Documentation
Invitation PPI online General Assembly on 22.04.2017
- Dear Pirates,
- We would like to invite you to the 2017 Pirate Parties International extraordinary online General Assembly which will be held on April 22nd online on the Mumble Server starting at 10:00h CEST. During this conference, the General Assembly - PPI's highest body - will decide upon
- acceptence of membership
- submitted motions,
- urgent amendments.
- The online General Assembly will take place at
- mumble://mumble.piratenpartei-nrw.de
- <a href="mumble://mumble.piratenpartei-nrw.de/International/Pirate%20Parties%20International?title=Piratenpartei%20NRW&version=1.2.0"></a>
- mumble://mumble.piratenpartei-nrw.de
- at International / Pirate Parties International / General Assembly. If the server by any chance is not working or problems arises the backupserver will be mumble://mumble.piratenbrandenburg.org - same sections.
- <a href="mumble://mumble.piratenbrandenburg.org/International?title=Piraten%20Brandenburg%20(AG%20Technik)&version=1.2.0">
- mumble//:mumble.piratenbrandenburg.org</a>
- The preliminary timetable can be found at the end of this message.
- Everybody is welcome
- Each PPI member can register up to six persons as official delegates (PPI Statutes IX.4), but all Pirates and interested persons are very welcome to join as guests.
- Delegates: Please follow Rules of Procedure
- According to the standing Rules of Procedure [1], all delegates must present written authorization from a member of their respective board unless they are designated International Coordinator or equivalent on their parties' official website. Each person may represent as a delegate no more than 2 parties. (PPI RoP Art.1 §4) We kindly ask the delegates to present such accreditation and a proof of identity in advance, in order to speed up the conference proceeding. The proof of identity should contain the user name that is registered with the mumble server as certain user rights might be given to delegates throughout the online General Section. We urgently suggest that any communication regarding the accreditation of delegates should be digitally (PGP or S/MIME) signed.
- We remind each member that according to Statute IX.Voting (5) Any Ordinary Member which has failed to pay its annual affiliation fee up to and including the end of the fiscal year preceding the General Assembly meeting shall forfeit its right to vote at that meeting of the General Assembly, unless remission or postponement of dues has received prior authorization from the Board. http://wiki.pp-international.net/Statutes#XI._Voting.
- Official business
- Motions do not have a deadline and can be sent in at any time and can be found here: Post them according to the instruction on http://wiki.pp-international.net/Online_GA_2015 and send them to board@pp-international.net
- Any proposed statutes amendments will be discussed and dealt with at the upcoming General Assembly 2017.
- For further information concerning the 2017 PPI online conference you can visit http://wiki.pp-international.net/Online_GA_2017-1 or contact the Board at board@pp-international.net.
- We kindly ask you to help the board in providing help for the conference, e.g. proposal for a chair + team, minute takers and so forth. Please send your proposals to board@pp-international.net.
- Best regards,
- On behalf of the Board of the PPI
- Thomas Gaul
- General Secretary
Preliminary timetable:
- Friday, 21. April 2017 (Day for technical checks)
- 10:00 CEST Timeslot for checking mumble configurations (1 h)
- 18:00 CEST Timeslot for checking mumble configurations (1 h)
- Saturday, 22. April 2017 Day of the online General Assembly
- 09:00 CEST Delegates accreditation (at the latest)
- 10:00 CEST Opening of the online General Assembly
- RoP
- Role call - Acceptance of Members
- Designation of the secretary / assessors
- Acceptance of the minutes of the 2016 ordinary board meeting
- Presentation of the activity report
- Presentation of the 2016 financial statement
- Discharge to the treasurer
- Discharge to the board
- Complementary election to the board
- Budget 2017 - 2018
- Motions
- Issue of statements
- 18:00 CEST Official Conference End = 17:00 CEST
- [1] standing Rules of Procedure http://wiki.pp-international.net/Rules_of_procedure
Minutes
Statutes Amendment Proposals
Statutes amendments will be handled at the next Ordinary GA. They can be submitted the whole year round.(Please see the PPI Statutes).
Delegate accreditation
Delegates: Please follow Rules of Procedure
According to the standing Rules of Procedure [1], all delegates must present written (including email) authorization from a member of their respective board unless they are designated International Coordinator or equivalent on their parties official website. Each person may represent as a delegate no more than 2 parties. (PPI RoP Art.1 §4) We kindly ask the delegates to present such accreditation and a proof of identity in advance, in order to speed up the conference proceeding. The proof of identity should contain the user name that is registered with the mumble server as certain user rights might be given to delegates throughout the online General Section. We urgently suggest that any communication regarding the accreditation of delegates should be digitally (PGP or S/MIME) signed.
Formal Motions
To create a formal motion, create a section under "/Online GA 2017-1/Motions" using the provided template, and add a link to it below.
Proposed amendments to the Rules of Procedure
To create an amendment proposal for the RoP, create a page under "/Online GA 2017-1/<Your title here>" using the provided template, and add a link to it below.
All Motions & Amendment proposals
Download-PDF Status: to be created
