PPI Conference 2018/Board candidatures

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Here you can submit your application for PPI board member. To submit your application copy-paste the table or write an e-mail with the information to board@pp-international.net and we will add you to the list.

Sponsors - According to IV (4) (b) and V (2) (b) of the PPI statutes candidates to any body of the PPI must be proposed by an ordinary or observer member of the PPI. If you submit your application please indicate your sponsor before the conference. Please submit by 2nd, November 2018 - late submissions are at the discretion of the GA

Please use the following template:

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Chairperson (1 position)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Name and nicks	Guillaume Saouli
Sponsor	PP-DE
member of Pirate Party	PP-CH
qualifications	Current chair of PPI
language(s)	en/de/fr
motivation and political background
Contact data

Board members (3 positions)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Name and nicks	Michal Gill
Sponsor	Czech Pirate Party (PPCZ)
member of Pirate Party	Czech Pirate Party (PPCZ)
qualifications	I currently work as a translator from Czech to English, have a B.A. in history, I've participated or even lead multiple elections in my six years in the party (local el. to parl. el.), currently I'm a PP district chapter president for Karviná
language(s)	Great: Czech, English; Not that great: German, Polish; In quite a basic manner: French, Italian, Latin
motivation and political background	I worked for a year as a regional coordinator for PPCZ, lead a couple month campaign bus prior to the 2017 parliamentary election, I consider myself to be an Eurofederalist and am a very liberal person, my political goals are no smaller that for EU to surpass USA in the term of integration within my lifetime, if elected I'd strive for PPI to be way more visible to the world, to profess the PPs' unity to the public and to make sure the internal cooperation is as deep as it can be.
Contact data	michal.gill@pirati.cz / +420 603 590 571

Name and nicks	Stanley Cohen
Sponsor	PP-NO
member of Pirate Party	-
qualifications	Lawyer
language(s)	English
motivation and political background	The New York times profiled lawyer Stanley L. Cohen is long-time social justice attorney and activist. For ten years he has been subjected to aggressive investigation and harassment by various agencies of the United States federal government, ultimately leading to criminal indictments being filed against him in two jurisdictions, relating to income tax matters. Stanley Cohen has a long history of standing with and for the disadvantaged and the disaffected. After coming of age as a social worker and an organizer in the anti-war and economic justice movements, he became a lawyer in 1983 and spent seven years as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society in the Bronx. Later, in private practice he continued to advocate for and represent many people the government would like to silence or put in jail: Palestinian freedom fighters, Muslim preachers, North American natives living on Indian reservations, marijuana dealers, anti-war protestors, radical squatters, the homeless, “hacktivist” information activists, members of national liberation movements, anarchists, and anti-Zionists among many others. Stanley Cohen is honored to be nominated to the board of Pirate Parties International and the nominating party, PPNO, feels that his set of skills and knowledge of very central pirate causes will be a great addition to any board. He is published frequently speaking truth to power. You can find some of his writings in Al Jazeera and Counter Punch Here is a recent portrait article of Mr. Up the Rebels himself in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/nyregion/stanley-cohen-lawyer-terrorists.html
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Name and nicks	Stanley Cohen
Sponsor	PP-NO
member of Pirate Party	-
qualifications	software development
language(s)	English
motivation and political background	Kitty Hundal has a been a life long pirate from her first regular Saturday visits to her local public library as a child, to her first career in Libraries. She advocated strongly for free speech, a free press and took a consistent stand against censorship of print material and later against the attempts by various industries to prevent the introduction of audio-visual materials into library systems. Since Libraries were early adopters of computer systems and the “internet” (such as it was at the time), she was also an early user of those systems. Her second career in software development as well as the enhancement of the Internet as we now know it, the development of the Web, led her down the path of being an early file sharer. The same path which eventually launched the creation of the Pirate movement by key figures in the file sharing circles. Those Internet years were spent lurking/learning about digital privacy, encryption, and social hacktivism from the cypherpunks, 2600 and other such early entities. Kitty is not well known and has always preferred to maintain a low key presence. However, the world is changing and we’ve all had to change with it. While Kitty believes that the party system itself is outdated and stands in the way of increased democratization, digital and civil rights, privacy for the powerless and transparency for the powerful, she understands that evolutions often require transitions. She sees the Pirate Party as the means to bring about such a transition. Kitty went into early retirement a few years ago and decided at that time to devote her time and energy to social activism which both defends those who are being persecuted for working to invoke positive change and to participate in invoking such change herself. Live like a pirate, die like a pirate :heart: Kitty Hundal Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Alternate board members (1 positions)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Lay auditors (3 positions)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Court of Arbitration (5 positions)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?