MINUTES for PPI BOARD MEETING
- --- 31/08/2010 ---
1 - ATTENDEES
1.1 - Members of the PPI board
- Jerry Weyer
- Gregory Engels
- Bogo
- Jakub
1.2 - Others
- Ralph
- SteffenO
2 - PROCEEDINGS
- Meeting opened at 21 : 09 (CEST) by Jerry
- Secretary for this meeting is Gregory
- Quorum established with 4 of 7 board members present.
- Streaming started: [Yes]
- Recording started: [Yes]
- Meeting closed at 22 : 04 (CEST) by Jerry
3 - OPENING REMARKS/ANNOUNCEMENTS
3.1 - Pirate Party of the Week (proposed by Jerry)
- No pirate party this weeks as I didn't get any answer. Sent out the questions to every PPI member. We should sent out questions to the other Pirate Parties, starting with Sweden (as they have elections). Questions for Sweden are prepared here: http://ppi.piratenpad.de/91
- This week's Pirate Party will be Kazakhstan (translations are done by Dichter).
4 - AGENDA
4.1 - Update Calendar and Press release exchange (proposed by Jerry)
- What is the status with the calendar and press release exchange website? Which sub-domain did we chose for the press release exchange? What are the next steps?
- the Calendar is installed, but has some issues with the character encoding and categories. The cause is unclear and need some more time to get sorted out. (Steffen)
- regarding the press exchange - Benjamin Stoecker (PP-DE) is going to set up the Pirates Without Borders Planet first, and then he will turn to ours.
- Discussion on what sub-domain name to use with the press-release-planet:
- prex
- parrot +1+1+1+1
- wire / hotwire +1+1
- telegram/graph
- press
- bazaar
- planet +1+1
- moon +1
- Mars / Venus / Saturn
- Sandocan (it's a pirate)
- px +1
- bazar
- world +1
- universe +1+1+1
- blackbeard
- roger
- bottle-messages +1
- press corner
- 7seas +1
- radar +1
- the result is - we take http://parrot.pp-international.net
4.2 - Bank Account - conference refunds (proposed by Jerry/Gregory)
- Nicco is not answering to our e-mails. We will sent one more and then call the bank to ask for a bank statement and try to deduce who was paid the conference refunds and continue with the payments of the refunds.
4.3 - New members who did not join at the first conference (proposed by Jakub)
- We should go out and have conversations with potential members, who could join and ask them what it would take for them to apply (jakub)
- we should not go out, but instead caring on producing value for the pirate parties (members and not members), so that a reason to join ppi would be obvious. (Jerry)
- we keep pursuing our projects like calendar and press-release exchange and also plan a good conference, while maintaining contact to everyone, including potential candidates. (Gregory)
4.4 - Meeting times (proposed by Gregory)
- Should we move to bi-weekly or change rules of procedures for quorum? (Gregory)
- We should propose a change in the Rules of the Proposal before the next meeting: http://ppi.piratenpad.de/change-rop (Jerry)
5 - REPORTS
5.10 - Item Title (proposed by ...)
5.11 - Taskforces
a - PPI ACTA task force
b - PPI Censor task force
c - PPI Conference and event planning task force
- The RFO for the Conference Organizers is being working on and will be sent out approximately on Friday. Everyone is invited to contribute: http://ppi.piratenpad.de/conference-requirements
d - PPI Legal task force
e - PPI New Parties task force
f - PPI PP-EU task force
g - PPI Tech task force
h - PPI Translation and text production task force
i - PPI Statutes task force
6 - NEXT MEETING
- September 7th 2010, 21:00
