From PPI
- Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING
- --- 10.09.2024 20:00 UTC/22:00 CEST ---
- Audio recording: https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/JB26NgTgmbQTbix
- Video: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
Record of the meeting
1 - ATTENDEES
1.1 - Members of the PPI board
- participating: Gregory, Bailey, Keith, Alexander, Bastian, Mia, Maycow Toledo
- excused:
- unexcused:
- Quorum:
1.2 - Others
- Alternate Board Members:
- participating:
- excused: Thomas
- unexcused:
- Guests:
- participating: PiratesOnAir, Alexander K, neila (jp), Exile, Numero6,
2 - PROCEEDINGS
- Meeting opened at 20:05 UTC Gregory
- Meeting chaired by Gregory
- Secretary for this meeting is everyone
- Quorum [not] established with 7 out of 9 board members present.
- Streaming started: ? https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/
- Recording started: 20:05
- Postal votes: no
- Votes delegated (§5 Votes (5. 3.) ROP): no
- Notes on meeting process: none
3 - APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
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 Yes : Bailey, Bastian,Gregory, Keith,
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 No :
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 Abstain : Alexander, Mia
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4 - REPORTS
4.1 - Short reports of the board members 1)
Board
- Gregory Engels: Not much to report. I attended the founding meeting for the German association.
- Keith Goldstein: I tried to attend Pirate Beer, but I think there is a disconnect on our schedule. I communicated with the ECOSOC groups a bit. We started the applications. It seems that we are applying with our Belgian registration. I look forward to us discussing setting up a GA and other events today.
- Bailey Lamon: Not much to report. I attended the SCENE meeting before this one.
- Alexander Isavnin: Not much to report, following AI group development, preparing to IGF in December
- Sebastian Krone:
- organized the founding meeting for the German PPI Association. We are waiting for some signatures to be mailed around, before seeing the notary. Alexander Kohler, who can introduce himself later is the chair of this new association.
- I have monitored the PPI technology as I do every day.
- All patches are up to date. All systems are running smoothly.
- The PPI association has been founded. We are waiting for the signatures next weekend and the notary appointment is on 27.09.2024.
- I have also created the technical requirements for the professional security of our social accounts: SIM card, secure email accounts, secure website. Unfortunately, I have not yet received any data.
- On the subject of Discourse: We will install it on a new VM, but first have to test whether the data from the backup is compatible with a new installation.
- As you have noticed, I have taken over the administrative part of the board meetings (Wiki/Pad/Web/Invitation).
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
- Mlemt: not present membership suspended
- Maycow Toledo:nothing to report
- Julian Häfner: not present, membership suspended
- Mia Utz: skipped few meetings, nothing to report
Alternates:
- Raman Ojha:
- Carlos Polo:
- Thomas Gaul: excused
5.1 - Proposals
- Decision on removal of board members due to inactivty
- Bastian indicates members of the board were removed, and we need a decision that the decision is now valid. They did not use their right in the court of arbitration.
5.2 - Working Groups Update
- AI:
- Alexander: AI WG have chat in telegram, activity happened in this chat and some other chats in discord
- UN Working Group:
- SCENE
- We had a small meeting today. It had been a while since we had a SCENE meeting. We talked about our social media situation and how we want to improve that. We wanted to get Gregory involved, because he has more experience in automated social media posts and these topics. We looked at tools that Keith shared, such as Mautic: https://www.mautic.org/
- It would be good to have our own social media tool.
- We also mentioned that there is an access issue with Twitter. Bailey has some login issues. She has an issue with the verification.0
- We also discussed setting up funding mechanisms to support attending conferences, conducting research, and running social media and other activist campaigns.
5.3 Economic Update
- Treasurer Report:
- Finances:
- Bank accounts: 1,967.49 CHF / 62.68 EUR
- PayPal: EUR 54.84
- I'm working on a member administration and a new overview of the individual members (there are a lot of open fees (10 EUR). What do we do? Send reminders?).
5.4 ECOSOC/UN
- Some activities around invitations recieved via ECOSOC happens. Preparing for IGF in December as we got a session approved. Everyone is welcome to submit suggestions around this topic. https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2024-day-0-event-126-digital-transformation-and-sovereignty-a-route-to-autarchy
- The United Nations Office at Geneva, Interpeace, and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform are pleased to invite you and your staff to attend the 2024 edition of the Geneva PeaceTalks. Marking the International Day of Peace, and Interpeace’s 30th anniversary, the Geneva PeaceTalks will take place on Thursday, 19 September 2024, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Room XVII at the Palais des Nations and online on UN Web TV. The event will be followed by a reception at the Bar Serpent. We invite you to register your participation by following this link: https://indico.un.org/event/1008322/
5.5 PPI HQ update
- The PPI association has been founded. We are waiting for the signatures next weekend and the notary appointment is on 27.09.2024.
- The Chairmen is Alexander Kohler.
- He is willing to represent the new organization for the notary and the registration authorities. Please welcome Alexander to the new chair that we have founded.
- Alex: It is a tool for the PPI, especially for this bureacracy of the UN, we need it for that. I am organizing the Pirate Security Conference, and that is well known in Munich. It is a meeting place for the movement. In this case, we help to make it better. I was asked to candidate for this chairperson. I will help out with this bureacracy.
6 AOB - Any other business
: Start planning the GA
- proposal to make the next GA a hybrid - multi location event. The timeframe should be in December. Bastian will prepare a draft for the call for hosts. Ideally we end up with multiple location on different continents.
VPN server to liberate PPRU
- Alexander: PPRU ask for possibilty to have VPN server outside of Russia running VPN with cloaking/obfuscaton protols (for PPRU members-only as additional possibility) as censorship increases in Russia
Board Membership Changes
- SInce the decision of the board to declare the seats of Julian Häfner and Owen Richardson vacant, a month has passed and the said former board members have not appealed this decision at the Court of Arbirtration, this decision has become final. The alternate board members Raman Ojha and Carlos Polo are filling up the vacant spots at the board.
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- Meeting Closed: 20:57 UTC by Gregory
