July 15 2019 PPI BOD
Convoqués
- Board delegatives members :
- Cedric (1)
- keithgoldstein (1)
- BaileyL (1)
- RayJohansen (1)
- gsaouli (1)
- 5/9
Absents
- Board delegatives members :
- DanPrazeresBR
- Etienne
- MichalGill
- Ladislav.Koubek
Ordre du jour
Formalities/Ordre de Jour - July 15th 2019
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Board Meeting
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- keithgoldstein: Meeting is started at 16:07 PM CEST.
Convened
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- keithgoldstein: Guillaume, Mike, Bailey, Ray, Dan, Keith present. A qualified quorum.
Absent
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- keithgoldstein: Etienne is excused.
Cedric is also excused.
No word from Gregory.
PROCEEDINGS
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Chair and secretary
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- keithgoldstein: Guillaume is chair.
Keith is secretary.
Quorum
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Approval of the Minutes
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Do we approve the minutes?
- keithgoldstein: Minutes approved with a vocal vote, one abstention, 5 approvals.
Minutes are approved.
June 17th 2019: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2019_06_17#June_17_BOD_FINAL
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Next meeting July 29th:
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https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/PPI_Minutes_2019_07_15
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Approval of Today's Agenda
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- RayJohansen: 2.1 Board Meeting
2.1.1 Convened
2.1.2 Absent
2.2 PROCEEDINGS
2.2.1 2.1.1 Chair and secretary
2.2.2 2.1.2 Quorum
2.3 Approval of the Minutes
June 17th 2019: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2019_06_17#June_17_BOD_FINAL
Next meeting July 29th: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/PPI_Minutes_2019_07_15
[Be aware: by next meeting we must migrate to Cryptpad]
2.4 Approval of Todays Agenda:
Formalities/Ordre de Jour
Board member reports
Economic reports
Board Meeting Tech
TT4 dates and tasks
Digital Warfare Conference
Budget and cashflow budget 2019
Update of RoP
General Assembly 2019: Discussion
Any Other Business
Upcoming Meeting
- RayJohansen: Full planning pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/july-1-2019-pad-for-agenda-items-6ybf0cb
- RayJohansen: We updated the RoP before the board. Therefore, these are the comments for the agenda for now. We will move forward for now to accommodate our treasurer.
- keithgoldstein: We will postpone the two economic parts.
- RayJohansen: Postphoned until next meeting:
Economic Reports
Budget 2019
Be aware: by next meeting we must migrate to Cryptpad
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Approval of Todays Agenda
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Board member reports
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Board
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Guillaume:
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- gsaouli: 10th anniversary of the party last weekend. Forthcoming host who invited us into his castle. We had a nice celebration. It got some media attention. Evening news, two minute slot.
Bailey:
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- BaileyL: Nothing directly related, but a cool update from a week ago, gave a workshop in my city for union people and labor folk, activists, event for Common Front. This is a group that was formed years ago, involving labor people coming together. Small workshop for activists, touched on things like crypto tools and keeping secure online. It went well. A crypto party will take place in the fall. Everyone will bring their laptops. Spying in Canada, privacy laws... relevant topics for the Pirate movement.
Keith:
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- keithgoldstein: Doing a lot with ECOSOC. Will update more in AOB.
Daniel:
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- keithgoldstein: Welcome back.
Raymond:
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- RayJohansen: Business as usual.
Mike:
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- Guest: PPCZ is moving to the new boss of the EC. There is currently a discussion of whether the Czech party should support the German candidate. He is translating documents for the Slovak party. They are looking to submit it.
Etienne:
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Alternates
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Gregory:
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Cédric:
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Economic reports
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Board Meeting Tech
- RayJohansen: I withdraw Zoom as an alternative, since we can use it whenever we want. We have asked the people from Mumble to present arguments, but so far do not have any. We are left with a debate between using Mumble or Discord.
- gsaouli: Mumble has a great advantage on privacy. There is no trace of discussions, but this also means that you lose a record of what you were discussing. This is a big disadvantage, and also when you change platforms you lose the discussion. Discord has a larger platform of users, and it is more versatile. I would support the decision for Discord. There are still some hitches regarding the broadcast. It is a more suitable tool for our discussions.
- Guest: Discord is way better on the reliability side. To me it is way easier to use. I know a lot of people who had problems with Mumble. I don't know if we ever had a private meeting, so I don't see the need for security.
- keithgoldstein: For me there are two advantages to Discord. You can use web interface. You can on the phone. For the sound, the quality of the meetings is better on Discord. Some argue that you have difficulties to change parameters on Discord, but it is the same on Mumble, so there are similar issues for both systems. I largely prefer Discord because I can use it on all my devices, and not on Mumble.
{{motion|title=Which online tool do we wish to use for future meetings? |text=Which tool? |vote=Mumble : |vote=Discord : |Abstain=
- keithgoldstein: Mike votes for Discord.
- keithgoldstein: There are 6 votes for Discord. Dan Abstains. None for Mumble.
- keithgoldstein: The Board has decided to continue to use Discord for future meetings.
TT4 dates and tasks
- keithgoldstein: The most important thing at the moment is to finally ask the dates.
- keithgoldstein: The 4th Multinational Think Twice Conference (TT4) will be held Nov. 1-3, 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. Does the board approve this idea?
- RayJohansen: What if we wanted to run the GA on Oct. 29 and 30, would that be possible at all? We could have the board present in Prague.
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Nov. 1-3 is this suitable for PPI? | |
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- keithgoldstein: Mike is in favor of these dates. The dates are approved with 5 yes, 1 abstain, and Dan is absent due to internet connection issue.
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- keithgoldstein: There are 6 votes in favor, including 1 vocal vote. The motion is approved.
Digital Warfare Conference
- keithgoldstein: There is little for us to do. In the next 12 weeks Guillaume will be responsible for the marketing. We will do a former vote that states that we will not fund or organize, but we will take place in the marketing and helping out with the speakers would be great.
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Support the Digital Warfare Conference? | |
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- keithgoldstein: Mike and Dan are absent. We have 5 approval votes. The motion is approved.
Budget and cashflow budget 2019
Update of RoP
- keithgoldstein: I believe that Vojtech was revising this, and I was waiting on his final revision. I had updated it and removed the update pending this update.
- keithgoldstein: There are 4 votes in favor and 1 abstain. The motion is accepted.
General Assembly 2019: Discussion
- RayJohansen: I would like for us to have a volunteer who is responsible for organizing it. I am looking for leadership.
- BaileyL: Before getting started with organizing, we will need to make decisions about where it will be, how it will be held - digitally or physically -. We put out a message a little while ago. We could encourage an online GA, but also consider having visitors for TT4.
- gsaouli: I would put a motion forth that we do another round of calls for venues, and if we don't have an answer by July 29 that we proceed with the organization of an online GA.
- gsaouli: Another point is the dates. I am not in favor of canibalizing TT. It is difficult to discern between a conference and a GA. People will get confused.
- gsaouli: Bailey and Ray will work on the Wordpress. We will put it out to a vote. Guillaume will work on the role planning of the event. We will touch base on Friday afternoon to think up about the planning and tracking. We will try to leverage what was already done and go one step further. Cedric might be a bit interested.
- keithgoldstein: Ray is taking full responsibility for sending the mail.
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- keithgoldstein: The motion was accepted with 5 unanimous votes in favor.
Any Other Business
- gsaouli: Can we send out a call for comments so we can get people to contribute ideas?
- keithgoldstein: We should set it up as a blog on our website. We haven't had a blog on our website in 3 months.
- keithgoldstein: Bailey, Ray, and Keith will work on a blog on our website about universal health coverage issues we would like to discuss at the upcoming UN conference. This will be completed by July 20.
Upcoming Meeting
Are we sticking with this time, day?
- keithgoldstein: Next meeting July 29th at 16:00 CEST
Pad for the next meeting is: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/PPI_Minutes_2019_07_15
Ayant participé à un vote
- 14 - gsaouli
- 5 - BaileyL
- 6 - RayJohansen
- 4 - keithgoldstein
- 1 - Cedric