PPI Minutes 2025-01-07

Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING

--- 07.01.2025 20:00 UTC/21:00 CE(S)T ---

Audio recording: https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/izg7d9WbEo72aN4

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

Board

• Chairperson: Gregory Engels
• Vice Chairperson: Keith Goldstein
• General Secretary: Alexander Isavnin
• Treasurer: Sebastian Krone
• BM: Bailey Lamon
• BM: Mia Utz
• BM: Raman Ojha
• BM: Carlos Polo
• BM: Maycow Toledo

Alternates:

• Thomas Gaul

1 - ATTENDEES

1.1 - Members of the PPI board

participating: Keith, Bastian, Bailey, Mia, Alexander, Carlos (arrived late)

excused:

• Thomas Gaul

unexcused:

Quorum:

1.2 - Others

Alternate Board Members:

participating:

excused:

unexcused:

Guests:

participating: PiratesOnAir, Numero6, Babak

2 - PROCEEDINGS

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

Meeting opened at 20:06 UTC by Keith

Meeting chaired by Bailey

Secretary for this meeting is everyone

Quorum [not] established with 5 out of 9 board members present.

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

Recording started: 20:06

Postal votes: none

Votes delegated (§5 Votes (5. 3.) ROP):

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_2024-12-17
Yes : Alexander, Keith, Bastian
No :
Abstain : Bailey, Mia
Result: Minutes approved

4 - REPORTS

4.1 - Short reports of the board members 1)

Board

• Gregory Engels:

not present

• Keith Goldstein: I posted the GA on Discourse, Discord, and updated the Wiki. I am still concerned that many members did not get the message. I am trying to coordinate a group meeting at the Berlin Pirate office. We have the office reserved. Please let Pirates in the Berlin area know that we will be meeting there on Saturday. Aside from that we can now request UN groundspasses, and we should prepare those letters right away. And went to Pirate beer and the IGF.

• Bailey Lamon: I attended Pirate beer. The GA is this weekend and for all of us, we all should just reach out to people we know. Let's make sure the information gets out there for where and when.

• Alexander Isavnin: Participated in IGF2024 (more to be reported), Participated in Pirate Beer . Maybe I will write more information about what happened at the IGF

• Sebastian Krone:

I have been monitoring the PPI technique as I do every day.

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

Wiki: Finance & TEC-Dashboard is up to date.

• Maycow Toledo:

not present

• Mia Utz: Nothing to report since.

• Raman Ojha:

not present

• Carlos Polo:

present 21:40

I hope to have more time for UN things.

Alternates:

• Thomas Gaul

not present

5.1 - Proposals

• Announcing and preparing the GA

The draft agenda is in this Wiki.

https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_General_Assembly_JAN_2025

The topic for the current GA is in our Discourse.

https://ga.pp-international.net/c/2025-ga-winter/34

Keynote speaker

We are

Board report.

We should set up a pad and all work on it.

Auditors report

It was already posted on the Discourse.

https://ga.pp-international.net/t/lay-auditor-report/472

5.2 - Working Groups Update

AI: no update

UN Working Group: no update

SCENE: no update. There was an event in our calendar, but only Numero6 and Keith showed up. It may have been a scheduling error.

We should advertise the meetings better on all channels.

5.3 Economic Update

• Treasurer Report:

Finances:

Bank account 1,676.30 CHF / 41.36 EUR

PayPal 54.84 EUR

Contribution invoices have been sent out. Some e-mail addresses are not valid. The outstanding contributions amount to EUR 8,680.00 (in 2023 only 3, in 2024 only 2 contributions have been paid).

5.4 ECOSOC/UN

• UN Groundspasses

5.5 PPI HQ update

• Data of the new HQ:

Pirate Parties International (PPI) e.V.

Am Buerohochhaus 2-4

D- 14478 Potsdam

Phone + 49-331-5834 9801

Fax + 49-331-5834 9802

Mail: vorstand@ppi.works

Registering office AG Potsdam No. VR 9786 P

UStIdNr: DE449904488

The PPI shop is currently being set up. Anyone who has ideas or wants to help is welcome to do so. Of course, members can also join the shop system. First I have to make the website multilingual.

6 AOB - Any other business

none

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Tuesdays every 3 Weeks, rotating between 14:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

• Next Board Meeting: 28.01.2025 14:00 UTC

• Meeting Closed: 21:06 UTC by Bailey

• Draft Letter for GA

"Dear Pirates,

We are pleased to invite you to the Pirate Parties International General Assembly, January 2025.

The meeting will take place on Saturday, January 11th, starting at 12:00 UTC. If needed we will also meet on Sunday, January 12th.

Several groups will meet in physical locations, including at the Berlin Pirate office at Pflugstraße 9.

), but the conference will be entirely online on JITSI https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board with a backup of BBB https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v and a final backup of Mumble.

There is no deadline for motions, so feel free to put forward any ideas and/or your candidates at any time. All proposals should be submitted on our Discourse Forum: https://ga.pp-international.net/c/2025-ga-winter/34

There is no deadline for registering delegates and each PPI member may have up to 6. Please register your delegates by email: board@pp-international.net.

Because this is the start of the year assembly, there will also be elections of PPI Officers. The following positions in PPI will be up for election in January:

-1 Chairperson -(3 or 4?) Board members -(No limit) Alternate board member -3 Lay auditors -6 Court of Arbitration members

Please submit your nominations for PPI officers on the Discourse forum.

Do not hesitate to reach out to the PPI board if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns. We look forward to meeting with you again!