PPI Minutes 2019 02 11

Feb 12 2019 bod

Convoqués

• Board delegatives members :
  • Cedric (1)
  • Etienne (1)
  • keithgoldstein (1)
  • BaileyL (1)
  • RayJohansen (1)
  • MichalGill (1)
  • gsaouli (1)
    • 7/10
• Board :
  • Alternate board members :
    • Cedric

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• • Board members :
    • Etienne
    • keithgoldstein
    • BaileyL
    • RayJohansen
    • MichalGill

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• • • gsaouli

Absents

• Board delegatives members :
  • kittyhundal
  • DanPrazeresBR
  • Ladislav.Koubek
• Board :
  • Alternate board members :

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• • • DanPrazeresBR
  • Board members :

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• • • Ladislav.Koubek

Ordre du jour

Board Meeting

keithgoldstein: Attending: Guillaume, Ray (intermittently), Bailey, Keith, Mike, Etienne,

Alternates: Cedric,

keithgoldstein: 21:07 meeting started

PROCEEDINGS

2.1.1 Chair and secretary

keithgoldstein: Chair is Bailey

Secretary is Keith and everyone (please assist and even take charge)

APPROVAL ON THE MINUTES

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keithgoldstein: [Previous minutes 2018-12-17](https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2018_12_17)

keithgoldstein: The original Congressus is here: https://congressus.pp-international.net/meeting.php?id=2

Motion
Do we approve the minutes? https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2018_01_14
Yes : {{{Yes}}}
No : {{{No}}}
Abstain : {{{Abstain}}}
Result: Motion rejetée

keithgoldstein: The minutes are approved with 4 voting.

keithgoldstein: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2018_12_02

keithgoldstein: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2018_12_02

keithgoldstein: We also have the following minutes of the informal section.

REPORTS

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Board

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Guillaume:

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Cedric: Returned to commit to PPI.

Bailey:

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Cedric: Active in numerous campaigns, heading to NY.

Keith:

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keithgoldstein: TT4 subgroup meeting, UN registrations, submissions... Elections are approaching, and I am going to be quite busy. I will probably ask an alternate to take my place in March, so I can focus on our campaign.

Ladislav:

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Raymond:

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Cedric: took a job.

Mike:

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Cedric: Bank statements. There was a break in the reporting of the bank statements. Texts for TT4.

Cedric: We formulated the following conference theme and call for speakers, which is pending feedback and revisions.

• • Think Twice Four: Online Challenges to Democracy**

Call for Speakers for the Think Twice Conference on Online Challenges to Democracy

The 4th Think Twice Conference (TT4) will be held on October ??? 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. The event will bring together academics, professionals, nonprofit and governmental organizations, as well as social activists to discuss Online Challenges to Democracy. Speakers are requested who will contribute to the debate about online challenges to democracy from four different perspectives: 1) government, 2) non-profit, 3) business or 4) activism. We will assess positive and negative consequences of online environment collaboration and propose policy solutions. Prior Think Twice conferences were held in Frankfurt, Istanbul and Jerusalem. The event is entirely non-profit and sponsored by the Pirate Parties International and the Czech Pirate Party. Participation is open to the public, and speakers will include leaders from a variety of organizations who seek to debate policies that target online challenges to democracy. The preferred language of the speeches is English. Below you will find a discussion of the themes for the conference and information about applying. Any inquiries can be sent to board@pp-international.net

Guests who cannot travel to Prague for the event are invited to participate and/or present online. Speakers are asked to either present in a panel discussion (“Online Challenges to Democracy”), organize a workshop, present a poster or graphical information, or speak at the lecture hall. Critical discussions should be presented on one or more of the following subfields: online democracy, the political challenges of governing a free internet, regulations and deregulations of online environments, Big Brother internet, Government spying, Fake news, Fake social media, Preserving freedom of expression online, Democracy interference, Media credibility evaluations and rating systems, Grassroots movements and activism, Political populisms, Risks online globalization, Local and global volunteer networks, or Promoting internet rights through multinational or supranational organizations.

A number of well-known academics, politicians, business representatives, non-profit leaders, and activists will be invited to speak. However, the call for speakers is competitive and open to the public.

Applications to speak should be made by filling out the following short form <ADD LINK> by July 1, 2019. Speakers are requested to provide a short summary of their intended discussion or presentation (up to 500 words). Decisions on speakers will be made by August 1, 2019. Opportunities are available to present papers, which may be published as part of the conference proceedings.

MichalGill: Asking for current bank statements; put together replies from members on the topics on the member fees (looking forward to cross-referencing them with the statement); was present at the PPEU congress in Luxembourg (big success, not by my help); worked with Keith and Lá?a on the TT4 invite

Etienne

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Cedric: Report on Statute Revisions

Alternates

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Daniel

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Gregory

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Kitty

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Cédric

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Cedric: Nothing for the moment, just debugging right now Congressus

TECH ISSUES

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2.4.3 Functioning of the mailing lists (MO-5 2016 GA)

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Request to delegate out further to our working group on emails to try to revive and expand use of pp-leaders email list.

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Online location of board meetings

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Motion
Do we continue our experiment with Discord? Do we have other ideas?
Description de la motion
Yes : {{{Yes}}}
No : {{{No}}}
Abstain : {{{Abstain}}}
Result: Motion rejetée

FINANCIAL ISSUES

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Task

Update from cashiers

Motion
Choosing a new cashier
Description de la motion
Yes : {{{Yes}}}
No : {{{No}}}
Abstain : {{{Abstain}}}
Result: Motion rejetée

ECOSOC

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2.8.1 Request for Inputs for Older People Paper, 4 topics, 800 words each.

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keithgoldstein: We just would like to announce that we submitted the document. I remind us to post a copy to our website, along with a post about the upcoming event in April. <add links>

2.8.2 Annual Membership Passes for UNHQ - New York

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keithgoldstein: I announce that it is official. We have maxed our annual members in NY (7). I have not received word back from Geneva about the accreditation of Guillaume as president CEO in Geneva. I did receive in NY. All other accreditations were made but are pending in Geneva (5). We have two remaining passes in Geneva and will have to sign a separate letter if needed.

Task

Correspondence needs to be sent to Geneva to get them to approve our CEO's nomination.

Speech at CSOCD57 in NY in Feb., registration from Jan. 11.

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Task

Investigate the side events please: https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/united-nations-commission-for-social-development-csocd-social-policy-and-development-division/csocd57/events.html

keithgoldstein: They are in NY right now. If you have any messages to confer with them on the event please do, we should definitely make this a blog post on our website.

MichalGill: Got tasked today again by the PPCZ Board by presenting their following statement. You can find the link to the board's decisions here (second decision of the Feb 4th meeting): https://forum.pirati.cz/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=35129

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The full PPCZ's Board statement in Czech:

Republikové predsednictvo

schvaluje zámer na úhradu dopravy z rozpoctu ZO na 57. zasedání Komise pro sociální rozvoj. OSN, a to v maximální výši 12 000 Kc

žádá ZO, aby pri schvalování zámeru prihlížel k celostátne schválené strategii

neschvaluje úhradu ubytování

požaduje report z konference + výstupy medializovatelné na celostátní úrovni

pripomíná, že soucástí nároku na proplacení je vyhotovení reportu z cesty vcetnc fotografie

Návrh byl prijat.

Pro: Ivan Bartoš, Olga Richterová, Radek Holomcík, Mikuláš Peksa

RP prijímá usnesení, s timito výhradami:

1. z pohledu Ceské pirátské strany by tento náklad a úcast na konferenci skrze PPI melo nést PPI

2. bere v potaz, že došlo k nedorozumení, kdy došlo k nákupu letenek dríve než ke schválení zámeru

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Google Translate translation in full (fixed a bit):

Republic Board

approves the plan to reimburse transport from the budget of the ZO (Foreign Dept.) at the 57th session of the Commission for Social Development. UN, up to a maximum of CZK 12,000

asks the ZO to take into account a nationally approved strategy when approving plans

does not approve payment of accommodation

requests a conference report + outputs to be publicized at national level

recalls that part of the claim for reimbursement is a copy of a trip report including a photograph

Proposal accepted.

For: Ivan Bartos, Olga Richterova, Radek Holomcik, Mikuláš Peksa

The RP (board) adopts a resolution with the following reservations:

1. From the point of view of the Czech Pirate Party, this cost and conference participation on behalf of PPI should be borne by the PPI

2. Notes that there has been a misunderstanding of the purchase of tickets prior to the approval of the project

MichalGill: That's it. If Ray and Bailey will be talking with Ladislav, please, clear things up. Thank you.

CONFERENCES

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2.9.1 PCS

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keithgoldstein: Is someone speaking on behalf of PPI?

2.9.2 TT4

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Task

We held a subgroup meeting last week. These are the tasks we created:

Ladislav will contact PSSI, to see if they have anyone interested in the conference, inquire about graphics/logos Koen build website Keith build registration form, share with board and pp-leaders about the topics of the conference, finding more people to be on the planning committees internationally

Mike confirm letters, facilities, partners in Czech, confirm dates, start thread in the PPCZ Forum to get Czech Pirates on board to help

keithgoldstein: We formulated the following conference theme and call for speakers, which is pending feedback and revisions.

• • Think Twice Four: Online Challenges to Democracy

Call for Speakers for the Think Twice Conference on Online Challenges to Democracy

The 4th Think Twice Conference (TT4) will be held on October ??? 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. The event will bring together academics, professionals, nonprofit and governmental organizations, as well as social activists to discuss Online Challenges to Democracy. Speakers are requested who will contribute to the debate about online challenges to democracy from four different perspectives: 1) government, 2) non-profit, 3) business or 4) activism. We will assess positive and negative consequences of online environment collaboration and propose policy solutions. Prior Think Twice conferences were held in Frankfurt, Istanbul and Jerusalem. The event is entirely non-profit and sponsored by the Pirate Parties International and the Czech Pirate Party. Participation is open to the public, and speakers will include leaders from a variety of organizations who seek to debate policies that target online challenges to democracy. The preferred language of the speeches is English. Below you will find a discussion of the themes for the conference and information about applying. Any inquiries can be sent to board@pp-international.net

Guests who cannot travel to Prague for the event are invited to participate and/or present online. Speakers are asked to either present in a panel discussion (“Online Challenges to Democracy”), organize a workshop, present a poster or graphical information, or speak at the lecture hall. Critical discussions should be presented on one or more of the following subfields: online democracy, the political challenges of governing a free internet, regulations and deregulations of online environments, Big Brother internet, Government spying, Fake news, Fake social media, Preserving freedom of expression online, Democracy interference, Media credibility evaluations and rating systems, Grassroots movements and activism, Political populisms, Risks online globalization, Local and global volunteer networks, or Promoting internet rights through multinational or supranational organizations.

A number of well-known academics, politicians, business representatives, non-profit leaders, and activists will be invited to speak. However, the call for speakers is competitive and open to the public.

Applications to speak should be made by filling out the following short form <ADD LINK> by July 1, 2019. Speakers are requested to provide a short summary of their intended discussion or presentation (up to 500 words). Decisions on speakers will be made by August 1, 2019. Opportunities are available to present papers, which may be published as part of the conference proceedings.

STATUTES REVISION

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keithgoldstein: Etienne organized a meeting on 21/1.

Can we add the link?

keithgoldstein: Monday 21th January - 20h CET

Report of the Standing Committee for Statues Revision (SC-SR)

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Conclusion

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FjomZjv0klLmI50z8O4IgTM8n6Nux5wGpx9r3ea6M_I/edit

ADMINISTRATION

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COMMUNICATION

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Ongoing Issues that may not have updates

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2.7.1 PPI Newsletter

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2.7.2 Article on Using Online Democracy Tools

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2.7.3 Video Campaign

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2.10.1 Subgroup for revamping the language of the PPI statutes

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2.6.1 Rules of procedure

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2.6.1.1 Change to Board RoP # 1 - Deleting §5 - point 3

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2.6.1.2 Change to Board RoP # 2 - Adding minimum criteria for agenda items

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2.6.2 Members

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2.6.2.1 Inventory of PPI members and pirates parties

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2.6.2.2 Nonmember Contact

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2.6.3 Monthly outreach meeting

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2.6.4 Tools

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2.6.4.1 Board Decision, Tasks, Voting Organization Tool

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2.6.4.2 Board meeting location : test Discord

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2.6.4.3 Updating Decisions of the Board on our Wiki

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2.11 AOB - Any other business

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Task

Can you define for us the definitions of each of the commands (speech, motion, task, conclusion)? I figured them out a bit by trial and error.

Task

Can you explain the "Rights management"

2.12 NEXT MEETING

Conclusion

Sunday 24 February, 14:00 CET

2.13 RECORDING

Conclusion

The record is available [here](https://congressus.partipirate.org/audio/7-1549915625773.mp3)

Agenda Board Meeting Convened Absent PROCEEDINGS 2.1.1 Chair and secretary 2.1.2 Quorum APPROVAL ON THE MINUTES Do we approve the minutes? https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2018_01_14

https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2018_01_27

REPORTS Board Guillaume: returned to commit to PPI. Bailey: Active in numerous campaigns, heading to NY. Keith: Ladislav: Raymond: took a job. Mike: Bank statements. There was a break in the reporting of the bank statements. Texts for TT4. Etienne: Report on Statute Revisions. Will have some time in the next two weeks to assist with other projects.

Alternates Daniel Gregory Cédric:

TECH ISSUES 2.4.3 Functioning of the mailing lists (MO-5 2016 GA) Keith will send an email. Anyone who cannot send an email should follow his instructions.

Admin access to our website to other board members so they can add content. Mike, Ladislav, Etienne contact Raymond on his email, because he is an admin and can add you. Discovered some issues with GoDaddy. These issues were fixed. If there are any further issues, please send Bastian an email.

Online location of board meetings Here in Discord? Etienne has a volunteer who would set up a server for us. Zoom works better for GA. We need to reduce the number of tools we use. Security is an issue with Discord, but there is no need for security for our meetings which are open and transparent.

Some PPs have a discord sever like PPFR : PPUK, PPFI...

Proposal that for now we have our meetings on the PPFR server.

We will discuss over a few months, and in the future we will present an actual agenda item.

FINANCIAL ISSUES Cashier

Guillaume discussed having a meeting with the cashiers and the treasurer.

Treasurer discussed getting access to reports, but missing information and needing an update.

Guillaume will check the account and send Mike a report.

ECOSOC 2.8.1 Request for Inputs for Older People Paper, 4 topics, 800 words each.

We submitted the report.

This is the link for the event: https://social.un.org/ageing-working-group/tenthsession.shtml

2.8.2 Annual Membership Passes for UNHQ - New York

We need to contact Geneva. Keith will send them a mail through our CSOnet mail.

We don't have any annual passes yet, but we do have temporary passes

Keith will send the relevant documents into one email. Please be aware that you will need to print everything out and bring it with you.

Speech at CSOCD57 in NY in Feb.

They accepted our request to speak.

https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/united-nations-commission-for-social-development-csocd-social-policy-and-development-division/csocd57/events.html

Investigate the side events please: https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/united-nations-commission-for-social-development-csocd-social-policy-and-development-division/csocd57/events.html

Discussion of financial problem relating to Ladislav's travel. We wanted to reach out to acknowledge there must have been a misunderstanding and PPI is not requesting funds.

STATUTES REVISION Report of the Standing Committee for Statues Revision (SC-SR) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FjomZjv0klLmI50z8O4IgTM8n6Nux5wGpx9r3ea6M_I/edit?usp=sharing

We organized the first meeting, and we will change the way we proceed. Etienne asked several members to give their opinions. He got feedback that helped him to learn that the critiques that are made are common. The solution is to work more asynchronously, spread out the work during the year...

Can Etienne start rewriting the statutes with an open framework?

CONFERENCES

2.9.1 PCS

Is someone speaking on behalf of PPI?

Perhaps we could do a video statement.

Perhaps if we could write a text, then Ray could assist with video technical production.

Perhaps Thomas could help us coordinate this.

Bailey translated the German press release.

Ivan Bartos will speak at the Munich Security Conference

Bailey will talk with them, and she will decide about whether we should make a video or let someone speak on our behalf in German.

2.9.2 TT4

We formulated the following conference theme and call for speakers, which is pending feedback and revisions.

• • Think Twice Four: Online Challenges to Democracy

Call for Speakers for the Think Twice Conference on Online Challenges to Democracy

The 4th Think Twice Conference (TT4) will be held on October ??? 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. The event will bring together academics, professionals, nonprofit and governmental organizations, as well as social activists to discuss Online Challenges to Democracy. Speakers are requested who will contribute to the debate about online challenges to democracy from four different perspectives: 1) government, 2) non-profit, 3) business or 4) activism. We will assess positive and negative consequences of online environment collaboration and propose policy solutions. Prior Think Twice conferences were held in Frankfurt, Istanbul and Jerusalem. The event is entirely non-profit and sponsored by the Pirate Parties International and the Czech Pirate Party. Participation is open to the public, and speakers will include leaders from a variety of organizations who seek to debate policies that target online challenges to democracy. The preferred language of the speeches is English. Below you will find a discussion of the themes for the conference and information about applying. Any inquiries can be sent to board@pp-international.net

Guests who cannot travel to Prague for the event are invited to participate and/or present online. Speakers are asked to either present in a panel discussion (“Online Challenges to Democracy”), organize a workshop, present a poster or graphical information, or speak at the lecture hall. Critical discussions should be presented on one or more of the following subfields: online democracy, the political challenges of governing a free internet, regulations and deregulations of online environments, Big Brother internet, Government spying, Fake news, Fake social media, Preserving freedom of expression online, Democracy interference, Media credibility evaluations and rating systems, Grassroots movements and activism, Political populisms, Risks online globalization, Local and global volunteer networks, or Promoting internet rights through multinational or supranational organizations.

A number of well-known academics, politicians, business representatives, non-profit leaders, and activists will be invited to speak. However, the call for speakers is competitive and open to the public.

Applications to speak should be made by filling out the following short form <ADD LINK> by July 1, 2019. Speakers are requested to provide a short summary of their intended discussion or presentation (up to 500 words). Decisions on speakers will be made by August 1, 2019. Opportunities are available to present papers, which may be published as part of the conference proceedings.

We will discuss at the next board meeting more.

ADMINISTRATION COMMUNICATION Ongoing Issues that may not have updates

Mike will be making some videos from Luxembourg. He will be posting them to his Youtube.

2.7.1 PPI Newsletter 2.7.2 Article on Using Online Democracy Tools 2.7.3 Video Campaign 2.10.1 Subgroup for revamping the language of the PPI statutes 2.6.1 Rules of procedure 2.6.1.1 Change to Board RoP # 1 - Deleting §5 - point 3 2.6.1.2 Change to Board RoP # 2 - Adding minimum criteria for agenda items 2.6.2 Members 2.6.2.1 Inventory of PPI members and pirates parties 2.6.2.2 Nonmember Contact 2.6.3 Monthly outreach meeting 2.6.4 Tools 2.6.4.1 Board Decision, Tasks, Voting Organization Tool 2.6.4.2 Board meeting location : test Discord 2.6.4.3 Updating Decisions of the Board on our Wiki 2.11 AOB - Any other business 2.12 NEXT MEETING