates by a member organization.<br />
<br />
(3) The minimum annual subscription for Supporting Members shall be fixed by the Board.<br />
<br />
(4) No Supporting Member shall be accepted against the objections of an Ordinary Member of the country of applicants residence or of the Board of Pirate Parties International. In the case that no Ordinary Member exists in the country of applicants residence, admission is decided directly by the Board of Pirate Parties International. Details of the application and admission process shall be regulated in the Rules of Procedures of the Board.<br />
<br />
(5) Member Parties are encouraged to solicit PPI supporting membership during their own regular campaigns.<br />
<br />
===VI. Multiple applicants from one sovereign state===<br />
(1) If there are multiple applicants for Ordinary Membership status, they are encouraged to join together into a Federation or Confederation based on the common Pirate purpose. It is the responsibility of each Federation or Confederation to ensure that all its constituent Associations meet the requirements of these statutes.<br />
<br />
(2) If a Federation or Confederation cannot be agreed on, the voting power of this state is split between these Members. The splitting method is, in order of preference :<br />
:a) consensus between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state ;<br />
:b) compromise between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state, with the help of a Registered Moderator from the Court of Arbitration ;<br />
:c) decision by the Court of Arbitraton within the limits contained in proposals given by Ordinary Members from the sovereign state.<br />
(3) As long as none of the preferred methods comes into action, the voting power of the sovereign state is split equally between its Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
===VII. Termination of Membership===<br />
(1) Any Member may resign from Pirate Parties International at any time. The Member gives notice to the Board of the decision to resign. This shall be done in a traceable way. Members that resign are obliged to fulfill their financial obligations toward the association for all previous years. <br />
<br />
(2) The decisions on the changes of Membership, such as suspension, reinstatement and exclusion, fall within the competence of the Court of Arbitration, and can be appealed to the General Assembly. If the Member appeals, the decision becomes effective at the end of theMeeting of the General Assembly, unless the General Assembly decides otherwise. A proposal for decisions on the change of Membership to Court of Arbitration may only be submitted by the Board, or by group of tenth of Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
(3) A Member’s affiliation ceases automatically upon dissolution, disqualification, liquidation or in cases of temporary administration, court-ordered settlement or insolvency. The Membership also ends automatically when this Member does no longer fulfill the criteria that were necessary for its preliminary recognition as a Member.<br />
<br />
(4) Resigning, deceased / dissolved / bankrupt or excluded members and their successors or rightful claimants shall have no entitlement to the assets of the Association.<br />
<br />
(5) They may not claim restitution or reimbursement of membership fees or payments made.<br />
<br />
(6) They may not demand or claim a report, statement of accounts, sealing or inventory.<br />
<br />
<br />
=== VIII. Membership Register ===<br />
The Board keeps a Membership register at the PPI Headquarters of Pirate Parties International. This register lists the name, legal form, address of the registered office, identity of the representative and, where applicable, the registration number in accordance with existing legislation and regulations. All Members may consult the register of organizations at the registered office of the PPI Headquarters. <br />
<br />
==General Assembly==<br />
<br />
===IX. General Assembly ===<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association. The General Assembly shall meet at least once a year.<br />
<br />
(2) Extraordinary sessions can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the Board.<br />
<br />
(3) The General Assembly decides with the majority of the votes, one vote per sovereign state that has at least one Ordinary Member.<br />
<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any meeting of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
<br />
(5) The physical or remote presence of Ordinary Members gathering one third of the total voting power shall constitute a quorum. <br />
<br />
(5a) If the quorum is not reached, a new General Assembly shall be convened without delay, which shall always have a quorum. The number of those present and entitled to vote (whether remotely or in attendance) constitutes the quorum for the calculation of voting majorities.<br />
<br />
(6) The General Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure.<br />
<br />
(7) Meetings of the General Assembly will be announced at least five weeks prior to the meeting. The invitation will be sent out by the Board to all Members and published on the homepage of Pirate Parties International website.<br />
<br />
===X. Functions of the General Assembly===<br />
The functions of the General Assembly are: <br />
:a) to consider the policies and standards of the Pirate Movement throughout the world and take such action as shall further the goals of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:b) to formulate the general policy of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:c) to consider applications for Membership and decide as to the exclusion of Members, <br />
:d) to hold elections of the Board, and other committees,<br />
:e) to consider reports and recommendations presented by the Board,<br />
:f) to consider recommendations brought forward by Member Organizations, <br />
:g) to consider proposed amendments to these statutes,<br />
:h) to accept internal regulations for the Pirate Parties International and to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes, and<br />
:i) to define specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-framed goals for the upcoming period. The goals should be prioritized if possible.<br />
<br />
===XI. Voting===<br />
(1) All votes are public.<br />
<br />
(1a) Each sovereign state with at least one Ordinary Member shall have one vote and resolutions shall be taken by a simple majority of the sum of the votes of the Ordinary Members present or represented and voting. In the event of a tie, the motion is defeated. <br />
<br />
(2) Decisions concerning the admission of new Members ([[#iii_membership|section III.]] paragraph 4), the exclusion of Members ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|section VII]], paragraph 2), the determination of the annual affiliation fee ([[#xviaffiliation_fees|section XVI]], paragraph 1) and the amendment of this Statutes ([[#xx_amendments|section XX]]), shall be passed by a two thirds majority of the votes cast. <br />
<br />
(3) An Ordinary Member which is unable to be present at a meeting of the General Assembly may vote by proxy given to another Member, but no Member may accept more than one proxy. <br />
<br />
(4) A permanent online e-Democracy system allowing for decision making of General Assembly between its meetings shall be put in place where issues can be raised, initiatives started, suggestions made, and progress checked until a final vote can be cast.<br />
* a) Issues and initiatives <ref group="*">Initiatives are competing motions on the same issue</ref> can be raised and started by the Board and anyone else who can submit motions to the General Assembly;<br />
* b) An issue not raised by the Board needs a support of one third of the Members in order for its initiatives to be voted.<br />
<br />
(5) Any Ordinary Member which has failed to pay its annual affiliation fee up to and including the end of the fiscal year preceding the General Assembly meeting shall forfeit its right to vote at that meeting of the General Assembly, unless remission or postponement of dues has received prior authorization from the Board.<br />
<br />
(6) Remote elections and voting on the points described in [[#xi_voting|XI (2)]] shall be<br />
possible for all meetings of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===XIa. Revocation===<br />
(1) At any time, Ordinary Members wielding at least a fifth of the voting power can initiate the revocation of a PPI officer by calling upon the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration can reject the revocation request if it is not supported by enough of the Ordinary Members, if an election for the seat took place less than a month ago or will take place within a month, or another revocation process of the same PPI officer is already in progress.<br />
<br />
(2) When the request is valid, within seven days the Council of the Court of Arbitration warns the Members of the revocation process, and opens an internal consultation of seven days to collect grievances against the concerned PPI officer. The Council of the Court of Arbitration then has seven days to send him a synthesis of the grievances.<br />
<br />
(3) The PPI officer has seven days to answer. At reception of his answer, or at the end of the time, the Council of the Court of Arbitration organizes a postal referendum on the revocation of the PPI officer with the synthesis of the grievances and, if any, his answer. If the revocation is voted, the PPI officer's seat is treated as vacant and this person cannot occupy the same seat until the following General Assembly.<br />
<br />
==Board==<br />
===XII. Board===<br />
(1) Pirate Parties International is managed by the Board, the executive organ.<br />
The members of the Board shall consider the interests of the Pirate<br />
movement as a whole and shall neither consider themselves, nor be<br />
considered, as representing any particular Member or non-member<br />
Organization or region.<br />
<br />
(2) The Board and the Alternate Members are elected for two years by the General Assembly at the regular sessions or if an extraordinary session is requested for that purpose.<br />
<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
:a) one Chairperson,<br />
:b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
:c) seven additional Board Members<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
:a) a Treasurer,<br />
:b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
:c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson if the seat became vacant.<br />
<br />
No Board Member shall fulfil more than one office.<br />
<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
<br />
(8) Alternate Members following-up on the Board shall have no office, but may be elected into one by a majority vote of the Board.<br />
<br />
===XIII. Functions of the Board===<br />
(1) The functions of the Board are:<br />
:a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly between its meetings; to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies; and to represent it at international and national events,<br />
:b) to promote the Pirate Movement throughout the world by means of visits, correspondence, training courses and other appropriate action,<br />
:c) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
:d) to recommend the admission of Organizations applying for Membership, <br />
:e) to prepare the agenda and procedure of the meetings of the General Assembly, giving consideration to suggestions from Member Organizations, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting,<br />
:f) to appoint the Secretary General of Pirate Parties International, and to appoint his Deputy or Deputies upon a recommendation of the Secretary General; and to supervise the management of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:g) to approve the annual budget and financial statements of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:h) to accept the responsibility for the raising of additional funds, and<br />
:i) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes.<br />
<br />
(2) The Board performs actions according to the decisions of the General<br />
Assembly and the spirit of the Pirate Movement.<br />
<br />
(3) One natural person named by each Ordinary Member shall be admitted<br />
with the right to participate in the Board meetings without the right to vote.<br />
<br />
(4) The Board adopts rules of procedure that specify the provisions of internal regulations and voting rules. <br />
<br />
(5) One of the Co-Chairmen convenes, opens, suspends, and closes the sessions and meetings and presides over them to ensure the observance of procedure, communicates the points of concern, and informs the Board about absences. In the absence of both of the Co-Chairmen another Member of the Board may be appointed to perform all these functions.<br />
<br />
(6) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a month. The form of the meeting is free.<br />
<br />
(7) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published not less than two weeks after the meeting. The Board has to inform the General Assembly on its next meeting on the fact of non-public meetings.<br />
<br />
(8) A Board member may resign at any moment. After resignation, death, long term disease or if a Member of the Board does not execute its functions for more than three months, his seat becomes vacant. If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote. The concerned Board Member may appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration within the period of a month. The Court of Arbitration shall pass judgement not later than a month after the appeal was filed. Pending the decision of the Court of Arbitration or until the decision of the Board cannot be appealed anymore the seat shall not be taken by an Alternate Member, but all rights of the concerned Board Member will be suspended.<br />
<br />
(9) If the Board has less than three remaining Members, an extraordinary session of the General Assembly has to be held within the next six months, if an ordinary session is not scheduled within this period.<br />
<br />
==PPI Headquarters==<br />
===XIV. PPI Headquarters===<br />
(1) PPI Headquarters shall be incorporated in accordance with the law of the country in which its international headquarters are located in order to enjoy the status of a legal person and a non-profit organization<br />
<br />
(2) The PPI Headquarters shall serve as the Secretariat of Pirate Parties International. It shall comprise the Secretary General of the Pirate Parties International and such staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary General shall be appointed by the Board and shall be the chief administrative officer of Pirate Parties International. <br />
<br />
(3) The PPI Headquarters shall consist of its international headquarters and any regional offices.<br />
<br />
(4) The PPI Headquarters shall be responsible for all administrative and financial matters, and shall report on them and present them for confirmation to the Board at least once a year.<br />
<br />
== Court of Arbitration ==<br />
===XIVa. Court of Arbitration===<br />
(0) The Court of Arbitration shall be constituted by a Council composed of individuals and a deciding Jury composed of all the Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
(1) The exclusive power to resolve internal disputes shall be vested to the<br />
Court of Arbitration. All other organs and officers are required to cooperate<br />
with the Court of Arbitration to the extend needed for the proper exercise<br />
of its functions.<br />
<br />
(2) Complaints may be sent by the organs and officers of the PPI and by<br />
the Members. A complaint may be regulated with a fee to be returned if<br />
the complaint is reasonable. The complainant may participate in the<br />
investigation.<br />
<br />
(3) In particular, the Court of Arbitration has the exclusive power to<br />
:a) issue a preliminary ruling in an urgent matter of its competence,<br />
:b) declare matters of fact when necessary for the functioning of the PPI,<br />
:c) decide the disputes between the officers and the organs of the PPI,<br />
:d) decide on the restrictions on persons who breach the Statutes and the internal regulations and in these cases degrade an official or declare his further incapability to be elected,<br />
:e) decide on the validity of legal acts of the organs of the PPI,<br />
:f) decide on the matters of Membership ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|Art. VII par. 2]]).<br />
<br />
(4) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Mediators. This register<br />
lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the<br />
Ordinary Members who are willing to help solve the disputes between the<br />
Members. All Members may consult this register and choose a Mediator<br />
who can help them solve the dispute.<br />
<br />
(5) If the mediation fails, each of the Members or applicants who are in a dispute may present an agreement to the Court of Arbitration, which contains their description of the dispute, their solution and their consent to abide by the decision of the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration will present an independent solution within the limits of opposing views. Other solutions may also be presented to the Court of Arbitration by independent third parties. The Jury of the Court of Arbitration will decide the dispute by casting a preferential vote using an appropriate single-method election system that ensures a condorcet criterion.<br />
<br />
(6) The Council of the Court of Arbitration may answer the preliminary questions of the organs and individuals about the interpretation of the Statutes and the internal regulations; such answers act through their persuasiveness only.<br />
<br />
(7) The Council of the Court of Arbitration shall have between three and seven Members. The provisions concerning the election of the Members of the Board and vacancies apply accordingly.<br />
<br />
(8) A member of the Board cannot be also a member of the Council of the Court of Arbitration. In case the results in the General Assembly elections would put the person in position to occupy a seat in both Board and Council of the Court of Arbitration, she must immediately relinquish one of the two. In case the person is not able to choose:<br />
<br />
*if she already occupied one of the seats before the General Assembly then she relinquishes this position for the new one,<br />
*otherwise it is considered by default that she relinquishes any seat position in the Council of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
<br />
(9) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Investigators. This register lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the Ordinary Members who are willing to help investigate on any matter the Court of Arbitration has authority on. All Members and PPI officers may consult this register and ask, anonymously or not, an Investigator to constitute a file. Any Investigator can ask the Court of Arbitration to rule on a case. Members of the Court of Arbitration or of the Board cannot be Investigators.<br />
<br />
==Finance==<br />
===XV. Funding===<br />
Pirate Parties International expenditure shall be covered by:<br />
:a) [[Finances#Budget_.26_Affiliation_fees|affiliation fees]] from the Ordinary Members parties and those with Observer status, <br />
:b) donations, or<br />
:c) other legal contributions.<br />
<br />
===XVI. Affiliation Fees===<br />
(1) The amount of the fee is determined annually by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(2) The affiliation fees and contributions shall be fixed in relation to the finances and membership of parties. <br />
<br />
===XVII. Treasurer===<br />
(1) The Treasurer, in agreement with the Board, drafts the budget and the financial procedure, which must then be approved by the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
(2) The Treasurer supervises the Pirate Parties International budget and reports to the Board every three months.<br />
<br />
(3) The Board is responsible for the sound financial management of Pirate Parties International.<br />
<br />
===XVIII. Borrowing Powers===<br />
(1) Those officials empowered to operate the bank accounts of Pirate Parties International have the authority to borrow money as follows:<br />
:a) Up to ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of the Secretary General.<br />
:b) Over ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of threequarters of the Board.<br />
<br />
===XIX. Lay Auditors===<br />
Three [[Lay_Auditors|lay auditors]] shall be appointed by the General Assembly to inspect the accounts of Pirate Parties International on a yearly basis.<br />
<br />
==Amendments==<br />
===XX. Amendments===<br />
(1) These Statutes can only be amended by a vote of at least two thirds of the voting power of the attending Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on a regular or extraordinary meeting called for this purpose.<br />
<br />
(2) The amendments can be proposed by any Member of Pirate Parties International at least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly in writing to the Board. The Board will send out the proposals to all Members at least one week before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(3) Unless otherwise specified, the amendments shall come into force immediately.<br />
<br />
===XXI. Liquidation===<br />
(1) The organization can only be dissolved by a vote of at least two thirds of the total voting power of the Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on an extraordinary meeting called for this purpose only.<br />
<br />
(2)In the event of the liquidation of Pirate Parties International, after the settlement of contractual obligations to staff and other obligations, the remaining financial means shall be transferred to an NGO that is acting in the spirit of the the principles of Pirate Parties International as defined by the Statutes.<br />
<br />
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<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties International are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Belgium) Pirate Party of Belgium]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Brazil Pirate Party of Brazil]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Catalonia Pirate Party of Catalonia]<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Chile Pirate Party of Chile]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Pirate_Party Czech Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Pirate_Party Estonian Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(France) Pirate Party of France]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany Pirate Party Germany]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Greece Pirate Party of Greece]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Hungary Pirate Party of Hungary]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Israel Pirate Party of Israel]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Italy) Pirate Party of Italy]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Luxembourg Pirate Party Luxembourg]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Netherlands) Pirate Party of Netherlands]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_New_Zealand Pirate Party of New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with IP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand) Internet Party New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with PP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Norway Pirate Party of Norway]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Pirate_Party Polish Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Portugal Pirate Party of Portugal]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Russia Pirate Party of Russia]<br />
# {{Flag-rs}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Serbia Pirate Party of Serbia]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_the_Slovak_Republic Pirate Party of Slovakia] (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} Pirate Party - Slovakia (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Switzerland Pirate Party Switzerland]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Tunisia) Pirate Party of Tunisia]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} Pirate Party of Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with new Pirate Party Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Turkey Pirate Party Turkey] (1/2 vote; vote shared with old Pirate Party of Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Ukraine Ukrainian Pirate Community]<br />
# {{Flag-us}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party United States Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} Pirate Party of Venezuela<br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Ireland) Pirate Party of Ireland] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012.<br />
* {{Flag-au}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Australia Pirate Party Australia] - PP-AU left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_UK Pirate Party UK] - PP-UK left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Iceland) Icelandic Pirate Party] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Canada Pirate Party Canada] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Denmark Pirate Party of Denmark] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Croatia) Pirate Party of Croatia] - by decision of the CoA declared a non-member due to dissolution on 6.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland] - by PPFI's own decision; notification duly delivered on January 11th 2021<br />
* {{Flag-bg}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bulgaria Pirate Party of Bulgaria] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Kazakhstan Pirate Party of Kazakhstan] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ma}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Morocco Pirate Party of Morocco] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ba}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kr}} Pirate Party of Korea (South) - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new) - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-at}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Austria Pirate Party of Austria] - quit PPI on December 10th 2022<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* {{Flag-fr}} [https://piratelobby.wordpress.com/ Pirate Lobby], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[File:Flag of New York.svg|16px]] [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* {{Flag-de-nw}} [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7] (old)<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland]<br />
* {{Flag-eu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Pirate_Party European Pirate Party]<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new)<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia]<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain]<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania]<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)] - dissolved 2014<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
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<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties International are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Belgium) Pirate Party of Belgium]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Brazil Pirate Party of Brazil]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Catalonia Pirate Party of Catalonia]<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Chile Pirate Party of Chile]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Pirate_Party Czech Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Pirate_Party Estonian Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(France) Pirate Party of France]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany Pirate Party Germany]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Greece Pirate Party of Greece]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Hungary Pirate Party of Hungary]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Israel Pirate Party of Israel]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Italy) Pirate Party of Italy]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Luxembourg Pirate Party Luxembourg]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Netherlands) Pirate Party of Netherlands]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_New_Zealand Pirate Party of New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with IP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand) Internet Party New Zealand] (1/2 vote; vote shared with PP New Zealand)<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Norway Pirate Party of Norway]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Pirate_Party Polish Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Portugal Pirate Party of Portugal]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Russia Pirate Party of Russia]<br />
# {{Flag-rs}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Serbia Pirate Party of Serbia]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_the_Slovak_Republic Pirate Party of Slovakia] (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} Pirate Party - Slovakia (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Switzerland Pirate Party Switzerland]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Tunisia) Pirate Party of Tunisia]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} Pirate Party of Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with new Pirate Party Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Turkey Pirate Party Turkey] (1/2 vote; vote shared with old Pirate Party of Turkey)<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Ukraine Ukrainian Pirate Community]<br />
# {{Flag-us}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party United States Pirate Party]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} Pirate Party of Venezuela<br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Ireland) Pirate Party of Ireland] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012.<br />
* {{Flag-au}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Australia Pirate Party Australia] - PP-AU left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_UK Pirate Party UK] - PP-UK left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Iceland) Icelandic Pirate Party] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Canada Pirate Party Canada] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Denmark Pirate Party of Denmark] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Croatia) Pirate Party of Croatia] - by decision of the CoA declared a non-member due to dissolution on 6.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland] - by PPFI's own decision; notification duly delivered on January 11th 2021<br />
* {{Flag-bg}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bulgaria Pirate Party of Bulgaria] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kz}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Kazakhstan Pirate Party of Kazakhstan] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ma}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Morocco Pirate Party of Morocco] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ba}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina] - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-kr}} Pirate Party of Korea (South) - removed by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new) - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania] - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia - demoted to Observer status by the CoA decision of January 8th 2022 due to inactivity<br />
# {{Flag-at}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Austria Pirate Party of Austria] - quit PPI on December 10th 2022<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* {{Flag-fr}} [https://piratelobby.wordpress.com/ Pirate Lobby], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[File:Flag of New York.svg|16px]] [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* {{Flag-de-nw}} [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7] (old)<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
* {{Flag-fi}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Finland) Pirate Party of Finland]<br />
* {{Flag-eu}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Pirate_Party European Pirate Party]<br />
* {{Flag-by}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_Center_of_Belarus The Pirates Center of Belarus]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} Pirate Party of Japan (new)<br />
* {{Flag-si}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Slovenia) Pirate Party of Slovenia]<br />
* {{Flag-es}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Spain) Pirate Party of Spain]<br />
* {{Flag-ro}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Romania Pirate Party Romania]<br />
* {{Flag-lv}} Pirate Party of Latvia<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)] - dissolved 2014<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
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==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
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===For the Observer Membership===<br />
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[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2022-02-15&diff=6561PPI Minutes 2022-02-152022-02-15T12:51:58Z<p>Dichter: Created page with "::'''Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING''' ::'''--- 15.2.2022 10:00 UTC/11:00 CET ---''' :: Big Blue Button Room: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v :: Audio recording: Pirates..."</p>
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<div>::'''Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING'''<br />
<br />
::'''--- 15.2.2022 10:00 UTC/11:00 CET ---'''<br />
:: Big Blue Button Room: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v<br />
:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/a3QZ5DxtL9gDjoE<br />
:: Video: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v<br />
<br />
== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Members of the PPI board ===<br />
<br />
::participating: Mauricio, Bailey, Bastian, Keith, Gregory, Alexander<br />
::excused: Mike <br />
::unexcused: Dario, Manuel<br />
<br />
:Quorum:<br />
<br />
=== 1.2 - Others ===<br />
:Alternate Board Members<br />
<br />
::participating: Bastian<br />
::excused: Veronika<br />
::unexcused: Carlos <br />
<br />
:Guests: Numero6, PiratesonAir<br />
::participating: <br />
<br />
== 2 - PROCEEDINGS ==<br />
:RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board/Rules_of_Procedure<br />
<br />
:Meeting opened at 10:05 UTC by Bailey<br />
:Meeting chaired by Bailey<br />
:Secretary for this meeting is Everyone<br />
<br />
:Quorum established with (7 out of 9) board members present (incl. one alternate, Bastian, filling in). <br />
:Streaming started: started https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
:Recording started: 10:05 UTC<br />
:Postal votes: none<br />
:Notes on meeting process: <br />
<br />
== 3 - APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES ==<br />
{{motion|title=Do we approve the minutes?<br />
|text=* Minutes of the last meeting: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2022-01-23<br />
|Yes= Bailey, Keith, Gregory, Bastian, Alexander, Mauricio<br />
|No= <br />
|Abstain= <br />
|close= minutes approved<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
== 4 - REPORTS ==<br />
=== 4.1 - Short reports of the board members ===<br />
====Board====<br />
<br />
* Bailey Lamon: I attended the meeting with Pirate Party Sri Lanka last Wednesday, it was pretty cool. They're trying to get registered and hopefully run in the next election. They also want to get connected with the international Pirate community and become a PPI member in the future. They could use some help with setting up tech stuff so we are hoping to set up a meeting with them and Bastian in the near future. I also wrote an invite for the Introduction to Standing Committees, which after checking the Doodle poll, is Monday Feb 21st at 22:00 UTC/23:00 CET: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/Night_of_Standing_Committees I will publish it today. After our last board meeting I also attended the USPP meeting where they unanimously voted in favour of joining PPI. Otherwise, in Canada right now we have moronic anti-science fascists trying to take over the country and provincial governments are listening to them. It's a blast. <br />
<br />
* Gregory Engels: I also attended the Sri Lanka meeting. Otherwise I have been traveling the last ten days and not really able to do much. <br />
<br />
* Mike Gill: <br />
<br />
* Carlos Polo: <br />
<br />
* Keith Goldstein: I also attended the Sri Lanka meeting. I've had several meetings about the DAO project. I participate in the Discord of the IOTA Soonaverse group, and I set up a couple sample DAOs. I also looked in more to the UNHQ events, and we should set up the groundspasses for our reps. there ASAP. There was also a request for Geneva, which we should investigate. I would appreciate that we set up 3 permanent rotating meeting times, distributed around the world by around 8 hours, to ensure that we can accomodate everyone at least half the time.<br />
<br />
* Alexander Isavnin: As Russian ruiling party submitted amentments to election law, allowing nearly anything to be done with online voting, without any real possibilities to observe and be sure in fair results, i and group of activists working hard on "real amendments" not hoping to be included in legislation, but in hope to demonstrate difficulcies of true online voting.<br />
<br />
* Manuel Caicedo: <br />
<br />
* Dario Castane: <br />
<br />
* Mauricio Vargas: Together with other Chilean pirates we had a meeting with Marco Barrueto (Perú). Born in Peru, then moved to the USA (26 years ago). He has lived in other places, such as Asia. He is a volunteer supporter of the IOTA project. He sees that the distributed platform project can be a solution to allow access to decision making to less powerful sectors, through online organization.<br />
He reviewed on the internet the situation of the PPPE and found it disjointed and its publications were basically memes and criticisms, with no vision of forming an organic. For this reason he took on the task of forming the PPPE from scratch, for which he has the support of one more person. Although he will leave Peru, he says that his commitment is to continue supporting the formation of the Peruvian pirate movement from outside his country.<br />
<br />
====Alternates:====<br />
<br />
* Ji Yong Dijkhuis: <br />
<br />
* Veronika Murzynová: <br />
<br />
* Adam Wolf:<br />
<br />
* Sebastian Krone:<br />
: All the financial information I have is on the PPI wiki (Bank - 12/31/2021 - PayPal 01/17/2022). But there is a lack of bank account information.<br />
<br />
: I have been looking into PPI technology as I do every day.<br />
: The Sympa mailing lists have been updated for Debian 11.<br />
<br />
: All systems are running well.<br />
<br />
== 5.1 - Proposals ==<br />
:We have some proposals in AOB, which we will discuss at the end of the meeting.<br />
<br />
== 5.2 - Working Groups Update ==<br />
*Introduction to PPI Standing Committees Feb 21st 22:00 UTC/23:00 CET<br />
<br />
== 5.3 Economic Update ==<br />
:We have a new individual member.<br />
<br />
== 5.4 ECOSOC/UN ==<br />
:We have requests for people to join UNHQ and UNOG with groundspasses.<br />
:Who should we give the groundspasses to in NY and Geneva.<br />
:It seems for UNHQ they are limiting the groundspasses to the CEO plus 2 representatives.<br />
<br />
*Do we have anyone else that wants grounds passes in NY besides Ohad Shem Tov an Ohad Bar Siman Tov?<br />
:Does anyone have objections to giving them the two passes.<br />
<br />
*Do we have anyone else who want groundspasses in UNOG in Geneva?<br />
:Carlos Polo, Michal Gill, Svein Mork Dahl<br />
:We could have Michal as the CAO as the third representative. <br />
:We can have all 7 representatives at UNOG.<br />
<br />
*We also had requests for Vienna. Vienna has also started issuing passes.<br />
<br />
== 5.5 PPI HQ update ==<br />
:Bailey is waiting on her passport to get the forms approved.<br />
<br />
==6 AOB - Any other business==<br />
*Concerns about the PPI Treasurer position<br />
:We received separate complaints from PPFR and PPAT that it is not acceptably having a treasurer who is an alternate board member according to the statutes.<br />
:The Board held a deep conversation about this issue, and how we need to take it seriously.<br />
:We don't have to make a decision today.<br />
<br />
*Setting up a PPI Board DAO on IOTA's Soonaverse<br />
:Should we create a PPI Board DAO on Soonaverse? Marco's idea is for each party to make a DAO and to have those DAOs interact in a federation, but I think at least initially we need a DAO for our board and alternates. Max. 9 votes right? I created a DAO for PPIL: https://soonaverse.com/space/0x9513d6e36c36afd334b1d02cdf1eba41dcb63b3a<br />
<br />
*Permanent Rotating Meeting Times<br />
:I think we need 3 time slots, like we used to have in 2016: If I remember correctly the time slots then were 9 am, 2 pm, and 7 pm CET. We can alter those times a bit to best fit everyone. Does that work for everyone?<br />
:Gregory : the doodle that 11 People have participated gave as the winner: every nineth Tuesday 10:00 EST / 12:00 DST / 14:00 UCT / 16:00 CET / 18:00 MSK / 24:00 JST <br />
the other timeslot isTUESDAY every ninth weeks 05:00 EST (Toronto & Lima) / 07:00 DST (Santiago) / 10:00 UTC (London) / 11:00 CET (Prague) / 13:00 MSK (Moscow) / 19:00 JST (Tokyo)<br />
<br />
3 Board meeting time slots:<br />
-20:00 UTC/22:00 CET = 16:00 EST / 18:00 DST / 20:00 UCT / 22:00 CET / 24:00 MSK / 06:00 JST /<br />
-09:00 UTC/11:00 CET= 05:00 EST / 07:00 DST / 10:00 UTC / 11:00 CET / 13:00 MSK / 19:00 JST /<br />
-14:00 UTC/16:00 CET = 10:00 EST / 12:00 DST / 14:00 UCT / 16:00 CET / 18:00 MSK / 24:00 JST /<br />
<br />
Expect be totally surprised by Daylight Saving Time - as it starts on different weeks in different Time Zones... UTC is our leading time. <br />
<br />
:===================================================<br />
* Next Meeting: 08.03.2022 -14:00 UTC/15:00 CET<br />
<br />
* Meeting Closed: <br />
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if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) easyblock.textUpdate(" done!", false);<br />
if(loadPageOnSubmit && ebPrefs.loadPageOnSubmit) {<br />
window.setTimeout(function() { location.href = mw.config.get('wgScript') + "?title=" + (ebPrefs.returnTo.length > 0 ? ebPrefs.returnTo : encodeURIComponent(page)); }, 2000);<br />
}<br />
} else {<br />
easyblock.textUpdate("Error: " + responseObject.error.info);<br />
}<br />
});<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.warnAndTag = function(page, comment, summary, replacePage, page2, comment2, summary2, replacePage2) {<br />
this.edit(page, comment, summary, replacePage, false);<br />
this.edit(page2, comment2, summary2, replacePage2);<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.block = function(name, reason, duration, autoblock, nocreate, noemail, allowusertalk, anononly) {<br />
//Safeguards against errors<br />
if(this.isBlocked(name)) {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Error: " + name + " is already blocked. (<a href=\"/w/index.php?title=Special:BlockList&action=unblock&ip=" + encodeURIComponent(name) + "\">unblock</a>)");<br />
return;<br />
} <br />
if(this.isSensitive(name)) {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Aborting: " + name + " is marked as a sensitive address.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
if(typeof(name) == "undefined" || name == "undefined" || name === "") {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Error: No username was specified; please block manually. If this problem persists across many pages, <a href=\"/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Animum&action=edit&section=new\">contact</a> Animum.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
if(name == mw.config.get('wgUserName')) {<br />
var confirmBlock = confirm("Do you really want to block yourself?\n\n(Click \"Yes\" to proceed, \"no\" to abort.)");<br />
if(!confirmBlock) {<br />
this.textUpdate("Aborted.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
if(!reason) {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Error: No reason was specified; please block manually. If this problem persists across many pages, <a href=\"/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Animum&action=edit&section=new\">contact</a> Animum.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
if(!duration && reason.indexOf("sockpuppet") == -1) {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Error: No duration was specified; please block manually. If this problem persists across many pages, <a href=\"/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Animum&action=edit&section=new\">contact</a> Animum.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
//If none of these safeguards have been triggered, continue.<br />
if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.bgColor("#EFE"); //Begin.<br />
<br />
var responseObject = this.syncAjaxPost("format=json&action=tokens&type=block");<br />
var edittoken = responseObject.tokens.blocktoken;<br />
<br />
var isIP = this.isIP(name);<br />
if(reason.indexOf("sockpuppet") != -1) {<br />
sockof = prompt("Name of master account:");<br />
if(!sockof) return;<br />
duration = prompt("Duration (leave blank " + (isIP ? "to cancel" : "for \"indefinite\"") + "):"); <br />
if(!duration) {<br />
if(isIP) { //Abort if no duration and user is IP<br />
return;<br />
} else { //Set duration to indefinite if no duration and user is registered<br />
duration = "indefinite";<br />
}<br />
} <br />
reason = (reason.indexOf("confirmed") != -1 ? "Confirmed" : "Suspected") + " \[\[Wikipedia:Sock puppetry\|sock puppet\]\] of \[\[User:" + sockof + "\|" + sockof + "\]\]" + (reason.indexOf("confirmed") != -1 ? " (\[\[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/" + sockof + "\|investigation\]\])" : "");<br />
}<br />
if(/(Edit war|3RR)/.test(reason)) {<br />
var article = prompt("Article (without brackets; leave blank to omit):");<br />
if(article) { //If "Cancel" were not pressed...<br />
if(article.length > 0) reason += " on [[" + article + "]]"; //...And if a string were entered before "OK" was pressed, add the article to the reason<br />
}<br />
}<br />
/* Set the default values:<br />
* Account creation: disabled<br />
* Autoblock: enabled (for blocks of registered users only)<br />
* Anon-only: enabled (for blocks of IPs only)<br />
* Allow e-mail: enabled<br />
* Allow talk page: enabled<br />
*/<br />
nocreate = (typeof nocreate == "undefined" ? true : nocreate);<br />
autoblock = (typeof autoblock == "undefined" ? true : autoblock);<br />
anononly = (typeof anononly == "undefined" ? true : anononly);<br />
noemail = (typeof noemail == "undefined" ? false : noemail);<br />
allowusertalk = (typeof allowusertalk == "undefined" ? true : allowusertalk);<br />
<br />
<br />
var postdata = "format=json"<br />
+ "&action=block"<br />
+ "&user=" + encodeURIComponent(name)<br />
+ "&expiry=" + encodeURIComponent(duration)<br />
+ "&reason=" + encodeURIComponent(reason)<br />
+ "&token=" + encodeURIComponent(edittoken)<br />
+ (nocreate ? "&nocreate=" : "")<br />
+ (isIP ? (anononly ? "&anononly=" : "") : (autoblock ? "&autoblock=" : ""))<br />
+ (allowusertalk ? "&allowusertalk=" : "")<br />
+ (noemail ? "&noemail=" : "");<br />
if(typeof(confirmBlock) == 'undefined' && name == mw.config.get('wgUserName')) return; //Something weird (see [[User talk:Animum/Archives/2009/October#easyblock]])<br />
<br />
this.asyncAjaxPost(postdata, function(responseObject) {<br />
if(responseObject.block) { //If the block is successful<br />
if(ebPrefs.useAutoWarn) {<br />
if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) easyblock.textUpdate(name + " has been blocked.");<br />
if(reason.indexOf("sock puppet") != -1) {<br />
easyblock.warnAndTag("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:sockblock\|sig=yes|master=" + sockof + "\}\}", "You are" + (reason.indexOf("Suspected") != -1 ? " suspected of being" : "") + " a sockpuppet of \[\[User\:" + sockof + "\|" + sockof + "\]\] and have been blocked " + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indefinitely" : "for " + duration) + ".", false, "User:" + name, (reason.indexOf("Suspected") != -1 ? "\{\{sockpuppet\|" + sockof + "\|blocked\}\}" : "\{\{CheckedSockpuppet\|" + sockof + "\|" + sockof + "\}\}"), "You are" + (reason.indexOf("Suspected") != -1 ? " suspected of being" : "") + " a sockpuppet of \[\[User\:" + sockof + "\|" + sockof + "\]\] and have been blocked " + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indefinitely" : "for " + duration) + ".", true);<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism]]") {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-vblock\|time=" + duration + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "Due to recent \[\[Wikipedia\:Vandalism\|vandalism\]\] from this " + (isIP ? "IP address" : "account") + ", it has been blocked for " + duration + ".");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-ublock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-ublock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-softerblock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-softerblock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-causeblock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-causeblock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-uhblock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-uhblock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a blatant violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-spamublock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-spamublock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked because your username seems to exist only to promote a corporation or group.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-botublock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-botublock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\]."); <br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-vaublock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-vaublock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "Due to vandalism and this account's name, it has been blocked indefinitely.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{schoolblock}}" && isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{schoolblock\|1\=Blocked for " + duration + ".\|sig\=\~\~\~\~}\}", "Due to extensive vandalism from this school's IP address, it has been blocked for " + duration + ".", false);<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{anonblock}}" && isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{anonblock\|1\=Blocked for " + duration + ".\|sig\=\~\~\~\~}\}", "Due to extensive vandalism from this IP address, it has been blocked for " + duration + ".");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism]]-only account" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-voablock\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked indefinitely because your account is being used only for \[\[Wikipedia\:Vandalism\|vandalism\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:No personal attacks|Personal attacks]] or [[WP:Harassment|harassment]]") {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-hblock\|" + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indef\=yes" : "time\=" + duration) + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for harassing or attempting to harass other users.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Spam|Spamming]] links to external sites") {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-sblock\|" + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indef\=yes" : "time\=" + duration) + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for adding [[WP:Spam|spam]] links to external sites.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Advertising|Advertising]]") {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-adblock\|" + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indef\=yes" : "time\=" + duration) + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for using Wikipedia to advertise.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason.indexOf("[[WP:Edit war|Edit warring]]") != -1) { //Could possibly contain "on [[foo]]"<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-ewblock" + (reason.indexOf(" on ") != -1 ? "\|1=" + article : "") + "\|time=" + duration + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for \[\[Wikipedia\:EW\|edit-warring\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason.indexOf("[[WP:3RR|3RR]] violation") != -1) { //Same as above<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-3block" + (reason.indexOf(" on ") != -1 ? "\|1=" + article : "") + "\|time=" + duration + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:3RR\|three-revert rule\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Long term abuse|Long-term abuse]]") {<br />
easyblock.bgColor("#EEF");<br />
if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) easyblock.textUpdate(name + " has been blocked.");<br />
if(ebPrefs.loadPageOnSubmit) location.href = mw.config.get('wgScript') + "?title=" + (ebPrefs.returnTo.length > 0 ? ebPrefs.returnTo : encodeURIComponent("User talk:" + name));<br />
}<br />
} else {<br />
easyblock.bgColor("#EEF");<br />
if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) easyblock.textUpdate(name + " has been blocked.");<br />
if(ebPrefs.loadPageOnSubmit) location.href = mw.config.get('wgScript') + "?title=" + (ebPrefs.returnTo.length > 0 ? ebPrefs.returnTo : encodeURIComponent("User talk:" + name));<br />
}<br />
} else { //An error has occurred.<br />
easyblock.textUpdate("Error: " + responseObject.error.info);<br />
easyblock.bgColor("#EEF"); //We're done.<br />
}<br />
});<br />
}<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// End<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// Tab displayer<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
easyblock.showTab = function() {<br />
var target;<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') == 2 || mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') == 3) {<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgTitle').indexOf('/') != -1) {<br />
target = mw.config.get('wgTitle').split('/')[0];<br />
} else {<br />
target = mw.config.get('wgTitle');<br />
}<br />
}<br />
<br />
/* Diffs can be so temperamental */<br />
if(mw.util.getParamValue("diff") > "") { //If I didn't use this, I'd have to make an API request. This is much easier.<br />
target = document.evaluate('//div[@id="mw-diff-ntitle2"]//a[2]/@title', document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null).stringValue.split("/")[1];<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Ipblocklist" && window.location.href.indexOf("&action=success&successip=") != -1) {<br />
target = decodeURIComponent(mw.util.getParamValue("successip").replace(/\+/g, " "));<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Contributions" && document.getElementsByName("target")[0].value.length > 0) {<br />
target = document.getElementsByName("target")[0].value;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Blockip" && window.location.href.indexOf("&action=success") == -1) {<br />
target = document.forms["blockip"].elements["wpBlockAddress"].value;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(((mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') == 2 || mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') == 3) && this.canShowOn("user_usertalk")) || (mw.util.getParamValue("diff") > "" && this.canShowOn("diffs")) || (mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Contributions" && this.canShowOn("contribs") && document.getElementsByName("target")[0].value.length > 0) || (mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Blockip" && this.canShowOn("blockip")) || (window.location.href.indexOf("Special:BlockList&action=success&successip=") != -1 && this.canShowOn("ipblocklist"))) {<br />
if((mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Blockip" && (window.location.href.indexOf("&action=success") != -1 || document.forms["blockip"].elements["wpBlockAddress"].value.length == 0)) || (mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Ipblocklist" && target.indexOf("#") != -1)) {<br />
return;<br />
} else {<br />
var encodedTarget = encodeURIComponent(target.replace(/ /g, "_"));<br />
target = target.replace(/_/g, " ").replace('"', '\\"');<br />
this.addlimenu(document.getElementById('p-cactions').getElementsByTagName('ul')[0], 'Block', 'blockoptions', '');<br />
document.getElementById('p-cactions').style.display = "inline"; //required when p-cactions is empty, not harmful if already visible<br />
var blockoptions = document.getElementById('blockoptions').getElementsByTagName('ul')[0];<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:" + encodedTarget + "&type=block", this.getLastBlock(target), "");<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "vandalism »", "ca-vandalblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-vandalblock"), "vandalblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"24 hours\")", "V+24 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"31 hours\")", "V+31 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"48 hours\")", "V+48 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"3 days\")", "V+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"1 week\")", "V+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"2 weeks\")", "V+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"1 month\")", "V+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"3 months\")", "V+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"6 months\")", "V+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"1 year\")", "V+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"2 years\")", "V+2 years"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-vaublock\}\}\", \"indefinite\")", "Vau+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\-only account\", \"indefinite\")", "Voa+indefinite"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "schoolblock »", "ca-schoolblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-schoolblock"), "schoolblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"1 week\")", "school+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"2 weeks\")", "school+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"1 month\")", "school+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"3 months\")", "school+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"6 months\")", "school+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"1 year\")", "school+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"2 years\")", "school+2 years"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "anonblock »", "ca-anonblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-anonblock"), "anonblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"1 week\")", "anon+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"2 weeks\")", "anon+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"1 month\")", "anon+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"3 months\")", "anon+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"6 months\")", "anon+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"1 year\")", "anon+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"2 years\")", "anon+2 years"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "username »", "ca-usernameblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-usernameblock"), "usernameblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-ublock\}\}\", \"indefinite\", false, false)", "Name+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-softerblock\}\}\", \"indefinite\", false, false)", "Promosofter+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-causeblock\}\}\", \"indefinite\", false, false)", "Causeblock+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-uhblock\}\}\", \"indefinite\")", "Hardname+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-spamublock\}\}\", \"indefinite\")", "Spamname+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-botublock\}\}\", \"indefinite\", false, false)", "Botname+indefinite"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "spam »", "ca-spamblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-spamblock"), "spamblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"1 day\")", "spam+1 day"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"3 days\")", "spam+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"1 week\")", "spam+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"2 weeks\")", "spam+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"1 month\")", "spam+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"3 months\")", "spam+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"6 months\")", "spam+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"1 year\")", "spam+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"indefinite\")", "spam+indef"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"indefinite\", true, true, false, false)", "spam+indef+notalk"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "advertising »", "ca-adblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-adblock"), "adblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"1 day\")", "ad+1 day"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"3 days\")", "ad+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"1 week\")", "ad+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"2 weeks\")", "ad+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"1 month\")", "ad+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"3 months\")", "ad+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"6 months\")", "ad+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"1 year\")", "ad+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"indefinite\")", "ad+indef"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "npa »", "ca-npablock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-npablock"), "npablock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"1 day\")", "npa+1 day"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"3 days\")", "npa+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"1 week\")", "npa+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"2 weeks\")", "npa+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"1 month\")", "npa+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"3 months\")", "npa+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"6 months\")", "npa+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"1 year\")", "npa+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"indefinite\")", "npa+indef"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "sockpuppet »", "ca-sockblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-sockblock"), "sockblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"sockpuppet\", \"\")", "suspectedsock"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"confirmedsockpuppet\", \"\")", "confirmedsock"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "edit war & 3RR »", "ca-ewblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-ewblock"), "ewblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"24 hours\")", "EW+24 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"31 hours\")", "EW+31 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"48 hours\")", "EW+48 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"3 days\")", "EW+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"1 week\")", "EW+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:3RR|3RR\]\] violation\", \"24 hours\")", "3rr+24 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:3RR|3RR\]\] violation\", \"31 hours\")", "3rr+31 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:3RR|3RR\]\] violation\", \"48 hours\")", "3rr+48 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:3RR|3RR\]\] violation\", \"3 days\")", "3rr+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:3RR|3RR\]\] violation\", \"1 week\")", "3rr+1 week"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"[[WP:Long term abuse|Long-term abuse]]\", \"indefinite\", true, true, true, false)", "lta+indef");<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "/wiki/Special:Block/" + encodedTarget, 'custom block');<br />
if(ebPrefs.showOnClick) {<br />
var items = document.querySelectorAll("li.blockmenu")[0].getElementsByTagName("ul")[0];<br />
items.style.display = "none";<br />
document.getElementById("blockoptions").onclick = function() {<br />
items.style.display = (items.style.display == "block" ? "none" : "block");<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
<br />
function ebShowTab() { //Hacking so that the parent of easyblock.showTab is "easyblock" rather than "window"<br />
mw.loader.using(['mediawiki.util'], function() {<br />
easyblock.showTab();<br />
});<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(mw.config.get("wgUserGroups").indexOf("sysop") != -1) { //Is the user a sysop?<br />
jQuery(ebShowTab); //If so, display the tab.<br />
}<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// End<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
//</nowiki></pre></div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=User:Dichter/easyblock.css&diff=6264User:Dichter/easyblock.css2021-06-01T10:28:06Z<p>Dichter: import from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Animum/easyblock.css</p>
<hr />
<div>#p-cactions ul {<br />
overflow:visible;<br />
}<br />
<br />
#p-cactions li {<br />
position: relative;<br />
float: left;<br />
}<br />
<br />
<br />
.blockmenu ul li {<br />
display: block;<br />
width: 100% !important;<br />
min-width: 10em !important;<br />
border: 0px;<br />
margin: 0px;<br />
padding: .1em;<br />
border: 1px solid #aaaaaa !important;<br />
border-collapse: collapse;<br />
text-align: center;<br />
background-color: #F8FCFF !important;<br />
white-space: nowrap !important;<br />
}<br />
<br />
.blockmenu ul {<br />
display: none;<br />
width: 10.5em;<br />
z-index: 2;<br />
position: absolute;<br />
top: 1em;<br />
left: 1em;<br />
margin: 0px;<br />
background-color: grey;<br />
}<br />
<br />
.blockmenu:hover ul { <br />
display: block;<br />
}<br />
<br />
.blockmenu * {<br />
-moz-border-radius: 0px !important;<br />
}<br />
<br />
.blockmenu ul a {<br />
background-color: transparent !important;<br />
}<br />
<br />
.ns-0 * .blockmenu ul li {<br />
background: white !important;<br />
}</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=User:Dichter/easyblock.js&diff=6263User:Dichter/easyblock.js2021-06-01T10:26:48Z<p>Dichter: import from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Animum/easyblock.js</p>
<hr />
<div>//<pre><nowiki><br />
/***************<br />
* EasyBlock *<br />
***************<br />
* By Animum *<br />
***************************************************************************************<br />
* To use this script, add the following line to your monobook (or other skin) file: *<br />
<br />
importScript("User:Animum/easyblock.js"); //[[User:Animum/easyblock.js]]<br />
***************************************************************************************/<br />
<br />
/***************************************<br />
* Handy-dandy block script *<br />
***************************************<br />
* Authored by me except where *<br />
* otherwise noted *<br />
***************************************<br />
* This script has only been tested *<br />
* in Firefox and Google Chrome. It *<br />
* might not work in other browsers. *<br />
***************************************<br />
* If something needs to be done, *<br />
* feel absolutely free to make the *<br />
* necessary edits yourself. *<br />
***************************************/<br />
<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// Libraries<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
importStylesheet('User:Animum/easyblock.css');<br />
<br />
function easyblock() {} //So we can have some sanity in the arrangement of this<br />
<br />
easyblock.addlilink = function(tabs, href, name, id, title, key) { //By Voice of All<br />
var span = document.createElement('span');<br />
span.appendChild(document.createTextNode(name));<br />
var na = document.createElement('a');<br />
na.href = href;<br />
na.appendChild(span);<br />
na.style.cssText = 'cursor:pointer';<br />
na.setAttribute( 'nopopup', '1' ); //to better cooperate with WP:NAVPOP when popupOnlyArticleLinks is set to false.<br />
var li = document.createElement('li');<br />
if(id) li.id = id;<br />
li.appendChild(na);<br />
tabs.appendChild(li);<br />
if(id)<br />
{<br />
if(key && title)<br />
{<br />
ta[id] = [key, title];<br />
}<br />
else if(key)<br />
{<br />
ta[id] = [key, ''];<br />
}<br />
else if(title)<br />
{<br />
ta[id] = ['', title];<br />
}<br />
}<br />
return li;<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.addlimenu = function(tabs, name, id, href, position) { //By Voice of All<br />
var na, mn, span;<br />
var li;<br />
<br />
if (!id) id = name;<br />
<br />
span = document.createElement("span");<br />
span.appendChild( document.createTextNode(name) );<br />
na = document.createElement("a");<br />
na.appendChild(span);<br />
na.onclick = href;<br />
na.style.cssText = 'cursor:pointer';<br />
mn = document.createElement("ul");<br />
li = document.createElement("li");<br />
li.appendChild(na);<br />
li.appendChild(mn);<br />
if (id) li.id = id;<br />
li.className = 'blockmenu';<br />
<br />
if (position) {<br />
tabs.insertBefore(li, position);<br />
} else {<br />
tabs.appendChild(li);<br />
}<br />
<br />
return mn; // useful because it gives us the <ul> to add <li>s to<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.makeMenu = function(where, id, items) {<br />
if(typeof(where) == 'undefined' || typeof(items) == 'undefined') return;<br />
if(typeof(id) == 'undefined' || id.length === 0) id = where + "-submenu";<br />
var ul = document.createElement("ul");<br />
ul.className = "blockmenu";<br />
ul.id = id;<br />
where.appendChild(ul);<br />
ul.style.left = "114px";<br />
ul.style.top = "-1px";<br />
ul.style.display = "none";<br />
for(i=0; i<items.length; i++) {<br />
var item = items[i];<br />
easyblock.addlilink(document.getElementById(id), item[0], item[1], (typeof(item[2]) != 'undefined' ? item[2] : ""));<br />
}<br />
where.onmouseover = function() {<br />
ul.style.display = "block";<br />
};<br />
where.onmouseout = function() {<br />
ul.style.display = "none";<br />
};<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.zeroPad = function(str) { //By Gracenotes<br />
return ("0" + str).slice(-2);<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.formatResponse = function(response) { //By Gracenotes<br />
try {<br />
response = response.query.pages;<br />
for (var property in response)<br />
return response[property];<br />
} catch (e) {<br />
return response.query.pages[-1];<br />
}<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.textUpdate = function(message, br) {<br />
if(typeof(br) == 'undefined') br = true;<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += (br ? "<br />" : "") + "<b>" + message + "</b>";<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.bgColor = function(color) {<br />
document.getElementById("content").style.backgroundColor = color;<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.isIP = function(ip) { //From [[MediaWiki:Sysop.js]]<br />
return /\b(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\b/.test(ip);<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.isSensitive = function(address) { //From [[MediaWiki:Sysop.js]]<br />
ips = Array(<br />
Array(/\b63\.162\.143\.21\b/),<br />
Array(/\b82\.148\.9(6\.68|7\.69)\b/),<br />
Array(/\b128\.183\.103\.97\b/),<br />
Array(/\b(((2|5)?6|7|[12]1|2(2|8|9)|3(0|3)|55)\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))|130\.22)(\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))){2}\b/),<br />
Array(/\b138\.16[23](\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))){2}\b/),<br />
Array(/\b143\.2(2[89]|3[01])(\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))){2}\b/),<br />
Array(/\b149\.101(\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))){2}\b/),<br />
Array(/\b156\.33(\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))){2}\b/),<br />
Array(/\b(162\.4[56]\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))|198\.81\.(128|129|1[3-8]\d|191))\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))\b/),<br />
Array(/\b192\.197\.(7[7-9]|8[0-6])\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))\b/),<br />
Array(/\b(51(\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))){2}|194.60.\d[0-5]?)\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))\b/),<br />
Array(/\b66\.230\.(19[2-9]|2[0-3]\d)\.([01]?\d\d?|2(5[0-5]|[0-4]\d))\b/),<br />
Array(/\b91\.198\.174\.(19[2-9]|2([01]\d|2[0-3]))\b/)<br />
);<br />
ip = address;<br />
if (this.isIP(ip)) {<br />
for (i = 0; i < ips.length; i++) {<br />
if (ip.match(ips[i][0])) {<br />
return true;<br />
} else {<br />
return false;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.canShowOn = function(where) { //For reading the ebPrefs.showOnPages data<br />
return (ebPrefs.showOnPages.indexOf(where) != -1 ? true : false);<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.syncAjaxGet = function(queryString)<br />
{<br />
var result;<br />
jQuery.ajax({<br />
url: mw.config.get('wgScriptPath') + "/api.php?" + queryString,<br />
async: false,<br />
dataType: "json",<br />
success : function(data) { result = data; }<br />
});<br />
return result;<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.syncAjaxPost = function(postData)<br />
{<br />
var result;<br />
jQuery.ajax({<br />
url: mw.config.get('wgScriptPath') + "/api.php",<br />
async: false,<br />
type: "POST",<br />
data: postData,<br />
dataType: "json",<br />
success : function(data) { result = data; }<br />
});<br />
return result;<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.asyncAjaxPost = function(postData, successFunction)<br />
{<br />
jQuery.ajax({<br />
url: mw.config.get('wgScriptPath') + "/api.php",<br />
type: "POST",<br />
data: postData,<br />
dataType: "json",<br />
success : successFunction<br />
});<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.isBlocked = function(name) {<br />
var info = this.syncAjaxGet("action=query&list=blocks&bkusers=" + name + "&format=json");<br />
if (info.error) return false; //this can happen with syntactically invalid input, like IP CIDR ranges used by User:Splarka/contribsrange.js<br />
return (info.query.blocks[0] ? true : false);<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.getLastBlock = function(user) {<br />
var response = this.syncAjaxGet("format=json&action=query&list=logevents&letype=block&letitle=User:" + encodeURIComponent(user) + "&leprop=details");<br />
if(response.query.logevents)<br />
{<br />
//look for the most recent block log entry that isn't an unblock. We can't filter for both blocks and reblocks, apparently.<br />
for (var i=0; i<response.query.logevents.length; i++)<br />
{<br />
if(response.query.logevents[i].params)<br />
{<br />
var duration = response && response.query && response.query.logevents[i].params.duration;<br />
return (this.isBlocked(user) ? "blocked" : "last") + ": " + duration;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}<br />
return "not blocked before";<br />
};<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// End<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// Preferences<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
if(typeof(ebPrefs) == 'undefined') {<br />
ebPrefs = {};<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(typeof(ebPrefs.markWarnAsMinor) == 'undefined' || ebPrefs.markWarnAsMinor == 1) {<br />
ebPrefs.markWarnAsMinor = true;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(typeof(ebPrefs.showOnPages) == 'undefined') {<br />
ebPrefs.showOnPages = ["user_usertalk", "contribs", "diffs", "ipblocklist", "blockip"];<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(typeof(ebPrefs.useAutoWarn) == 'undefined') {<br />
ebPrefs.useAutoWarn = true;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(typeof(ebPrefs.loadPageOnSubmit) == 'undefined') {<br />
ebPrefs.loadPageOnSubmit = (typeof ebPrefs.loadCommentOnSubmit == "undefined" ? true : ebPrefs.loadCommentOnSubmit);<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(typeof(ebPrefs.displayStatus) == 'undefined') {<br />
ebPrefs.displayStatus = true;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(typeof(ebPrefs.watchlistEnabled) == 'undefined') {<br />
ebPrefs.watchlistEnabled = false;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(typeof(ebPrefs.showOnClick) == 'undefined') {<br />
ebPrefs.showOnClick = false;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(typeof(ebPrefs.returnTo) == 'undefined') {<br />
ebPrefs.returnTo = "";<br />
}<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// End<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// Warn and block functions<br />
// (The heart and muscle of the script)<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
easyblock.edit = function(page, comment, summary, replacePage, loadPageOnSubmit) {<br />
if(typeof(loadPageOnSubmit) == 'undefined') loadPageOnSubmit = true;<br />
if(typeof(replacePage) == 'undefined') replacePage = false;<br />
page = decodeURIComponent(page);<br />
<br />
if(ebPrefs.dislayStatus) this.textUpdate("Adding \"" + comment + "\" to <a href=\"/wiki/" + encodeURIComponent(page) + "\">" + page + "</a>...");<br />
<br />
var info = this.formatResponse(this.syncAjaxGet("action=query&prop=info|revisions&format=json&intoken=edit&rvprop=content|timestamp&titles=" + encodeURIComponent(page)));<br />
var date = new Date();<br />
var startTime = date.getUTCFullYear() + this.zeroPad(date.getUTCMonth() + 1) + this.zeroPad(date.getUTCDate()) + this.zeroPad(date.getUTCHours()) + this.zeroPad(date.getUTCMinutes()) + this.zeroPad(date.getUTCSeconds());<br />
var editTime = (info.revisions ? info.revisions[0].timestamp.replace(/[^0-9]/g, "") : startTime); <br />
var content = (info.revisions ? (info.revisions[0]["*"].length > 0 ? info.revisions[0]["*"] : "") : "");<br />
var editToken = info.edittoken;<br />
<br />
var postdata = "format=json"<br />
+ "&action=edit"<br />
+ "&title=" + encodeURIComponent(page)<br />
+ (replacePage ? "&text=" : "&appendtext=") + encodeURIComponent((!replacePage ? "\n\n" : "") + comment)<br />
+ "&summary=" + encodeURIComponent(summary)<br />
+ "&token=" + encodeURIComponent(editToken)<br />
+ "&basetimestamp=" + editTime<br />
+ "&starttimestamp=" + startTime<br />
+ (ebPrefs.markWarnAsMinor ? "&minor=" : "&notminor=")<br />
+ (ebPrefs.watchlistEnabled ? "&watch=" : "");<br />
<br />
this.asyncAjaxPost(postdata, function(responseObject) {<br />
if(responseObject.edit) {<br />
easyblock.bgColor("#EEF"); //We're done.<br />
if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) easyblock.textUpdate(" done!", false);<br />
if(loadPageOnSubmit && ebPrefs.loadPageOnSubmit) {<br />
window.setTimeout(function() { location.href = mw.config.get('wgScript') + "?title=" + (ebPrefs.returnTo.length > 0 ? ebPrefs.returnTo : encodeURIComponent(page)); }, 2000);<br />
}<br />
} else {<br />
easyblock.textUpdate("Error: " + responseObject.error.info);<br />
}<br />
});<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.warnAndTag = function(page, comment, summary, replacePage, page2, comment2, summary2, replacePage2) {<br />
this.edit(page, comment, summary, replacePage, false);<br />
this.edit(page2, comment2, summary2, replacePage2);<br />
};<br />
<br />
easyblock.block = function(name, reason, duration, autoblock, nocreate, noemail, allowusertalk, anononly) {<br />
//Safeguards against errors<br />
if(this.isBlocked(name)) {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Error: " + name + " is already blocked. (<a href=\"/w/index.php?title=Special:BlockList&action=unblock&ip=" + encodeURIComponent(name) + "\">unblock</a>)");<br />
return;<br />
} <br />
if(this.isSensitive(name)) {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Aborting: " + name + " is marked as a sensitive address.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
if(typeof(name) == "undefined" || name == "undefined" || name === "") {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Error: No username was specified; please block manually. If this problem persists across many pages, <a href=\"/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Animum&action=edit&section=new\">contact</a> Animum.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
if(name == mw.config.get('wgUserName')) {<br />
var confirmBlock = confirm("Do you really want to block yourself?\n\n(Click \"Yes\" to proceed, \"no\" to abort.)");<br />
if(!confirmBlock) {<br />
this.textUpdate("Aborted.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
if(!reason) {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Error: No reason was specified; please block manually. If this problem persists across many pages, <a href=\"/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Animum&action=edit&section=new\">contact</a> Animum.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
if(!duration && reason.indexOf("sockpuppet") == -1) {<br />
document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.textUpdate("Error: No duration was specified; please block manually. If this problem persists across many pages, <a href=\"/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Animum&action=edit&section=new\">contact</a> Animum.");<br />
return;<br />
}<br />
//If none of these safeguards have been triggered, continue.<br />
if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML += "<br />";<br />
this.bgColor("#EFE"); //Begin.<br />
<br />
var responseObject = this.syncAjaxPost("format=json&action=tokens&type=block");<br />
var edittoken = responseObject.tokens.blocktoken;<br />
<br />
var isIP = this.isIP(name);<br />
if(reason.indexOf("sockpuppet") != -1) {<br />
sockof = prompt("Name of master account:");<br />
if(!sockof) return;<br />
duration = prompt("Duration (leave blank " + (isIP ? "to cancel" : "for \"indefinite\"") + "):"); <br />
if(!duration) {<br />
if(isIP) { //Abort if no duration and user is IP<br />
return;<br />
} else { //Set duration to indefinite if no duration and user is registered<br />
duration = "indefinite";<br />
}<br />
} <br />
reason = (reason.indexOf("confirmed") != -1 ? "Confirmed" : "Suspected") + " \[\[Wikipedia:Sock puppetry\|sock puppet\]\] of \[\[User:" + sockof + "\|" + sockof + "\]\]" + (reason.indexOf("confirmed") != -1 ? " (\[\[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/" + sockof + "\|investigation\]\])" : "");<br />
}<br />
if(/(Edit war|3RR)/.test(reason)) {<br />
var article = prompt("Article (without brackets; leave blank to omit):");<br />
if(article) { //If "Cancel" were not pressed...<br />
if(article.length > 0) reason += " on [[" + article + "]]"; //...And if a string were entered before "OK" was pressed, add the article to the reason<br />
}<br />
}<br />
/* Set the default values:<br />
* Account creation: disabled<br />
* Autoblock: enabled (for blocks of registered users only)<br />
* Anon-only: enabled (for blocks of IPs only)<br />
* Allow e-mail: enabled<br />
* Allow talk page: enabled<br />
*/<br />
nocreate = (typeof nocreate == "undefined" ? true : nocreate);<br />
autoblock = (typeof autoblock == "undefined" ? true : autoblock);<br />
anononly = (typeof anononly == "undefined" ? true : anononly);<br />
noemail = (typeof noemail == "undefined" ? false : noemail);<br />
allowusertalk = (typeof allowusertalk == "undefined" ? true : allowusertalk);<br />
<br />
<br />
var postdata = "format=json"<br />
+ "&action=block"<br />
+ "&user=" + encodeURIComponent(name)<br />
+ "&expiry=" + encodeURIComponent(duration)<br />
+ "&reason=" + encodeURIComponent(reason)<br />
+ "&token=" + encodeURIComponent(edittoken)<br />
+ (nocreate ? "&nocreate=" : "")<br />
+ (isIP ? (anononly ? "&anononly=" : "") : (autoblock ? "&autoblock=" : ""))<br />
+ (allowusertalk ? "&allowusertalk=" : "")<br />
+ (noemail ? "&noemail=" : "");<br />
if(typeof(confirmBlock) == 'undefined' && name == mw.config.get('wgUserName')) return; //Something weird (see [[User talk:Animum/Archives/2009/October#easyblock]])<br />
<br />
this.asyncAjaxPost(postdata, function(responseObject) {<br />
if(responseObject.block) { //If the block is successful<br />
if(ebPrefs.useAutoWarn) {<br />
if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) easyblock.textUpdate(name + " has been blocked.");<br />
if(reason.indexOf("sock puppet") != -1) {<br />
easyblock.warnAndTag("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:sockblock\|sig=yes|master=" + sockof + "\}\}", "You are" + (reason.indexOf("Suspected") != -1 ? " suspected of being" : "") + " a sockpuppet of \[\[User\:" + sockof + "\|" + sockof + "\]\] and have been blocked " + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indefinitely" : "for " + duration) + ".", false, "User:" + name, (reason.indexOf("Suspected") != -1 ? "\{\{sockpuppet\|" + sockof + "\|blocked\}\}" : "\{\{CheckedSockpuppet\|" + sockof + "\|" + sockof + "\}\}"), "You are" + (reason.indexOf("Suspected") != -1 ? " suspected of being" : "") + " a sockpuppet of \[\[User\:" + sockof + "\|" + sockof + "\]\] and have been blocked " + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indefinitely" : "for " + duration) + ".", true);<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism]]") {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-vblock\|time=" + duration + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "Due to recent \[\[Wikipedia\:Vandalism\|vandalism\]\] from this " + (isIP ? "IP address" : "account") + ", it has been blocked for " + duration + ".");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-ublock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-ublock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-softerblock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-softerblock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-causeblock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-causeblock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-uhblock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-uhblock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a blatant violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-spamublock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-spamublock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked because your username seems to exist only to promote a corporation or group.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-botublock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-botublock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:Username policy\|username policy\]\]."); <br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{uw-vaublock}}" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst:uw-vaublock\|sig\=y\|subst\=subst\:\}\}", "Due to vandalism and this account's name, it has been blocked indefinitely.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{schoolblock}}" && isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{schoolblock\|1\=Blocked for " + duration + ".\|sig\=\~\~\~\~}\}", "Due to extensive vandalism from this school's IP address, it has been blocked for " + duration + ".", false);<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "{{anonblock}}" && isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{anonblock\|1\=Blocked for " + duration + ".\|sig\=\~\~\~\~}\}", "Due to extensive vandalism from this IP address, it has been blocked for " + duration + ".");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism]]-only account" && !isIP) {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-voablock\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked indefinitely because your account is being used only for \[\[Wikipedia\:Vandalism\|vandalism\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:No personal attacks|Personal attacks]] or [[WP:Harassment|harassment]]") {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-hblock\|" + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indef\=yes" : "time\=" + duration) + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for harassing or attempting to harass other users.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Spam|Spamming]] links to external sites") {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-sblock\|" + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indef\=yes" : "time\=" + duration) + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for adding [[WP:Spam|spam]] links to external sites.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Advertising|Advertising]]") {<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-adblock\|" + (duration == "indefinite" ? "indef\=yes" : "time\=" + duration) + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for using Wikipedia to advertise.");<br />
}<br />
if(reason.indexOf("[[WP:Edit war|Edit warring]]") != -1) { //Could possibly contain "on [[foo]]"<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-ewblock" + (reason.indexOf(" on ") != -1 ? "\|1=" + article : "") + "\|time=" + duration + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for \[\[Wikipedia\:EW\|edit-warring\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason.indexOf("[[WP:3RR|3RR]] violation") != -1) { //Same as above<br />
easyblock.edit("User talk:" + name, "\{\{subst\:uw-3block" + (reason.indexOf(" on ") != -1 ? "\|1=" + article : "") + "\|time=" + duration + "\|subst\=subst\:\|sig\=y\}\}", "You have been blocked for a violation of the \[\[Wikipedia\:3RR\|three-revert rule\]\].");<br />
}<br />
if(reason == "[[WP:Long term abuse|Long-term abuse]]") {<br />
easyblock.bgColor("#EEF");<br />
if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) easyblock.textUpdate(name + " has been blocked.");<br />
if(ebPrefs.loadPageOnSubmit) location.href = mw.config.get('wgScript') + "?title=" + (ebPrefs.returnTo.length > 0 ? ebPrefs.returnTo : encodeURIComponent("User talk:" + name));<br />
}<br />
} else {<br />
easyblock.bgColor("#EEF");<br />
if(ebPrefs.displayStatus) easyblock.textUpdate(name + " has been blocked.");<br />
if(ebPrefs.loadPageOnSubmit) location.href = mw.config.get('wgScript') + "?title=" + (ebPrefs.returnTo.length > 0 ? ebPrefs.returnTo : encodeURIComponent("User talk:" + name));<br />
}<br />
} else { //An error has occurred.<br />
easyblock.textUpdate("Error: " + responseObject.error.info);<br />
easyblock.bgColor("#EEF"); //We're done.<br />
}<br />
});<br />
}<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// End<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
// Tab displayer<br />
//-----------------------------------<br />
easyblock.showTab = function() {<br />
var target;<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') == 2 || mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') == 3) {<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgTitle').indexOf('/') != -1) {<br />
target = mw.config.get('wgTitle').split('/')[0];<br />
} else {<br />
target = mw.config.get('wgTitle');<br />
}<br />
}<br />
<br />
/* Diffs can be so temperamental */<br />
if(mw.util.getParamValue("diff") > "") { //If I didn't use this, I'd have to make an API request. This is much easier.<br />
target = document.evaluate('//div[@id="mw-diff-ntitle2"]//a[2]/@title', document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null).stringValue.split("/")[1];<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Ipblocklist" && window.location.href.indexOf("&action=success&successip=") != -1) {<br />
target = decodeURIComponent(mw.util.getParamValue("successip").replace(/\+/g, " "));<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Contributions" && document.getElementsByName("target")[0].value.length > 0) {<br />
target = document.getElementsByName("target")[0].value;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Blockip" && window.location.href.indexOf("&action=success") == -1) {<br />
target = document.forms["blockip"].elements["wpBlockAddress"].value;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(((mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') == 2 || mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') == 3) && this.canShowOn("user_usertalk")) || (mw.util.getParamValue("diff") > "" && this.canShowOn("diffs")) || (mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Contributions" && this.canShowOn("contribs") && document.getElementsByName("target")[0].value.length > 0) || (mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Blockip" && this.canShowOn("blockip")) || (window.location.href.indexOf("Special:BlockList&action=success&successip=") != -1 && this.canShowOn("ipblocklist"))) {<br />
if((mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Blockip" && (window.location.href.indexOf("&action=success") != -1 || document.forms["blockip"].elements["wpBlockAddress"].value.length == 0)) || (mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName') == "Ipblocklist" && target.indexOf("#") != -1)) {<br />
return;<br />
} else {<br />
var encodedTarget = encodeURIComponent(target.replace(/ /g, "_"));<br />
target = target.replace(/_/g, " ").replace('"', '\\"');<br />
this.addlimenu(document.getElementById('p-cactions').getElementsByTagName('ul')[0], 'Block', 'blockoptions', '');<br />
document.getElementById('p-cactions').style.display = "inline"; //required when p-cactions is empty, not harmful if already visible<br />
var blockoptions = document.getElementById('blockoptions').getElementsByTagName('ul')[0];<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:" + encodedTarget + "&type=block", this.getLastBlock(target), "");<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "vandalism »", "ca-vandalblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-vandalblock"), "vandalblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"24 hours\")", "V+24 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"31 hours\")", "V+31 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"48 hours\")", "V+48 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"3 days\")", "V+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"1 week\")", "V+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"2 weeks\")", "V+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"1 month\")", "V+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"3 months\")", "V+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"6 months\")", "V+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"1 year\")", "V+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\", \"2 years\")", "V+2 years"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-vaublock\}\}\", \"indefinite\")", "Vau+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism\]\]\-only account\", \"indefinite\")", "Voa+indefinite"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "schoolblock »", "ca-schoolblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-schoolblock"), "schoolblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"1 week\")", "school+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"2 weeks\")", "school+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"1 month\")", "school+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"3 months\")", "school+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"6 months\")", "school+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"1 year\")", "school+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{schoolblock\}\}\", \"2 years\")", "school+2 years"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "anonblock »", "ca-anonblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-anonblock"), "anonblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"1 week\")", "anon+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"2 weeks\")", "anon+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"1 month\")", "anon+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"3 months\")", "anon+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"6 months\")", "anon+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"1 year\")", "anon+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{anonblock\}\}\", \"2 years\")", "anon+2 years"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "username »", "ca-usernameblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-usernameblock"), "usernameblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-ublock\}\}\", \"indefinite\", false, false)", "Name+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-softerblock\}\}\", \"indefinite\", false, false)", "Promosofter+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-causeblock\}\}\", \"indefinite\", false, false)", "Causeblock+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-uhblock\}\}\", \"indefinite\")", "Hardname+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-spamublock\}\}\", \"indefinite\")", "Spamname+indefinite"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\{\{uw-botublock\}\}\", \"indefinite\", false, false)", "Botname+indefinite"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "spam »", "ca-spamblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-spamblock"), "spamblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"1 day\")", "spam+1 day"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"3 days\")", "spam+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"1 week\")", "spam+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"2 weeks\")", "spam+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"1 month\")", "spam+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"3 months\")", "spam+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"6 months\")", "spam+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"1 year\")", "spam+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"indefinite\")", "spam+indef"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Spam\|Spamming\]\] links to external sites\", \"indefinite\", true, true, false, false)", "spam+indef+notalk"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "advertising »", "ca-adblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-adblock"), "adblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"1 day\")", "ad+1 day"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"3 days\")", "ad+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"1 week\")", "ad+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"2 weeks\")", "ad+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"1 month\")", "ad+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"3 months\")", "ad+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"6 months\")", "ad+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"1 year\")", "ad+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Advertising|Advertising\]\]\", \"indefinite\")", "ad+indef"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "npa »", "ca-npablock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-npablock"), "npablock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"1 day\")", "npa+1 day"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"3 days\")", "npa+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"1 week\")", "npa+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"2 weeks\")", "npa+2 weeks"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"1 month\")", "npa+1 month"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"3 months\")", "npa+3 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"6 months\")", "npa+6 months"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"1 year\")", "npa+1 year"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:No personal attacks\|Personal attacks\]\] or \[\[WP:Harassment\|harassment\]\]\", \"indefinite\")", "npa+indef"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "sockpuppet »", "ca-sockblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-sockblock"), "sockblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"sockpuppet\", \"\")", "suspectedsock"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"confirmedsockpuppet\", \"\")", "confirmedsock"]<br />
));<br />
this.addlilink(blockoptions, "#", "edit war & 3RR »", "ca-ewblock");<br />
this.makeMenu(document.getElementById("ca-ewblock"), "ewblock-list", new Array(<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"24 hours\")", "EW+24 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"31 hours\")", "EW+31 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"48 hours\")", "EW+48 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"3 days\")", "EW+3 days"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:Edit war|Edit-warring\]\]\", \"1 week\")", "EW+1 week"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:3RR|3RR\]\] violation\", \"24 hours\")", "3rr+24 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:3RR|3RR\]\] violation\", \"31 hours\")", "3rr+31 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:3RR|3RR\]\] violation\", \"48 hours\")", "3rr+48 hours"],<br />
["javascript:easyblock.block(\"" + target + "\", \"\[\[WP:3RR|3RR\]\] violation\", \"3 days\")", "3rr+3 days"],<br />
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<div>Happy New year</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Resolutions&diff=5998Resolutions2021-02-20T15:56:26Z<p>Dichter: Online GA 2020 Resolutions</p>
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<div>The PPI Members has collectively issued the following resolutions<br />
<br />
=Online GA 2020=<br />
==Ahead of Maduro regime’s sham elections in Venezuela December 06th 2020 ==<br />
Democratic nations must collectively and unequivocally reject this latest illegitimate electoral process. Legitimate legislative and presidential elections that meet international standards are the only credible path forward for resolving Venezuela’s protracted political crisis.<br />
<br />
==Corporations interfering with elections==<br />
PPI condemns corporations for their aggressive manner of doing their business, harming society’s interests, democracy, and freedom of speech. It appears in explicit support of specific political movements and content censorship in news, media and social networks based on corporation owners’ political preferences.<br />
<br />
==On limiting of political competition==<br />
PPI aspire for direct democracy.<br />
But it does not mean we need to ignore representative democracy.<br />
Some governments stealthily or clearly violate open competitions and freedom of choice.<br />
<br />
We condemn any state and military actions limiting political competition and freedom of speech.<br />
<br />
==Support of PPRU in ECHR==<br />
European Court of Human Rights has communicated the case of PPRU (Rassudov) vs. Russia.<br />
PPI supports PPRU in its will to restore formal registration in Russia.<br />
PPI calls to the Russian Federation to voluntarily register the Pirate Party of Russia.<br />
<br />
==No room for abusers within PPI and its members ==<br />
PPI is prepared to voice that there is no room for abusers in the PPI and its members.<br />
<br />
==On the situation in the United State of Belarus and the Russian Federation ==<br />
PPI condemns the Lukashenko regime’s actions related to the latest presidential elections, including election fraud, ignorance of people’s will, violence against protesters, random arrests, and torture in jails, media censorship, destruction of infrastructure via Internet shutdowns.<br />
We especially condemn the Russian Federation’s inaction on violation of democracy and violation of Human Rights in the Union State.<br />
PPI supports the people of Belarus in their will to live in an open and democratic state.<br />
<br />
==On not enough positive actions of the States ==<br />
Due to the covid pandemic, the transform of mankind’s activities into the digital way sufficiently increased. States and society are ready to step forward into the digital era, especially in education and labor relationships. Governments do not make enough efforts to involve modern technologies besides those they use to watch and control citizens. Therefore the society is even harder to accept any innovations and learn to use it. PPI is full of hope for changing the situation for digitizing, and we are ready to help in it.<br />
COVID-19 allowed everyone to take advantage of digital tools for improving quality of life, democracy.<br />
<br />
==Motion suggested by PPRU on COVID-19 and negative activities of states ==<br />
PPI condemns governments’ actions worldwide using coronavirus as an excuse for more surveillance within national borders, including spying on citizens of other countries.<br />
<br />
PPI condemns Governments that take advantage of their rights and legal powers, enacting disproportionate methods, mechanisms, and technologies of surveillance upon people’s actions and intentions, violating their fundamental rights and freedoms.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=Online GA 2019=<br />
<br />
===Decline in Democracy===<br />
The Pirate Parties International strongly opposes decline in democracy which leads to violations of human rights and citizen rights.<br />
<br />
=Warsaw GA, 2015=<br />
<br />
The Assembly of the Pirate Parties International have issued following resolutions during its meeting in Warsaw, Poland and call upon the Members of PPI to ratify this declarations timely by a suitable vehicle:<br />
<br />
==Access to medicine==<br />
<br />
:We deem the universal access to medicine and medical treatment as a human right.<br />
:In particular, people in developing and least developed countries must also have access to medicine beyond the restrictions of patenting systems. Patents that hinder the fight against diseases should be subject to compulsory licensing.<br />
:Since the economics of medical technology makes research and development into non-patentable medical techniques uneconomic for corporations, other solutions have to be found in order to guarantee the funding (public or otherwise) of neglected diseases and to test the effectiveness of substances currently illegal for therapeutic purposes to make them available if successful.<br />
:Therefore, us Pirates propose a WHO funding for financing research on neglected diseases.<br />
:Further blocking of scientific work based solely on dogmatic arguments is no longer acceptable.<br />
:Patients must not be hindered in their free choice of treatment. Well trained, responsible physicians and informed patients must have the full responsibility for choosing the substances used for treatment.<br />
:The dangers of all used substances must be fully disclosed.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Pirates want a fair and balanced copyright law based on the interests of society as a whole.<br />
<br />
We strive for the abolition of information monopolies. As for now the only beneficiaries of the monopolies are huge corporations, while the market as a whole is failing. This market failure is apparent by the frequent bullying of individuals and SMEs by collecting societies and the loss of orphan works to society. Our goal is to create an environment where the motivation to create goes hand in hand with freedom of information.<br />
<br />
Improved public availability of information, knowledge and culture is a prerequisite for the social, technological and economic development of our society. Pirates therefore demand that copying, storing, using and providing access to literary and artistic works for non-commercial purposes must not only be legalised but protected by law and actively promoted. Everyone shall be able to enjoy and share our cultural heritage free from the threat of legal action or censorship.<br />
<br />
The commercial monopoly given by copyright should be restored to a reasonable term. Derivative works shall always be permitted, with exceptions that are very specifically enumerated in law with minimal room for interpretation.<br />
<br />
The internet as a medium should know no borders. Pirates consider artificial national barriers for cultural goods a hindrance to the global trade and demand their abolishment. A change of approach is required in the area of rights to intangible goods and their respective enforcement practices.<br />
<br />
Further monopolies in the sectors of information and culture have to be prevented. By law, states should only allow or maintain monopoly rights for intangible goods if these are in the public interest. Any monopoly rights must be temporally limited, neither their time-span nor their scope may be expanded retrospectively.<br />
<br />
The creation of commons, such as free software, free cultural goods, open patent pools and free and open educational material, must be promoted and legally protected.<br />
<br />
Social life, increasingly taking place in digital spaces, must not be restricted by monopoly rights over intangible goods. The introduction of “fair use” regulations will ensure that social interactions remain unencumbered.<br />
<br />
Each collecting society must ensure comprehensive transparency, fair participatory rights for their members and fairer contract terms for artists.<br />
<br />
==Net Neutrality==<br />
<br />
The principle of network neutrality must by inforced by law in each and every country to ensure strong incentives for investment, fair competition and equal treatment of everybody in the digital space.<br />
<br />
We consider the freedom of information as an universal human right, and the net neutrality a necessary mean to it.<br />
<br />
Everyone must be able to have access to an Internet connection that does not discriminate against any service or competitor. Traffic management measures shall only be allowed in exceptional circumstances, operated in a clear and transparent manner and only for technical reasons.<br />
<br />
Non-discriminatory access to the Internet must apply uniformly across the whole world. We reject measures by the telecommunications companies that threaten freedom of access.<br />
<br />
==Basic Income==<br />
<br />
Pirates see labor not just as a tradeable commodity, but also as a person's individual achievement. Respect for human dignity therefore commands that each person can decide freely which occupation he or she wishes to pursue and which job to take, but also that such services be adequately compensated.<br />
<br />
Thanks to technological development it is no longer necessary that each monotonous, senseless or even dangerous task be performed by humans. We welcome and wish to promote this significant advance. Hence we consider the goal of absolute full employment as outdated and not socially desirable. Instead, we want to achieve that all people receive their adequate share of the general wealth; to this end, we will consider the introduction of a basic income guarantee.<br />
<br />
== Privacy ==<br />
<br />
Pirates are committed to privacy and corresponding civil liberties of all human beings worldwide. We will never tolerate state driven surveillance measures of any kind.<br />
Adequate protection against crime is an important responsibility of the state. We must ensure this responsibility is fulfilled through an intelligent, rational and evidence-based security policy without surveillance.<br />
<br />
The practice of routine, automated and untargeted data collection, storage and matching is to be abolished.<br />
Anyone subject to state surveillance should be informed of these facts in due time to safeguard against abuse.<br />
<br />
==No to TTIP==<br />
<br />
The Assembly of Members of Pirate Parties International Strictly oppose international treaties enforcing broken monopolies hindering developing countries or human rights and freedoms. Thus, we<br />
* Strictly oppose TTIP<br />
* Support the protest movement all over the world<br />
* Urge the European Parliament and both houses of the U.S. Congress not to consent to TTIP<br />
* Call for ex-ante and ex-post human rights impact assessments to be conducted for every trade agreement.<br />
<br />
==Transparency of the Public Sector==<br />
<br />
The public sector, including private entities carrying out work on behalf of a public body, must be transparent. Pirates believe that it is a fundamental right of citizens to inspect, without the need for any specific justification, all contracts or financial benefits related to the delivery of public sector or government projects and services.<br />
<br />
Pirates advocate for general and comprehensive legislation to protect persons who expose issues that are in the public interest, such as cases of corruption, insider trading, or ethics or human rights violations (“whistle-blowers”).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kazan GA, 2013=<br />
<br />
The following Resolutions have been issued by the General Assembly of Pirate Parties International in Kazan<br />
<br />
==Pirate Movement is not Sea Piracy==<br />
<br />
We, the members of the Pirate Parties of the world, the members of Pirate Parties International, declare that democracy and the right for uniting are the most important values. Unfortunately, the members of pirate party of Russia do not have opportunity to officially create ts own party. Ministry of Justice of Russian Federation has already rejected in registration twice due to the fact that our state officials consider the word "pirat" in the meaning of sea bandits, robbing the marines. That is why Russian pirates do not have an opportunity to take part in the elections, that means that we do not posess the legal right to influence on shaping the russian legislature.<br />
<br />
We call the ministry of justice of the Russian Federation upon the common sense and demand for admitting the reality. Pirate party of Russia does exist and is not binded with sea piracy. Piracy is an contemporary international political ideology of the extension of civil freedoms.<br />
<br />
==Worldwide Democracy==<br />
<br />
The General Assembly of Pirate Parties International<br />
<br />
* Condemn all dictatorships and regimes which deny human rights.<br />
<br />
* Recognize that the need to strengthen participation in political processes and democracy in the world has become urgent. The attempt to pass important, far-reaching global treaties that have the potential to influence the lives of everyone on the planet, without any public consultation (so called Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement ACTA), make it evident that an early involvement of the general public and parliaments in the international agenda setting process is urgently needed.<br />
<br />
* Notes that some supra-national organizations such as the European Union, the Pan-African Parliament, the Mercosur Community, the Arab League, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe include parliamentary assemblies as treaty organs in order to involve elected representatives in their work.<br />
<br />
* Takes note of the fact that no parliamentary body exists within the framework of the United Nations, the World Bank group, the International Monetary Fund, or the World Trade Organization. We believe that the lack of parliamentary representation in these organizations strongly contributes to the international democratic deficit.<br />
<br />
* States support for the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) as a parliamentary body within the UN system that is complementary to the UN General Assembly, calling for the creation a body that is directly elected by earth's citizen.<br />
<br />
* Calls upon world governments to include the involvement of citizens in the practice of making large scoped far-reaching decisions by utilizing general referendums<br />
<br />
* Appeals to legislators to introduce rules that would ease the process of the foundation of new political parties, to include the parties that do not have political representation in parliaments into the state funding regulations and to reduce or eliminate the barring clauses that are obstructing especially newly created parties.<br />
<br />
=Prague GA, 2012=<br />
<br />
==Prague declaration==<br />
<br />
''Signed by 28 European member parties''<br />
<br />
<br />
The assembled European Pirates signed below agreed on the following:<br />
<br />
===I.===<br />
<br />
We intend to run in the elections to the European Parliament in the year 2014.<br />
<br />
===II.===<br />
<br />
We declare the intent<br />
* to have a common election program included in the individual programs of the respective parties,<br />
* to coordinate our election campaigns,<br />
* to cooperate closely in the European Parliament on the realisation of our common program.<br />
<br />
===III.===<br />
<br />
The common program shall consist of components regarding European policies that have been approved by participating parties. Every participating party will be able to set forth its opinion and report the state of its procedure regarding every proposal.<br />
IV.<br />
<br />
We agree to establish a political party at European level [1].<br />
<br />
===V.===<br />
<br />
We propose this declaration for ratification to the competent bodies of the European Pirate Parties.<br />
<br />
<br />
[1] Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003, as later amended.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Friedrichshafen GA, 2011=<br />
<br />
==Bradley Manning==<br />
<br />
''Signed by 14 members''<br />
<br />
The Conference notes the appalling treatment of Bradley Manning, accused of passing material to Wikileaks. It is important to note that he is not convicted of any crime. Currently he is under military arrest, where he has been for nearly 300 days. He has been held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day in a tiny windowless cell. He has been under intolerable psychological pressure. He has been forced to strip naked.<br />
<br />
Now he faces a new set of charges, including “aiding the enemy”. This charge is a capital offence – it opens up the possibility of the death penalty. It is a sad day when someone just accused of trying to expose war crimes is treated worse than those who actually commit them.<br />
<br />
Therefore Pirate Party International urge:<br />
* The immediate end of the inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning.<br />
* Pirate Parties and members to take part in the international protests at the charges and the conditions [of] Bradley Manning. March 20th will be a day of protest in the US and Europe, a further demonstration is planned in Berlin for March 26th.<br />
* The British government to intervene and request consular access, as Bradley Manning is entitled to British citizenship due to his Welsh mother.<br />
<br />
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
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<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties Intertnational are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-at}} [[Pirate Party of Austria]]<br />
# {{Flag-by}} [[Pirate Party of Belarus]]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [[Pirate Party of Belgium]]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [[Pirate Party of Brazil]]<br />
# {{Flag-ba}} [[Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [http://www.piratskapartija.ba/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-bg}} [[Pirate Party of Bulgaria]]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [[Pirate Party of Catalonia]] [http://pirata.cat/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [[Pirate Party of Chile]] [https://www.partidopirata.cl/]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [[Pirate Party of the Czech Republic]]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [[Pirate Party of Estonia]] [http://piraadipartei.ee/]<br />
# {{Flag-fi}} [[Pirate Party of Finland]]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [[Pirate Party of France]]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [[Pirate Party of Germany]]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [[Pirate Party of Greece]]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [[Pirate Party of Hungary]]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [[Pirate Party of Italy]]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [[Pirate Party of Israel]] [http://piratim.org]<br />
# {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kz}} [[Pirate Party of Kazakhstan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kr}} [[Pirate Party of Korea]]<br />
# {{Flag-lv}} [[Pirate Party of Latvia]] [http://piratupartija.lv/en/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [[Pirate Party of Luxembourg]]<br />
# {{Flag-ma}} [[Pirate Party of Morocco]]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [[Pirate Party of the Netherlands]]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Pirate Party of New Zealand]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Internet Party of New Zealand]] [https://internet.org.nz/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [[Pirate Party of Norway]]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [[Pirate Party of Poland]]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [[Pirate Party of Portugal]]<br />
# {{Flag-ro}} [[Pirate Party of Romania]]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [[Pirate Party of Russia]]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party of Slovakia]] [http://piratskastrana.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party - Slovakia]] [https://www.smepirati.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-si}} [[Pirate Party of Slovenia]]<br />
# {{Flag-es}} [[Pirate Party of Spain]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [[Pirate Party of Switzerland]]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [[Pirate Party of Tunisia]] [http://www.partipirate.tn/]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [[Pirate Party of Turkey]]<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [[Pirate Party of Ukraine]] [http://pp-ua.org/]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} [[Pirate Party of Venezuela]] <br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [[Pirate Party of Ireland|Ireland]] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012. The new PP-IE can apply again for the PPI Membership at any time.<br />
* {{Flag-au}} [[Pirate Party of Australia|Australia]] - PP-AU left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [[Pirate Party of the United Kingdom|UK]] - PP-UK left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [[Pirate Party of Iceland|Iceland]] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [[Pirate Party of Canada|Canada]] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Pirate Party of Serbia|Serbia]] - not existing any longer - 2017<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [[Pirate Party of Denmark|Denmark]] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [[Pirate Party of Croatia]] - by decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* {{Flag-fr}} [https://piratelobby.wordpress.com/ Pirate Lobby], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* {{Flag-de-nw}} [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7]<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)] - dissolved 2014<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
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===For the Observer Membership===<br />
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<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties Intertnational are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-at}} [[Pirate Party of Austria]]<br />
# {{Flag-by}} [[Pirate Party of Belarus]]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [[Pirate Party of Belgium]]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [[Pirate Party of Brazil]]<br />
# {{Flag-ba}} [[Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [http://www.piratskapartija.ba/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-bg}} [[Pirate Party of Bulgaria]]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [[Pirate Party of Catalonia]] [http://pirata.cat/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [[Pirate Party of Chile]] [https://www.partidopirata.cl/]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [[Pirate Party of the Czech Republic]]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [[Pirate Party of Estonia]] [http://piraadipartei.ee/]<br />
# {{Flag-fi}} [[Pirate Party of Finland]]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [[Pirate Party of France]]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [[Pirate Party of Germany]]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [[Pirate Party of Greece]]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [[Pirate Party of Hungary]]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [[Pirate Party of Italy]]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [[Pirate Party of Israel]] [http://piratim.org]<br />
# {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kz}} [[Pirate Party of Kazakhstan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kr}} [[Pirate Party of Korea]]<br />
# {{Flag-lv}} [[Pirate Party of Latvia]] [http://piratupartija.lv/en/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [[Pirate Party of Luxembourg]]<br />
# {{Flag-ma}} [[Pirate Party of Morocco]]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [[Pirate Party of the Netherlands]]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Pirate Party of New Zealand]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Internet Party of New Zealand]] [https://internet.org.nz/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [[Pirate Party of Norway]]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [[Pirate Party of Poland]]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [[Pirate Party of Portugal]]<br />
# {{Flag-ro}} [[Pirate Party of Romania]]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [[Pirate Party of Russia]]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party of Slovakia]] [http://piratskastrana.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party - Slovakia]] [https://www.smepirati.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-si}} [[Pirate Party of Slovenia]]<br />
# {{Flag-es}} [[Pirate Party of Spain]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [[Pirate Party of Switzerland]]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [[Pirate Party of Tunisia]] [http://www.partipirate.tn/]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [[Pirate Party of Turkey]]<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [[Pirate Party of Ukraine]] [http://pp-ua.org/]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} [[Pirate Party of Venezuela]] <br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [[Pirate Party of Ireland|Ireland]] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012. The new PP-IE can apply again for the PPI Membership at any time.<br />
* {{Flag-au}} [[Pirate Party of Australia|Australia]] - PP-AU left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [[Pirate Party of the United Kingdom|UK]] - PP-UK left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [[Pirate Party of Iceland|Iceland]] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [[Pirate Party of Canada|Canada]] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Pirate Party of Serbia|Serbia]] - not existing any longer - 2017<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [[Pirate Party of Denmark|Denmark]] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [[Pirate Party of Croatia]] - by decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* {{Flag-fr}} [https://piratelobby.wordpress.com/ Pirate Lobby], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7]<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)] - dissolved 2014<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
--><br />
[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Members_of_the_PPI&diff=5737Members of the PPI2020-12-07T12:40:12Z<p>Dichter: /* Current observer members of the PPI */</p>
<hr />
<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties Intertnational are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-at}} [[Pirate Party of Austria]]<br />
# {{Flag-by}} [[Pirate Party of Belarus]]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [[Pirate Party of Belgium]]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [[Pirate Party of Brazil]]<br />
# {{Flag-ba}} [[Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [http://www.piratskapartija.ba/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-bg}} [[Pirate Party of Bulgaria]]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [[Pirate Party of Catalonia]] [http://pirata.cat/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [[Pirate Party of Chile]] [https://www.partidopirata.cl/]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [[Pirate Party of the Czech Republic]]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [[Pirate Party of Estonia]] [http://piraadipartei.ee/]<br />
# {{Flag-fi}} [[Pirate Party of Finland]]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [[Pirate Party of France]]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [[Pirate Party of Germany]]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [[Pirate Party of Greece]]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [[Pirate Party of Hungary]]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [[Pirate Party of Italy]]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [[Pirate Party of Israel]] [http://piratim.org]<br />
# {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kz}} [[Pirate Party of Kazakhstan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kr}} [[Pirate Party of Korea]]<br />
# {{Flag-lv}} [[Pirate Party of Latvia]] [http://piratupartija.lv/en/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [[Pirate Party of Luxembourg]]<br />
# {{Flag-ma}} [[Pirate Party of Morocco]]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [[Pirate Party of the Netherlands]]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Pirate Party of New Zealand]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Internet Party of New Zealand]] [https://internet.org.nz/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [[Pirate Party of Norway]]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [[Pirate Party of Poland]]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [[Pirate Party of Portugal]]<br />
# {{Flag-ro}} [[Pirate Party of Romania]]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [[Pirate Party of Russia]]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party of Slovakia]] [http://piratskastrana.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party - Slovakia]] [https://www.smepirati.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-si}} [[Pirate Party of Slovenia]]<br />
# {{Flag-es}} [[Pirate Party of Spain]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [[Pirate Party of Switzerland]]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [[Pirate Party of Tunisia]] [http://www.partipirate.tn/]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [[Pirate Party of Turkey]]<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [[Pirate Party of Ukraine]] [http://pp-ua.org/]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} [[Pirate Party of Venezuela]] <br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [[Pirate Party of Ireland|Ireland]] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012. The new PP-IE can apply again for the PPI Membership at any time.<br />
* {{Flag-au}} [[Pirate Party of Australia|Australia]] - PP-AU left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [[Pirate Party of the United Kingdom|UK]] - PP-UK left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [[Pirate Party of Iceland|Iceland]] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [[Pirate Party of Canada|Canada]] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Pirate Party of Serbia|Serbia]] - not existing any longer - 2017<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [[Pirate Party of Denmark|Denmark]] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [[Pirate Party of Croatia]] - by decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* {{Flag-fr}} [https://piratelobby.wordpress.com/ Pirate Lobby], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7]<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
--><br />
[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Members_of_the_PPI&diff=5736Members of the PPI2020-12-07T12:20:40Z<p>Dichter: /* Current observer members of the PPI */</p>
<hr />
<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties Intertnational are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-at}} [[Pirate Party of Austria]]<br />
# {{Flag-by}} [[Pirate Party of Belarus]]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [[Pirate Party of Belgium]]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [[Pirate Party of Brazil]]<br />
# {{Flag-ba}} [[Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [http://www.piratskapartija.ba/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-bg}} [[Pirate Party of Bulgaria]]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [[Pirate Party of Catalonia]] [http://pirata.cat/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [[Pirate Party of Chile]] [https://www.partidopirata.cl/]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [[Pirate Party of the Czech Republic]]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [[Pirate Party of Estonia]] [http://piraadipartei.ee/]<br />
# {{Flag-fi}} [[Pirate Party of Finland]]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [[Pirate Party of France]]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [[Pirate Party of Germany]]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [[Pirate Party of Greece]]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [[Pirate Party of Hungary]]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [[Pirate Party of Italy]]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [[Pirate Party of Israel]] [http://piratim.org]<br />
# {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kz}} [[Pirate Party of Kazakhstan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kr}} [[Pirate Party of Korea]]<br />
# {{Flag-lv}} [[Pirate Party of Latvia]] [http://piratupartija.lv/en/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [[Pirate Party of Luxembourg]]<br />
# {{Flag-ma}} [[Pirate Party of Morocco]]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [[Pirate Party of the Netherlands]]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Pirate Party of New Zealand]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Internet Party of New Zealand]] [https://internet.org.nz/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [[Pirate Party of Norway]]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [[Pirate Party of Poland]]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [[Pirate Party of Portugal]]<br />
# {{Flag-ro}} [[Pirate Party of Romania]]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [[Pirate Party of Russia]]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party of Slovakia]] [http://piratskastrana.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party - Slovakia]] [https://www.smepirati.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-si}} [[Pirate Party of Slovenia]]<br />
# {{Flag-es}} [[Pirate Party of Spain]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [[Pirate Party of Switzerland]]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [[Pirate Party of Tunisia]] [http://www.partipirate.tn/]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [[Pirate Party of Turkey]]<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [[Pirate Party of Ukraine]] [http://pp-ua.org/]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} [[Pirate Party of Venezuela]] <br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [[Pirate Party of Ireland|Ireland]] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012. The new PP-IE can apply again for the PPI Membership at any time.<br />
* {{Flag-au}} [[Pirate Party of Australia|Australia]] - PP-AU left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [[Pirate Party of the United Kingdom|UK]] - PP-UK left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [[Pirate Party of Iceland|Iceland]] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [[Pirate Party of Canada|Canada]] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Pirate Party of Serbia|Serbia]] - not existing any longer - 2017<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [[Pirate Party of Denmark|Denmark]] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [[Pirate Party of Croatia]] - by decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* [[Pirate Lobby]], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7]<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
* {{Flag-it}} [http://www.pirati.io/ Pirati]<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
--><br />
[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Flag-ve&diff=5735Template:Flag-ve2020-12-07T10:48:41Z<p>Dichter: Created page with "16px}}}<noinclude> == Usage: == copy paste this into your article: {{((}}{{PAGENAME}}{{))}} - for a 16px wide flag, or <br/> You ca..."</p>
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== Usage: ==<br />
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[[Category:Template:Flag]]<br />
</noinclude></div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=File:Flag_of_Venezuela.svg&diff=5734File:Flag of Venezuela.svg2020-12-07T10:44:17Z<p>Dichter: <noinclude> Category:Graphics Category:SVG Flag </noinclude></p>
<hr />
<div>== Summary ==<br />
<noinclude> [[Category:Graphics]] [[Category:SVG Flag]] </noinclude></div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=File:Venezuela-flag-icon-16.png&diff=5733File:Venezuela-flag-icon-16.png2020-12-07T10:41:02Z<p>Dichter: <noinclude> Category:Graphics Category:PNG Category:PNG Flag </noinclude></p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
<noinclude> [[Category:Graphics]] [[Category:PNG]] [[Category:PNG Flag]] </noinclude></div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Members_of_the_PPI&diff=5732Members of the PPI2020-12-07T10:26:01Z<p>Dichter: Venezuela</p>
<hr />
<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties Intertnational are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-at}} [[Pirate Party of Austria]]<br />
# {{Flag-by}} [[Pirate Party of Belarus]]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [[Pirate Party of Belgium]]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [[Pirate Party of Brazil]]<br />
# {{Flag-ba}} [[Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [http://www.piratskapartija.ba/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-bg}} [[Pirate Party of Bulgaria]]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [[Pirate Party of Catalonia]] [http://pirata.cat/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [[Pirate Party of Chile]] [https://www.partidopirata.cl/]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [[Pirate Party of the Czech Republic]]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [[Pirate Party of Estonia]] [http://piraadipartei.ee/]<br />
# {{Flag-fi}} [[Pirate Party of Finland]]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [[Pirate Party of France]]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [[Pirate Party of Germany]]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [[Pirate Party of Greece]]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [[Pirate Party of Hungary]]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [[Pirate Party of Italy]]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [[Pirate Party of Israel]] [http://piratim.org]<br />
# {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kz}} [[Pirate Party of Kazakhstan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kr}} [[Pirate Party of Korea]]<br />
# {{Flag-lv}} [[Pirate Party of Latvia]] [http://piratupartija.lv/en/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [[Pirate Party of Luxembourg]]<br />
# {{Flag-ma}} [[Pirate Party of Morocco]]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [[Pirate Party of the Netherlands]]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Pirate Party of New Zealand]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Internet Party of New Zealand]] [https://internet.org.nz/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [[Pirate Party of Norway]]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [[Pirate Party of Poland]]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [[Pirate Party of Portugal]]<br />
# {{Flag-ro}} [[Pirate Party of Romania]]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [[Pirate Party of Russia]]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party of Slovakia]] [http://piratskastrana.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party - Slovakia]] [https://www.smepirati.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-si}} [[Pirate Party of Slovenia]]<br />
# {{Flag-es}} [[Pirate Party of Spain]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [[Pirate Party of Switzerland]]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [[Pirate Party of Tunisia]] [http://www.partipirate.tn/]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [[Pirate Party of Turkey]]<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [[Pirate Party of Ukraine]] [http://pp-ua.org/]<br />
# {{Flag-ve}} [[Pirate Party of Venezuela]] <br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [[Pirate Party of Ireland|Ireland]] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012. The new PP-IE can apply again for the PPI Membership at any time.<br />
* {{Flag-au}} [[Pirate Party of Australia|Australia]] - PP-AU left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [[Pirate Party of the United Kingdom|UK]] - PP-UK left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [[Pirate Party of Iceland|Iceland]] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [[Pirate Party of Canada|Canada]] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Pirate Party of Serbia|Serbia]] - not existing any longer - 2017<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [[Pirate Party of Denmark|Denmark]] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [[Pirate Party of Croatia]] - by decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* [[Pirate Lobby]], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7]<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
--><br />
[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Members_of_the_PPI&diff=5702Members of the PPI2020-12-05T10:01:48Z<p>Dichter: /* Observer members */ Tyrol</p>
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<div>The procedure to become member of the PPI is explained on the [[Membership application|Membership application page]]. The [[Membership history|history of membership]] can be found on separate page.<br />
<br />
==Ordinary members==<br />
<br />
'''''[[Statutes##IV. Ordinary Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''IV. Ordinary Members'''<br />
:(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[Statutes#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
::a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes,<br />
::b) use the inflection of the word Pirate in their name, and<br />
::c) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
:(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members.<br />
<br />
===Current Ordinary members of the Pirate Parties Intertnational are: ===<br />
<br />
# {{Flag-at}} [[Pirate Party of Austria]]<br />
# {{Flag-by}} [[Pirate Party of Belarus]]<br />
# {{Flag-be}} [[Pirate Party of Belgium]]<br />
# {{Flag-br}} [[Pirate Party of Brazil]]<br />
# {{Flag-ba}} [[Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [http://www.piratskapartija.ba/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-bg}} [[Pirate Party of Bulgaria]]<br />
# {{Flag-es-ct}} [[Pirate Party of Catalonia]] [http://pirata.cat/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-cl}} [[Pirate Party of Chile]] [https://www.partidopirata.cl/]<br />
# {{Flag-cz}} [[Pirate Party of the Czech Republic]]<br />
# {{Flag-ee}} [[Pirate Party of Estonia]] [http://piraadipartei.ee/]<br />
# {{Flag-fi}} [[Pirate Party of Finland]]<br />
# {{Flag-fr}} [[Pirate Party of France]]<br />
# {{Flag-de}} [[Pirate Party of Germany]]<br />
# {{Flag-gr}} [[Pirate Party of Greece]]<br />
# {{Flag-hu}} [[Pirate Party of Hungary]]<br />
# {{Flag-it}} [[Pirate Party of Italy]]<br />
# {{Flag-il}} [[Pirate Party of Israel]] [http://piratim.org]<br />
# {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kz}} [[Pirate Party of Kazakhstan]]<br />
# {{Flag-kr}} [[Pirate Party of Korea]]<br />
# {{Flag-lv}} [[Pirate Party of Latvia]] [http://piratupartija.lv/en/ ]<br />
# {{Flag-lu}} [[Pirate Party of Luxembourg]]<br />
# {{Flag-ma}} [[Pirate Party of Morocco]]<br />
# {{Flag-nl}} [[Pirate Party of the Netherlands]]<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Pirate Party of New Zealand]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-nz}} [[Internet Party of New Zealand]] [https://internet.org.nz/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-no}} [[Pirate Party of Norway]]<br />
# {{Flag-pl}} [[Pirate Party of Poland]]<br />
# {{Flag-pt}} [[Pirate Party of Portugal]]<br />
# {{Flag-ro}} [[Pirate Party of Romania]]<br />
# {{Flag-ru}} [[Pirate Party of Russia]]<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party of Slovakia]] [http://piratskastrana.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-sk}} [[Pirate Party - Slovakia]] [https://www.smepirati.sk/] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-si}} [[Pirate Party of Slovenia]]<br />
# {{Flag-es}} [[Pirate Party of Spain]] ½Vote<br />
# {{Flag-ch}} [[Pirate Party of Switzerland]]<br />
# {{Flag-tn}} [[Pirate Party of Tunisia]] [http://www.partipirate.tn/]<br />
# {{Flag-tr}} [[Pirate Party of Turkey]]<br />
# {{Flag-ua}} [[Pirate Party of Ukraine]] [http://pp-ua.org/]<br />
<br />
===Former ordinary members===<br />
* {{Flag-ie}} [[Pirate Party of Ireland|Ireland]] - was a founding Member of PPI, dissolved in March 2011 and was declared a non member by the CoA in June 2012. The new PP-IE can apply again for the PPI Membership at any time.<br />
* {{Flag-au}} [[Pirate Party of Australia|Australia]] - PP-AU left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-uk}} [[Pirate Party of the United Kingdom|UK]] - PP-UK left PPI in February 2015<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [[Pirate Party of Iceland|Iceland]] - PP-IS left PPI in May 2015<br />
* {{Flag-ca}} [[Pirate Party of Canada|Canada]] - PP-CA left PPI on July, 24th 2016<br />
* {{Flag-rs}} [[Pirate Party of Serbia|Serbia]] - not existing any longer - 2017<br />
* {{Flag-dk}} [[Pirate Party of Denmark|Denmark]] - dissolved in 2017<br />
* {{Flag-hr}} [[Pirate Party of Croatia]] - by decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
<br />
==Observer members==<br />
'''''[[Statutes#V. Observer Members|Statutes:]]'''''<br />
<br />
'''V. Observer Members'''<br />
:(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===Current observer members of the PPI===<br />
* [[Internet Party of Serbia]] (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* [[File:PWB.png|16px]] [https://pirates-without-borders.ch/ Pirates without Borders]<br />
* [[Pirate Lobby]], France<br />
* {{Flag-de-be}} [http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/ Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)]<br />
* {{Flag-is}} [http://www.bestiflokkurinn.is/ Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-by}} [https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/ Pirate Party of Bavaria]<br />
* {{Flag-de-he}} [https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/ Pirate Party of Hesse]<br />
* {{Flag-es-ri}} [http://piratasdelarioja.org/ Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)]<br />
* {{Flag-de-ni}} [https://www.piratenpartei-niedersachsen.de/ Pirate Party of Lower Saxony]<br />
* [[Pirate Party of New York]]<br />
* [https://www.piratenpartei-nrw.de/ Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia]<br />
* [[File:SVP.jpg|16px]] [https://piratenpotsdam.de/ Pirate Party Potsdam]<br />
* {{Flag-de}} [http://www.junge-piraten.de/ europe beyond division e.V.] Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://ungpirat.se/ Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)]<br />
* {{Flag-jp}} [[Pirate Party of Japan]] [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/7]<br />
* {{Flag-de-bb}} [https://www.piratenbrandenburg.de/|Piratenpartei Brandenburg]<br />
<br />
===Former observer members of the PPI===<br />
<br />
* {{Flag-se}} [http://piratpartiet.se/ Pirate Party of Sweden]<br />
* {{Flag-us-fl}} [http://fl.pirate.is/ Pirate Party of Florida] - by the decision of the CoA declared a no member due to dissolvement 06.12.2019<br />
* {{Flag-at-7}} [http://www.piratenpartei-tirol.at/ Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)] - dissolved January 2019<br />
<br />
<!-- currently no applications<br />
==Applicants==<br />
Following organizations have submitted applications for PPI Membership to be admitted by the next GA<br />
===For the Ordinary Membership===<br />
<br />
===For the Observer Membership===<br />
--><br />
[[Category:Official]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Pirate_Parties&diff=5668List of Pirate Parties2020-10-26T19:01:19Z<p>Dichter: Serbia website is cybersquatted</p>
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<div>We need to gather a list of international pirate parties and a way to contact them.<br />
<br />
== Officially Registered Parties ==<br />
# [[Austria]] (Piratenpartei Österreichs)<br />
#* Website: http://www.piratenpartei.at<br />
#* [mailto://bundesvorstand@piratenpartei.at Board]<br />
# [[Belgium]]<br />
#* Website: http://pirateparty.be<br />
# [[Canada]] (Pirate Party of Canada / Parti Pirate du Canada)<br />
#* Leader: Mikkel Paulson<br />
#* Website: https://www.pirateparty.ca/ (English), https://www.partipirate.ca/ (French)<br />
#* International Liaison: [mailto://bleskie@pirateparty.ca Mike Bleskie]<br />
# [[Catalonia]] (Pirates de Catalunya)<br />
#* Website: https://pirates.cat/ca/<br />
# [[Czech Republic]] (Česká pirátská strana)<br />
#* Website: https://www.pirati.cz/<br />
#* International relations executive: [mailto:jmichalek(at)seznam(dot)cz Jakub Michálek]<br />
#* International relations executive assistant: [mailto:mikulas.ferjencik@seznam.cz Mikuláš Ferjenčík]<br />
# [[Denmark]] (Piratpartiet i Danmark)<br />
#* Website: http://www.piratpartiet.dk/<br />
#* Chairman: [mailto:pirat(at)sparre(dot)dk Ole Husgaard]<br />
# [[Finland]] (Piraattipuolue)<br />
#* Website: http://www.piraattipuolue.fi/<br />
#* Chairman: [mailto:pasi.palmulehto(at)piraattipuolue(dot)fi Pasi Palmulehto]<br />
# [[France]] (Parti Pirate)<br />
#* Website: http://partipirate.org<br />
#* Board: [mailto://contact(at)partipirate(dot)org Contact]<br />
# [[Germany]] (Piratenpartei Deutschland)<br />
#* Website: http://piratenpartei.de<br />
#* Chairman: [mailto:stefan.koerner (at) piratenpartei (dot) de Stefan Körner]<br />
# [[Italy]] (Partito Pirata Italiano)<br />
#* Website: http://www.partito-pirata.it<br />
#* No chairman, no board. [mailto:info@partito-pirata.it Contact].<br />
# [[Netherlands]] (Piratenpartij Nederland)<br />
#* Website: http://piratenpartij.nl/<br />
#* Board: [mailto:bestuur(a)piratenpartij(dot)nl Bestuur]<br />
# [[Norway]] (Piratpartiet)<br />
#* Website: http://piratpartiet.no<br />
#* Chairperson: Tale Haukbjørk Østrådal<br />
#* Kontakt norsk: [mailto:sekretariatet@piratpartiet.no Sekretariatet Piratpartiet Norge]<br />
#* Contact international: [mailto:international@piratpartiet.no Pirate Party Norway - International Team]<br />
# [[Poland]] (Polska Partia Piratów)<br />
#* Website: http://polskapartiapiratow.pl<br />
#* Chairman: [mailto:radek.pietron(at)polskapartiapiratow(dot)pl Radosław Pietroń]<br />
# [[Slovenia]]<br />
#* Website: http://www.piratskastranka.si/<br />
# [[Spain]] (Partido Pirata)<br />
#* Website: http://partidopirata.es<br />
#* Chairman: [mailto://presidente.jdn@partidopirata.es Carlos Ayala Vargas]<br />
# [[Sweden]] (Piratpartiet)<br />
#* Website: http://www.piratpartiet.se<br />
#* Chairman: [mailto://anna.troberg@piratpartiet.se Anna Troberg]<br />
# [[Switzerland]] (Piratenpartei Schweiz (DE)/ Parti Pirate Suisse (FR))<br />
#* Website: http://www.piratenpartei.ch (DE) http://www.partipirate.ch (FR)<br />
#* President: [mailto:denis(dot)simonet(a)piratenpartei(dot)ch Denis Simonet]<br />
# [[Tunisia]] (حزب القراصنة)<br />
#* Website: http://www.partipirate.tn<br />
# [[United Kingdom]] (Pirate Party UK)<br />
#* Website: http://piratepartyuk.org<br />
#* Leader: [mailto://a(dot)robinson(at)pirateparty(dot)org(dot)uk Andrew Robinson]<br />
# [[USA]] (The Pirate Party of the United States)<br />
#* Website: http://pirate-party.us<br />
#* Chairman: [mailto://info(at)pirate-party(dot)us Glenn Kerbein]<br />
<br />
== Forming Parties ==<br />
# [[Argentina]]<br />
#* Webseite: http://www.partido-pirata.com.ar/<br />
# [[Australia]]<br />
#* Website: http://www.pirateparty.org.au/<br />
# [[The Pirate Center of Belarus|Belarus]]<br />
#* Website: http://www.pirates.by<br />
#* Press contact: piraty.by @ gmail.com<br />
#* Coordinator: Mikhail Volchak <br />
# [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]<br />
# [[Brazil]]<br />
#* Website: http://www.partidopirata.org/<br />
#* Contact: [mailto:contato@partidopirata.org Collective]<br />
# [[Bulgaria]]<br />
#* Website: http://piratskapartia.bg/ (Pirate Party Bulgaria)<br />
# [[Chile]]<br />
#* Website: http://www.partidopirata.cl/<br />
#* Contact: [mailto:somos@partidopirata.cl Contacto]<br />
# [[China]]<br />
# [[Cyprus]]<br />
#* Website: http://piratepartycyprus.com/<br />
# [[Ireland]] (Pirate Party Ireland)<br />
# [[Pirate Party of Israel|Israel]]<br />
#* Website: http://israelipirates.org.il<br />
#* Wiki: http://wiki.israelipirates.org.il<br />
# [[Pirate Party of Kazakhstan|Kazakhstan]] (Pirate Party Kazakhstan)<br />
#* Website: http://pirateparty.kz/<br />
# [[Luxembourg]]<br />
#* Website: https://www.piraten.lu<br />
# [[Mexico]]<br />
#* Website: http://partidopiratamexicano.org/<br />
# [[New Zealand]]<br />
#* Website: http://pirateparty.org.nz<br />
#* Contact: pirateparty@pirateparty.org.nz<br />
# [[Peru]]<br />
# [[Portugal]]<br />
#* Website: http://partidopiratapt.eu<br />
# [[Romania]] (Partidul Piratilor România)<br />
#* Website: http://www.partidulpirat.ro/<br />
# [[Russia]] (Russian Pirate Party)<br />
#* Website: http://pirate-party.ru/<br />
#* Contact: [mailto:press@pirate-party.ru]<br />
# [[Serbia]]<br />
#* Website: <s>piratskapartija.com</s><br />
# [[Slovakia]]<br />
#* Website: http://piratskastrana.sk/<br />
#* International relations executive: [mailto:av(a)piratskastrana(dot)sk Angelo Verona]<br />
#* Contact: [mailto:ppi(a)piratskastrana(dot)sk ppi@piratskastrana.sk]<br />
# [[South Africa]]<br />
<br />
== other ==<br />
* [[PP International|International]] (Pirate Parties International)<br />
* [[European pirate party|Europe]] (European pirate party)<br />
* [http://pp-francophone.net/ French-speaking Pirate Parties]<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
* [http://www.pp-international.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=620 pp-int forum - Inter-pirate-party communications]<br />
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[[Category:International| ]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Resolutions&diff=5610Resolutions2020-07-07T10:36:18Z<p>Dichter: </p>
<hr />
<div>The PPI Members has collectively issued the following resolutions<br />
<br />
=Online GA 2019=<br />
<br />
===Decline in Democracy===<br />
The Pirate Parties International strongly opposes decline in democracy which leads to violations of human rights and citizen rights.<br />
<br />
=Warsaw GA, 2015=<br />
<br />
The Assembly of the Pirate Parties International have issued following resolutions during its meeting in Warsaw, Poland and call upon the Members of PPI to ratify this declarations timely by a suitable vehicle:<br />
<br />
==Access to medicine==<br />
<br />
:We deem the universal access to medicine and medical treatment as a human right.<br />
:In particular, people in developing and least developed countries must also have access to medicine beyond the restrictions of patenting systems. Patents that hinder the fight against diseases should be subject to compulsory licensing.<br />
:Since the economics of medical technology makes research and development into non-patentable medical techniques uneconomic for corporations, other solutions have to be found in order to guarantee the funding (public or otherwise) of neglected diseases and to test the effectiveness of substances currently illegal for therapeutic purposes to make them available if successful.<br />
:Therefore, us Pirates propose a WHO funding for financing research on neglected diseases.<br />
:Further blocking of scientific work based solely on dogmatic arguments is no longer acceptable.<br />
:Patients must not be hindered in their free choice of treatment. Well trained, responsible physicians and informed patients must have the full responsibility for choosing the substances used for treatment.<br />
:The dangers of all used substances must be fully disclosed.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Pirates want a fair and balanced copyright law based on the interests of society as a whole.<br />
<br />
We strive for the abolition of information monopolies. As for now the only beneficiaries of the monopolies are huge corporations, while the market as a whole is failing. This market failure is apparent by the frequent bullying of individuals and SMEs by collecting societies and the loss of orphan works to society. Our goal is to create an environment where the motivation to create goes hand in hand with freedom of information.<br />
<br />
Improved public availability of information, knowledge and culture is a prerequisite for the social, technological and economic development of our society. Pirates therefore demand that copying, storing, using and providing access to literary and artistic works for non-commercial purposes must not only be legalised but protected by law and actively promoted. Everyone shall be able to enjoy and share our cultural heritage free from the threat of legal action or censorship.<br />
<br />
The commercial monopoly given by copyright should be restored to a reasonable term. Derivative works shall always be permitted, with exceptions that are very specifically enumerated in law with minimal room for interpretation.<br />
<br />
The internet as a medium should know no borders. Pirates consider artificial national barriers for cultural goods a hindrance to the global trade and demand their abolishment. A change of approach is required in the area of rights to intangible goods and their respective enforcement practices.<br />
<br />
Further monopolies in the sectors of information and culture have to be prevented. By law, states should only allow or maintain monopoly rights for intangible goods if these are in the public interest. Any monopoly rights must be temporally limited, neither their time-span nor their scope may be expanded retrospectively.<br />
<br />
The creation of commons, such as free software, free cultural goods, open patent pools and free and open educational material, must be promoted and legally protected.<br />
<br />
Social life, increasingly taking place in digital spaces, must not be restricted by monopoly rights over intangible goods. The introduction of “fair use” regulations will ensure that social interactions remain unencumbered.<br />
<br />
Each collecting society must ensure comprehensive transparency, fair participatory rights for their members and fairer contract terms for artists.<br />
<br />
==Net Neutrality==<br />
<br />
The principle of network neutrality must by inforced by law in each and every country to ensure strong incentives for investment, fair competition and equal treatment of everybody in the digital space.<br />
<br />
We consider the freedom of information as an universal human right, and the net neutrality a necessary mean to it.<br />
<br />
Everyone must be able to have access to an Internet connection that does not discriminate against any service or competitor. Traffic management measures shall only be allowed in exceptional circumstances, operated in a clear and transparent manner and only for technical reasons.<br />
<br />
Non-discriminatory access to the Internet must apply uniformly across the whole world. We reject measures by the telecommunications companies that threaten freedom of access.<br />
<br />
==Basic Income==<br />
<br />
Pirates see labor not just as a tradeable commodity, but also as a person's individual achievement. Respect for human dignity therefore commands that each person can decide freely which occupation he or she wishes to pursue and which job to take, but also that such services be adequately compensated.<br />
<br />
Thanks to technological development it is no longer necessary that each monotonous, senseless or even dangerous task be performed by humans. We welcome and wish to promote this significant advance. Hence we consider the goal of absolute full employment as outdated and not socially desirable. Instead, we want to achieve that all people receive their adequate share of the general wealth; to this end, we will consider the introduction of a basic income guarantee.<br />
<br />
== Privacy ==<br />
<br />
Pirates are committed to privacy and corresponding civil liberties of all human beings worldwide. We will never tolerate state driven surveillance measures of any kind.<br />
Adequate protection against crime is an important responsibility of the state. We must ensure this responsibility is fulfilled through an intelligent, rational and evidence-based security policy without surveillance.<br />
<br />
The practice of routine, automated and untargeted data collection, storage and matching is to be abolished.<br />
Anyone subject to state surveillance should be informed of these facts in due time to safeguard against abuse.<br />
<br />
==No to TTIP==<br />
<br />
The Assembly of Members of Pirate Parties International Strictly oppose international treaties enforcing broken monopolies hindering developing countries or human rights and freedoms. Thus, we<br />
* Strictly oppose TTIP<br />
* Support the protest movement all over the world<br />
* Urge the European Parliament and both houses of the U.S. Congress not to consent to TTIP<br />
* Call for ex-ante and ex-post human rights impact assessments to be conducted for every trade agreement.<br />
<br />
==Transparency of the Public Sector==<br />
<br />
The public sector, including private entities carrying out work on behalf of a public body, must be transparent. Pirates believe that it is a fundamental right of citizens to inspect, without the need for any specific justification, all contracts or financial benefits related to the delivery of public sector or government projects and services.<br />
<br />
Pirates advocate for general and comprehensive legislation to protect persons who expose issues that are in the public interest, such as cases of corruption, insider trading, or ethics or human rights violations (“whistle-blowers”).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kazan GA, 2013=<br />
<br />
The following Resolutions have been issued by the General Assembly of Pirate Parties International in Kazan<br />
<br />
==Pirate Movement is not Sea Piracy==<br />
<br />
We, the members of the Pirate Parties of the world, the members of Pirate Parties International, declare that democracy and the right for uniting are the most important values. Unfortunately, the members of pirate party of Russia do not have opportunity to officially create ts own party. Ministry of Justice of Russian Federation has already rejected in registration twice due to the fact that our state officials consider the word "pirat" in the meaning of sea bandits, robbing the marines. That is why Russian pirates do not have an opportunity to take part in the elections, that means that we do not posess the legal right to influence on shaping the russian legislature.<br />
<br />
We call the ministry of justice of the Russian Federation upon the common sense and demand for admitting the reality. Pirate party of Russia does exist and is not binded with sea piracy. Piracy is an contemporary international political ideology of the extension of civil freedoms.<br />
<br />
==Worldwide Democracy==<br />
<br />
The General Assembly of Pirate Parties International<br />
<br />
* Condemn all dictatorships and regimes which deny human rights.<br />
<br />
* Recognize that the need to strengthen participation in political processes and democracy in the world has become urgent. The attempt to pass important, far-reaching global treaties that have the potential to influence the lives of everyone on the planet, without any public consultation (so called Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement ACTA), make it evident that an early involvement of the general public and parliaments in the international agenda setting process is urgently needed.<br />
<br />
* Notes that some supra-national organizations such as the European Union, the Pan-African Parliament, the Mercosur Community, the Arab League, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe include parliamentary assemblies as treaty organs in order to involve elected representatives in their work.<br />
<br />
* Takes note of the fact that no parliamentary body exists within the framework of the United Nations, the World Bank group, the International Monetary Fund, or the World Trade Organization. We believe that the lack of parliamentary representation in these organizations strongly contributes to the international democratic deficit.<br />
<br />
* States support for the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) as a parliamentary body within the UN system that is complementary to the UN General Assembly, calling for the creation a body that is directly elected by earth's citizen.<br />
<br />
* Calls upon world governments to include the involvement of citizens in the practice of making large scoped far-reaching decisions by utilizing general referendums<br />
<br />
* Appeals to legislators to introduce rules that would ease the process of the foundation of new political parties, to include the parties that do not have political representation in parliaments into the state funding regulations and to reduce or eliminate the barring clauses that are obstructing especially newly created parties.<br />
<br />
=Prague GA, 2012=<br />
<br />
==Prague declaration==<br />
<br />
''Signed by 28 European member parties''<br />
<br />
<br />
The assembled European Pirates signed below agreed on the following:<br />
<br />
===I.===<br />
<br />
We intend to run in the elections to the European Parliament in the year 2014.<br />
<br />
===II.===<br />
<br />
We declare the intent<br />
* to have a common election program included in the individual programs of the respective parties,<br />
* to coordinate our election campaigns,<br />
* to cooperate closely in the European Parliament on the realisation of our common program.<br />
<br />
===III.===<br />
<br />
The common program shall consist of components regarding European policies that have been approved by participating parties. Every participating party will be able to set forth its opinion and report the state of its procedure regarding every proposal.<br />
IV.<br />
<br />
We agree to establish a political party at European level [1].<br />
<br />
===V.===<br />
<br />
We propose this declaration for ratification to the competent bodies of the European Pirate Parties.<br />
<br />
<br />
[1] Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003, as later amended.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Friedrichshafen GA, 2011=<br />
<br />
==Bradley Manning==<br />
<br />
''Signed by 14 members''<br />
<br />
The Conference notes the appalling treatment of Bradley Manning, accused of passing material to Wikileaks. It is important to note that he is not convicted of any crime. Currently he is under military arrest, where he has been for nearly 300 days. He has been held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day in a tiny windowless cell. He has been under intolerable psychological pressure. He has been forced to strip naked.<br />
<br />
Now he faces a new set of charges, including “aiding the enemy”. This charge is a capital offence – it opens up the possibility of the death penalty. It is a sad day when someone just accused of trying to expose war crimes is treated worse than those who actually commit them.<br />
<br />
Therefore Pirate Party International urge:<br />
* The immediate end of the inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning.<br />
* Pirate Parties and members to take part in the international protests at the charges and the conditions [of] Bradley Manning. March 20th will be a day of protest in the US and Europe, a further demonstration is planned in Berlin for March 26th.<br />
* The British government to intervene and request consular access, as Bradley Manning is entitled to British citizenship due to his Welsh mother.<br />
<br />
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<div>This page chronologically lists internal decisions of [[PPI General Assembly]].<br />
<br />
[[Resolutions]], [[Election of officials]], [[Membership history|Member admissions]] and [[Statutes history|Statutes changes]] are listed on separate pages.<br />
<br />
<br />
== 1st General Assembly (Friedrichshafen, DE) ==<br />
<br />
=== Rules of Procedure ===<br />
<br />
Accepted 1st [http://ppi.piratenpad.de/conferencerules-of-procedure Rules of Procedure].<ref>http://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/images/1/1c/PPI-Conference-2011-Day-1.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
''As the rules were provisional, they are no longer valid. Permanent RoP were passed [[Decisons of GA#Rules of Procedure 2|later]].''<br />
<br />
=== Annual fees ===<br />
<br />
''The General Assembly decided that the annual fees would have to be paid on a voluntary basis.''<ref>http://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/images/b/b8/Minutes-PPI-GA-2011-2nd-day.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
===Transparency===<br />
The General Assembly has resolved as follows:<ref>http://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/images/b/b8/Minutes-PPI-GA-2011-2nd-day.pdf</ref><br />
* 1. The bank accounts of the Pirate Parties International and its headquarters shall be transparent for the public. The transparency includes the display of the details of all financial transactions.<br />
* 2. The resolution shall be specified and executed by the Board in no more than three months from the day when this resolution takes effect.<br />
* 3. This resolution is binding and takes effect upon publication.<br />
<br />
== 2nd General Assembly (Prague, CZ)==<br />
nothing.<ref>[[PPI Conference 2012/Proposals#Policies and standards of the pirate movement]]</ref><ref>[[PPI Conference 2012/Proposals#General policy PPI]]</ref><ref>[[PPI Conference 2012/Proposals#PPI internal regulation]]</ref><br />
<br />
== 3rd General Assembly ==<br />
=== Rules of Procedure ===<br />
The General Assembly accepts its new [[PPI_Conference_2013/GA_meeting/RoP|Rules of Procedure]].<ref>[[PPI Conference 2013/GA meeting/Minutes#10:00 - Vote on the Rules of Procedure (RoP)]]</ref><br />
<br />
''Current Rules of Procedure for meetings of General Assembly are now kept [[Rules of procedure|here]]''<br />
<br />
=== Membersip fees===<br />
Nothing has passed.<ref>[[PPI Conference 2013/GA meeting/Minutes#MOP-4 revisited (proposal on setting the membership fee)]]</ref><br />
<br />
== 4th General Assembly (Paris, FR) ==<br />
=== Change the financial year ===<br />
The General Assembly mandates the board to change the financial year to 1st January till 31st December.<ref>[[Minutes of GA 2014#MOP 5]]</ref><ref>[[PPI Conference 2014/Other proposals#MOP-5]]</ref><br />
=== Quaterly report of Lay Auditors ===<br />
Until the next GA, the current GA mandates the newly elected treasurer to report periodically on a 3-month basis (by the calendar quartals) to all members about the current state of the improvement of current and past accounting.<ref>[[Minutes of GA 2014#MOP 6]]</ref><ref>[[PPI Conference 2014/Other proposals#MOP-6]]</ref><br />
<br />
Until the next GA, the current GA mandates the newly elected lay auditors to review the data provided on a 3-month basis and discusses it with the treasurer. These lay auditors are then obliged to send an opinion report to all PPI members within three weeks.<ref>[[Minutes of GA 2014#MOP 6]]</ref><ref>[[PPI Conference 2014/Other proposals#MOP-6b]]</ref><br />
<br />
=== Membership fees ===<br />
The General Assembly resolved on their fees as follows:<br />
<br />
:The fee is calculated as follows:<br />
* The actual HDI[http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/hdi] of a country is taken as a exponent to 50 to get the '''basis fee'''.<br />
* This basis fee is multiplied with following factors: <br />
** for each elected pirate on national level times two,<br />
** for each elected member of a regional parliament times 1/5,<br />
** and for each elected member on a local level times 1/10.<br />
* This multiplied values are then added to the basis value. <br />
* For the calculation it is non discriminatory if the pirate is holding a mandate in the executive or legislative brunch.<br />
* Parties with less than 500 members can pay as much as they want, but more than 0€.<br />
* There are no penalties for not paying.<br />
* Observer membership is not associated with any costs.<br />
* The first fees are due for the next financial year.<ref>[[Minutes of GA 2014#MOP 4 (membership fees)]]</ref><br />
<br />
''This decision was rendered invalid by decision of CoA.''<ref>[[PPI CoA/PPI CoA Ruling 2014-1]]</ref><br />
<br />
== online General Assembly march 2015 ==<br />
=== Rules of Procedure ===<br />
<br />
General Assembly [http://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure&diff=362313&oldid=361876 admended] its rules for online meetings.<ref>[[Minutes_of_Online_GA_2015#RoP]]</ref><br />
<br />
=== Membership fees ===<br />
The General Assembly resolved as follows:<br />
<br />
:Acording of art. XVI of PPI Statutes[1], General Assembly determines the calculation of '''Affiliation Fees''' as follows:<br />
:#The actual HDI[2] of a country is taken as an exponent to 50 to get the basis fee in €.<br />
:#This basis fee is multiplied by following factors:<br />
:#*for each elected pirate on national level times two,<br />
:#*for each elected member of a regional parliament times 1/5,<br />
:#*and for each elected member on a local level times 1/10.<br />
:#This multiplied values are then added to the basis fee.<br />
<br />
::For the calculation it is non-discriminatory if a pirate is holding a mandate in the executive or legislative branch.<br />
::Affiliation fee shall not excess 1% of the member's annual income for the previous financial year.<br />
::Observer membership is not associated with any costs.<br />
::No member shall contribute more then 20% of all PPI's due fees.<br />
::The first fees are due the next financial year. This calculation of Affiliation Fees is valid for following years unless decided otherwise.<br />
<br />
<br />
:General Assembly furthermore (according to art. X(h) of PPI Statutes[3]) decides that:<br />
:*PPI will display all the details of all the transactions, as previously decided on 1st General Assembly meeting.[4]<br />
:*PPI is obliged to publish all the bank statements of all the accounts online [5]<br />
:*Until these transparency requirements are fullfilled, members are not obliged to pay their membership fees for that year<br />
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*[1] [[Statutes#XVI._Affiliation_Fees]]<br />
*[2] http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi<br />
*[3] "[The functions of the General Assembly are] h) to accept internal regulations for the Pirate Parties International (...)" <ref>[[Statutes#X._Functions_of_the_General_Assembly]]</ref><br />
*[4] [[Decisons_of_GA#Transparency]]<br />
*[5] Personal details of natural persons can be censored prior to publication online<br />
<br />
=== Policy in treaty negotiation process ===<br />
:''We call on the General Assembly to defer any policy motion to a proper treaty negotiation track.''<br />
<br />
=== Standing Committees ===<br />
''The General Assembly decided as follows:''<br />
<br />
The Board is given the duty to take the necessary steps in order to establish a standing committee infrastructure within PPI.<br />
:At least, the following committees are to be established:<br />
*standing committee on public and press relations, elections and campaigning,<br />
*standing committee on new parties,<br />
*standing committee on INGO relations,<br />
*standing committee on PPI budget, oversight, transparency, finances and fund raising,<br />
*standing committee on common political program.<br />
<br />
:Each ordinary member of PPI may have at least one seat in all of the standing committees. This includes one standing member and up to two deputies. The Board of PPI should take committee recommendations into consideration, when making decisions.<br />
:Each standing committee should convene two to four times per calender year on a regular basis.<br />
:Every standing committee should have a support of a PPI board member who is responsible for it.<br />
:All committees will have at least one meeting prior to the Warsaw conference 2015.<br />
<br />
=== Individual ‘Global Pirate Membership’ from supporters ===<br />
: PPI should cultivate a global identity amongst Pirate supporters by soliciting individual membership fees equivalent to €10 per year. Member Parties are encouraged to solicit PPI supporter membership during their own regular campaigns.<br />
<br />
=== Implementation of online eDemocracy system ===<br />
:The PPI General Assembly should commit to the implementation of an online eDemocracy system with the powers of a GA, as stated in the Statutes, XI.4.<ref>Statutes#XI._Voting</ref><br />
:The Board is given the duty to take the necessary steps in order to implement that system before 30.06.2015.<br />
<br />
== 5th General Assembly (Warsaw, PL)==<br />
=== Rules of Procedure ===<br />
General Assembly amended its RoP by the article 7.2.e<br />
<br />
=== Political Manifesto===<br />
<br />
The Assembly of the Members of Pirate Parties International<br />
<br />
- Considering the growing number of Pirate Parties worldwide,<br />
<br />
- Recognising the political autonomy and diversity of PPI Members,<br />
<br />
- Acknowledging PPI being a global organisation that is concerned with the whole world and not only with the regards of the developed world,<br />
<br />
- Pursuing the goal of strengthening the global pirate identity across the globe,<br />
<br />
- Noting the effort that went into the creation of the "Manifesto of the European Pirate Party",<br />
<br />
- Acclaiming the constitution of the Standing Committee on Common Political Program,<br />
<br />
strives to come up within a year, with a proposal for a political manifesto to be included as part of the statutes of the Pirate Parties International, that should then be approved '''by consensus''' by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
=== eDemocracy system decisions ===<br />
The initiatives winning on the eDemocracy system shall be considered binding decisions of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
=== continue quarterly reports by the treasurer ===<br />
Until the next GA, the current GA mandates the newly elected treasurer to report periodically on a 3-month basis (by the calendar quartals) to all members about the current state of the improvement of current and past accounting.<br />
<br />
=== Mandate new board to come up with new regulations to avoid a second Thinktwice situation ===<br />
Until the end of September 2015, the current GA mandates the newly elected board to write at least one regulation for the internal board regulations and consider an additional statute proposal in order to avoid a financially desastrous situation as has occurred with the ThinkTwice 2015 conference<br />
<br />
== 6th General Assembly (Berlin, DE)==<br />
Motion on the rules of procedure to allow voting utilizing mumble for remote participants.<br />
<br />
Only statutes and motions that were passed by vote are listed. The original statue amendments and motions are available at these pages:<br />
Statute Ammendments, http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Conference_2016/Statutes_Amendments<br />
Motions, http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Conference_2016/Other_proposals<br />
<br />
=== Composition of the Board ===<br />
'''SAP-1 Composition of the Board''': Removed point 5 from section XII.Board (5) "To safeguard the diversity and the international character of the organization only one officer of the same nationality may be elected in the board of PPI. If two nominees of the same nationality would receive the needed votes to be appointed in the board only the nominee first elected in case of sequential elections or the nominee with the most votes in case of a simultaneous election will be appointed."<br />
<br />
=== Name and Seat === <br />
'''SAP-2 Name and Seat''': Seat was added to the charter.<br />
(1) The name of the association is Pirate Parties International. The official abbreviation is PPI.<br />
(2) The association is not for profit. The rights and duties of the association and its Members shall be disjunct.<br />
(3) The seat of the association is Geneva, Switzerland.<br />
<br />
=== Functions of the Board === <br />
'''SAP-4 XIII. Functions of the Board''': Adapted from the former language of co-chairmen to the current makeup of a vice chairman.<br />
(5) The Chairman or the vice chairman convenes, opens, suspends, and closes the sessions and meetings and presides over them to ensure the observance of procedure, communicates the points of concern, and informs the Board about absences. In the absence of both Chairmen another Member of the Board may be appointed to perform all these functions by the rest of the board.<br />
<br />
=== Rotating Terms for Board Members=== <br />
'''SAP-5 XII. Board'''Added a rotating system by electing every year only a part of the board and having members that are elected for two years.<br />
(2) The Board and the Alternate Members are elected for two years by the General Assembly at the regular sessions or if an extraordinary session is requested for that purpose.<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
<br />
=== Mailing Lists === <br />
'''MO-5 Mailing Lists''' (MO-5 Sponsored by PP-BE. Motion to ask the board to look into the functioning of the mailinglists and take actions accordingly to ensure a good functioning.) "Only inofficial business (speakers, discussion, workshops)."<br />
<br />
=== Minutes ===<br />
https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2016_07_23<br />
<br />
== 7th General Assembly November 2017 (Geneva, Switzerland -> Online) ==<br />
<br />
=== Full Review of the statutes === <br />
'''MO-1 :Full Review of the statutes of PPI''' Presented by PPCH. Delegate to the board a full review of the statutes of PPI covering coherence, wording and structure. This does not have to do with what is described in the statutes. It merely has to do with the language to make it easier for a reader. The goal is to have a document that we can present at the next GA. We prepared the statute amendments. We need to present them to our constituents with sufficient time to review, so we will not vote on them in this meeting. However, we do want to bring everyone's attention to the proposed revisions that are available at the above pad. Revisions were proposed in regards to grammar and syntax, as well as content. These revisions should be voted on separately.<br />
<br />
===Minutes of the meeting===<br />
https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2017_11_20<br />
<br />
== 8th General Assembly November 2018 (Munich, Germany) ==<br />
=== Affiliation fees ===<br />
<br />
* This is proposal for member affiliation fees, it will remove all previous affiliation fee rules;<br />
* Affiliation are made for a 4-Tier Membership Fee System. The Four Tiers are as follows: 1) Mature, 2) Established, 3) Emerging, 4) Nascent. Each member category would have a distinct affiliation fee payment. No member shall pay more than 2% of their previous annual income. This would apply to the affiliation fees that are due in 2019.<br />
** Mature members are Established members that also receive regular state funding, have elected officials at state or regional level, and/or have elected officials at local level who receive compensation. (fulfill at least two)<br />
** Established members are Emerging members that also have paying members and run for elections on a regular basis.(fulfill all)<br />
** Emerging members are Nascent members that also collect donations. (fulfill all)<br />
** Nascent members have regular statutory activities, such as general assemblies and run activism projects. (fulfill all)<br />
<br />
** Mature would pay 1000 euros.<br />
** Established would pay 185 euros.<br />
** Emerging would pay 50 euros.<br />
** Nascent would pay 0 euros.<br />
<br />
=== Aproval of the 2019 Budget ===<br />
<br />
* Approved Budget (expenditures) https://ppi.savvy.ch/t/2018-ga-budget-revised-from-annual-report-and-treasurers-statement/88/3<br />
<br />
* Accompaniing statement: "Any member wishing to apply a limit of 2% to their affiliation fees shall provide a correct and full information on its membership base, income and electoral percentage to the board before the end of June of the fiscal year. Provisional figures may be provided and corrected figures provided at a the end of a year."<br />
<br />
=== New vote tool ===<br />
<br />
* 1. Tasks the Board to evaluate Congressus<br />
** a) as the tool for remote elections and voting on the points of General assembly meetings (St. XI (6)),<br />
** b) as a permanent online e-Democracy system (St. XI (4)),<br />
** c) as a tool for online General Assembly meetings,<br />
** d) as a tool for Board meetings, <br />
* and report its findings within 3 months to Members.<br />
* 2. If the Board finds Congressus applicable in its report, it shall prepare it for use in such cases on PPI servers within 2 months after the report's release.<br />
<br />
=== Minutes ===<br />
Minutes of the meeting [[PPI_Minutes_2018_11_03|Minutes]]<br />
<br />
== 09th General Assembly December 2019 (Online) ==<br />
<br />
===Working group on pirate governance codex===<br />
The General Assembly of the Pirate Parties International '''calls''' the board to organize a working group to create a proposal for a Pirate Governance Codex. The working group should be open to all pirates and also invite external subject matter experts. The working group should present this proposal at the next GA.<br />
<br />
===Join the Save .ORG campaign===<br />
The General Assembly signs and adheres to the savedotorg.org 2 campaign. <br />
<br />
===Endorsement of “Contract for the Web”===<br />
The General Assembly of Pirate Parties International supports and endorse the “Contract for the Web”<br />
<br />
===Minutes of the meeting===<br />
:Day 1: [[PPI Minutes 2019 12 07]]<br />
:Day 2: [[PPI Minutes 2019 12 08]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== 10th General Assembly May 2020 (Online) ==<br />
===Statute amendements===<br />
==== Clarity and Technicals ====<br />
General Assembly of PPI '''changes''' Art. XII. of its Statutes as follows:<br />
# '''remove''' (2a) and '''change''' (5) to: ''"(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years."'',<br />
# '''change''' (3) to: ''"(3) The Board is composed of __nine Board Members as follows__:"'',<br />
# '''remove''' "and" from (4),<br />
# in (6) '''change''' "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
==== Number of alternates and term limit ====<br />
General Assembly of PPI '''changes''' Art. XII. number (7) of its Statutes to:<br />
* (7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
General assembly '''tasks''' the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly '''tasks''' the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
<br />
=== Minutes ===<br />
Minutes of the meeting [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30|Minutes]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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Dear Pirates,<br />
<br />
We are pleased to announce that the 2019 PPI General Assembly will take place on the weekend of December 7th and 8th, and it will be entirely online. Please use the following form to sign up for the event: https://lime.ppi.rocks/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=694292<br />
<br />
After you fill in this form, starting on the 1st of December you will get access to three places: a Discourse forum for debates, the meeting room in Discord, and Congressus for the agenda and meeting minutes. You will also need to submit your statute proposals no later than November 9th. There is no deadline for board nominations or procedural motions.<br />
<br />
As you may be aware, the PPI board has undergone some recent changes. The changes to the board are as follows: Guillaume Saouli has resigned from his position as Chairman, and the Chair position has been passed on to the former Vice-Chairwoman, Bailey Lamon. Additionally, former alternate board member Gregory Engels has not only stepped in as a board member but is now the Vice-Chairman. Dan Prazeres has also taken over the treasurer position. This will carry until the General Assembly when these positions, as well as several others will be open to nominations from the Pirate community at large.<br />
<br />
The following positions within PPI will be elected at the GA:<br />
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-1 Chairperson<br />
-1 Vice-Chairperson<br />
-3 board members<br />
-3 alternate board members<br />
-6 members of the Court of Arbitration<br />
-3 lay auditors<br />
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We also seek nominations for vice-secretaries and vice-treasurers, as well as proposals about locations for future GAs and Pirate events.<br />
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Affiliation fee invoices will be sent separately to each party. The fees for this year are according to the old system. They should be paid prior to the GA. Please let us know if your party will have problems paying fees, and we will arrange for reductions or postponements if necessary.<br />
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As we get closer there will be more announcements and important information being shared, so stay tuned and bear with us. Until then, do not hesitate to contact us with questions or concerns. We look forward to seeing all of you at the GA!<br />
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Best wishes,<br />
<br />
PPI Board 2018-2019<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
:Day 1: [[PPI Minutes 2019 12 07]]<br />
:Day 2: [[PPI Minutes 2019 12 08]]</div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30&diff=5607PPI Minutes 2020 05 302020-07-07T10:06:11Z<p>Dichter: /* Clearer composition and elections of the board */</p>
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<div><br />
::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
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::'''---30.05.2020 11:01 CEST ---'''<br />
:: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9303627084<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
::Online Discourse link:http://ga.pp-international.net/<br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
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::participating: <br />
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*Members of PPI<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
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The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
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=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
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=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
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=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
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For Ordinary Membership:<br />
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*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
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*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
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For Observing Membership:<br />
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*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
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=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
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RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
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Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
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Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
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Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
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Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
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Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
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Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
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==Proposed Agenda==<br />
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*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
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:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
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*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
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==Delegates accreditation==<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
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Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
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==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
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<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
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Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
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1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
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We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
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2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
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This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
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-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
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3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
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This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
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4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
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This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
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We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
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We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
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Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
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Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
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Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
<br />
Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
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==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
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:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
<br />
:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
<br />
:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
<br />
:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
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:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
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:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
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:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
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:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
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==CoA Report==<br />
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:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
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*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
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==New Member Applications==<br />
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:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
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Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
<br />
:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
<br />
:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
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:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
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:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
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:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
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:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
<br />
F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
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:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
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:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
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===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
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Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
<br />
:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
<br />
:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
<br />
:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
<br />
<br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
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Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
<br />
:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
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:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
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<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
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===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
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====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
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:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
<br />
==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
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==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
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*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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===Setting up a permanent assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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===Voting week===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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:Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
:Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
:Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the latest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a quick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrence. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
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Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
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14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
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PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
<pre><br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
</pre><br />
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Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
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Statute amendment<br />
<pre><br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
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(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
</pre><br />
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Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
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which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
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1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:1= 6<br />
:2= 2<br />
:Abstain= 4<br />
:Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
<br />
Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
<br />
:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
:yes= 7<br />
:no= 4<br />
:abstain= 1<br />
:not present= 2<br />
<br />
:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
<br />
motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
<br />
:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
<br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
<br />
<br />
:Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
<s>(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.</s><br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be <s>four</s> Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be <s>four</s> Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
<s>(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.</s><br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
* Pirate Party of France - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Vote on proposal 5A<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
: Gregory: This motion does not have an eligible sponsor. Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text= General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, Board will take appropriate actions.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easily be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easily be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted. <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendment removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
''remark from the meeting chair, after the GA: this was actually a mistake. proposal 5A has passed, and it still prescribe a precise number of alternates...''<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
<br />
===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
<br />
:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
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:===================================================<br />
* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
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:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
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::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
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::'''---30.05.2020 11:01 CEST ---'''<br />
:: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9303627084<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
::Online Discourse link:http://ga.pp-international.net/<br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
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::participating: <br />
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*Members of PPI<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
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The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
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=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
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=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
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=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
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For Ordinary Membership:<br />
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*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
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*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
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For Observing Membership:<br />
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*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
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=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
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RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
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Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
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Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
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Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
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Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
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Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
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Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
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==Proposed Agenda==<br />
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*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
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:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
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*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
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==Delegates accreditation==<br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
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Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
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<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
<br />
Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
<br />
2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
<br />
This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
<br />
-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
<br />
3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
<br />
This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
<br />
4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
<br />
This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
<br />
We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
<br />
We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
<br />
Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
<br />
Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
<br />
Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
<br />
==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
<br />
:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
<br />
:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
<br />
:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
<br />
:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
<br />
:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
<br />
:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
<br />
:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
<br />
:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
<br />
==CoA Report==<br />
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<br />
:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
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*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
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<br />
==New Member Applications==<br />
<br />
<br />
:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
<br />
Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
<br />
:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
<br />
:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
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:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
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:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
<br />
:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
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:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
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F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
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:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
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:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
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===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
<br />
Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
<br />
:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
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:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
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:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
<br />
<br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
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Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
<br />
:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
<br />
:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
<br />
===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
<br />
:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
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==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
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==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
<br />
*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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===Setting up a permanent assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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===Voting week===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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:Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
:Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
:Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the latest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a quick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrence. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
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Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
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14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
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PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
<pre><br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
<br />
Statute amendment<br />
<pre><br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
<br />
which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
<br />
1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:1= 6<br />
:2= 2<br />
:Abstain= 4<br />
:Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
<br />
Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
<br />
:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
:yes= 7<br />
:no= 4<br />
:abstain= 1<br />
:not present= 2<br />
<br />
:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
<br />
motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
<br />
:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
<br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
<br />
<br />
:Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be <s>four</s> Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be <s>four</s> Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
<s>(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.</s><br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
* Pirate Party of France - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Vote on proposal 5A<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
: Gregory: This motion does not have an eligible sponsor. Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text= General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, Board will take appropriate actions.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easily be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easily be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted. <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
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|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendment removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
''remark from the meeting chair, after the GA: this was actually a mistake. proposal 5A has passed, and it still prescribe a precise number of alternates...''<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
<br />
===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
<br />
:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
<br />
:===================================================<br />
* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
<br />
:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
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=Statutes of Pirate Parties International (PPI)=<br />
* Amended on 30th of May 2020 at [[PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30|Online GA]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=5567}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=5567&oldid=5246}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on 07th December 2019 at [[PPI_General_Assembly_2019]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4813}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4813&oldid=4812}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 3rd November 2018 in [[PPI_Conference_2018|Munich, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=4812}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=4812&oldid=4751}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 23 and 24th 2016 in [[PPI_Conference_2016|Berlin, Germany]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=363200}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=363199&oldid=362702}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on July, 5 and 6th 2015 in [[PPI_Conference_2015|Warsaw, Poland]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=362593}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=362593&oldid=362429}} Changes])<br />
* Amended on April, 13 2014 in [[PPI_Conference_2014|Paris, France]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 22 2013 in [[PPI_Conference_2013|Kazan, Russia]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=351052}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=361052&oldid=8333}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on April, 15 2012 in [[PPI_Conference_2012|Prague, Czech Republic]] ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=8333}} Versionslink], [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|diff=8333&oldid=8331}} Changes]) <br />
* Amended on March,12 2011 in [[PPI_Conference_2011|Friedrichshafen, Germany]]([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid=7531}} Versionslink])<br />
* Signed on 18 April 2010 at the [[International_Conference_2010|PPI Founding conference]] in Brussels, Belgium.<br />
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<br />
==Preamble==<br />
<br />
Pirate Parties International exists to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world.<br />
<br />
==Introductory statements==<br />
<br />
===I. Name===<br />
(1) The name of the association is Pirate Parties International. The official<br />
abbreviation is PPI.<br />
<br />
(2) The association is not for profit. The rights and duties of the association and its Members shall be disjunct.<br />
<br />
(3) The seat of the association is Geneva, Switzerland.<br />
<br />
==Tasks and goals==<br />
<br />
===II. Goals===<br />
(1) The goals of the association are: <br />
:a) to act according to the major interests and goals of its Members,<br />
:b) to raise awareness and widen the spread of the pirate movement, and<br />
:c) to support the pirate movement and strengthen its bonds internally and externally,<br />
:d) to promote and support Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.<br />
<br />
(2) To accomplish these objectives the association shall, among other things:<br />
:a) provide for and extend communication between the Members of the association,<br />
:b) assist in the foundation of new pirate parties,<br />
:c) organize and coordinate global campaigns and events,<br />
:d) act as mediator or arbitrator for any disputes between Members if requested to do so,<br />
:e) share information and coordinate research on the core pirate topics,<br />
:f) contact NGO's, administrations and international organizations, and<br />
:g) act as a contact centre for the pirate movement.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
<br />
===III. Membership===<br />
(1) Membership in the Pirate Parties International is open to Parties and other<br />
organizations. <br />
<br />
(2) The number of Members is unlimited, but may not be less than two.<br />
<br />
(3) Requests for Membership shall be submitted in writing to the Board at<br />
least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly. They shall<br />
include contact information and a statement on the adoption of the<br />
statutes and internal regulations of the Pirate Parties International, in<br />
addition to a copy of the statutes and by-laws and the political program of<br />
the applicant and information on the background and organization of said<br />
applicant. The Board will transmit the application to all Members at least<br />
two weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(4) The General Assembly is authorized to grant, at its own discretion, the applicant one of the following Member status in Pirate Parties International<br />
:a) Ordinary Member<br />
:b) Observer Member <br />
:c) Supporting Member<br />
<br />
(5) The Members are obliged to respect the Statutes, internal regulations and rules of procedure, in particular abide by the decisions of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
<br />
===IV. Ordinary Members===<br />
<br />
(1) The Ordinary Members are the founding Members and those accepted by the General Assembly according to [[#iii_membership|section III]], paragraph (4). To Ordinary Membership are eligible Members that <br />
:a) adhere to these statutes and the goals of the association as laid down by these statutes, and<br />
:b) have an inner order based on democratic principles.<br />
<br />
(2) There can be multiple Ordinary Members per sovereign state. In this case, the voting power of this sovereign state is split between these Members. <br />
<br />
(3) The General Assembly is authorized to grant Member status in Pirate Parties International to any Pirate party, which subscribes to the association’s principles and accepts its statutes and internal regulations. <br />
<br />
(4) Ordinary Members have the right to<br />
:a) sit and vote in the General Assembly,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
===V. Observer Members===<br />
(1) An applicant that does not meet the criteria for Ordinary Membership may be granted Observer Member status by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(2) Observer Members have the right to <br />
:a) sit in the General Assembly but with no voting right,<br />
:b) nominate candidates for any body of the association, and<br />
:c) submit motions to the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
<br />
===V. a. Supporting Member===<br />
(1) Individuals and other organizations who care to actively support Pirate Parties International can become Supporting Member.<br />
<br />
(2) Supporting Members shall be entitled to attend the General Assembly as non-voting participant. They shall not be entitled to vote unless they are appointed as delegates by a member organization.<br />
<br />
(3) The minimum annual subscription for Supporting Members shall be fixed by the Board.<br />
<br />
(4) No Supporting Member shall be accepted against the objections of an Ordinary Member of the country of applicants residence or of the Board of Pirate Parties International. In the case that no Ordinary Member exists in the country of applicants residence, admission is decided directly by the Board of Pirate Parties International. Details of the application and admission process shall be regulated in the Rules of Procedures of the Board.<br />
<br />
(5) Member Parties are encouraged to solicit PPI supporting membership during their own regular campaigns.<br />
<br />
===VI. Multiple applicants from one sovereign state===<br />
(1) If there are multiple applicants for Ordinary Membership status, they are encouraged to join together into a Federation or Confederation based on the common Pirate purpose. It is the responsibility of each Federation or Confederation to ensure that all its constituent Associations meet the requirements of these statutes.<br />
<br />
(2) If a Federation or Confederation cannot be agreed on, the voting power of this state is split between these Members. The splitting method is, in order of preference :<br />
:a) consensus between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state ;<br />
:b) compromise between all Ordinary Members of this sovereign state, with the help of a Registered Moderator from the Court of Arbitration ;<br />
:c) decision by the Court of Arbitraton within the limits contained in proposals given by Ordinary Members from the sovereign state.<br />
(3) As long as none of the preferred methods comes into action, the voting power of the sovereign state is split equally between its Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
===VII. Termination of Membership===<br />
(1) Any Member may resign from Pirate Parties International at any time. The Member gives notice to the Board of the decision to resign. This shall be done in a traceable way. Members that resign are obliged to fulfill their financial obligations toward the association for all previous years. <br />
<br />
(2) The decisions on the changes of Membership, such as suspension, reinstatement and exclusion, fall within the competence of the Court of Arbitration, and can be appealed to the General Assembly. If the Member appeals, the decision becomes effective at the end of theMeeting of the General Assembly, unless the General Assembly decides otherwise. A proposal for decisions on the change of Membership to Court of Arbitration may only be submitted by the Board, or by group of tenth of Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
(3) A Member’s affiliation ceases automatically upon dissolution, disqualification, liquidation or in cases of temporary administration, court-ordered settlement or insolvency. The Membership also ends automatically when this Member does no longer fulfill the criteria that were necessary for its preliminary recognition as a Member.<br />
<br />
(4) Resigning, deceased / dissolved / bankrupt or excluded members and their successors or rightful claimants shall have no entitlement to the assets of the Association.<br />
<br />
(5) They may not claim restitution or reimbursement of membership fees or payments made.<br />
<br />
(6) They may not demand or claim a report, statement of accounts, sealing or inventory.<br />
<br />
<br />
=== VIII. Membership Register ===<br />
The Board keeps a Membership register at the PPI Headquarters of Pirate Parties International. This register lists the name, legal form, address of the registered office, identity of the representative and, where applicable, the registration number in accordance with existing legislation and regulations. All Members may consult the register of organizations at the registered office of the PPI Headquarters. <br />
<br />
==General Assembly==<br />
<br />
===IX. General Assembly ===<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association. The General Assembly shall meet at least once a year.<br />
<br />
(2) Extraordinary sessions can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the Board.<br />
<br />
(3) The General Assembly decides with the majority of the votes, one vote per sovereign state that has at least one Ordinary Member.<br />
<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any meeting of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
<br />
(5) The physical or remote presence of Ordinary Members gathering one third of the total voting power shall constitute a quorum. <br />
<br />
(6) The General Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure.<br />
<br />
(7) Meetings of the General Assembly will be announced at least five weeks prior to the meeting. The invitation will be sent out by the Board to all Members and published on the homepage of Pirate Parties International website.<br />
<br />
===X. Functions of the General Assembly===<br />
The functions of the General Assembly are: <br />
:a) to consider the policies and standards of the Pirate Movement throughout the world and take such action as shall further the goals of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:b) to formulate the general policy of Pirate Parties International,<br />
:c) to consider applications for Membership and decide as to the exclusion of Members, <br />
:d) to hold elections of the Board, and other committees,<br />
:e) to consider reports and recommendations presented by the Board,<br />
:f) to consider recommendations brought forward by Member Organizations, <br />
:g) to consider proposed amendments to these statutes,<br />
:h) to accept internal regulations for the Pirate Parties International and to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes, and<br />
:i) to define specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-framed goals for the upcoming period. The goals should be prioritized if possible.<br />
<br />
===XI. Voting===<br />
(1) All votes are public.<br />
<br />
(1a) Each sovereign state with at least one Ordinary Member shall have one vote and resolutions shall be taken by a simple majority of the sum of the votes of the Ordinary Members present or represented and voting. In the event of a tie, the motion is defeated. <br />
<br />
(2) Decisions concerning the admission of new Members ([[#iii_membership|section III.]] paragraph 4), the exclusion of Members ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|section VII]], paragraph 2), the determination of the annual affiliation fee ([[#xviaffiliation_fees|section XVI]], paragraph 1) and the amendment of this Statutes ([[#xx_amendments|section XX]]), shall be passed by a two thirds majority of the votes cast. <br />
<br />
(3) An Ordinary Member which is unable to be present at a meeting of the General Assembly may vote by proxy given to another Member, but no Member may accept more than one proxy. <br />
<br />
(4) A permanent online e-Democracy system allowing for decision making of General Assembly between its meetings shall be put in place where issues can be raised, initiatives started, suggestions made, and progress checked until a final vote can be cast.<br />
* a) Issues and initiatives <ref group="*">Initiatives are competing motions on the same issue</ref> can be raised and started by the Board and anyone else who can submit motions to the General Assembly;<br />
* b) An issue not raised by the Board needs a support of one third of the Members in order for its initiatives to be voted.<br />
<br />
(5) Any Ordinary Member which has failed to pay its annual affiliation fee up to and including the end of the fiscal year preceding the General Assembly meeting shall forfeit its right to vote at that meeting of the General Assembly, unless remission or postponement of dues has received prior authorization from the Board.<br />
<br />
(6) Remote elections and voting on the points described in [[#xi_voting|XI (2)]] shall be<br />
possible for all meetings of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
===XIa. Revocation===<br />
(1) At any time, Ordinary Members wielding at least a fifth of the voting power can initiate the revocation of a PPI officer by calling upon the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration can reject the revocation request if it is not supported by enough of the Ordinary Members, if an election for the seat took place less than a month ago or will take place within a month, or another revocation process of the same PPI officer is already in progress.<br />
<br />
(2) When the request is valid, within seven days the Council of the Court of Arbitration warns the Members of the revocation process, and opens an internal consultation of seven days to collect grievances against the concerned PPI officer. The Council of the Court of Arbitration then has seven days to send him a synthesis of the grievances.<br />
<br />
(3) The PPI officer has seven days to answer. At reception of his answer, or at the end of the time, the Council of the Court of Arbitration organizes a postal referendum on the revocation of the PPI officer with the synthesis of the grievances and, if any, his answer. If the revocation is voted, the PPI officer's seat is treated as vacant and this person cannot occupy the same seat until the following General Assembly.<br />
<br />
==Board==<br />
===XII. Board===<br />
(1) Pirate Parties International is managed by the Board, the executive organ.<br />
The members of the Board shall consider the interests of the Pirate<br />
movement as a whole and shall neither consider themselves, nor be<br />
considered, as representing any particular Member or non-member<br />
Organization or region.<br />
<br />
(2) The Board and the Alternate Members are elected for two years by the General Assembly at the regular sessions or if an extraordinary session is requested for that purpose.<br />
<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
:a) one Chairperson,<br />
:b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
:c) seven additional Board Members<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
:a) a Treasurer,<br />
:b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
:c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson if the seat became vacant.<br />
<br />
No Board Member shall fulfil more than one office.<br />
<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
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(8) Alternate Members following-up on the Board shall have no office, but may be elected into one by a majority vote of the Board.<br />
<br />
===XIII. Functions of the Board===<br />
(1) The functions of the Board are:<br />
:a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly between its meetings; to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies; and to represent it at international and national events,<br />
:b) to promote the Pirate Movement throughout the world by means of visits, correspondence, training courses and other appropriate action,<br />
:c) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
:d) to recommend the admission of Organizations applying for Membership, <br />
:e) to prepare the agenda and procedure of the meetings of the General Assembly, giving consideration to suggestions from Member Organizations, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting,<br />
:f) to appoint the Secretary General of Pirate Parties International, and to appoint his Deputy or Deputies upon a recommendation of the Secretary General; and to supervise the management of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:g) to approve the annual budget and financial statements of the PPI Headquarters,<br />
:h) to accept the responsibility for the raising of additional funds, and<br />
:i) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes.<br />
<br />
(2) The Board performs actions according to the decisions of the General<br />
Assembly and the spirit of the Pirate Movement.<br />
<br />
(3) One natural person named by each Ordinary Member shall be admitted<br />
with the right to participate in the Board meetings without the right to vote.<br />
<br />
(4) The Board adopts rules of procedure that specify the provisions of internal regulations and voting rules. <br />
<br />
(5) One of the Co-Chairmen convenes, opens, suspends, and closes the sessions and meetings and presides over them to ensure the observance of procedure, communicates the points of concern, and informs the Board about absences. In the absence of both of the Co-Chairmen another Member of the Board may be appointed to perform all these functions.<br />
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(6) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a month. The form of the meeting is free.<br />
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(7) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published not less than two weeks after the meeting. The Board has to inform the General Assembly on its next meeting on the fact of non-public meetings.<br />
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(8) A Board member may resign at any moment. After resignation, death, long term disease or if a Member of the Board does not execute its functions for more than three months, his seat becomes vacant. If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote. The concerned Board Member may appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration within the period of a month. The Court of Arbitration shall pass judgement not later than a month after the appeal was filed. Pending the decision of the Court of Arbitration or until the decision of the Board cannot be appealed anymore the seat shall not be taken by an Alternate Member, but all rights of the concerned Board Member will be suspended.<br />
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(9) If the Board has less than three remaining Members, an extraordinary session of the General Assembly has to be held within the next six months, if an ordinary session is not scheduled within this period.<br />
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==PPI Headquarters==<br />
===XIV. PPI Headquarters===<br />
(1) PPI Headquarters shall be incorporated in accordance with the law of the country in which its international headquarters are located in order to enjoy the status of a legal person and a non-profit organization<br />
<br />
(2) The PPI Headquarters shall serve as the Secretariat of Pirate Parties International. It shall comprise the Secretary General of the Pirate Parties International and such staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary General shall be appointed by the Board and shall be the chief administrative officer of Pirate Parties International. <br />
<br />
(3) The PPI Headquarters shall consist of its international headquarters and any regional offices.<br />
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(4) The PPI Headquarters shall be responsible for all administrative and financial matters, and shall report on them and present them for confirmation to the Board at least once a year.<br />
<br />
== Court of Arbitration ==<br />
===XIVa. Court of Arbitration===<br />
(0) The Court of Arbitration shall be constituted by a Council composed of individuals and a deciding Jury composed of all the Ordinary Members.<br />
<br />
(1) The exclusive power to resolve internal disputes shall be vested to the<br />
Court of Arbitration. All other organs and officers are required to cooperate<br />
with the Court of Arbitration to the extend needed for the proper exercise<br />
of its functions.<br />
<br />
(2) Complaints may be sent by the organs and officers of the PPI and by<br />
the Members. A complaint may be regulated with a fee to be returned if<br />
the complaint is reasonable. The complainant may participate in the<br />
investigation.<br />
<br />
(3) In particular, the Court of Arbitration has the exclusive power to<br />
:a) issue a preliminary ruling in an urgent matter of its competence,<br />
:b) declare matters of fact when necessary for the functioning of the PPI,<br />
:c) decide the disputes between the officers and the organs of the PPI,<br />
:d) decide on the restrictions on persons who breach the Statutes and the internal regulations and in these cases degrade an official or declare his further incapability to be elected,<br />
:e) decide on the validity of legal acts of the organs of the PPI,<br />
:f) decide on the matters of Membership ([[#vii_termination_of_membership|Art. VII par. 2]]).<br />
<br />
(4) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Mediators. This register<br />
lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the<br />
Ordinary Members who are willing to help solve the disputes between the<br />
Members. All Members may consult this register and choose a Mediator<br />
who can help them solve the dispute.<br />
<br />
(5) If the mediation fails, each of the Members or applicants who are in a dispute may present an agreement to the Court of Arbitration, which contains their description of the dispute, their solution and their consent to abide by the decision of the Court of Arbitration. The Council of the Court of Arbitration will present an independent solution within the limits of opposing views. Other solutions may also be presented to the Court of Arbitration by independent third parties. The Jury of the Court of Arbitration will decide the dispute by casting a preferential vote using an appropriate single-method election system that ensures a condorcet criterion.<br />
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(6) The Council of the Court of Arbitration may answer the preliminary questions of the organs and individuals about the interpretation of the Statutes and the internal regulations; such answers act through their persuasiveness only.<br />
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(7) The Council of the Court of Arbitration shall have between three and seven Members. The provisions concerning the election of the Members of the Board and vacancies apply accordingly.<br />
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(8) A member of the Board cannot be also a member of the Council of the Court of Arbitration. In case the results in the General Assembly elections would put the person in position to occupy a seat in both Board and Council of the Court of Arbitration, she must immediately relinquish one of the two. In case the person is not able to choose:<br />
<br />
*if she already occupied one of the seats before the General Assembly then she relinquishes this position for the new one,<br />
*otherwise it is considered by default that she relinquishes any seat position in the Council of the Court of Arbitration.<br />
<br />
(9) The Court of Arbitration keeps a Register of Investigators. This register lists the name, contact address, and Party affiliation of the people from the Ordinary Members who are willing to help investigate on any matter the Court of Arbitration has authority on. All Members and PPI officers may consult this register and ask, anonymously or not, an Investigator to constitute a file. Any Investigator can ask the Court of Arbitration to rule on a case. Members of the Court of Arbitration or of the Board cannot be Investigators.<br />
<br />
==Finance==<br />
===XV. Funding===<br />
Pirate Parties International expenditure shall be covered by:<br />
:a) [[Finances#Budget_.26_Affiliation_fees|affiliation fees]] from the Ordinary Members parties and those with Observer status, <br />
:b) donations, or<br />
:c) other legal contributions.<br />
<br />
===XVI. Affiliation Fees===<br />
(1) The amount of the fee is determined annually by the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(2) The affiliation fees and contributions shall be fixed in relation to the finances and membership of parties. <br />
<br />
===XVII. Treasurer===<br />
(1) The Treasurer, in agreement with the Board, drafts the budget and the financial procedure, which must then be approved by the General Assembly. <br />
<br />
(2) The Treasurer supervises the Pirate Parties International budget and reports to the Board every three months.<br />
<br />
(3) The Board is responsible for the sound financial management of Pirate Parties International.<br />
<br />
===XVIII. Borrowing Powers===<br />
(1) Those officials empowered to operate the bank accounts of Pirate Parties International have the authority to borrow money as follows:<br />
:a) Up to ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of the Secretary General.<br />
:b) Over ten percent of the annual budget needs the approval of threequarters of the Board.<br />
<br />
===XIX. Lay Auditors===<br />
Three [[Lay_Auditors|lay auditors]] shall be appointed by the General Assembly to inspect the accounts of Pirate Parties International on a yearly basis.<br />
<br />
==Amendments==<br />
===XX. Amendments===<br />
(1) These Statutes can only be amended by a vote of at least two thirds of the voting power of the attending Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on a regular or extraordinary meeting called for this purpose.<br />
<br />
(2) The amendments can be proposed by any Member of Pirate Parties International at least four weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly in writing to the Board. The Board will send out the proposals to all Members at least one week before the meeting of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
(3) Unless otherwise specified, the amendments shall come into force immediately.<br />
<br />
===XXI. Liquidation===<br />
(1) The organization can only be dissolved by a vote of at least two thirds of the total voting power of the Ordinary Members of the General Assembly, on an extraordinary meeting called for this purpose only.<br />
<br />
(2)In the event of the liquidation of Pirate Parties International, after the settlement of contractual obligations to staff and other obligations, the remaining financial means shall be transferred to an NGO that is acting in the spirit of the the principles of Pirate Parties International as defined by the Statutes.<br />
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::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
<br />
::'''---30.05.2020 11:01 CEST ---'''<br />
:: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9303627084<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
::Online Discourse link:http://ga.pp-international.net/<br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
<br />
::participating: <br />
<br />
*Members of PPI<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
<br />
The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
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=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
<br />
=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
<br />
=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
<br />
For Ordinary Membership:<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
<br />
For Observing Membership:<br />
<br />
*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
<br />
=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
<br />
RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
<br />
Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
<br />
Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
<br />
Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
<br />
Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
<br />
Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
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Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
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==Proposed Agenda==<br />
<br />
*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
<br />
:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
<br />
*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
<br />
==Delegates accreditation==<br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
<br />
Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
<br />
Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
<br />
2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
<br />
This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
<br />
-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
<br />
3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
<br />
This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
<br />
4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
<br />
This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
<br />
We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
<br />
We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
<br />
Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
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Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
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Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
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Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
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==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
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:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
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:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
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:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
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:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
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:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
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:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
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:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
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:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
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:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
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:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
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==CoA Report==<br />
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:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
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*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
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==New Member Applications==<br />
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:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
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Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
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:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
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:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
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:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
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:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
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:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
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:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
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:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
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:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
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:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
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:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
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F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
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:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
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:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
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===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
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https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
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Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
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:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
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:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
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:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
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Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
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Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
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:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
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:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
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Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
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===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
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====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
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:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
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==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
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==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
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*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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===Setting up a permanent assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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===Voting week===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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:Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
:Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
:Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the latest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a quick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrence. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
<br />
Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
<br />
14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
<br />
PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
<pre><br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
<br />
Statute amendment<br />
<pre><br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
<br />
which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
<br />
1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:1= 6<br />
:2= 2<br />
:Abstain= 4<br />
:Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
<br />
Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
<br />
:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
:yes= 7<br />
:no= 4<br />
:abstain= 1<br />
:not present= 2<br />
<br />
:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
<br />
motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
<br />
:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
<br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
<br />
<br />
:Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
* Pirate Party of France - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Vote on proposal 5A<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
: Gregory: This motion does not have an eligible sponsor. Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text= General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, Board will take appropriate actions.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easily be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easily be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted. <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendment removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
''remark from the meeting chair, after the GA: this was actually a mistake. proposal 5A has passed, and it still prescribe a precise number of alternates...''<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
<br />
===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
<br />
:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
<br />
:===================================================<br />
* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
<br />
:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
<br />
<noinclude> [[Category:PPI:Agenda]] </noinclude></div>Dichterhttps://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2020_05_30&diff=5602PPI Minutes 2020 05 302020-07-07T09:39:54Z<p>Dichter: /* Reduce number of members */</p>
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<div><br />
::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
<br />
::'''---30.05.2020 11:01 CEST ---'''<br />
:: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9303627084<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
::Online Discourse link:http://ga.pp-international.net/<br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
<br />
::participating: <br />
<br />
*Members of PPI<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
<br />
The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
<br />
=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
<br />
=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
<br />
For Ordinary Membership:<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
<br />
For Observing Membership:<br />
<br />
*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
<br />
=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
<br />
RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
<br />
Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
<br />
Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
<br />
Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
<br />
Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
<br />
Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
<br />
Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
<br />
==Proposed Agenda==<br />
<br />
*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
<br />
:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
<br />
*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
<br />
==Delegates accreditation==<br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
<br />
Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
<br />
Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
<br />
2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
<br />
This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
<br />
-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
<br />
3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
<br />
This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
<br />
4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
<br />
This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
<br />
We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
<br />
We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
<br />
Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
<br />
Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
<br />
Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
<br />
==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
<br />
:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
<br />
:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
<br />
:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
<br />
:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
<br />
:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
<br />
:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
<br />
:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
<br />
:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
<br />
==CoA Report==<br />
<br />
<br />
:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
<br />
*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
<br />
<br />
==New Member Applications==<br />
<br />
<br />
:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
<br />
Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
<br />
:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
<br />
:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
<br />
:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
<br />
F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
<br />
:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
<br />
===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
<br />
====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
<br />
Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
<br />
:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
<br />
:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
<br />
:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
<br />
<br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
<br />
:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
<br />
:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
<br />
===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
<br />
:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
<br />
==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
<br />
==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
<br />
*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
<br />
==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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===Setting up a permanent assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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===Voting week===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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:Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
:Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
:Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the latest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a quick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrence. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
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Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
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14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
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PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
<pre><br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
</pre><br />
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Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
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Statute amendment<br />
<pre><br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
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(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
</pre><br />
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Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
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which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
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1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
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:1= 6<br />
:2= 2<br />
:Abstain= 4<br />
:Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
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Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
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:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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:yes= 7<br />
:no= 4<br />
:abstain= 1<br />
:not present= 2<br />
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:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
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motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
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:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
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A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
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(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
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:Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
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{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
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:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
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<pre><br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
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(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
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(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
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Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
</pre><br />
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*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
* Pirate Party of France - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Vote on proposal 5A<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
: Gregory: This motion does not have an eligible sponsor. Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text= General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, Board will take appropriate actions.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendment removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
''remark from the meeting chair, after the GA: this was actually a mistake. proposal 5A has passed, and it still prescribe a precise number of alternates...''<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
<br />
===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
<br />
:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
<br />
:===================================================<br />
* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
<br />
:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
<br />
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::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
<br />
::participating: <br />
<br />
*Members of PPI<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
<br />
The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
<br />
=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
<br />
=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
<br />
For Ordinary Membership:<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
<br />
For Observing Membership:<br />
<br />
*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
<br />
=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
<br />
RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
<br />
Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
<br />
Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
<br />
Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
<br />
Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
<br />
Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
<br />
Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
<br />
==Proposed Agenda==<br />
<br />
*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
<br />
:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
<br />
*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
<br />
==Delegates accreditation==<br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
<br />
Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
<br />
Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
<br />
2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
<br />
This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
<br />
-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
<br />
3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
<br />
This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
<br />
4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
<br />
This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
<br />
We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
<br />
We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
<br />
Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
<br />
Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
<br />
Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
<br />
==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
<br />
:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
<br />
:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
<br />
:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
<br />
:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
<br />
:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
<br />
:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
<br />
:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
<br />
:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
<br />
==CoA Report==<br />
<br />
<br />
:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
<br />
*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
<br />
<br />
==New Member Applications==<br />
<br />
<br />
:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
<br />
Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
<br />
:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
<br />
:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
<br />
:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
<br />
F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
<br />
:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
<br />
===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
<br />
====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
<br />
Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
<br />
:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
<br />
:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
<br />
:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
<br />
<br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
<br />
:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
<br />
:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
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===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
<br />
:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
<br />
==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
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==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
<br />
*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
<br />
===Setting up a permanent assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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===Voting week===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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:Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
:Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
:Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the latest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a quick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrence. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
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Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
<br />
14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
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PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
<pre><br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
</pre><br />
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Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
<br />
Statute amendment<br />
<pre><br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
<br />
which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
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1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:1= 6<br />
:2= 2<br />
:Abstain= 4<br />
:Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
<br />
Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
<br />
:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
:yes= 7<br />
:no= 4<br />
:abstain= 1<br />
:not present= 2<br />
<br />
:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
<br />
motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
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:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
<br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
<br />
<br />
:Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
* Pirate Party of France - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Vote on proposal 5A<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
: Gregory: This motion does not have an eligible sponsor. Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendment removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
''remark from the meeting chair, after the GA: this was actually a mistake. proposal 5A has passed, and it still prescribe a precise number of alternates...''<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
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===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
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:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
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* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
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:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
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::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
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::'''---30.05.2020 11:01 CEST ---'''<br />
:: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9303627084<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
::Online Discourse link:http://ga.pp-international.net/<br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
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::participating: <br />
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*Members of PPI<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
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The following is the voting block <br />
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Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
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=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
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=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
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=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
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For Ordinary Membership:<br />
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*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
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*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
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For Observing Membership:<br />
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*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
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=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
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RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
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Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
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Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
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Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
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Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
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Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
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Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
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==Proposed Agenda==<br />
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*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
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:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
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*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
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==Delegates accreditation==<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
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Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
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<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
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Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
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2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
<br />
This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
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-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
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3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
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This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
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4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
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This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
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We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
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We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
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Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
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Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
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Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
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Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
<br />
==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
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:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
<br />
:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
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:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
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:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
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:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
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:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
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:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
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:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
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:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
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==CoA Report==<br />
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:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
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*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
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<br />
==New Member Applications==<br />
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:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
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Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
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:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
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:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
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:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
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:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
<br />
:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
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:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
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F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
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:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
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===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
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https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
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Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
<br />
:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
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:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
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:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
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Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
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Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
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:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
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:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
<br />
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<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
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===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
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====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
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:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
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==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
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==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
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*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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===Setting up a permanent assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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===Voting week===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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:Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
:Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
:Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the latest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a quick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrence. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
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Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
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14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
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PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
<pre><br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
<br />
Statute amendment<br />
<pre><br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
<br />
which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
<br />
1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:1= 6<br />
:2= 2<br />
:Abstain= 4<br />
:Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
<br />
Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
<br />
:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
:yes= 7<br />
:no= 4<br />
:abstain= 1<br />
:not present= 2<br />
<br />
:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
<br />
motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
<br />
:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
<br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
<br />
<br />
:Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
* Pirate Party of France - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Vote on proposal 5A<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
: Gregory: Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendment removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
''remark from the meeting chair, after the GA: this was actually a mistake. proposal 5A has passed, and it still prescribe a precise number of alternates...''<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
<br />
===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
<br />
:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
<br />
:===================================================<br />
* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
<br />
:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
<br />
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<div><br />
::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
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::'''---30.05.2020 11:01 CEST ---'''<br />
:: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9303627084<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
::Online Discourse link:http://ga.pp-international.net/<br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
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::participating: <br />
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*Members of PPI<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
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The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
<br />
=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
<br />
=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
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For Ordinary Membership:<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
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*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
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For Observing Membership:<br />
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*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
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=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
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RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
<br />
Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
<br />
Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
<br />
Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
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Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
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Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
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Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
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==Proposed Agenda==<br />
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*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
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:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
<br />
*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
<br />
==Delegates accreditation==<br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
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Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
<br />
Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
<br />
2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
<br />
This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
<br />
-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
<br />
3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
<br />
This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
<br />
4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
<br />
This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
<br />
We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
<br />
We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
<br />
Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
<br />
Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
<br />
Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
<br />
==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
<br />
:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
<br />
:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
<br />
:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
<br />
:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
<br />
:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
<br />
:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
<br />
:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
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:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
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==CoA Report==<br />
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:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
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*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
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==New Member Applications==<br />
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:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
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Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
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:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
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:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
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:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
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:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
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:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
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:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
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:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
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:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
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:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
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:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
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F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
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:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
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:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
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===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
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https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
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Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
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:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
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:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
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:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
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Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
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Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
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:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
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:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
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Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
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===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
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====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
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:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
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==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
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==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
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*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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===Setting up a permanent assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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===Voting week===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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:Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
:Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
:Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the latest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a quick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrence. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
<br />
Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
<br />
14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
<br />
PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
<pre><br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
<br />
Statute amendment<br />
<pre><br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
<br />
which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
<br />
1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:1= 6<br />
:2= 2<br />
:Abstain= 4<br />
:Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
<br />
Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
<br />
:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
:yes= 7<br />
:no= 4<br />
:abstain= 1<br />
:not present= 2<br />
<br />
:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
<br />
motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
<br />
:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
<br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
<br />
<br />
:Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
* Pirate Party of France - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Vote on proposal 5A<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
: Gregory: Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendment removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
''remark from the meeting chair: this was actually a mistake. proposal 5A has passed, and it still prescribe a precise number of alternates...''<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
<br />
===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
<br />
:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
<br />
:===================================================<br />
* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
<br />
:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
<br />
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<div><br />
::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
<br />
::'''---30.05.2020 11:01 CEST ---'''<br />
:: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9303627084<br />
<br />
:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
::Online Discourse link:http://ga.pp-international.net/<br />
<br />
== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
<br />
::participating: <br />
<br />
*Members of PPI<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
<br />
The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
<br />
=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
<br />
=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
<br />
For Ordinary Membership:<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
<br />
For Observing Membership:<br />
<br />
*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
<br />
=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
<br />
RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
<br />
Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
<br />
Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
<br />
Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
<br />
Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
<br />
Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
<br />
Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
<br />
==Proposed Agenda==<br />
<br />
*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
<br />
:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
<br />
*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
<br />
==Delegates accreditation==<br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
<br />
Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
<br />
Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
<br />
2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
<br />
This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
<br />
-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
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3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
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This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
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4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
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This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
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We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
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We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
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Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
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Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
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Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
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Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
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==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
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:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
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:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
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:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
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:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
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:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
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:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
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:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
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:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
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:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
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:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
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==CoA Report==<br />
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:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
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*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
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==New Member Applications==<br />
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:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
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Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
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:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
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:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
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:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
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:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
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:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
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:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
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:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
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:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
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:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
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:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
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F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
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:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
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:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
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===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
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https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
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Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
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:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
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:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
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:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
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Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
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Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
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:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
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:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
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Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
<br />
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<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
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===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
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====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
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:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
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==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
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==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
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*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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===Setting up a permanent assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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===Voting week===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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:Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
:Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
:Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the latest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a quick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrence. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
<br />
Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
<br />
14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
<br />
PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
<pre><br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
<br />
Statute amendment<br />
<pre><br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
<br />
which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
<br />
1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:1= 6<br />
:2= 2<br />
:Abstain= 4<br />
:Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
<br />
Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
<br />
:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
:yes= 7<br />
:no= 4<br />
:abstain= 1<br />
:not present= 2<br />
<br />
:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
<br />
motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
<br />
:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
<br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
<br />
<br />
:Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other offices may be created by the Board.<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed.<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
* Pirate Party of France - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Vote on proposal 5A<br />
|text=<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed, statutes changed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
: Gregory: Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendemend removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
<br />
===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
<br />
:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
<br />
:===================================================<br />
* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
<br />
:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
<br />
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<div><br />
::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
<br />
::'''---30.05.2020 11:01 CEST ---'''<br />
:: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9303627084<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
::Online Discourse link:http://ga.pp-international.net/<br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
<br />
::participating: <br />
<br />
*Members of PPI<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
<br />
The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
<br />
=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
<br />
=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
<br />
For Ordinary Membership:<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
<br />
*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
<br />
For Observing Membership:<br />
<br />
*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
<br />
=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
<br />
RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
<br />
Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
<br />
Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
<br />
Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
<br />
Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
<br />
Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
<br />
Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
<br />
==Proposed Agenda==<br />
<br />
*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
<br />
:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
<br />
*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
<br />
==Delegates accreditation==<br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
<br />
Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
<br />
Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
<br />
2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
<br />
This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
<br />
-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
<br />
3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
<br />
This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
<br />
4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
<br />
This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
<br />
We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
<br />
We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
<br />
Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
<br />
Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
<br />
Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
<br />
==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
<br />
:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
<br />
:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
<br />
:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
<br />
:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
<br />
:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
<br />
:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
<br />
:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
<br />
:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
<br />
==CoA Report==<br />
<br />
<br />
:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
<br />
*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
<br />
<br />
==New Member Applications==<br />
<br />
<br />
:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
<br />
Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
<br />
:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
<br />
:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
<br />
:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
<br />
F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
<br />
:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
<br />
===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
<br />
====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
<br />
Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
<br />
:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
<br />
:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
<br />
:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
<br />
<br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
<br />
:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
<br />
:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
<br />
===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
<br />
:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
<br />
==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
<br />
==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
<br />
*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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===Setting up a permanent assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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===Voting week===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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:Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
:Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
:Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the latest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a quick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrence. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
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Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
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14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
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PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
<pre><br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
</pre><br />
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Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
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Statute amendment<br />
<pre><br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
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(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
</pre><br />
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Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
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which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
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1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
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:1= 6<br />
:2= 2<br />
:Abstain= 4<br />
:Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
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Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
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:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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:yes= 7<br />
:no= 4<br />
:abstain= 1<br />
:not present= 2<br />
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:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
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motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
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:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
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A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
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(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
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:Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
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{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
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:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
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{{motion|title=Clearer composition and elections of the board <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= <br />
|No=<br />
|Abstain=<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
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CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
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(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
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CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
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CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
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(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
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CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
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(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
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CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
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Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
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Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
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*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
Yes= 10<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=0<br />
Not present=2<br />
Motion passed= yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
Pirate Party of France - a<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
: Gregory: Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendemend removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
<br />
===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
<br />
:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
<br />
:===================================================<br />
* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
<br />
:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
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::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
<br />
::participating: <br />
<br />
*Members of PPI<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
<br />
:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
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The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
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=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
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=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
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=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
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For Ordinary Membership:<br />
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*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
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*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
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For Observing Membership:<br />
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*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
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=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
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RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
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Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
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Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
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Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
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Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
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Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
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Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
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==Proposed Agenda==<br />
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*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
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:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
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*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
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==Delegates accreditation==<br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
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Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
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<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
<br />
Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
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2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
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This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
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-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
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3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
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This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
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4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
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This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
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We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
<br />
We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
<br />
Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
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Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
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Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
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Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
<br />
==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
<br />
:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
<br />
:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
<br />
:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
<br />
:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
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:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
<br />
:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
<br />
:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
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:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
<br />
==CoA Report==<br />
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:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
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*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
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<br />
==New Member Applications==<br />
<br />
<br />
:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
<br />
Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
<br />
:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
<br />
:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
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:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
<br />
:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
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:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
<br />
F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
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:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
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:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
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===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
<br />
====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
<br />
Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
<br />
:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
<br />
:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
<br />
:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
<br />
<br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
<br />
:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
<br />
:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
<br />
Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
<br />
===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
<br />
:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
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==Break==<br />
13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
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==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
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*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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* Setting up a permanent assembly<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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* Voting week<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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* Clearer composition and elections of the board<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid quesitons only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
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:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the lattest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a qick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrance. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
:Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
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14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
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PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
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Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
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Statute amendment<br />
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A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
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(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
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Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
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which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
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1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
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Voting table:<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
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1= 6<br />
2= 2<br />
Abstain= 4<br />
Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
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Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
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:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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yes= 7<br />
no= 4<br />
abstain= 1<br />
not present= 2<br />
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:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
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motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
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:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
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A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
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(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
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*Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
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{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
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===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
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:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Clearer composition and elections of the board <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= <br />
|No=<br />
|Abstain=<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
Yes= 10<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=0<br />
Not present=2<br />
Motion passed= yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
Pirate Party of France - a<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
: Gregory: Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendemend removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
<br />
===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
<br />
<br />
===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
<br />
:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
<br />
===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
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* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
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:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
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::'''Agenda PPI General Assembly'''<br />
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::'''---30.05.2020 11:01 CEST ---'''<br />
:: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9303627084<br />
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:: Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording <br />
:: Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/<br />
::Online Discourse link:http://ga.pp-international.net/<br />
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== Record of the meeting ==<br />
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==<br />
=== 1.1 - Ordinary Members of PPI ===<br />
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::participating: <br />
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*Members of PPI<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - present, 14:06 Absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent (arrived at 12:45) absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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:We have 13 parties present at the role call that took place between 11:01 to 11:07. 11, full Votes, 2, 0.5 Votes. Switzerland arrived late, so we have 13 voting power.)<br />
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The following is the voting block <br />
<pre><br />
Pirate Party of Austria -<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil <br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic <br />
Pirate Party of France <br />
Pirate Party of Germany<br />
Pirate Party Hungary <br />
Pirate Party of Italy <br />
Pirate Party of Israel -<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Norway <br />
Pirate Party of Poland<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland<br />
</pre><br />
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=== 1.2 - Observer Members ===<br />
* Internet Party of Serbia (POKRET NAPRED)<br />
* Pirates without Borders<br />
* Pirate Lobby, France<br />
* Pirate Party of Berlin (Piratenpartei Berlin)<br />
* Best Party Iceland (Besti Flokkurinn)<br />
* Pirate Party of Bavaria<br />
* Pirate Party of Hesse<br />
* Pirate Party of La Rioja (Spain)<br />
* Pirate Party of Lower Saxony<br />
* Pirate Party of New York<br />
* Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westfalia<br />
* Pirate Party Potsdam<br />
* europe beyond division e.V. Formerly: Young Pirates of Germany<br />
* Young Pirates Sweden (Ung Pirat)<br />
* Pirate Party of Tyrol (Austria)<br />
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=== 1.3 - Former Members Participating ===<br />
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=== 1.4 - Applicants Participating ===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236/2<br />
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For Ordinary Membership:<br />
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*Pirate Party of Chile<br />
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*Pirate Party of Japan<br />
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For Observing Membership:<br />
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*Piratenpartei Brandenburg<br />
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=== 1.5 - Proceedings ===<br />
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RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_of_procedure<br />
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Ga opened at 11:01 CEST by Bailey <br />
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Meeting chaired by Bailey and Gregory<br />
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Secretary for this meeting is Keith , Mike, Vojtech, MacBurns, and Bailey<br />
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Quorum established with 13 out of 35 members present. 12 voting power. quorum is 11,7 votes. <br />
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Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/Recording and [https://www.youtube.com/user/PiratePartiesInt ]<br />
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Recording: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/G1ljflXO-WFicL1vq.html<br />
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==Proposed Agenda==<br />
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*https://ga.pp-international.net/t/preliminary-agenda/249<br />
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:10:00 Zoom opens for last-minute registration:<br />
:11:00 Start of GA w/ opening Statements and roll call<br />
:11:30 Board Report<br />
:12:00 Finances report–treasurer, lay auditors, etc.<br />
:12:30 CoA Report<br />
:13:00 Break<br />
:13:15 New Member Applications<br />
:14:00 Statute Amendments<br />
:15:00 Break<br />
:15:30 Motions<br />
:16:30 Alternate board member replacement<br />
:17:00 Open discussion/member feedback/closing statements<br />
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*Are there any objections or suggested amendments to the agenda?<br />
:No objections were raised to the agenda.<br />
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==Delegates accreditation==<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - Roland Schneider (aka Desertrold) <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - Daniel Prazeres<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - Vojtěch Pikal, Michal Gill, Lukáš Doležal <br />
Pirate Party of France - Cedric Levieux, Francois <br />
Pirate Party of Germany - Sebastian Krone, Michael John Sinclair<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - Attila Bognár, Ferenc Gerse<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - Marco Confalonieri, Eleonora Serrati, Edoardo Ferri <br />
Pirate Party of Israel - Keith Goldstein, Ohad Shem Tov, (Ohad Bar Siman Tov), Noam Kuzar<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - Ji Yong Dijkhuis, Henk Meijer<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - Jo Booth<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - Svein Mork Dahl, LindaTørklep<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - Zbigniew Lukasiak<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia (newer one) ½Vote - Rudolf Molnar, Michal Pírek, Zuzana Krušinová, Peter Janiga, Filip Pastorek<br />
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Applicant Parties:<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - Mauricio Vargas, Fernando Molina, Mauricio Salazar, Tomas Pizarro, Manuel Caicedo<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - Hideto Suzawa<br />
</pre><br />
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==Opening of General Assembly==<br />
Bailey Lamon opening the GA at 11:00 AM CEST; roll call finished at 11:10, quorum reached with voting power of 12 with more than One Third of Membership(total ordinary members: 38 - one third 12.6).and members voting power (Total voting power: 35 - 11,66..)<br />
11:11<br />
Bailey L.: Welcome speech and some basic rules are being explained. This GA was supposed to take place February-ish; it's long overdue and finally happening. At the end of the day, discussions on groups should take place.<br />
:Announcement that we will have the Pirate Beer event after the GA.<br />
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<br />
==Board Report==<br />
11:22<br />
Bailey Lamon<br />
:Text of the report in Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/board-report-spring-2020/257<br />
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Bailey:<br />
"Since our last General Assembly in December 2019, the PPI board along with our members have been very busy with activities and projects that we hope will benefit the Pirate movement long-term. <br />
<br />
The board currently meets every 3 weeks on Discord. We also hold online socials known as 'Pirate Beer' every 3 weeks which is a fun, agendaless online gathering for all Pirates. This is in addition to a number of standing committee meetings with specific discussion topics, sometimes resulting in projects and initiatives. The idea behind the standing committees is to get Pirates talking to each other about how they do their work, what they require in terms of international support and the role that PPI can play in that work. One of our 'big questions' as a board and something we try to keep in mind at all times is 'what is our purpose?', in other words, how PPI can practically benefit our members, and what do our members need that we can possibly provide. The standing committees have been particularly helpful in understanding this. <br />
<br />
1) Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL)<br />
<br />
This is the standing committee that focuses on inter-party cooperation and getting people from different parties who do particular kinds of work talking to each other and colaborating. The first SCULL meeting focused on IT, while the 2nd focused on graphics and design. Two major things came from these meetings:<br />
<br />
--> Participants came to an agreement that PPI should be providing more IT support to members, including 'tech packages' that include website hosting, a mail server, and a set of basic tools that are popular among Pirates (ex. Mumble, Etherpad). This is something that can and should be provided to new Pirate Parties who want them as well as any Pirates who could use that support. We developed a much better understanding of our technological capabilities with ISPconfig and we learned that we can already provide these things, it just was not well-known before. <br />
--> An idea was brought to us at the graphics and design meeting to set up a PPI grapics vault for members to store and share their graphics with each other. After lots of debate around how to go about that, we agreed to use Nextcloud for this and a server was set up: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/?dir%3D/%26fileid%3D70621. All Pirates are welcome to register there and hook up their own Nextcloud servers to ours so it is a more federated setup. The idea is to make it possible for you to share whatever you want easily while also having control over what gets shared and with whom. <br />
<br />
We had hosted two meetings of SCULL so far.<br />
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2) Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)<br />
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This standing committee focuses on public relations, campaigning and media work in the Pirate movement. We learned a lot about how our members conduct this work, and we looked at three open-source tools that PPI would like to provide for our members to assist them in it:<br />
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-->Superdesk - a Press Newsroom https://www.superdesk.org/<br />
-can be used for creating, publishing and distributing content...essentially a place for press teams to work together<br />
-open source<br />
-->Socioboard - a social media management software https://socioboard.org/<br />
-you can have multiple people on there posting content and monitoring channels<br />
-includes social media analytics <br />
-open source<br />
-->Piwigo - Imagebank for sharing pictures with press and providing a repository for internal authors. https://piwigo.org/<br />
-store photos, organize them, etc.<br />
-useful for when journalists want to write about us, we know where to find good press photos such as from conferences, rallies, etc.<br />
-open source<br />
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3) Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY)<br />
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This committee is centered around finances and best financial practices around things such as membership fees, budgeting, fundraising, etc. It has met one time and is supposed to meet twice a year. <br />
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4) Standing Committee on United Nations Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)<br />
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This is the ECOSOC committee that focuses on United Nations work such as submitting statements to the UN about various topics as well as coordinating PPI participation in UN events. PPI has submitted 3 statements and participated in various UN events since our last meeting in December. All events are online at the moment. 1) We submitted a statement and registered for the big Commission for Social Development at UNHQ. 2) We submitted a statement for the Global Leadership Conference at UNOG in June. 3) We submitted a statement for the UN High Level Political Forum UNHLPF. PPI has submitted publications and made statements at UN events every year since we became ECOSOC members in 2017.<br />
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We have registered for attendance in the IGF Forum 2020 in Poland this autumn, we have registered a booth in the exhibition village and a workshop session on Digital Souverenity as a new Human Right. We are also registered to participate and submit a statement to the 12th WTO ministerial conference that was scheduled for the middle of June 2020, but it is likely to be moved to next year. <br />
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We are currently registered in Brussels as an AISBL (PPI HQ). The AISBL is an not for profit organisation and we got it accreddited with Techsoup and have through it access to a whole lot of rebated services for nonprofits (including lesser fees for PayPal, Google Ad Grants, etc).<br />
A few years back there was an idea to possibly move PPIHQ to Geneva, Switzerland, but this did not happen and we are interested in hearing what our members think about this issue. Do we stay in Brussels and leave it at that, or do we look into the possibility of moving to Geneva like previously planned? <br />
The NGO is a factual association (Verein) in Switzerland, which comes de facto of registering a bank account there. Our bank account is registered there, because the bank account in Belgium was frozen and numerous attempts to regain access failed. What we have not done is register with the Canton of Geneva as an NGO, which we considered doing because it might enable funding opportunities. However, we were not able to fully navigate the bureacracy to this point.<br />
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Another thing we are doing is building a closer relationship with PPEU. We recently had a joint meeting between the PPI and PPEU boards. We all agreed that we are two international organizations with a lot of the same desires and goals for the movement, but we serve different purposes and there is a need to define our individual as well as collective purposes more clearly. There will be more discussions between PPI and PPEU with the goal of building a closer and more collaborative, mutually-beneficial relationship. <br />
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Additionally we recently published a Needs Assessment Survey which we plan to put on the PPI website for ongoing use. Members and non-members alike are welcome to fill it out anytime and let us know what your needs are and what we can do to better support you in your work. We hope to share some insights from the Needs Assessment thus far later on in the GA. We also would like to share the needs assessment link with you all here. If you haven't filled out one, please try to do so today during one of the breaks: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
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Think Twice Conference - We have decided to cancel it for this year.<br />
<br />
Gregory: Pirate Summer camp is still on and is now two weeks - July 12th to 28th in Pietrowice Nyskie in Poland. Poland dropped the quarantine on arrival and most EU countries should drop their travel bans by June 15th. But in these times, all dates are just "working hypotheses". We hope to bring the attendance up to max 50 in order to be able to maintain physical distance between participants.<br />
<br />
==Finances Report==<br />
11:48<br />
Bailey Lamon: We want to get online access to our bank account. We did not have access. Gregory and Bailey have been added on with Pat Maechler to have online access and be financially transparent. Recently, Gregory has succeeded in receiving a calculator that enables us to access our account. Due to the COVID situation, Bailey has had trouble with the mail to receive an official token (She blames the Canadian Postal Service), so Gregory and Pat have access to our account. We can only look at the amounts, not release funds. In order to release funds they all need to have tokens, which they do not now. We do have read access, and we have 2,950 Swiss Francs. 1,500 Francs are from the Czech Pirate Party, which are designated for the Think Twice conference in Prague, and so in reality we only have about half the amount that is in the bank. This money would need to be returned if we do not establish the conference. Belgian registration became problematic, and we lost access to the Belgian bank account. We have tried to contact people to look into this, but we have no further updates. There are not responses from the people who held access to the account, but we will keep trying.<br />
<br />
:The next step is to send out invoices for membership fees. Membership fees are voluntary. You will not lose your membership if you cannot pay. If you can pay, it is a huge help. <br />
<br />
:Daniel Prazeres is treasurer. You will receive mail from Dan with the invoices.<br />
<br />
:Gregory Engels: Regarding the invoices, only a couple of parties paid 2018 or 2019 fees. There is only a handful of countries that pay. There seems to be a problem with payment morale. <br />
<br />
:Keith Goldstein: We need to do more to promote individual memberships, as we also have a contingency of individual members.<br />
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:Bailey: The SCURVY meetings are important for this. Please participate in SCURVY<br />
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:Michael: Individual membership is very important. It should be as inclusive as possible, because some people don't have a party in their country. Also observer status should be used more, and a way to make the party more inclusive.<br />
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:Desertrold: What is the amount of money that we need in a year? How much to keep things running? How much more money would we need to do further activities?<br />
<br />
:Jo: What is the budget?<br />
<br />
:Bailey: The main cost would be tech, and our tech team has not sent us any invoices because they know that we do not have the funds that the services would require. So, things are running because the tech team is amazing and wants to run things for us. It depends on what we want to do, how much additional funds would be needed.<br />
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:Linda: A travel budget would be great, but we are a very online digital party. When COVID-19 is over, there are a lot of delegates that would like to travel to the UN to present on behalf of PPI. Also, if they would like to be able to invite people to exchange visits between parties and the board, this would be a great source of funds. If there was a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding source that could support our members and memberships.<br />
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==CoA Report==<br />
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:Bailey: We do not have anyone from the Court of Arbitration but I can give you a quick rundown: the CoA is working, they'll give the report later in the year. They're staffed and working on a case.<br />
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*12:10 - Break<br />
12:22 - end of the break<br />
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<br />
==New Member Applications==<br />
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<br />
:Bailey: We have three applications this time. From Chile, Japan and one observer application from PP Brandenburg. So let's start with Chile. All required information was submitted and is on Discourse.<br />
:Mauricio Vargas (PP Chile): We started as a group a few years ago. We're working slowly. In the last three years we started to work with other political groups here in Chile. For a time we worked with a group that even have some parlamentarians before they broke. Now Chile is trying to change its constitution and the government response is mostly oppression. The PP's work is now therefore focused on these issues. That's why we started to work with the PPI to try and enforce the parties here in Latin America.<br />
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Vojtěch Pikal: Chile is working with some elected officals; how many members do you have and what capacities did you already estabblished as a political party?<br />
<br />
:MauricioThey are working to become established as a party. It is very difficult. They are trying to start with this process. They have about 100 members. The people who are more active are about 17. There are 15 regions in the country and it is very long geographically. Some groups are small, others can have 30 people. We're not a big force but steadily growing. We're working with a lot of legal forces in the country.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: The coalition we were participating in broke up last year. Right now we're regrouping; we're working with two groups. In Chile it is very hard to legalise a party; one needs 100 members and they one has 270 days to gather at least 500 members + some regional rules. You need a lot of hard (not online) signatures, so the climate is against new parties. In our registry we have 300 members, but active we have about 70. Next week we have our General Assembly and making an update of these numbers. Like Mauricio said: Chile is very long and narrow; it's hard to cooperate inter-regionally. It takes time.<br />
<br />
:Bastian: Do you expect in any help from the PPI. Can it help in any way?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: We mainly want to collaborate and work together. To get international network to co-operate. We can build a very strong Pirate movement around the world.<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: In Chile the Pirate movement isn't known at all; the media usually think we're a joke. We make them google our European counterparts and the PPI to make them believe. Last October the human rights issues went south and to be a member of the PPI would've helped us a lot back then, to be recognised.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch Pikal: With ordinary membership there's an expectation to pay some small mebership fee. Are you prepared to pay it?<br />
<br />
:Mauricio: Yes, we are. We really want to be an ordinary member, responsibilities included.<br />
<br />
:Bailey: As of now, the fee would be pretty low.<br />
<br />
:Michael: You have a lot of similarities to the Pirate Party India. Is it possible to run perhaps for a mayor even if one is not a registered party:<br />
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:Mauricio: We do not have more than the main parliament. Every party can be either whole-country or a regional one. Some regional parties have parlamentarians.<br />
<br />
F. Molina: We're not a federal country. We only have two chambers and that's it. We have one council member in San Miguel working with us. We need to grow on that level; it's easier to gather signatures this way.<br />
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:Michael: Do you have any seats in local councils or are there mayoral elections like they do in India?<br />
<br />
:F. Molina: We're working with a single council member from San Miguel and we had one in Valparaiso but got fired due to some political struggle. We're trying to get at least a seat in a city council and get some positions. San Miguel (where I'm from) is our best bet as of now.<br />
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===Ordinary Member Applicants===<br />
<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-new-member-applications/236<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Chile====<br />
<br />
Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
<br />
* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes <br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - yes<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
14 members with 13 votes on the voting list; 12 votes yes, 1 abstains<br />
<br />
:By proposal of Vojtěch Pikal: all new members will get their voting rights after all the new parties are accepted.<br />
:Point of order that we should include new members in the tally after confirming the new members so as to avoid having the order of acceptance being applicable.<br />
<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Chile as ordinary members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12 <br />
|No= 0<br />
|Abstain= 1<br />
|close=Motion passed, Pirate Party of Chile is now a Member<br />
|}}<br />
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====Application as Ordinary Member of PPI for Pirate Party of Japan====<br />
https://www.facebook.com/ppj.tunagari<br />
<br />
:Keith: There are two parties in Japan that do not get along.<br />
:Carlos Polo: It would be useful to have someone from the party here.<br />
:Keith: I was trying to be in touch with both PP in Japan; the one that already is a member is not really meeting or willing to share information. The one currently asking for memberships is the exact opposite and I've been to their meetings.<br />
:Gregory: As far as I recall, in 2015 or before, we received this application but afterwards they have been changes in the wiki to the application. In the end we had somebody from them visiting the GA in Paris and they basically hijacked the Suzawa's PP. I'm not sure whom did we actually admit in Paris. Do you, Keith, know about them.<br />
:Keith: They do their activities solely on FB and YT.<br />
:Roland: Do we know why they do not get along?<br />
:Gregory: Probably becuse of the application hijacking. Once we had reps from both parties present and they have been shouting at one another.<br />
:Linda: I have two concerns. For one they're not present. For two, if they do not speak English, how will they participate within PPI in any meaningful way.<br />
:Marco: I browsed the documents and they're a bit murky. Is Mr. Shimazaki a member of this party? It doesn't really seem regular according to our rules. It seems cryptical.<br />
:Carlos: There'S a lot of insecurities about this.<br />
:Linda: I propose postponement of this until we know more. Do we have to vote?<br />
:Gregory: We can vote to postpone.<br />
:Keith: I can't represent them entirely. One group does not have any public presence while this one works very publically.<br />
:Carlos: Keith feels good about them but ... (didn't understand)<br />
:Linda: I've made a motion to postpone. Since they're not here, they don't really show much interest.<br />
:Bastian: We might want to accept them as an observer member.<br />
:Carlos: Second.<br />
:Vojtěch: Unless they applied for observer membership, we can't vote on that.<br />
:Marco: We can give them whatever status we deem appropriate.<br />
:Carlos: We can keep them as observer members and resolve it next time.<br />
:Linda: We need to formally decide.<br />
:Michael: One party in Japan is already a member. I would put the older party to the observer status as well.<br />
:Bastian: It makes no problem if we keep them as observer member. I ask for a vote on that.<br />
:Marco: If the options are just to postpone or give them observer membership, then I ask whether someone still considers their full membership?<br />
:Vojtěch: To lower the member status to observer is in the hands of the CoA.<br />
:Roland: We can either postpone or vote on the status.<br />
:Vojtěch: the original proposal is for sull membership; procedural one to postpone and counterproposal to vote on observer membership. So let's vote in order: observer - full - postpone<br />
:Linda: My motion is purely to postpone.<br />
:Bastian: I made a procedural motion to make a straw poll between postponement, observer status and full membership. It will show us what to vote on. We can do that quickly.<br />
:Roland: What are we voting on exactly?<br />
:Bailey: Do we prefer to grant observer membership, to postpone or to grant full membership?<br />
:Gregory: Strawpoll is a procedural motion that shall be carried ASAP, it's not a vote, it's just collecting opinions.<br />
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:Cédric (writing directly into minutes, without speaking): many things<br />
- it's our fault, to let the problem occured. A wiki is not a tool to administrate thing, we need to apologize<br />
- we are in a GA. We have the ultimate power, we can change our statutes, we can revoke what we want, right now, even people proposed motion during the last hour. Saying "we can't", it's a way to avoid things.<br />
- we accept a non-organization, right now, without problem, and now we have some problems with remove membership to a non-present member.<br />
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Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as ordinary members, observer members, or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
:Discussion that we can remove the discussion of ordinary membership, and we cannot reduce the membership of a party only the COA can do this. <br />
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Strawpoll: Do you prefer to 1) grant them observer membership, or do you want to 2) postpone the decision, or to grant them 3) ordinary membership today:<br />
3 "OR" Options: <br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of France - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - 1<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - 2<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - 1<br />
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:9 in favor of the first option. 2 in favor of postponing, 1 abstention, and 1 not voting.<br />
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:We will vote on whether to accept PP Japan as an observer member? Yes, No, Abstain <br />
Do we want to vote for Pirate Party of Japan as observer members or postpone the vote of PPI?<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not voting<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
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Yes=9<br />
No=1<br />
Abstain=2<br />
Not voting=1<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Pirate Party of Pirate Party of Japan as observer member. <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain= 2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP Japan is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Pirate Party of Japan has been awarded observer membership.<br />
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===Observer Member Applicants===<br />
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====Application as observer member of PPI for Piratenpartei Brandenburg====<br />
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:Bastian: We are part of the PP Germany, local organisation Brandenburg; it's easy to follow us and we follow you. All is in our application form. I'll be short since there's little time.<br />
:Bailey: Any questions?<br />
:Linda: Brandenburg was granted observer status of the PPEU just last weekend.<br />
:Bailey: Let's vote!<br />
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* Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of France - no<br />
* Pirate Party of Germany - Yes<br />
* Pirate Party Hungary - abstain<br />
* Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
* Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
* Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
* Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
* Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
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14 Members with 13 votes in the voting list, <br />
9 yes, 1 no, 2 abstain, 1 not present<br />
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{{motion|title=Do we accept Piratenpartei Brandenburg as observer members of PPI?<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 9<br />
|No= 1<br />
|Abstain=2<br />
|close=Motion passed, PP-DE-BB is now an observer member<br />
|}}<br />
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:Piratenpartei Brandenburg is an official observer member of PPI.<br />
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13:30 - Break<br />
14:00 - end of the break<br />
14:01 Gregory reopens<br />
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==Reestablish a quorum:==<br />
PPI Has 39 Ordinary Members with 36 votes<br />
Required voting power present: 12<br />
Required members present:13<br />
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*PPCZ: procedural motion to reacess the quorum:<br />
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Pirate Party of Austria - present<br />
Pirate Party of Belarus - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Belgium - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - present<br />
Pirate Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Bulgaria - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Catalonia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Chile-present<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic- present<br />
Pirate Party of Estonia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of France - present<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - present<br />
Pirate Party of Greece - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Hungary - present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - present<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - present<br />
Pirate Party of Japan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Korea - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Latvia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Luxembourg - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Morocco - absent<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - present<br />
Pirate Party of New Zealand ½Vote - absent<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - present<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Portugal - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Romania - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Russia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Slovakia ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - present<br />
Pirate Party of Slovenia- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Spain ½Vote - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Switzerland- absent<br />
Pirate Party of Tunisia - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Turkey - absent<br />
Pirate Party of Ukraine- absent<br />
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we need 12 votes from 13 members - we have 12 votes from 13 members -. quorum is established.<br />
:Switzerland and Poland may return.<br />
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==Statute Amendments==<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/statutes-amendments/20<br />
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*Current PPI statutes can be found here: https://pp-international.net/about-ppi/statutes-of-ppi/ <br />
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*PPI Discourse Page for Amendments: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/info-statute-amendments/234/6<br />
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Links are provided for every motion/amendment.<br />
1) Setting up a Permanent Assembly - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20<br />
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2) Voting week - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242/4<br />
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3) Clearer composition and elections of the Board - https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239/3<br />
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===Suspension-of-the-normal-functioning===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion-suspension-of-the-normal-functioning/200/11<br />
:This is the old motion. It has been replaced with the setting up a permanent assembly. The motion has been withdrawn. <br />
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* Setting up a permanent assembly<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241<br />
:Etienne<br />
:The voting week motion is an alternative to this motion. There is a discussion about whether we should discuss both of them and then have a vote, which is what we decided to do.<br />
:This is designed to set up a structure for PPI, whereby a permanent assembly would exist. This would encourage more participation from members. It is also a way to have more direct democracy. There are 2 parts, the statutes and the role of proceedure aspects. The purpose is to set up the principle of sessions, whereby we will have a calendar with numerous sessions over a year and clear dates for submitting motions. There are also new competencies for the board. There are also new details, with more clear competencies. The PPIHQ is consolidated. There are several amendments, associated with suggestions from the Czech party. We agree with all of them, but we outlined them for a vote.<br />
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* Voting week<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-voting-week/242<br />
:Desertrold.<br />
:There has been an issue with voting. We looked at the PPFR proposal and considered it to be too much of a rewrite, so this is a modest proposal for a voting week, a 6 week processs for decisions to be made. This option would ensure that the problem with getting a GA to make a vote is avoided. It is a simple. It is a counter proposal. We do not believe having a permanent GA is ideal for PPI. <br />
:Vojtěch: This change is unnecessary. It can be easily done as a simple change to the rules of procedure. We have no need of this in the statutes.<br />
:Linda: My question would be whether do we need to have a technical solution or shall we just vote on the intention?<br />
:Marco: My question is: will this process be used for regular motions or for all motions?<br />
:Roland: It has the same power as the GA, so both. To reply to Vojtěch: statutes say there's an option for extraordinary GA which voting week can be considered as. I just want to clarify by putting voting week into statutes.<br />
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* Clearer composition and elections of the board<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
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Link to PPCZ amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/13?u=etienne<br />
Link to PPFR amendment : https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendements-setting-up-a-permanent-assembly/241/20?u=etienne<br />
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:Vojtěch: It's a series of six technical changes. FIrst is to establish rotation system of board elections so it doesn't get broken. Then there is specification that all board members are truly board members (incl. treasurer and such). Then the board can create offices and not positions. It can establish other position - we already have committees. Finally with the alternate board members I removed the word four so the list is unlimited. Also the length of their term is clarified.<br />
:Bastian: Where is the exact text on Discourse?<br />
:Vojtěch: It's all in the first entry there. The original text was amended multiple times.<br />
:Gregory: The vote for the rules of procedure for a permanent GA will be decided after the statute amendments. Do we have a suggestion how to vote on them, can we vote on all three of them concurrently?<br />
:Vojtech: I am ok with us voting first on Etienne's motion, and then voting on the following motion. Or we can try some sort of concurrent decision. <br />
:Etienne: I think the best solution is to go through each of the amendments, because amendments in the motion are dependent on each following vote. We can then see if the third vote is necessary.<br />
:Gregory: We cannot vote alone on the first one, perhaps according to rules of procedure.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes, but before we do that, there are little changes to be voted on.<br />
:Roland: The votes are concurrent. We need to vote on them together.<br />
:Bastian: To avoid confusion I recommend that we have the exact text to vote on in the minutes.<br />
:Vojtěch: We support Etienne's motion if some of PPCZ's changes are incorporated. But the real change isn't rooted in our statutes but in our activity and the tools we use.<br />
:Macburns: Concern that there are people and not parties that are making these decisions, which is why he proposes having only individual membership. PPI is viewed as the Pirate movement as itself. We have many complicated structures, and I would like to see it simplified and easier for people to join. They have problems, and there is no goal of joining a world parliament because it does nto exist. We've copied the national level model, and it is not real. Individual membership is really important.<br />
:Gregory: This is not a statute amendment. We can discuss it more later. It is not off the table, but we are not on it yet. We will come back to it later. Changes proposed to the French Proposal, are they incorporated?<br />
:Etienne: The link is on the agenda. I put the link to the complimentary motion of the PPCZ; we just need to copy/paste it.<br />
:Marco: A question for Vojtěch and Etienne: how do you see the impact of participation of members on your amendments. We have already trouble reaching quorum. How would a low participation impact functioning of the PPI?<br />
:Etienne: This motion would help less active members to participate more.<br />
:Roland: I don't fully understand the permanent assembly and how it works. If Vojtěch could elaborate.<br />
:Etienne: The purpose of the motion is to allow more debate. We will need to think of another way of working. You can see what we did last week, where we exchanged opinions with Vojtech. The purpose is to duplicate this way of working to all of PPI's activities. This will allow our members to take an hour or two to review the materials, and not just to do it in one day. Also, this will provide us a full week of voting. This way people can organize their time more easily. You can go through the motion and just do it once when it is set up for debate. So, if you don't have a lot of time, you will have more time, and it will make better conditions for reading the motions. The goal is to create more time for doing better work.<br />
:Roland: I don't get how this improves us, because we have Discourse, but still people are not taking advantage entirely. Do I have to participate for weeks? How does the proceedure take place, because I don't understand it.<br />
:Etienne. The board has 2 weeks to propose. Then there is a period of debate. We need time, so the proposal is to have time. At the end of the debate, we will have a meeting like this. After the debate phase , we will have one week to vote and time to ask our members. Time for better thinking on the subject we vote on.<br />
:Vojtěch: What will this do with inactive members. Kinda nothing. I have several proposals to suspend as many inactive members as possible. [https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258] Secondly, to this proposal; asynchronous meetings are better; we (PPCZ) have over thousand members and hundreds of elected reps; we do this on the lowest level (every member). There are rules but it works well. There's plenty of time to go over the motion and read them. First we need to discuss support for motions.<br />
:Linda: I don't see any discernable difference. On Discourse, anyone can discuss the motions and then we meet up and vote. I don't see any difference. This is what we are doing already.<br />
:Roland: I still don't see any advantages. Some things seem scheduled in, but then you are neglecting the people element. This is not a 500 person party, where you always have people available. But we have to recognize that our participants are more limited, and we struggle to make quorum. The quorum for motions to be discussed, then there needs to be a lot of support. Now, I just file a motion and that's it.<br />
:Mike: What Vojtech means is something like the Czech system. First you must get support for a proposed motion (on a platform such as Discourse), and then it can be voted on and sent out. This is how the Czech PP works at every level.<br />
:Vojtech: To avoid confusion, my motion is something that would benefit us because it would reduce the amount that we vote on unnecessary things. It would also generate more people voting and participating than we have now. Regarding the requirement for discussion, that is something that is required. Most of the discussion would happen. I don't think it is necessary to have the requirement for the specific number of people present.<br />
:Francois: To answer to Linda: the difference is that with the changes you cannot discuss or make changes once it is done. Once the week is over you cannot make changes, so there are no last minute proposals. Everything is dissected. You have a quick meeting to say these are the motions and bring your debate face. You have a week or two to debate. You know you have that time to make amendments to the text. You are still at liberty, but it is more structured and mandatory.<br />
:Linda: I am simple. Statute amendments are like code. That is what it looks to me in writing. When I read the discussion, I do not grasp fully what they are trying to explain. So for me, I am completely dependent on the discussion where people explain the amendment in normal words. Even while following the discussion on Discourse, I don't understand. It is necessary to have meetings where people explain the motions to me.<br />
:Bastian: You can do what you want, and if you would like to have a lof discussions, it is not binding. The decisions are made in the assembly. I don't think we need to change any statute amendments, because you can do these things anyway. If we have another tool that we can use before a GA that's great.<br />
:Etienne: I understand your concerns. Some people may have difficulties with a written debate. What we are proposing, is that we are concerned that people who bring technical details can do so before. There are boring details. I think it is important that we have a proper presentation with Q and A to provide better understanding. The concern is to do it before. When we have written debates, I believe that you will want to participate in it.<br />
:Vojtech: There are no stupid quesitons only stupid answers.<br />
:Roland: Does it work then that we can't change motions after debating? I think that we don't have a problem with voting week, like this. We can state that there is a week. I don't know if I can agree about the support. How do we measure support? Can you provide more info about how that works?<br />
:Mike regarding the support for the motion, with the Czech party we have an issue that if you want a motion passed where people go, just like Discourse, and in the current way you need support of a specific number of people active who go and check it out. I think the goal is to just move forward, and I don't think discussions like this are progressing in a positive way. If it is on Discourse, then people look at them in advance. A lot of people don't look at them in advance, then I think there is a problem that people don't get what their about, and then all of the discussion is left in the GA and it doesn't really work.<br />
:Keith: I really want to try it but my concern is that it might not work; I'd prefer to try it and then put it into our statutes. Let's try it and we already have some input from within our individual parties. Even one member already has support for the motion from their own party and that should be enough.<br />
Gregory: A technical change from article 5 that reads that countermotions are allowed in the debate phase. We have a regulation that there cannot be complicated countermotions that would destroy a motion. We don't need to make a change there, because this rule exists.<br />
:Roland: Just a short answer: We're on the Internet, the discussion should have happened there but it didn't. I'm asking for as long as I know what I'm voting on.<br />
:Etienne: It's like 90% of rewriting and 10% of details to have a system for the GA. If we're already doing it now, the proposal is to formalise the current system to meet more often. Maybe this will be a total mess; maybe a big success we wait for for years. I think like all the rules we can change the rules of procedures really simply. We agree we need to meet more often. Maybe we need a few sessions to see if it's working. It's a gamble, let's late it and see.<br />
:Linda: You say you want more contact amongst us - that's why we made the needs assessment form. We already have the standing committees which meet often. Maybe time will bring what you're looking for without scary changes to the statutes.<br />
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:Gregory: We'll be voting on the Czech amendments to the French proposal:<br />
:Vojtěch: Can we incorporate the Czech amendments straight into the French proposal without voting on them?<br />
:Gregory: If Etienne agrees...<br />
:Etienne: Yes, if my last change from the lattest note in the Discourse discussion is added as well. We might take a qick break to finish the text?<br />
:Gregory: Proposal from Austria that is in concurrance. We will need to vote after the votes are incorporated, and then which of the two proposals we favor. Then we will vote on which of the proposals shall go on for a vote.<br />
:Break until 15:25 to figure out the correct text. The next vote will be on the concurrent proposals.<br />
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14:30 Meeting slowly restarts with ongoing revisions of the wording for voting. <br />
:Point of order that PP Hungary had to leave.<br />
:Keith:If any other parties need to leave then they should delegate another country or person to serve as their proxy. We are still good with quorum though.<br />
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PP-FR original proposal amended by PP-CZ:<br />
Article 1 : General Assembly<br />
I) The article IX. General Assembly is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is the supreme body of Pirate Parties International and is composed of all the Members of that association.<br />
(2) The General Assembly is competent to :<br />
a) Establish the policies and political orientation of the association<br />
b) Vote on the application for membership and exclusion of members<br />
c) Elect Board members, Court of Arbitration members and Lay auditor<br />
d) Vote on amendments to the Statutes<br />
e) Addopt its Rules of Procedure<br />
f) Approve any internal regulations of the Association, where it deems necessary.<br />
(3) Once a year, the General Assembly votes on :<br />
a) The report of the Board and the Treasurer<br />
b) The report of the Court of Arbitration<br />
c) The report of the Lay Auditor<br />
d) The budget for the next year<br />
e) The calendar of the sessions for the next year<br />
(4) The Board, the Court of Arbitration, Committees and Members can present report and recommendations to the General Assembly. If the General Assembly approves the report or the recommendations, the Board is charged executed them with the help of other organ of the association if required.<br />
II) The article X. Functions of the General Assembly is renamed “Functionning of the General Assembly” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The General Assembly is organized in sessions. There is at least one session per year.<br />
(2) The Rules of procedure defines :<br />
a) deadlines for each phases of the session<br />
b) debates procedures<br />
c) procedure for proxy<br />
d) voting procedures<br />
e) any rule necessary for the running of sessions of the General Assembly which are not provided for in these statutes<br />
(3) The quorum is fixed at one third of the Ordinary Members counted for each vote<br />
(4) Member Organizations are represented at any session of the General Assembly by a delegate or delegates not exceeding six from any one Member Organization.<br />
Article 2 : Board<br />
I) The article XII. Board is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board assures the good management of the association, its administrative, financial and legal governance, the intern life animation and the external relations. The Board is the executive organ of the association.<br />
(2) The functions of the Board are:<br />
a) to act on behalf of the General Assembly according to its instructions and to give effect to its decisions, recommendations and policies,<br />
b) Publish the agenda, promulgate the results, and transcribe them on the dedicated platforms, and appoint the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly meeting according to the Rules of Procedure,<br />
c) to represent the association at international and national events,<br />
d) to advise and assist Member Organizations,<br />
e) to ensure the financial management of the association including preparing and executing budget,<br />
f) to keep the register of members in accordance with applicable legal obligations<br />
g) to exercise other functions resulting from these Statutes or decisions of General Assembly.<br />
(3) The Board is composed of:<br />
a) one Chairperson,<br />
b) one Vice-Chairperson,<br />
c) one Treasurer<br />
c) seven additional Board Members<br />
(4) If the Chairperson, Vice-chairperson or Treasurer position is vacant, the Board elects among its members an acting person until the next session of the General Assembly.<br />
(5) If a seat is vacant, a vote is held at the nearest General Assembly session to fill it. If the delay between the beginning of the vacancy and the next session and that the efficiency of the Board requires it, the Board may appoint an acting person to this seat.<br />
(6) After each Board election, the Board establishes for each of its members a position description indicating the missions within the organization for which he will be a referent.<br />
(7) The Board Members is elected for two years renewed by half by the General Assembly during the last session of the year. The Rules of Procedures specify the modalities of this alternating election.<br />
II) The article XIII. Functions of the Board is renamed “Functioning of the Board” and is rewritten as follow:<br />
(1) The Board shall meet regularly and not less than once a quarter and every time that these Statutes or Rules of Procedure requiere it.<br />
(2) The Board meetings are public unless at least one third of the Members of the Board vote in favor of a non-public meeting. The decision to hold a non-public meeting must be justified. Minutes of public meetings have to be published on the appropriate platform.<br />
(3) A Board member may resign at any moment.<br />
(4) A seat is vacant when :<br />
a) A board member resigns<br />
b) A board member dies<br />
c) A board member has a long term disease that prevents it to assume its position<br />
d) A board member does not execute its functions for more than two months<br />
(5) If the seat has neither become vacant by resignation nor death of the Board Member the remaining Board Members have to declare the seat as vacant by majority vote.<br />
(6) The Board establishes its own Rules of Procedure.<br />
III) The article VIII. Membership Register is deleted<br />
IV) The article XIV. PPI Headquarters (4) is rewritten as follow:<br />
(4) The administrative, financial and legal managements of the PPI Headquarters is the responsibility of the Board. The budget of the PPI Headquarter is included in the Budget of the association.<br />
Article 3 : Transitionary rules<br />
(1) This reform of the articles of association is applicable immediately after the General Meeting which adopted it.<br />
(2) The Board is responsible for convening the next session of the General Assembly before December 2020.<br />
(3) The next session will have to vote on the calendar of sessions for the year 2021.<br />
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Concurrent proposal from PPAT:<br />
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Statute amendment<br />
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A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
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(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
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Vote according to RoP Art 6 (3) <br />
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which of those two proposal you are prefer?<br />
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1=PPFR proposal, 2=PPAT proposal<br />
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Voting table:<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - 2 <br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - 1<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - 1<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - 1<br />
Pirate Party of France - 1<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Hungary- not voting<br />
Pirate Party of Italy-abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel-1<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands-2<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote-1<br />
Pirate Party of Norway-abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - 1<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
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1= 6<br />
2= 2<br />
Abstain= 4<br />
Not present= 2<br />
Motion 1 has more votes and carries into next round.<br />
<br />
Are you in Favor of Motion 1?<br />
<br />
:2/3 majority is needed, so abstentions do not count as a vote against. They are not taken into account.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - No<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - no<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
yes= 7<br />
no= 4<br />
abstain= 1<br />
not present= 2<br />
<br />
:The half votes are accounted in the tally.<br />
<br />
motion does not carry, statutes not changed. <br />
<br />
:Vojtěch moves to vote on the PPAT motion "voting week".<br />
<br />
A point (8) should hereby be appended to IX. General Assembly:<br />
<br />
(8) A voting week equaling an extraordinary session can be held at the request of one third of the Members or by a decision of the board. Procedure as specified in the Rules of Procedure of the PPI General Assembly Article 9 applies.<br />
<br />
*Discussion thus if we should vote on the Austrian proposal for a voting week.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - no<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=implement the "voting week" statutes amendment<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 3,5<br />
|No= 5,5<br />
|Abstain= 3<br />
|Not present= 2<br />
|close=Motion did not pass<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Clearer composition and elections of the board===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/amendement-clearer-composition-and-elections-of-the-board/239<br />
:Question about why we have this revision.<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: These are several changes. 1st and 5th ones are about rotating system. The reason is to have clearer rules in case such as resignations, replacements with alternates and such. The proposal 1 is to remove the current number 2a. The proposal 2 says the board consists of 9 members; it clears that chair and vice-chair are truly baord members. Proposal 3 is a technicality, only removing the word "and". Proposal 4 is a separate issue. There are other positions created by the board. Other offices can be created as well by the board. The proposal no. 5 is to clear up some problems with alternate board members - it removes the cap. Any duly supported candidates will fill the position. The alternate only takes the remainder of the position they take over.<br />
:Michael: It's a good change but I'll agree with it only unless it doesn't have any impact on the current board members.<br />
:Roland: I propose we vote for all five proposals at once.<br />
:Vojtěch: Question is how many people are to leave the board (or re-elected) this year.<br />
:Gregory: It's five and it's even year, so we're fine.<br />
:Vojtěch: We'll deal with the alternates separately.<br />
:Bastian: Proposal 5 - it's okay if the alternate follows to the position, takes over the full member position but what about the rest of their alternate term?<br />
:Vojtěch: I thought there's no time limit for the alternates.<br />
/a bit of discussion missing here/<br />
:Michael: If the alternate takes over a board seat, it's only until the next GA<br />
:Vojtěch: Proposals 2 and 3 can be voted together.<br />
:Marco: If there is a consensus, let's vote everything together.<br />
:Vojtěch: Let's vote at least no. 5 separately. We vote 1-4 together, then 5<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Clearer composition and elections of the board <br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= <br />
|No=<br />
|Abstain=<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 1:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Remove (2a) and change (5) to:<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
(2a) This rule applies only once: At the next regular session, every secondary seat of the Board and the Alternate Board - according to the number of their previous votes - will be new elected due to establish a rotating system. In case of a tie at the previous votes a decision is taken by drawing lot.<br />
(5) To establish a rotating system, five positions in the Board are elected on even years and four on odd years.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 2:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
Change (3) to:<br />
(3) The Board is composed of nine Board Members as follows:<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 3:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes<br />
remove "and" from (4)<br />
<br />
(4) The Board elects among the Board Members<br />
a) a Treasurer, and<br />
b) a Chief of Administration,<br />
c) a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson, if the seat became vacant<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 4:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (6) change "positions" to "offices".<br />
<br />
(6) Other positionsoffices may be created by the Board.<br />
<br />
CZ Proposal 5:<br />
Art. XII. Board of the Statutes (7) to<br />
(7) There shall be Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5a<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of the term of the position.<br />
<br />
Proposal 5b<br />
(7) There shall be four Alternate Members of the Board. If one seat of the Board becomes vacant, one of the Alternate Members shall follow-up according to an ordered list. The position of the Alternate Members on the list shall be determined by approval voting. If Alternate Member follows-up to a position, they do so for the remainder of time till the next GA.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposals 1 to 4?<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - no<br />
<br />
Yes= 10<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=0<br />
Not present=2<br />
Motion passed= yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No= 2<br />
|Abstain= 0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
*Do we accept Proposal 5a or 5b?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - b<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - b<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - a<br />
Pirate Party of France - a<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - b<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - a<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - a<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - a<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - a<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - b<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - a<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - a<br />
<br />
A=7<br />
B=4<br />
abstentions=1<br />
not present=2<br />
<br />
*Vote on option A<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - no<br />
Pirate Party Hungary - not present<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party of Poland - not present<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 10<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion carries, and the amendment 5a is accepted. <br />
<br />
16:27 Pause<br />
<br />
<br />
==Motions==<br />
:Meeting resumed at 16:39<br />
<br />
===Rules of procedure for a permanent-general-assembly===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/m1-2-rules-of-procedure-for-a-permanent-general-assembly/253<br />
<br />
As the Statute amendement was not passed, It is withdrawn.<br />
PPDE takes it over. <br />
The RoP is the right way to test the permanent assembly. <br />
:Vojtěch: I'm okay these rules of procedure be adopted. I suggest we vote on it separately as a new set of rules for a permanent GA.<br />
:Bastian: Rules are better than no rules.<br />
:Gregory: The text in the Discourse say we replace by it the current rules of procedure. This will be handled at the end.<br />
:Roland: Why to vote on rules that won't be put into use anyway?<br />
:Vojtěch: We didn't need the statutes amendment for the voting week.<br />
/we'll be back/<br />
<br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
===Individual Membership Only===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/ppi-should-do-individual-membership-only/252<br />
<br />
: Gregory: Is there any party that would like to take this proposal as their own? Going once, going twice, not sold.<br />
<br />
PPI should do individual membership only. <br />
> We know that all Pirate parties are built-up on individual membership, these base structure should be used for PPI in the future to cause more in/output. The National party membership is a relic from Industrial ages what does not represent our Pirate values.<br />
<br />
===Reduce number of members===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/reduce-number-of-members/258<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: We're constantly running on the edge of the minimum needed for reaching the quorum. I ask that the board acts on expulsion of parties inactive for three years. If we do this, we'll be more efficient and not so vulnerable by not reaching quorum.<br />
:Bailey: fine by me<br />
:Mike: Can't the inactive parties just be moved to observers?<br />
:Vojtěch: That's why I added the "expulsion or suspension".<br />
:Linda: If we don't have any way to get in touch with members, we should just move them to observer status.<br />
:Gregory: This vote needs a simple majority.<br />
<br />
General assembly tasks the Board to propose exclusion or suspension of membership of Members that were not active in PPI within last 3 years to Court of Arbitration as outlined in Art. VII of Statutes within 3 months from now.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Czechia - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - yes<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Reduce number of members<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 12<br />
|No=0<br />
|Abstain=0<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
===Move rules to Github===<br />
https://ga.pp-international.net/t/move-rules-to-github/259<br />
<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to Github or similar platform, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.<br />
:Vojtěch: Rules on the web and in the wiki are different. This needs to be amended. The Wiki version should be the most updated rules.<br />
:Manuel: Is this meant to use GitHub or just any general Git platform?<br />
:Gregory: we have a github team: https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International<br />
:Roland: Is this additional to Discourse, since it's quite hard for people to understand.<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes. I believe Git should replace Discourse.<br />
:Marco: We would make a master branch in the Git and have a copy on the website?<br />
:Vojtěch: I would prefer to move all the rules to Git.<br />
:Linda: What is the need to move away from Discourse to a paid platform?<br />
:Vojtěch: I'm not aware of Git being paid; I never paid for it. It would be much better to have the text of the statutes there and it's easy to see the difference between versions, unlike Discourse.<br />
:Marco: Does Manuel's concern stems from GitHub currently being under Microsoft?<br />
:Manuel: It is US based.We do not have the same guarantees as we have on other platforms. US State Dept. regarding sanctions against nations. You can't use it in countries like Venezuela or soon China.<br />
:Marco: Can you write down you proposed alternatives?<br />
:Gregory: GitHub was blocked in Russia for a time as well.<br />
:Roland: It's more about inclusion than the platform itself.<br />
:Vojtěch: There is concern about this motion. The motion is withdrawn.<br />
:Gregory: Does anyone want to adopt it?<br />
:Marco: I would like to adopt it with a modification:<br />
:Gregory: There are comments in the chat that GitLab rules. PPFR, And in France we have : https://sources.partipirate.org/users/sign_in<br />
Internet Party of NZ, PPCL: GitLab could be a compromise. Also GNU Savannah could be an option.<br />
Is this to see the changes easily, or is this in order to create a different version?<br />
:Manuel: I just saw the report that GitHub has nothing to do with the Israel/Palestinian conflict acc. to the UN<br />
:Vojtěch: Version system would be useful.<br />
.Gregory: There seems to be a Git integration for Discourse. Is it possible to use Discourse as the front end?<br />
:Vojtěch: I believe it would fulfill the motion as it is.<br />
<br />
*Marco: PPIT's Proposal:<br />
General Assembly tasks the Board to move all PPI’s Statutes and all other its rules and bylaws to a self-hosted Git server with an HTTP interface available, chosen by the board, where changes can easilly be proposed, discussed, changed and adopted.//<br />
<br />
:Vojtěch: Do we need it self-hosted?<br />
:Marco: The point is to have something over which we have control. To prevent what happened to GitHub in Russia. Depending on the platform, it shouldn't have much of an impact if only used for documents.<br />
:Roland: We're moving everything incl. the discussion to GitHub; does that include forum?<br />
:Marco: You have to do the changes on Git. We can discuss it as long as we want but the wording will be put to the Git server.<br />
:Gregory: Let's vote.<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - yes<br />
Pirate Party of France - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - yes<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
Yes=7<br />
No=2<br />
Abstain=3<br />
Motion passed=yes<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=Move rules to Github<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes= 7<br />
|No=2<br />
|Abstain=3<br />
|close=Motion passed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules of Procedure for a Permanent General Assembly===<br />
<br />
:Bastian, concern about the RoP. <br />
: Proposal of PP-DE https://ga.pp-international.net/t/motion1-2-ppde-ppga2020-1/262<br />
<br />
* Article 1: Sessions<br />
:(1) The General Assembly is convened according to the calendar of sessions.<br />
(2) One session is a 5 weeks cycle organized like this:<br />
Week 1 and 2: Tabling of motions on the agenda before the Board<br />
:Week 2 and 3: week of debate and amendment<br />
:Week 4: Voting week<br />
<br />
* Article 2: Tabling of motions<br />
(1) One week before the opening of the tabling of motions the Board sent a reminder email to the Members with the deadlines for the ongoing session.<br />
(2) Motions are tabled before the Board on a dedicated place on PPI’s Discourse.<br />
Motions should at least contain:<br />
A summary of the motion, explaining the reasoning behind the motion, how it should be interpreted. This part should include arguments for the motion but not the motion itself.<br />
A proposal which is the detailed motion itself.<br />
The names of the members tabling the motion. The motion must be signed by at least one Ordinary or Observer members to be tabled.<br />
(3) Any motion that does not meet these conditions will be refused.<br />
(4) Any motion which will be tabled, fulfilling the required conditions is entered on the agenda of the General Assembly.<br />
<br />
* Article 3: Publication of the agenda<br />
(1) At the end of the second week of the session, the Board publishes the final agenda for the session.<br />
<br />
* Article 4: Amendments<br />
(1) Amendments may be tabled during the weeks of debate with the same conditions as a motion.<br />
(2) Those who have tabled the motion have the option of indicating whether they want to merge their motion with one or more amendments before the closing of debates. If they do not indicate that they want to merge the amendment, the amendment is considered as a counter-proposal.<br />
<br />
* Article 5: Debates<br />
(1) The motions on the agenda of the General Assembly are transferred to Discourse to be debated in writing.<br />
(2) At the end of the fourth week, the Board organizes a physical or online meeting for debates. At the end of this meeting, all debates and amendment tabling are closed.<br />
<br />
* Article 6: Oral debates<br />
(1) The Board appoint one chairperson and one vice-chairperson to chair the oral debates. If the chairperson resigns during the meeting, the vice-chairperson replaces it. If the vice-chairperson resigns during meeting, one board member chairs the meeting.<br />
(2) The chairperson leads the proceedings, recognizes speakers and maintains order during the meeting. It can set up speaking time and turn if it judges it necessary. The chairperson cannot participate to the debates.<br />
(3) Requests for the floor by local and remote delegates, PPI Officers and members of the public are acknowledged in the order received. In questionable cases the Chairperson decides. The chairperson may refuse to allow members of the public to speak if there is not enough time.<br />
(4) The Chairperson can yield the floor to speakers and the person who made the motion also out of turn.<br />
(5) Concerning the remote delegates<br />
A) The Chairperson appoints a proxy person through which the remote delegates may act.<br />
B) The remote delegates may request the floor to make a statement or ask a question by explicitly indicating so. The proxy person will then request the floor on their behalf.<br />
<br />
* Article 7: Voting procedure<br />
(1) Voting takes place on a tool chooses by the Board according to the present rules and other needs expressed by members.<br />
(2) Voting is electronic and not secret. Voting can be anonymized during the voting period.<br />
(3) According to the statutes the quorum is fixed at two-third of the members. The quorum is calculated for each motion. There is no count of the quorum before the vote.<br />
(4) In principle, to be adopted, the motion and the nomination must receive an absolute majority of votes.<br />
As an exception, the majority is raised to:<br />
2/3 of the voters for the modification of the this Rules of Procedures.<br />
2/3 of the voters for the creation of committees.<br />
(5) The majority is calculated by the repartition of the yes and the no. Abstain is not count in the final result.<br />
(6) If several motions or nomination are competing the delegates vote by ranking the proposition from the more favourite to the least favourite. For competing motions, the one which is the most favourite of all is adopted. For competing nomination, every position available is fulfil with the candidates that are the best ranked.<br />
<br />
* Article 8: Miscellaneous<br />
(1) A motion can only be modified or deleted by the Permanent Assembly in accordance with the voting procedures under which it was added.<br />
<br />
: Points of Order was made that Switzerland nominated Bailey to take over temporarily,<br />
<br />
:Roland: So this is just to have it in case we want to test it?<br />
:Bastian: It's just in case we want to test it so the board moves within the rules.<br />
:Gregory: We already have a line about a permanent online assembly.<br />
:Roland: We voted on a statutes amendment that will not happen and now we're putting the same power to the hands of the board?<br />
:Bastian: You can't make decisions. You can have a meeting to test how it worked. That is all. If you want to make decisions you still have to make a regular GA. The GA is called by the board. It is not the same as the GA called for in the statutes.<br />
:Gregory: This is just a test run?<br />
:Bastian: Yes. And a test run should be run by rules and we can make a decision at the next GA.<br />
:Linda: Is there anything in the current statutes to call for a 3 month permanent assembly?<br />
:Vojtěch: Yes; the board can call for an extraordinary session but it would be ruled by the current rules of procedure, not these. The board cannot create rules for the GA.<br />
:Roland: We just voted that we're not gonna have it and now we're creating rules for a text run. Where's the democracy in that?<br />
:Manuel: Can it be specifically voted on just for the purposes of a test run?<br />
:Bastian: It's just a motion to have rules of procedure for a permanent assembly, so we can test it without any problems. It hurts nobody and makes no problems; it's just a basis to organise a test; the board can do it anyway, just without rules.<br />
:Linda: In case my iPad dies, I give my vote to Svein.<br />
:Vojtěch: I have one big problem: in article 7, no.4 - it should at least specify that these rules of procedure will apl.<br />
:Bastian: Fixed.<br />
:Grgory: We can vote.<br />
<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - no<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - no<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - no<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - yes<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - yes<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
<br />
{{motion|title=<br />
|text=* <br />
|Yes=4<br />
|No=4<br />
|Abstain=4<br />
|close=Motion failed<br />
|}}<br />
<br />
:The motion was defeated, but it was close.<br />
:Gregory: We are finished with voting, and we are doing ok on time.<br />
<br />
==Alternate Board Member Replacement (If necessary)==<br />
<br />
Not necessary anymore, as the amendemend removing precise number of alternates was passed.<br />
<br />
==BarCamp/Discussion (until we decide to close the General Assembly)==<br />
<br />
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-barcamp-may-2020-ee1zl063<br />
<br />
:Bailey: I think it is really important that we have a discussion about PPI, what we are doing. Is it working, not working. We have time to do the bar camp. <br />
:Gregory: The BarCamp is a session with a whiteboard, where also public can discuss. I would like to discuss the manifesto, and others can discuss other topics. If someone would like to discuss a topic with me, we can go to a breakout room and discuss the results when we get back together. The idea is that everyone can participate and choose where they go to. We could also move topics to these small rooms. <br />
<br />
Strawpoll: How do you feel about continuing?<br />
<br />
Pirate Party of Austria - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Brazil - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Chile - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Czech Republic - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of France - yes<br />
Pirate Party of Germany - finish the GA and come to it later<br />
Pirate Party of Italy - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of Israel - abstain<br />
Pirate Party of the Netherlands - what Germany said<br />
Internet Party of New Zealand ½Vote - no<br />
Pirate Party of Norway - no and talk this through at Pirate Beer<br />
Pirate Party - Slovakia ½Vote - abstain<br />
Pirate Party Switzerland - abstain<br />
<br />
:Gregory: We will finish and do the barcamp as part of the unofficial part. We can end the GA officially and have the barcamp after today.<br />
:Bailey: In future GAs, we can work more to have this as part of the regular GA. I really like the idea.<br />
<br />
<br />
==AOB==<br />
<br />
===Use of Software for Video Conferencing===<br />
:Bailey: I would like to talk about this with everyone here.<br />
:Gregory: We received an official complaint from PP of Catalonia to stop using Zoom. They recommended Jitsi. PPI had an internal discussion, and we understand that Jitsi is possible. With 37 people like today, it can work if people keep their video turned off, but then we could just use Mumble. We decided that it was better to see everyone, and we could not find an alternative to Zoom. Since we have a free offer from PPNO, so we were not opposed. However, there are other issues with Zoom being talked about badly in the press and does not transport Pirate values, while other software does. I understood that there is a wish to not use Zoom. It was too late for us to organize this meeting with Zoom. I had a conversation with Roland, and we will examine other software such as Gotomeeting, or another replacement.<br />
:Mike: Is there any party present that has a problem with Zoom? <br />
:Bastian: I have a problem with the data protection of Zoom. If we discuss that longer, then we can test some professional tools by the board and we come together and find out a reasonable solution, so we can provide it to our members. I think we should stop the discussion without a viable alternative. I also think this is only regarding the GA, not Pirate beer. If we have an official meeting though, we should use a tool that is not a problem for data protection. That is my opinion.<br />
:Bailey: Gregory already explained but I want to say this as well - we didn't pick Zoom for anything because we think it's wonderful; we agree it has it's issues. We are using it to keep things simple and since it's tested and always worked well, we just kept it. We invite the larger discussion here; we know there are parties for which proprietary SW is the only way but it's not always realistic to do that. It's a needed conversation. We need our tools to work and Zoom is tested. We've been using it for Pirate Beers between the GA's. There's a lot of us so we either can be terrible Pirates to use Zoom and be sure it works or limit the number of participants or find some other way. Change is an option when we know there is an alternative. We hear those who say they do not like Zoom and we get it. We just have to pick something and make it work. Hopefully before the next GA we can find a good alternative. We don't necessarily need video, but some people do like it. We are looking for a more ethical choice than Zoom.<br />
:Roland: I want to point out that this has been discussed for months now. Bastian summed it up. We need tool that will handle this. There's the same discussion in the PPEU and we'll probably have a budget there to get a server and have a chance to try out Big Blue Button (BBB). We hope to make progress in the next few months <br />
:Marco: I wanted to note that Eduardo will now lead the PPIT delegation.<br />
:Manuel: I found out we have three alternatives that we can check out. The three are: BBB, Jami, Tox. I got to try BBB in the university and it works for medium-sized gatherings.<br />
:Etienne: I don't mind using Zoom but get the people who are against it. None of the free platforms run as well as Zoom unless one has big infrastructure. There cn be ethical questions but if we have a lot of people, we have to accommodate them and Zoom is currently the only solution. The last week's GA of the PPEU was a nightmare in comparison to ours today.<br />
:Svein: PPNO is using Zoom. For our purposes we haven't find anything better than Zoom and thus will continue using it.<br />
:Bailey: I'd like to point out that this room is provided to us generously for free by the PPNO.<br />
:Svein: Also the Norwegian Parliament is using Zoom.<br />
:Roland: We have to discern between PR tools and internal discussions. For the inside meetings we should be truthful to our values.<br />
:Gregory acting on the tech. note from Bastian: I suggest we talk about the needs assesment during the Pirate Beer.<br />
:Bailey: I really want to hear from you guys what you think of the current direction of the PPI.<br />
:Bailey giving a promo to Pirate Beer.<br />
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===Needs Assessment Summary and Discussion===<br />
https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442<br />
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===PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis===<br />
*https://pp-international.net/2020/04/covid19/<br />
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:Keith: I wanted to present the statement. We need to do more for the public.<br />
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===Julian Assange Campaign===<br />
:Shured: I am not an official delegate, but I would like PPI to take the lead. Is anyone interested in getting involved in the Julian Assange Campaign? <br />
:Jo Booth: IPnz is interested. The Internet Party was... I remember waking up in the morning after creating #Unity4J to thousands of people... What I was expecting from a technical perspective If we let the US to take journalist from us, we all lose our voice and ability to speak out and it's what resonates with many people. I encourage you all to get behind this guy stuck in a place even without charges. We all do what we can. I technically enable people.<br />
:Shured: This is a chance for PPI to show what we stand for as an organisation. People will see that. We can start with some brainstorming session.<br />
:Bailey: I think #Pirates4Assange is a cool hashtag to go with. We can do that for other whistleblowers too; such as Reality Winter with the Russian attacks on the US voting machines. Then she got thrown into jail and nobody mentions her.<br />
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* Meeting Closed: 18:21 CEST/DST (16:21 UTC)<br />
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:Gregory<br />
:Pirate beer is later tonight.<br />
:Standing committees will be announced.<br />
:Our board meeetings are open to you all.<br />
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