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Here you can write your application for PPI board member. To submit your application copy-paste the table or write an e-mail with the information to board@pp-international.net and we will add you to the list. ( we do have temporarily problems with wiki, so we are glad to help)

Sponsors - According to IV (4) (b) and V (2) (b) of the PPI statutes candidates to any body of the PPI must be proposed by an ordinary or observer member of the PPI. If you submit your application please add your sponsor. One member can support multiple candidates and the person applying for a position doesn't necessarily need to be a member of that organization. If you don't have a sponsor before the conference you still might be able to convince a delegation on the spot.






Please use the following template:

Name and nicks YOUR NAME
Sponsor WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s) WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATION AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR MORE QUESTIONS?


Chairperson (1 position)

Name and nicks Andrew Reitemeyer
Sponsor Pirate Party of New Zealand

Pirate Party Norway

Pirate Party of Belgium

member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of New Zealand
qualifications
language(s) English and German
motivation and political background PPI is in need of reform. The international Pirate Movement is

dependent on its members being active from its grass roots and not from an elite. All attempts at reform have failed up to now and that is due to the current statutes and board structure. The fact that there is no interest from other Pirates to join the board shows how desperate the situation has become. I hope that others will also put their names forward to either support me or, more likely, to oppose me and keep me out. At least there would be some semblance of democracy. Currently I am both Editor of Pirate Times and Chairman of Pirate Party of New Zealand

Contact data andrew at piratetimes dot net

https://www.facebook.com/Frithogar


Name and nicks Gregory Engels
Sponsor Pirate Party of Germany
member of Pirate Party Pirate Parties of Germany, Hesse, Kazakhstan, Russia, Luxembourg and Sweden
qualifications
  • I have studied Physics (with specialization in atomic physics)
  • I am an IT expert and entrepreneur
  • currently I am managing director for Europe (save UK) of Aplana - part of the russian IT corp.
  • I am married and have two children

Pirate Qualifications:

  • Member of the City Council of Offenbach am Main and leader of the first parliamentary Pirate Group ever
  • International Coordinator for Pirate Party of Germany since 2009
  • Delegate to the Council of the European Pirate Party for PP-DE
  • Candidate for the 2014 European Parliament elections for PP-DE (List position 6)
  • Negotiations facilitator for the European Pirate Party for the PPEU Manifesto and the Common European Election Programme (CEEP) at the PPEU conferences in Kiev, Warsaw and Athene (2013).
  • Judge in the Court of Arbitration in the Pirate Party of Hesse 2011-2012
  • Main organizer of the PP-DE GA in Offenbach (1500 attendees)
  • Co-Chairman Pirate Parties International April 2010 till March 2011 and again from April 2012 until Mai 2014.
  • currently board member of Pirate Parties International

Other Memberships

  • Chaos Computer Club Frankfurt (C3F2M)
  • Humanistische Union (HU)
  • Deutscher Alpenverein (DAV)
  • Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobilclub (ADAC)
language(s) I am fluent in English, German and Russian
motivation and political background

PPI has a crisis. We need to solve it together. There a people who rather would like to see PPI failing, to see the whole Pirate Parties Movement failing, submerged in internal fights with no impact on the world. But the truth is, that PPI is facing a pivotal point to become an organization that can reach out to the world and make an impact. PPI have overcome most of the limiting factors from its past - we finally have a working set of instruments to move on forward - a usable bank account, a playable source of income, financial transparency and official financial documentation. The PPI is a sum of its Members and the interactions with them. The perceived crisis with PPI is not of structural nature, but of communications. We need to make our version of the story heard, the trolls and destructive people have dominated the conversation long enough. We need to broaden the conversation, we need to include PPI members into ongoing conversation - and for that I see very positive towards the set up standing committee structure, that will include topical experts across the globe in a common conversation. Also the inclusion of individual supporter members, as decided on the online GA 2015, will help to broaden this conversation. For the coming year PPI need to engage more partners in its activities - more Members, more supporters and more allies. PPI need to focus on the global issues - as legislation on the global level (like WIPO or WTO agreements, TPP or TTIP regulation) will finally affect us all, also on local level, in a kind, that national political parties have no ways to influence it.

Contact data I can easily be reached at a number of channels - see my profile page in the German Pirate-Wiki

You can also ask me public questions on Formspring


Name and nicks [Conditional] Patrick Schiffer aka pakki [TeamNinja]
Sponsor Pirate Party of Germany

Pirate Party of New Zealand

Pirate Party of Belgium

Pirate Party Norway

member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of Germany

Pirate Party of Belgium

Pirate Party of the Netherlands

qualifications See my wiki profile:

http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Benutzer:pakki

I am chairman of the Pirate Party Northrhine Westfalia. I am part of the Pirate Times team.

language(s) Fluently speaking german, english, french, dutch
motivation and political background PPI has to be resetted. All attempts at reform have failed up to now and

that is due to the current statutes and board structure. I would like to help with restarting PPI and reconciling the different sides, motivating all Pirates worldwide to put in more efforts to build up a strong global pirate movement. There are a lot of people in the movement waiting for a signal to get active but hesitating because of things.

I would like to build up a new team of action (kind of a think tank) besides the PPI board, which concentrates on developing global visions and powerful tools for the international pirate movement.

I would like to build up international fund raising.

I would like to use modern tools to discuss, no more mailing lists.

We have to promote our ideas worldwide to gain new members and friends. We have to have people interested in the digital changes and changing allocations happening in the world. We don't need bureaucrats in the PPI, we need visionary leadership and motivated people, who want to fix things.

In the face of my very spare time as the chairman of one of the biggest pirate union in germany, I'd build up a team of international experienced aides from different countries by my side, delegating several tasks to them.

My political background could be described as left-wing libertarian freedom fighter, an european pirate with an arab mentality ;)

Contact data http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Benutzer:pakki

https://twitter.com/pschiffer


Name and nicks Koen De Voegt
Sponsor Pirate Party Norway
member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of Belgium
qualifications
  • Engineer with specialization in Electronics and ICT, followed extra university courses in economics and accounting.
  • Held a variety of positions in the ICT & electronics sector including a position as research engineer for Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.

Pirate qualifications

  • Founder and leader of the Pirate Party in the city and province of Antwerp Belgium
  • Candidate for the upcoming regional elections in Flanders for PPBE
  • Member of the coreteam of PPBE since 2013
  • active in international coordination for PPBE since 2012
  • One of the main organizers of the joined PPBE, PPNL and PPDE conference in Maastricht.
  • Helped during the EU and local election campaigns in Croatia and the regional campaign in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)
  • Author of several Pirate Times articles

Other Memberships

  • Board member of Hackerspace Antwerp (voidwarranties.be)
  • Board member of Hackerspace Ghent (0x20.be)
  • Member of Hackerspace Brussels (hackerspace.be)
  • Member of FYMC - Free Your Music Community (fymc.be)
languages Dutch, English, some French
motivation and political background As a research engineer I had first hand experience in dealing with patents and even co-authored one. Not only do patents make it more difficult for you to build onto work done by other research organizations. It's virtually impossible for small companies to make money in a heavy patented sector, It's also hard for big companies to actually make money of patents. Costs for patent engineers and patent lawyers are not spend on actually research. I've also been an active user and advocate for open source software. So I'm well aware that an innovative ecosystem can be build that is not based on keeping information from others. I believe this open model can be used for more then just software. These issues are my main focus within the Pirate movement.
Contact data Reach me:


Name and nicks YOUR NAME
Sponsor WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s) WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATION AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR MORE QUESTIONS?

Vice Chairperson (1 position)

Name and nicks Gregory Engels
Sponsor Pirate Party of Germany
member of Pirate Party Pirate Parties of Germany, Hesse, Kazakhstan, Russia, Luxembourg and Sweden
qualifications
  • I have studied Physics (with specialization in atomic physics)
  • I am an IT expert and entrepreneur
  • currently I am managing director for Europe (save UK) of Aplana - part of the russian IT corp.
  • I am married and have two children

Pirate Qualifications:

  • Member of the City Council of Offenbach am Main and leader of the first parliamentary Pirate Group ever
  • International Coordinator for Pirate Party of Germany since 2009
  • Delegate to the Council of the European Pirate Party for PP-DE
  • Candidate for the 2014 European Parliament elections for PP-DE (List position 6)
  • Negotiations facilitator for the European Pirate Party for the PPEU Manifesto and the Common European Election Programme (CEEP) at the PPEU conferences in Kiev, Warsaw and Athene (2013).
  • Judge in the Court of Arbitration in the Pirate Party of Hesse 2011-2012
  • Main organizer of the PP-DE GA in Offenbach (1500 attendees)
  • Co-Chairman Pirate Parties International April 2010 till March 2011 and again from April 2012 until Mai 2014.
  • currently board member of Pirate Parties International

Other Memberships

  • Chaos Computer Club Frankfurt (C3F2M)
  • Humanistische Union (HU)
  • Deutscher Alpenverein (DAV)
  • Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobilclub (ADAC)
language(s) I am fluent in English, German and Russian
motivation and political background

PPI has a crisis. We need to solve it together. There a people who rather would like to see PPI failing, to see the whole Pirate Parties Movement failing, submerged in internal fights with no impact on the world. But the truth is, that PPI is facing a pivotal point to become an organization that can reach out to the world and make an impact. PPI have overcome most of the limiting factors from its past - we finally have a working set of instruments to move on forward - a usable bank account, a playable source of income, financial transparency and official financial documentation. The PPI is a sum of its Members and the interactions with them. The perceived crisis with PPI is not of structural nature, but of communications. We need to make our version of the story heard, the trolls and destructive people have dominated the conversation long enough. We need to broaden the conversation, we need to include PPI members into ongoing conversation - and for that I see very positive towards the set up standing committee structure, that will include topical experts across the globe in a common conversation. Also the inclusion of individual supporter members, as decided on the online GA 2015, will help to broaden this conversation. For the coming year PPI need to engage more partners in its activities - more Members, more supporters and more allies. PPI need to focus on the global issues - as legislation on the global level (like WIPO or WTO agreements, TPP or TTIP regulation) will finally affect us all, also on local level, in a kind, that national political parties have no ways to influence it.

Contact data I can easily be reached at a number of channels - see my profile page in the German Pirate-Wiki

You can also ask me public questions on Formspring


Name and nicks Anders Kleppe

captainBlue

@AndersPirat

Sponsor Pirate Party Norway

Pirate Party Belgium

member of Pirate Party PP-NO, PP-SE
qualifications

Living on 'Blue Pearl' 38

General Secretary - Pirate Party Norway,

Experience in ship building, oil & gas, shipping services at all levels.

Management, purchase, software development, marketing, digital strategy.

Board work all my adult life.

Field of political interest: Family politics.

Voluntary organisations, neighbourhood boards, school boards, parent advisory boards, student organisations and PPs.

Member of PP-NO, PP-SE, PPEU board, PPI Board and PPI-HQ BoD

In cooperation with Koen did the practical work to get PPI and

PPI HQ registered and file all missing reports to the Belgian Chamber of Commerce.

Was also one of the main people in getting the ThinkTwice2 Conference in Istanbul done. Book is available as e-book.

Attended IGF 2014 in Istanbul as a representative for Pirate Parties International.

language(s) English, Norwegain, understand German
motivation and political background Have been politically engaged as activist all my adult life.

Mostly in family politics on an international level.

After the introduction of the Pirate Party this has been my passion.

Founding member of PP-NO.

My motivation to do what I do is simply to make the world better for everyone.

My approach has always been to look for factual system failures and find ways to fix the lack of protection of basic rights.

With the Pirate Party idea we finally have a political instrument to initiate actual change and transparency.

Lack of transparency has always been a problem in activism.

Contact data anders@piratpartiet.no

Tel: +47 4654 8957

Contact page: https://wiki.piratpartiet.no/index.php?title=User:CaptainBlue

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndersPirat


Name and nicks Koen De Voegt
Sponsor Pirate Party Norway
member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of Belgium
qualifications
  • Engineer with specialization in Electronics and ICT, followed extra university courses in economics and accounting.
  • Held a variety of positions in the ICT & electronics sector including a position as research engineer for Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.

Pirate qualifications

  • Founder and leader of the Pirate Party in the city and province of Antwerp Belgium
  • Candidate for the upcoming regional elections in Flanders for PPBE
  • Member of the coreteam of PPBE since 2013
  • active in international coordination for PPBE since 2012
  • One of the main organizers of the joined PPBE, PPNL and PPDE conference in Maastricht.
  • Helped during the EU and local election campaigns in Croatia and the regional campaign in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)
  • Author of several Pirate Times articles

Other Memberships

  • Board member of Hackerspace Antwerp (voidwarranties.be)
  • Board member of Hackerspace Ghent (0x20.be)
  • Member of Hackerspace Brussels (hackerspace.be)
  • Member of FYMC - Free Your Music Community (fymc.be)
languages Dutch, English, some French
motivation and political background As a research engineer I had first hand experience in dealing with patents and even co-authored one. Not only do patents make it more difficult for you to build onto work done by other research organizations. It's virtually impossible for small companies to make money in a heavy patented sector, It's also hard for big companies to actually make money of patents. Costs for patent engineers and patent lawyers are not spend on actually research. I've also been an active user and advocate for open source software. So I'm well aware that an innovative ecosystem can be build that is not based on keeping information from others. I believe this open model can be used for more then just software. These issues are my main focus within the Pirate movement.
Contact data Reach me:

Board members (5 positions)

Name and nicks Karla Medrano
Sponsor Pirate Party of New Zealand

Pirate Party Norway

Pirate Party Belgium

member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of Mexico
qualifications I have economics bachelor, Latinoamerican postgraduate focus on geopolitics and hemisferic strategies, postgraduate in buddhist psychology in USA, postgraduate in education from Belgium, and soon I start as a research assistant at Leiden University on a project in geopolitical and well, the research project I will be working in is called 'From disorder to order: counter-societies and the resources of Legitimacy' ... Anyway since my background is so multidisciplinary (and international) I kinda dont know if I should leave it like that or focus on my work on politics or economics, or like, what.. Anyway I will figure it out just tell me how long it needs to be!
language(s) English, Spanish
Contact data Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karla.nney


Name and nicks Andrew Reitemeyer
Sponsor Pirate Party of New Zealand

Pirate Party of Belgium

Pirate Party Norway

member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of New Zealand
qualifications
language(s) English and German
motivation and political background PPI is in need of reform. The international Pirate Movement is

dependent on its members being active from its grass roots and not from an elite. All attempts at reform have failed up to now and that is due to the current statutes and board structure. The fact that there is no interest from other Pirates to join the board shows how desperate the situation has become. I hope that others will also put their names forward to either support me or, more likely, to oppose me and keep me out. At least there would be some semblance of democracy. Currently I am both Editor of Pirate Times and Chairman of Pirate Party of New Zealand

Contact data andrew at piratetimes dot net

https://www.facebook.com/Frithogar


Name and nicks Gregory Engels
Sponsor Pirate Party of Germany
member of Pirate Party Pirate Parties of Germany, Hesse, Kazakhstan, Russia, Luxembourg and Sweden
qualifications
  • I have studied Physics (with specialization in atomic physics)
  • I am an IT expert and entrepreneur
  • currently I am managing director for Europe (save UK) of Aplana - part of the russian IT corp.
  • I am married and have two children

Pirate Qualifications:

  • Member of the City Council of Offenbach am Main and leader of the first parliamentary Pirate Group ever
  • International Coordinator for Pirate Party of Germany since 2009
  • Delegate to the Council of the European Pirate Party for PP-DE
  • Candidate for the 2014 European Parliament elections for PP-DE (List position 6)
  • Negotiations facilitator for the European Pirate Party for the PPEU Manifesto and the Common European Election Programme (CEEP) at the PPEU conferences in Kiev, Warsaw and Athene (2013).
  • Judge in the Court of Arbitration in the Pirate Party of Hesse 2011-2012
  • Main organizer of the PP-DE GA in Offenbach (1500 attendees)
  • Co-Chairman Pirate Parties International April 2010 till March 2011 and again from April 2012 until Mai 2014.
  • currently board member of Pirate Parties International

Other Memberships

  • Chaos Computer Club Frankfurt (C3F2M)
  • Humanistische Union (HU)
  • Deutscher Alpenverein (DAV)
  • Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobilclub (ADAC)
language(s) I am fluent in English, German and Russian
motivation and political background

PPI has a crisis. We need to solve it together. There a people who rather would like to see PPI failing, to see the whole Pirate Parties Movement failing, submerged in internal fights with no impact on the world. But the truth is, that PPI is facing a pivotal point to become an organization that can reach out to the world and make an impact. PPI have overcome most of the limiting factors from its past - we finally have a working set of instruments to move on forward - a usable bank account, a playable source of income, financial transparency and official financial documentation. The PPI is a sum of its Members and the interactions with them. The perceived crisis with PPI is not of structural nature, but of communications. We need to make our version of the story heard, the trolls and destructive people have dominated the conversation long enough. We need to broaden the conversation, we need to include PPI members into ongoing conversation - and for that I see very positive towards the set up standing committee structure, that will include topical experts across the globe in a common conversation. Also the inclusion of individual supporter members, as decided on the online GA 2015, will help to broaden this conversation. For the coming year PPI need to engage more partners in its activities - more Members, more supporters and more allies. PPI need to focus on the global issues - as legislation on the global level (like WIPO or WTO agreements, TPP or TTIP regulation) will finally affect us all, also on local level, in a kind, that national political parties have no ways to influence it.

Contact data I can easily be reached at a number of channels - see my profile page in the German Pirate-Wiki

You can also ask me public questions on Formspring


Name and nicks Dr. Richard Hill
Sponsor PP-CH and PP-DE
member of Pirate Party PP-CH
qualifications I have a BS in Mathematics from MIT and a PhD in Statistics from Harvard. Most of my career has been in information technology and telecommunications, in a variety of positions, including managing big teams for private companies, and working in the UN system (International Telecommunication Union).
language(s) English, French and Italian fluently. Conversational German. Some Spanish.
motivation and political background Given my background, I came to the conclusion back in 1999 that the copyright system is broken. My ideas back then to reform it were, and still are, very similar to those of the Pirate Party. A bit later, I got interested in patents and came to conclusions that, again, are similar to those of the Pirate Party. The same holds for the other key themes of the Pirate Party, such as privacy and surveillance.

My goals in joining the PPI Board would be to help to promote the Pirate views in Geneva, Switzerland, where I live, at the many international organizations that have their headquarters here (such as WHO, WIPO, WTO, etc.).

Given my experience in ITU, I think that I know how to influence discussions in those forums and I would be very pleased to advance the cause.

Contact data rhill at hill-a dot ch and +41 77 428 6184


Name and nicks Boris Sirbey
Sponsor PP-DE
member of Pirate Party France
qualifications

I have a PhD in philosophy from the Paris X University, completed in 2006 with High Honors. The subject was collective psychology.

I worked as a UX designer and web designer from 2006 to 2009 and I became an HR tech specialist from 2009.

In 2012, I created a startup called MyJobCompany with 2 partners (http://www.myjobcompany.co) My main skills: philosophy, collaborative tools, digital innovation, business development, Internet

strategy, social networks, UX design, gamification. I published two essays on the topic of epistemology and psychosomatics

language(s) French, English
motivation and political background I believe collective intelligence is the only thing that can save the World, and I’m trying to help it rise on a global level.

I’m currently working on a technology aiming to empower the crowd through a combination of collective governance, cloud working and gaming. I believe that we are now ready to make the switch from social networks to action networks and turn humanity into a “7 billion startup” that could virtually solve any problem.

Contact data pro at sirbey dot com


Name and nicks Patrick Schiffer aka pakki
Sponsor Pirate Party of Germany

Pirate Party of New Zealand

Pirate Party of Belgium

member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of Germany

Pirate Party of Belgium

Pirate Party of the Netherlands

qualifications See my wiki profile:

http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Benutzer:pakki

I am chairman of the Pirate Party Northrhine Westfalia. I am part of the Pirate Times team.

language(s) Fluently speaking german, english, french, dutch
motivation and political background PPI has to be resetted. All attempts at reform have failed up to now and

that is due to the current statutes and board structure. I would like to help with restarting PPI and reconciling the different sides, motivating all Pirates worldwide to put in more efforts to build up a strong global pirate movement. There are a lot of people in the movement waiting for a signal to get active but hesitating because of things.

I would like to build up a new team of action (kind of a think tank) besides the PPI board, which concentrates on developing global visions and powerful tools for the international pirate movement.

I would like to build up international fund raising.

I would like to use modern tools to discuss, no more mailing lists.

We have to promote our ideas worldwide to gain new members and friends. We have to have people interested in the digital changes and changing allocations happening in the world. We don't need bureaucrats in the PPI, we need visionary leadership and motivated people, who want to fix things.

In the face of my very spare time as the chairman of one of the biggest pirate union in germany, I'd build up a team of international experienced aides from different countries by my side, delegating several tasks to them.

My political background could be described as left-wing libertarian freedom fighter, an european pirate with an arab mentality ;)

Contact data http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Benutzer:pakki

https://twitter.com/pschiffer


Name and nicks Anders Kleppe

captainBlue

@AndersPirat

Sponsor Pirate Party Norway

Pirate Party Belgium

member of Pirate Party PP-NO, PP-SE
qualifications

Living on 'Blue Pearl' 38

General Secretary - Pirate Party Norway,

Experience in ship building, oil & gas, shipping services at all levels.

Management, purchase, software development, marketing, digital strategy.

Board work all my adult life.

Field of political interest: Family politics.

Voluntary organisations, neighbourhood boards, school boards, parent advisory boards, student organisations and PPs.

Member of PP-NO, PP-SE, PPEU board, PPI Board and PPI-HQ BoD

In cooperation with Koen did the practical work to get PPI and

PPI HQ registered and file all missing reports to the Belgian Chamber of Commerce.

Was also one of the main people in getting the ThinkTwice2 Conference in Istanbul done. Book is available as e-book.

Attended IGF 2014 in Istanbul as a representative for Pirate Parties International.

language(s) English, Norwegain, understand German
motivation and political background Have been politically engaged as activist all my adult life.

Mostly in family politics on an international level.

After the introduction of the Pirate Party this has been my passion.

Founding member of PP-NO.

My motivation to do what I do is simply to make the world better for everyone.

My approach has always been to look for factual system failures and find ways to fix the lack of protection of basic rights.

With the Pirate Party idea we finally have a political instrument to initiate actual change and transparency.

Lack of transparency has always been a problem in activism.

Contact data anders@piratpartiet.no

Tel: +47 4654 8957

Contact page: https://wiki.piratpartiet.no/index.php?title=User:CaptainBlue

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndersPirat


Name and nicks Chemseddine Ben Jemaa
Sponsor Pirate Party of Tunisia

Pirate Party Norway

Pirate Party Belgium

member of Pirate Party Pirate Party Tunisia
Contact data Contact page : http://wiki.pp-international.net/User:ChemsOnline


Name and nicks Koen De Voegt
Sponsor Pirate Party Norway
member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of Belgium
qualifications
  • Engineer with specialization in Electronics and ICT, followed extra university courses in economics and accounting.
  • Held a variety of positions in the ICT & electronics sector including a position as research engineer for Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.

Pirate qualifications

  • Founder and leader of the Pirate Party in the city and province of Antwerp Belgium
  • Candidate for the upcoming regional elections in Flanders for PPBE
  • Member of the coreteam of PPBE since 2013
  • active in international coordination for PPBE since 2012
  • One of the main organizers of the joined PPBE, PPNL and PPDE conference in Maastricht.
  • Helped during the EU and local election campaigns in Croatia and the regional campaign in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)
  • Author of several Pirate Times articles

Other Memberships

  • Board member of Hackerspace Antwerp (voidwarranties.be)
  • Board member of Hackerspace Ghent (0x20.be)
  • Member of Hackerspace Brussels (hackerspace.be)
  • Member of FYMC - Free Your Music Community (fymc.be)
languages Dutch, English, some French
motivation and political background As a research engineer I had first hand experience in dealing with patents and even co-authored one. Not only do patents make it more difficult for you to build onto work done by other research organizations. It's virtually impossible for small companies to make money in a heavy patented sector, It's also hard for big companies to actually make money of patents. Costs for patent engineers and patent lawyers are not spend on actually research. I've also been an active user and advocate for open source software. So I'm well aware that an innovative ecosystem can be build that is not based on keeping information from others. I believe this open model can be used for more then just software. These issues are my main focus within the Pirate movement.
Contact data Reach me:


Name and nicks Thomas Gaul
Sponsor Pirate Party Norway
member of Pirate Party Pirate Party Germany
Contact data Contact page : http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Benutzer:ThomasG:

Alternate Board members (4 positions)

Name and nicks Nikolay Voronov (aka AlexVox)
Sponsor Pirate Party of Russia

Pirate Party Norway

member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of Russia
qualifications i've graduated Northern Arctic Federal University (Arkhangelsk, Russia)

working as teacher of Informatics in college
member of the Board of Pirate Party of Russia
International Coordinator of Pirate Party of Russia
Chief Editor of PirateMedia.net

language(s) Russian, English
motivation and political background

motivation and political background:
I'm new in Pirate movement, so i'm very interested in visit Board
meetings and participate in standing committees, i wish to learn
something new from International Pirate movement and get some useful
experience.
I'm strongly disagree with current world copyright system and laws,
situation is going worse because Copyright laws are used as instrument
of censorship and the "right to be forgotten" are spreading around the
globe: deleting information from Internet covers corruption and
criminal. I'm also against so called "Google tax" when search engines
are forced to pay money while spreading news and media content. I have
libertarian views and i believe that government shouldn't control
Internet without court decisions.

Contact data e-mail: alexvox @ pirate-party . ru

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alex.vox.3


Name and nicks Koen De Voegt
Sponsor Pirate Party Norway
member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of Belgium
qualifications
  • Engineer with specialization in Electronics and ICT, followed extra university courses in economics and accounting.
  • Held a variety of positions in the ICT & electronics sector including a position as research engineer for Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.

Pirate qualifications

  • Founder and leader of the Pirate Party in the city and province of Antwerp Belgium
  • Candidate for the upcoming regional elections in Flanders for PPBE
  • Member of the coreteam of PPBE since 2013
  • active in international coordination for PPBE since 2012
  • One of the main organizers of the joined PPBE, PPNL and PPDE conference in Maastricht.
  • Helped during the EU and local election campaigns in Croatia and the regional campaign in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)
  • Author of several Pirate Times articles

Other Memberships

  • Board member of Hackerspace Antwerp (voidwarranties.be)
  • Board member of Hackerspace Ghent (0x20.be)
  • Member of Hackerspace Brussels (hackerspace.be)
  • Member of FYMC - Free Your Music Community (fymc.be)
languages Dutch, English, some French
motivation and political background As a research engineer I had first hand experience in dealing with patents and even co-authored one. Not only do patents make it more difficult for you to build onto work done by other research organizations. It's virtually impossible for small companies to make money in a heavy patented sector, It's also hard for big companies to actually make money of patents. Costs for patent engineers and patent lawyers are not spend on actually research. I've also been an active user and advocate for open source software. So I'm well aware that an innovative ecosystem can be build that is not based on keeping information from others. I believe this open model can be used for more then just software. These issues are my main focus within the Pirate movement.
Contact data Reach me:


Name and nicks Anders Kleppe

captainBlue

@AndersPirat

Sponsor Pirate Party Norway

Pirate Party Belgium

member of Pirate Party PP-NO, PP-SE
qualifications

Living on 'Blue Pearl' 38

General Secretary - Pirate Party Norway,

Experience in ship building, oil & gas, shipping services at all levels.

Management, purchase, software development, marketing, digital strategy.

Board work all my adult life.

Field of political interest: Family politics.

Voluntary organisations, neighbourhood boards, school boards, parent advisory boards, student organisations and PPs.

Member of PP-NO, PP-SE, PPEU board, PPI Board and PPI-HQ BoD

In cooperation with Koen did the practical work to get PPI and

PPI HQ registered and file all missing reports to the Belgian Chamber of Commerce.

Was also one of the main people in getting the ThinkTwice2 Conference in Istanbul done. Book is available as e-book.

Attended IGF 2014 in Istanbul as a representative for Pirate Parties International.

language(s) English, Norwegain, understand German
motivation and political background Have been politically engaged as activist all my adult life.

Mostly in family politics on an international level.

After the introduction of the Pirate Party this has been my passion.

Founding member of PP-NO.

My motivation to do what I do is simply to make the world better for everyone.

My approach has always been to look for factual system failures and find ways to fix the lack of protection of basic rights.

With the Pirate Party idea we finally have a political instrument to initiate actual change and transparency.

Lack of transparency has always been a problem in activism.

Contact data anders@piratpartiet.no

Tel: +47 4654 8957

Contact page: https://wiki.piratpartiet.no/index.php?title=User:CaptainBlue

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndersPirat

Court of Arbitration (3-7 positions)

Name and nicks YOUR NAME
Sponsor WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s) WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATION AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR MORE QUESTIONS?


Name and nicks Kjell Segers
Sponsor Pirate Party Belgium

Pirate Party Norway

member of Pirate Party Pirate Party Belgium
qualifications I have a Master in Engineering

I am/was:

  • Member of the coreteam PPBE (2014)
  • International Coördinator for PPBE (2014-now)
  • Member of Court of Arbitration of PPI (2014-now)
  • Treasurer of Pirate Party Antwerp (2011-now)
language(s) Dutch, English, limited French, very limited German
motivation and political background PPI is broken. To fix it we need people that are willing to work together and work in the benefit of (and together with) the international movement.

PPI needs to win back the trust of it's members. One basic requirement to be able to start doing this is to uphold it's own statutes.

I would like to continue my work in the Court of Arbitration to make sure that those statutes are uphold and conflicts are avoided.

Contact data kjell at pirateparty . be


Name and nicks Marco Confalonieri
Sponsor Pirate Party of Italy (PP-IT)
member of Pirate Party Pirate Party of Italy (PP-IT) (Nationality: Italian)
qualifications

I am a freelance software developer, working in the city of Genova, in Italy. My adventure with the Pirate Party began in 2008. This is my Pirate CV:

  • International Coordinator for PP-IT from 2009 to 2013
  • Member of the Court of Arbitration of Pirate Parties International for one year (elected in Friedrichshafen, 2011)
  • "Privacy Guarantor" of PP-IT (internal officer that verifies the procedure for the admission of new members in the Permanent Assembly of PP-IT) in 2013
  • Running for the Italian Chamber of Deputies during the 2013 national elections in the "Piemonte I" district list of PP-IT
  • Former Member of the Court of Arbitration of PP-IT
  • Alternate board member of PPI in 2014-(Feb) 2015 and board member of PPI (Feb)2015-(Jul)2015
language(s) Italian, English
motivation and political background Personal issues brought me back from participating in the current GA, but I wish to contribute to the advancement of PPI. The CoA is sometimes undervalued, but I believe it has an important role in maintaing balance between the board and the PPI members, and also maintaining the trust of the Members in PPI as an organization.
Contact data My contact details:
  • Email: marco.confalonieri(at)email.it
  • Mobile: +39 349 6948 145
  • Skype: marco_confa
  • Facebook: Marco Confalonieri

Lay auditors (3 positions)

Name and nicks YOUR NAME
Sponsor WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s) WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATION AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR MORE QUESTIONS?