PPI Minutes 2023-11-15

Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING

--- 15.11.2023 05:00 UTC/06:00 CET ---

Audio recording: PiratesOnAir Streaming

https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/2HFiCsT52jBTktN

Video: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board

1 - ATTENDEES

1.1 - Members of the PPI board

participating: Michal, Keith, Gregory, Alexander

excused:

unexcused:

Quorum:

1.2 - Others

Alternate Board Members:

participating: Bastian

excused:

unexcused:

Guests:

participating:

2 - PROCEEDINGS

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

Meeting opened at 05:02 UTC by Keith

Meeting chaired by Keith

Secretary for this meeting is everyone

Quorum established with 5 (out of 9) board members present.

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

Recording started: 05:03 UTC

Postal votes: none

Notes on meeting process: none

3 - APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES

Motion
Do we approve the minutes?
https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2023-10-11
Yes : Mike, Keith, Gregory, Alexander
No :
Abstain : Bastian,
Result: Minutes are approved.

4 - REPORTS

4.1 - Short reports of the board members 1)

Board

• Florie Marie: not present

• Gregory Engels: I am catching up from the last election campaign in Germany. Congratulations to our friends for the results in Luxembourg and Czech Republic for having a successful election. I am in preparation for the general assembly of PPDE that will happen in 2 weeks.

• Bailey Lamon: not present

• Michal Gill: Little to do with PPI. We (our National Council) finally approved ratification of the Common European Election Programme.

• Keith L. Goldstein: I helped draft statements in PPIL, and separately in PPI, on the conflict in Israel. I also moderated a few discussions with PPAU, USPP, and others about similar statements. They are supposed to update me whether they want us to publish one of their statements. I put up a few blogs on our website. I moderated a few things through Discord and Discourse. I participated in Maycow's PPBR Aaron Schwarz day event.

• Alexander Isavnin: Participated at IGF (a little since last meeting). We are still monitoring IT rules and regulations in Russia. In PPRU we tried to join the statement of PPI on the Gaza situation, but it caused a heated discussion and strangely we have not joined the statement with one vote difference against. Most of the argument was the statement was too political and too diplomatic.

• Julian Häffner: not present

• Mauricio Vargas: not present

• Maycow Toledo: not present

Alternates:

• Adam Wolf: not present

• Sebastian Krone:

I nudged you to comment on the Israel war: You were brave enough to write a text.

I have been monitoring the PPI tech, as I do every day, even on vacation.

All patches are up-to-date. All systems are running smoothly.

I have asked several times to see the contract for data processing by a processor (Art. 28.3 GDPR) regarding our discourse hosted by Stefan Thöni that we use. When will this happen?

• Mia Utz: not present

• Raman Ojha: not present

• Carlos Polo: not present

5.1 - Proposals

• GA Agenda Items, Delegates, New Members, Motions, etc.

Do we have any ideas on agenda items for the GA, such as keynote speakers.

Alex: We discussed with PPRU about changing the status of PPI and letting every member have a representative. It seems that ammendments need to be submitted earlier.

Keith: Perhaps we can discuss this amendment in AOB and vote on it at a later GA.

Bastian: We have a call from PPAU to join PPI, and we learned that PPUK will also try to join PPI.

Alex: I saw in Discourse that there was a proposal from Mike about Cedric. That proposal has been there for a long time.

Alex: We are missing our chair from a few meetings. Should we ask the GA to review this, and if necessary to pass the position to someone more responsible.

Keith: Do our statutes have anything to say about that?

Bastian: If you aren't able to attend the meetings, then you have to resign.

Keith: We have several members with this issue, so it cannot be a double standard.

Alex: With the chair's office it requires more responsibility.

Bastian: If you don't attend meetings, then you have to quit. It is that easy.

Keith: We would need to receive a motion, and it would have to account for all members who are not participating, including some who have not been present at all. Do we have any positive comments, so it would be good to have a keynote speaker.

Bastian: We have a lot of issues, Ukraine War, Israel War, and it would be good to have a keynote speaker. I think it would be good to have a keynote speech to commend the situation. I would suggest Rick Falvinge.

I will write to him.

(No one is opposed)

Alex: I would like to plan and to announce a Pirate beer prior to the GA.

Bastian: It was a pity that we did not have preparation before the last GA meeting. We should have a meeting before and make sure everyone knows what is going on.

Pre-GA Board Meeting at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, December 6th

Pirate Beer at 21:00 UTC on Friday, December 8th

Gregory: We need to state that we have not received statute amendments.

Keith: And the 2 new membership applications. I will write to everyone about these announcements.

5.2 - Working Groups Update

• SCENE meeting

The meeting has not yet been announced.

5.3 Economic Update

We don't have an update.

5.4 ECOSOC/UN

• UNODC Final Cybercrime Meeting in January

• Groundspasses

If anyone wants a groundspass for next year they should already let us know. We can prepare the paperwork so that we are ready to go in January (the ground passes are valid for a year starting January)

5.5 PPI HQ update

no update

6 AOB - Any other business

• Pirate Times-regular publications

Bastian arranged for this publication: https://piratetimes.info/hamas-is-irans-instrument-of-obstructing-peace-between-arabs-and-israel/:

It would be great if we can post more routinely. How can we get content?

Alex: our governments give us a lot of news about restricting information flow freedom, it's nearly free to have regular news on such topics

• Recognition of our Statement on the Israel-Hamas War

https://pp-international.net/2023/11/ppistatementisraelpalestine/

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• Next Meeting: 2023-12-06 21:00 UTC

• Meeting Closed: 05:34 UTC