From PPI
CORETEAM MEETING MINUTES
PIRATE PARTY INTERNATIONAL
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
1. ATTENDEES
1.1. Members of the PPI Coreteam
Present:
Enrique Errea Gutierrez (ninHer, Chief Communication Officer)
Laurent Le Besnerais (cwicket, Chief Technology Officer)
Patrick Maechler (Valio, Co-President)
Ralph Hinterleitner (pertain, Chief Administrative Officer)
Samir Allioui (CoreTx, Co-President)
Absent:
Thilo Schumann (pingu, Board member)
1.2. Others present
Nicolas Sahlqvist (nicco, designated Chief Financial Officer)
Comrades of the infrastructure team:
Eric Maechler (Annubis, Member of PP-CH)
Fabian Horlacher (the3rdBIT, Member of PP-CH)
Frank Spijkerman (Aim, Member of PP-NL)
Moira Bruelisauer (Akallabeth, Adviser of the Coreteam)
Denis Simonet (SciFi, President of PP-CH)
Harald Haas (darky, Chairman of PP-AT)
2. PROCEEDINGS
Meeting opened at 20:27 by Valio.
Secretary for this meeting is pertain.
Quorum present with 5 out of 6 Coreteam members.
Meeting closed at 23:25 by Valio.
Next meeting on Thursday, September 24, 2009.
3. INFORMATIONALS
3.1. Co-president CoreTx
Jarr, chairman of Pirate Party Belgium, possibly joins the meeting
later on. Jarr told coretx that Christian Engstroem might join the foundation talks in
Brussels.
4. REPORTS
4.1. Report by pertain
Brief report about events with Christian Engstroem and Samir Allioui
in Nuremberg and Berlin from 2009-09-10 to 2009-09-12. Press review
will follow shortly.
4.2. Report by ninHer
Progress of the translations team to date:
- Contacts with two members of the Brazilian pirate party with
positive feedback: both agree to work with the translations team.
- Contact with ``bleaks'', the president of the Serbian pirate party.
- Contact with ``Milica'', a Serbian certified translator.
Next steps:
- Form a team of 3 to 4 members of every pirate party, to select a
permanent team of PPI translators and be some of them 24/7 located
to any, normal or preferred task to be accomplished.
- Have at least one person in every language always available.
- Request to send all the contacts available to ninHer.
4.3. Report by cwicket
The next step is to form the infrastructure team with Aim, Annubis
and the3rdBIT and to install a CRM and a ticketing system.
4.4. Report by CoreTx
The next step towards the PPI conference is a preparational meeting
in Brussels (probably) in the first week of October.
5. REQUESTS AND ASSIGNMENTS
5.1. Request by Valio
Reminder on the request for analysis on the PPI from September 15 by
CoreTx.
6. DECISIONS
6.1. Proposal by pertain
Will we appoint nicco as treasurer (CFO) if he meets CoreTx at the
Incubate festival in Tilburg (NL)?
Proposal passed (yes: 5 | no: 0 | abstained: 0)
6.2. Proposal by Valio
Will we publish all to-do items including the due date hours on the
mailing list and the message board including the designated contact
and ask pirates for help ("<when>" == either "ASAP/2 hours after the
meeting" or "with the publication of a meeting report")?
Proposal failed (yes: 3 | no: 0 | abstained: 2)
6.3. Proposal by pertain
I propose to set a time limit on the internal release as well as on
the publication of reports and protocols. This does not mean that we
will automatically publish every protocol. The time frame can be
expanded in exceptional conditions. The deadline starts as soon as a
meeting/conference is officially closed. Do you agree?
Proposal failed (yes: 3 | no: 0 | abstained: 2)
6.4. Proposal by pertain
I propose to invite Daniel Loeb, a German pirate Samir and I met in
Nuremberg last week, to our next Coreteam meeting on Thursday night.
He is highly interested in international cooperation and wants to get
involved. Will we invite him to the next meeting on IRC?
Proposal passed (yes: 4 | no: 0 | abstained: 1)
September 20, 2009
