From PPI
- Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING
- --- 05.26.2026 17:00 UTC/19:00 CEST/DST ---
- Audio recording: https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/KNB42GF2Lmb5tZN
- Video: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
- Pad:https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/PPI-Board-2026-05-26
Record of the meeting
1 - ATTENDEES
1.1 - Members of the PPI board
Chairperson - Keith L. Goldstein / PP-IL
Vice-Chairperson - Gregory Engels / PP-DE
Board Member - Bailey Lamon / PP-CA
General Secretary - Alexander Isavnin / PP-RU
Treasurer - Sebastian Krone / PP-DE
Board Member - Maycow Toledo / PP-BR
Board Member - Mark Anthony / PP-NL
Board Member - Carlos Polo / PP-CH
Board Member - Grigorii Dizer / PP-RU
- participating: Sebastian Krone, Gregory, Keith, Alex,
- excused: Bailey,
- unexcused:
Alternate Board Members:
1. Alternate Board member - Babak Tubis / PP-DE
2. Alternate Board member - Schoresch Davoodi / PP-DE
3. Alternate Board member - Lilia Kayra Kuyumcu / PP-DE
4. Alternate Board member - Numero6 / PP-DE
5. Alternate Board member - Bart Overkamp / PP-NL
6. Alternate Board member - Thomas Gaul / PP-DE
- participating: Babak, Schoresch, Bart, Numero6 (19:31)
- excused: Thomas, Kayra,
- unexcused:
- Quorum established with 7 out of 9 board members present.
1.2 - Others
- Guests:
- participating: PiratesOnAir
2 - PROCEEDINGS
- Meeting opened at 17:03 UTC by
- Meeting chaired by Gregory
- Secretary for this meeting is all
- Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/
- Recording started: 19:03
- Postal votes: none
- Votes delegated (§5 Votes (5. 3.) ROP):
- Notes on meeting process: no
3 - APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
| Motion | |
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 Yes : Keith, (with duplication fixed) Bart, schoresch with duplication fixed, Gregory, Babak
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 No :
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 Abstain : Alex, Bastian
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- We should remove the dupllicate text of Kay´s proposal.
- Bart updated a second option.
4 - REPORTS
4.1 - Short reports of the board members
Board
- Keith Goldstein: Still coordinating TT5. We have a good line up already, but there is still time to submit a proposal. Please do so. Aside from that, I announced the GA and submitted statute amendments on behalf of PPCZ. They have since updated their proposal, but they leave a variety of options open for debate. I also submitted a statute amendment from my party with this to eliminate the 1 month deadline for membership applications. Next week I am going to the Global Solutions Initiative conference in Berlin with PPEU members: https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/event/global-solutions-summit-2026/ . I am also going to the Network Automation Forum conference in Munich, which I will be attending with our partners from the IGF and presenting the study that was the subject of our workshop there.
- Gregory Engels: I was on vacations for last month.
- Bailey Lamon: not present
- Alexander Isavnin: Nearly nothing to report, watching for IGF preparation development
- Sebastian Krone:
- I monitored PPI technology as I do every day.
- All patches are up to date. All systems are running smoothly except Etherpad (MyPads) due to a new version of PHP. The update to EP 2.6.1 was not approved by the PPI Tec team.
- As I already mentioned in the last Board meeting the contract with Denk Selbst e.V. has terminated the technical services contract effective June 30, 2026.
- I asked for confirmation of the cancellation but haven't received a reply.
- I need this confirmation for our liability insurance.
- Still no reply!
- A new group must now take over everything and operate it in a way that ensures reliability and compliance with legal regulations. Our support ends on June 30, 2026, at midnight.
- I don't see any efforts being made to ensure that these rather extensive tasks and services are carried out by new professionals.
- Maycow Toledo: not present
- Carlos Polo: not present
- Grigorii Dizer: sent excuses, nothing to report
Alternates:
- Babak Tubis:
- Tübinger Tage Digitale Freiheit last weekend, see Schoresch report ...
- Schoresch Davoodi
- Babak and I spoke at the Tübinger Tage für Digitale Freiheit at Chaos Treff Tübingen CCC and also make advertiseing for TT5. They said next time when we have such an event we should inform them then we can make a lightning talk to advertise our event. https://cfp.cttue.de/tdf5/talk/9D7CLB/ Babak send the translated lecture so we can publish it as PPI
- Thomas Gaul
- nothing to report
- Numero6
- Bart Overkamp
- Getting nervous about the upcoming TT. Nothing much else.
- Kayra Kuyumcu
- not present
5.1 - Proposals
- GA Organization
- Update Discourse
- Publish statute amendments
- Collect delegates, make sure parties got the message
- In the European Pirates calendar.
- GA was published without a time.
Proposal: lets do it as usual 09am UTC accreditation, 10am UTC start time Bastian: we had those times in January, but it is probably to late for the summer time. Lets move it up one hour earlier: 08:00 UTC accreditation, 09:00 UTC start of the GA.
- Bart excuses himself from the meeting.
- We are debating how long the GA will last. With so many statute amendments, it could take a while.
- Can we do a survey?
- Survey for feedback on start time, proposals, and AOB for June 2026 GA.
| Motion | |
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| We can send out a survey to our members asking them for a starting time for the GA that is convenient to them and other proposals they might have, or - given the urgency of the time line, decide today. | |
| Yes : (Send out the Survey) Babak, Alex, Keith, Gregory
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| No : (Decide today) Schoresch
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| Abstain : Bastian
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- We will ask our members by sending out a survey and publish the proposed agenda on Saturday.
- https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=735356
- Shall we ask Market PPCZ or Patrick PPDE as keynote speaker?
5.2 - Working Groups Update
Alex: We are watching IGF preparations. As soon as anouncement of the CFP will be published, we are ready to act on that.
5.3 Economic Update
- Bank accounts
- 1,487.43 CHF
- 85.22 EUR
- PayPal
- 540.87 EUR
5.4 ECOSOC/UN
- IGF will be in Nairobi, Kenya from 13 to 18 December.
- Among MAG (programme committee) is Oktavia from Icelandic Pirates
5.5 PPI HQ update
- The office is set up and running. All tax returns have been filed.
5.6 Blog Updates
- Pirate Times
- I had some talks with folks I worked with and know from X who had interest to write for Flaschenpost or Pirate Times
- Blogs
6 AOB - Any other business
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- Meeting Closed: 17:59 UTC by Gregory
