PPI Minutes 2021-07-14

Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING

--- 14.7.2021 14:00 UTC/16:00 CEST ---

Big Blue Button Room: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v

Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming, recording

https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/sWKk3cdGBHRJLYf

Video: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v

1 - ATTENDEES

1.1 - Members of the PPI board

participating: Bastian, Mike, Keith

excused: Bailey, Gregory, Dario

unexcused: Dan, Manuel, Carlos

Quorum: not achieved

1.2 - Others

Alternate Board Members

participating: none

excused: none

unexcused: Ji Yong, Svein, Thomas

Guests:

participating: Tan

2 - PROCEEDINGS

RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board/Rules_of_Procedure

Meeting opened at 14:03 UTC by Keith

Meeting chaired by Keith

Secretary for this meeting is Everyone

Quorum is not established with 3 out of 9 board members present.

Streaming started: started https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/

Recording started: 14:03 UTC

Postal votes: none

Notes on meeting process: none

3 - APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES

Motion
Do we approve the minutes?
* Minutes of the last meeting: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2020-12-20
Yes :
No :
Abstain :
Result:

4 - REPORTS

4.1 - Short reports of the board members 1)

Board

• Bailey: Sorry I can't be here today. GA was very successful despite starting late, so big thank you to everyone for that! I don't have anything new to report at this time however we do have a few things coming up in the near future, such as the Aragon DAO meeting this Sunday, as well as Pirate Summer Camp starting in a few days. Do we still want to do a BarCamp during Pirate Summer and connect with everyone there? It was good last year, would be fun to do it again. I will be writing an invite for the SCENE meeting on August 7th (Campaigning During Covid Part 2). Have a great meeting and a wonderful day/evening/night!

• Gregory: Is on vacation

• Dario: Is not available

• Bastian:

Attended PPI-GA 2021.1

All the financial information I have is on the PPI wiki. But I need access to the bank account and the Kraken (Bitcoin, Ethereum) as soon as possible. #Groundhog

I took care of PPI technology as I do every day:

PPI etherpad had database issues due to our upgrade. Last week we had a long night session to figure out what the problem is. I hope everything is fixed now.

All systems are running fine now, necessary updates are done ;-)

I also renewed our domain at GoDaddy. Actually the plan was to transfer this to another hosting company. But GoDaddy told me that the transfer can take up to a week, which is very unfair and another reason to leave GoDaddy. I will therefore implement this at the end of the year, when a longer shutdown is not so problematic. The invoice was paid via PayPal.

Korsan Parti Harekati

I have discovered major database problems with the Turkish Pirates website.

Also, the connection is very slow.

If it is desired by the Turkish Pirates, the PPI can gladly take over the hosting of the Wordpress Salient-Blog (of course, the colleagues still have full access to the administration).

We are also happy to issue the missing SSL certificate for the website.

• Update: That was a misunderstanding. The url of the new PP-TR is korsanparti.net

• Manuel: not present

• Mike: Present at the GA. The transfer of the address of PPIHQ will be done at the summer camp with Gregory.

• Dan: not present

• Keith: DAO prep, crypto funds, working groups

• Carlos: not present

Alternates:

• Svein: not present

• Ji Yong: not present

• Thomas: not present

5.1 - Proposals

• Issue: Action from Court of Arbitration regarding very inactive/dead parties

Submitted by: Tan Siret Akıncı - PPTR

Justification: As Mike and multiple people in the GA said, there needs to be some action regarding inactive and dead parties that make it difficult for new parties, dividing their votes to half and invades space within PPI while they really don't exist at all or are dead long ago. Some of those parties that I saw to be inactive are the following:

   - Pirate Party of Turkey (old)
   - Pirate Party of Kazakhstan
   - Pirate Party of Bulgaria

Motions: Court of Arbitration to take action about inactive and dead parties as soon as possible.

• Kazakhstan party we lost party since 2018.

• Issue: Internet Voting comes to mainstream discussion in Turkey

Submitted by: Tan Siret Akıncı - PPTR

Justification: I-Voting comes to mainstream discussion in Turkey by People's Republican Party (center-left socdem nationalist party), main opposition party in the parliament. We as Pirate Party Turkey support this fully, but only if its done correctly and safely. I know global pirates and programmers discussed I-Voting many times in the past, but many stuff are changed since then.

Motions: I would urge you to reignite the I-Voting discussion.

5.2 - Working Groups Update

• Renaming the working groups: I think we could use new acronyms for the working groups to make them more intuitive. Perhaps we don't need to vote on these names, and we can just propose a new name for each group with the next meeting anouncement. I therefore intend to announce the SCURVY group as the DAO working group. I will also rename SCUBA probably then as the UNP working group for UN Pirates, and so on.

• We have a DAO working group this weekend.

SCUBA DAO First Meeting

Sunday July 18 at 12:00 UTC

https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v

5.3 Economic Update

• Crypto account: Our treasurer mentioned that he lacks access to our account. However, it is not possible to transfer the account by name. We need to create a new account and transfer the funds. I recommend that we create a cold wallet and share the keys among 2 board members.

• Wallet needs to be stored on a secure.

Hot solution, meta mask or other.

Cold wallet

We should make it transparent for our users. Have the wallet on ppi infrastructure.

We should have a financial solution, with an idea of how we want to keep the funds.

5.4 ECOSOC/UN

No updates

Groundspasses are available

5.5 PPI HQ update

Mike will take care of it with Gregory during the Pirate Summer.

6 AOB - Any other business

We will discuss about having a Bar Camp during the summer camp. We will publish a Trello, and there will be invitations. These will be copied to the board and pp-leaders.

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• Next Meeting: 04.08.2021, 14:30 UTC/16:30 CET

• Meeting Closed: 14:30 UTC