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*'''Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING'''
*'''--- ??.??.2026 17:00 UTC/19:00 CEST/DST ---'''
* Audio recording: https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/MSiQtiFnCRsKpfq
* Video: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
* Pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-board-meeting-2026-07-07-0ndl0uz

== Record of the meeting ==
== 1 - ATTENDEES ==
=== 1.1 - Members of the PPI board ===
Chairperson - Keith L. Goldstein / PP-IL 
Vice-Chairperson - Gregory Engels / PP-DE 
Board Member - Bailey Lamon / PP-CA 
General Secretary - Alexander Isavnin / PP-RU 
Treasurer - Sebastian Krone / PP-DE 
Board Member - Maycow Toledo / PP-BR 
Board Member - Mark Anthony / PP-NL 
Board Member - Carlos Polo / PP-CH 
Board Member - Grigorii Dizer / PP-RU 

::participating: Keith, Bailey, Gregory, Sebastian, Alex
::excused: Thomas Gaul
::unexcused:

<big>Alternate Board Members:</big> 
1. Alternate Board member - Babak Tubis / PP-DE 
2. Alternate Board member - Schoresch Davoodi / PP-DE 
3. Alternate Board member - Lilia Kayra Kuyumcu / PP-DE 
4. Alternate Board member - Numero6 / PP-DE 
5. Alternate Board member - Bart Overkamp / PP-NL 
6. Alternate Board member - Thomas Gaul / PP-DE 

::participating: Numero6, Bart, Davoodi
::excused:
::unexcused:

Altogether: 15 Board members

:Quorum established with 8 out of 9 board members present.

=== 1.2 - Others ===
* Guests:
: participating:
* PiratesOnAir

== 2 - PROCEEDINGS ==
* RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board/Rules_of_Procedure
* Meeting opened at 17:05 UTC by Keith
* Meeting chaired by Keith
* Secretary for this meeting is all
* Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/
* Recording started: 17:05 UTC
* Postal votes: none
* Votes delegated (§5 Votes (5. 3.) ROP):
* Notes on meeting process:

== 3 - APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES ==
{{motion|title=Do we approve the minutes?
:https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2026-06-20
|text=
|Yes= Gregory, Bailey, Schoresch, Keith, Alex, Numero6
|No=
|Abstain= Bart (Bastian == Sebastian)
|close= Minutes are approved.
|}}

== 4 - REPORTS ==
=== 4.1 - Short reports of the board members ===
====Board====
* Keith Goldstein: I set up our attendance right now at the UNOG AI Governance Summit. Alex Kohler and Carlos Polo are attending on our behalf. I continue helping with Think Twice preparation. We are working on some new blogs with a few different groups, but there is a bit of a back log. We could use help editing. Oh, and I met with Gregory in person in Frankfurt.

* Gregory Engels: Met with Keith

* Bailey Lamon: Nothing to report. I attended the GA in June.

* Alexander Isavnin: Attended GA, started application for IGF, maybe we should attend in Kenya. Collecting suggestions.

* Sebastian Krone:
: Attended the GA & PPEU-Council meeting.
: Despite the end of the maintenance contract, I have continued to monitor the PPI technology as I do every day.
: I requested confirmation of the termination but have not yet received a response. I still need this confirmation for our liability insurance—still no response!
: Despite the General Assembly’s resolution on June 20, no one from the board has contacted me to explain what happens next.
: The servers can also simply be shut down immediately if that is what is desired.

:In several prior board meetings we requested that you send your termination notice to the Board, as in board@pp-international.net. To date that email has not been sent or received.

* Maycow Toledo:
: not present

* Carlos Polo:
: not present

* Grigorii Dizer:
: not present

====Alternates:====
* Babak Tubis:
: not present

* Schoresch Davoodi:
: with Babaks help wrote the translation into english of our talk we held in Tübingen so we can publish it,
https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/T%C3%BCbingen_2026_Speech_Digitale_Freiheit
: translated also a czech Article of the CZ pp into english for our use
: and personally on 29.6 I left the German PP because of political disagreements in pirate values
: Attend the GA, was proxy of PP Estonia

* Thomas Gaul:
: sick (Pneumonia)

* Numero6:
: Attended the GA
: I was at the PPEU council meeting as an alternate delegate and then as a full delegate when Keith had to be absent.

* Bart Overkamp:
: Bart attended the PPI GA and the PPEU Council Meeting. Made PPEU WordPress comment on a Social Media Post.

* Kayra Kuyumcu:
: not present

== 5.1 - Proposals ==

* Keith, mentions the Stop Killing The Internet campaign.

: Do we want to sign on https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/?

:: Davoodi and Gregory are in favor. PPEU has already joined as well as other organizations that we recognize. Bailey also agrees.
:: No objections.
:: We should also put it up on our website, to show that we support this campaign.
:: We should make a statement about the passing of chat control.

* Write a blog about the chat control vote in the European Parliament.

* Statement about censorship, our ideology that censorship is not a good solution.

* Reviewing our admins on our social media channels.
: Bastian says we need a collection of social media credentials with a sim card.

: Keith Goldstein (You) PP-IL
: Sebastian Krone PP-DE
: Alexander Isavnin PP-RU
: Giuseppe Cal Pirati.io
: Stefan Cristian PP-RO
: Carlos Polo PP-CH
: Pat Maechler PP-CH
: Jelena Jovanovic Pirate Party of Serbia
: Thomas Gaul PP-DE
: Daniel Dantas Prazeres PP-BR
: Gregory Engels PP-DE
: Alexander Kohler PP-DE
: Svein Mork Dahl (ex PP-NO)
: Raoul Plommer Finnish Pirate Party, unsure if still involved
: Koen De Voegt - PP-BE (not in movement anymore?)
: Bailey Lamon (Canadian Pirate)
: Thomas De Groot Dutch Pirate Party, unsure if still involved
: Sopphey Vance US-PP, not involved atm

*Discussion of whether we keep using X, due to political issues that make us want to move to Mastodon, Bluesky, and more ethical alternatives.

Telegram Channel @PiratePartiesInternational Admins: 
Gregory PP-DE 
Sebastian Krone PP-DE 
Thomas Gaul PP-DE 
Bailey Lamon (Canadian Pirate) 
Alexandr Isavnin PP-RU 
Marianne Utz PP-DE 
Keith Goldstein PP-IL 
M Toledo PP-BR 

* Individual Membership Applications
: https://pp-international.net/join-in/application-for-individual-membership/
: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Become_an_Individual_Member_of_PPI

:We need to advertise individual memberships to make sure people know that they can join.
:We should consider more ways to reward individual members and find ways for them to participate.

== 5.2 - Working Groups Update ==

== 5.3 Economic Update ==

* Bank accounts
: 745.45 CHF
: 74.32 EUR

* PayPal
: 253.82 EUR

* Outstanding membership fees: about 9,600.00 EUR.

== 5.4 ECOSOC/UN ==
:We signed up Alex Kohler as a rep. in Geneva and he is there now.

== 5.5 PPI HQ update ==
* The office is set up and running. All tax returns have been filed.
: https://ppi.works/

== 5.6 Updates ==
* Blogs
:https://pp-international.net/2026/06/recapsummerga/
:Please help with editing the blogs that we share on our Wire blogs chat.

==6 AOB - Any other business==
:
:===================================================
: Tuesdays every 3 Weeks, 17:00 UTC
* Next Board Meeting: 28.07.2026, 17:00 UTC / 19:00 MESZ/CEST/DST
* Meeting Closed: 17:59 UTC by Keith
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