- Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING
- --- 28.01.2025 14:00 UTC/15:00 CET – 338th board meeting---
- Audio recording: https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/bdMf9KWCSaEQNN2
- Video: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
Record of the meeting
1 - ATTENDEES
1.1 - Members of the PPI board
- participating: Keith, Alex, Bailey, Mark, Gregory, Bastian, M Toledo (from 13:35UTC), Carlos (from 13:40UTC)
- excused:
- unexcused:
- Quorum: 6 full members
1.2 - Others
- Alternate Board Members:
- participating: Thomas, Schoresch, Babak,
- excused:
- unexcused:
- 3 Alternates
- Guests:
- participating: Numero6, Mia, PiratesOnAir
2 - PROCEEDINGS
- RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board/Rules_of_Procedure
- Meeting opened at 14:02 UTC by Keith
- Meeting chaired by Keith
- Secretary for this meeting is all
- Quorum established with 6 (9 voting) out of 9(8) board members present.
- Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/
- Recording started: yes/no
- Postal votes: none
- Votes delegated (§5 Votes (5. 3.) ROP):
- Notes on meeting process: none
- Note that there is a GA rule of proceedure that the alternate board members automatically receive absent member votes.
3 - APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
4 - REPORTS
4.1 - Short reports of the board members 1)
Board
- I have been registering with the UN, attended a SCENE meeting, been looking for people who will represent us at the UN.
- Elections in Germany. A lot of work with this. I want to thank for the UN business and everything that we need to do. I was surprised
- Nothing to report
- joined SCENE meeting, prepared agenda and workplan
- I have been monitoring the PPI technique as I do every day.
- All patches are up to date. All systems are running smoothly.
- Nothing to report
- nothing to report
- not present
Alternates:
- nothing to report
- nothing to report
- nothing to report
- not present
5.1 - Proposals
- The board accepts the stepping up of Thomas Gaul to Board member due to the vacant office.
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| The board acknowledges the stepping up of the longest standing Alternate Board Member, Thomas Gaul, to Board Member.
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 Yes : Mark,,Gregory Bailey, Keith, Babak, Bastian,Alexander
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 No :
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 Abstain :
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| Result: The open board seat is filled,
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Issue: Election of the new Treasurer
- Nominations: Sebastian Krone, ..
- Motion: The PPI board elects Sebastian Krone as the new treasurer and gives him/her full access to all PPI current and future accounts and entrust him with full power of attorney in financial matters.
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| Do we elect Sebastian Krone as the Treasurer?
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| Yes : Keith, Babak, Mark,Bailey, Thomas,Gregory,
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| No :
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| Abstain : Bastian
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| Result: Bastian is elected Treasurer
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Issue: Election of the new general secretary
- Nominations: Alexander Isavnin, ..
- Motion: The PPI board elects Alexander Isavnin as the general secretary
| Motion
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| Do we elect Alexander Isavnin as the General Secretary?
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| Yes : Thomas, Mark, Bailey, Keith, Bastian, Gregory, Babak
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| No :
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| Abstain : Alex
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| Result: Alexander is elected General Secretary
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PPI HQ subsidary in USA
- Motion: USA 501c3 application
- Keith - We have an American team that volunteered to support the application, and we believe that we can solicit financial support from American donors and organize activities there.registering a 501c3 would take several month, it will be probably be done in the state of NY.
- Application for recognition of excemption at IRS (Tax excempt): https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/application-for-recognition-of-exemption
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| Start inquiring into the possibility of registering PPI in the USA as a tax exempt organization, including possible legal constructs, risks and liabilities. Task Keith to organize this inquiry and report back to the board when its done.
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| We have an American team that volunteered to support the application, and we believe that we can solicit financial support from American donors and organize activities there.
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| Yes : Keith, Mark, Bailey, Babak, BastianAlexander, Gregory
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| No :
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| Abstain :
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- Withdrawn for today for further enquiries. Keith will be on it
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| Enquire to Register PPI in the USA with a 501c3 application
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| We have an American team that volunteered to support the application, and we believe that we can solicit financial support from American donors and organize activities there.Enquiry first, incl. risk assessment
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| Yes :
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| No :
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| Abstain :
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- Double work done. Though it does not reflect the ongoing of the meeting.
5.2 - Working Groups Update
- https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Standing_Committees
- M Toledo joins 14:35 UTC
- Carlos Polo joins 14:41 UTC
- Copy of minutes below.
- Alex read and commented minutes
- SCENE is an acronym for: Standing Committee on External Network Engagement (aka Social Media, Campaigning, and Press)
- Next meeting will be on 11 February 2025 21:00 CET
- Gregory and Bailey promised to attend next meeting
- Next SCENE meeting is Feb. 11. It is every second Tuesday . It's in
5.3 Economic Update
- Bank account: 1,676.30 CHF
- PayPal: 54.54 EUR
5.4 ECOSOC/UN
- Groundpasses. We need nominees.
- Additional Swiss representatives for UNOG.
- Quadrennial Report for ECOSOC.
- Content required is copied below under AOB.
- SCUBA is an acronym for "our UN meetings": Standing Committee on UN Bureaucratic Activities - see https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Standing_Committees
- Next meeting will be along with next SCENE meeting, on 11 February 2025 21:00 CET
5.5 PPI HQ update
- PPI e.V. is etablished
- Bank account
- IBAN: DE73100900003015034008
- BIC: BEVODEBBxxx
- We must approve the correction in the PPI wiki and recognize the PPI e.V. statutes. The PPI e.V. is open for further board members on proposal of the PPI. It might be a good idea for PPI to join the association as a member.
- https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Statutes_PPI_HQ
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| Declare the old Belgian PPHQ Statutes Annul and To Present the New Statutes with the German Entity.
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| We must approve the correction in the PPI wiki and recognize the PPI e.V. statutes. The PPI e.V. is open for further board members on proposal of the PPI. PPI will also join the association as a member.
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| Yes : Alexander, Bastian, Babak, Gregory, Bailey, Keith, Mark, M. Toledo
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| No :
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| Abstain :
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6 AOB - Any other business
Pirate Security Conference
Feb. 15 and 16 in Munich.
- Davoodi will make an address on behalf of PPDE.
- Else present will be Bastian, Thomas.
- We will present a blog about the conference before or afterwards.
- Mark will also join.
PPI-Meeting times, continue or revise?
- see below fo next meeting.
- Calendar, update times of events.
- Orientation for new members, after the meeting.
Membership Tallies: Review, Contact New and Renewing members, invite old and new...
Social Media
- Joint discussion about future use of Social and other media while taking into account the shift in the overall political landscape - for furthering our common principles
- support from the board. To be scheduled.
- Alex: we shouldn't run away from X (former Twitter), even Mask is "strange".
- Thomas: we definitely need to discuss
- Bailey: we should not get out, but need to make considerations about heavily changed political landscape
- Babak: PPDE decided not to leave X.
- Collaboration with other NGOs on the international scale to further freedom, human rights etc
- Alexander: Marcel Kolaja (former Chair of PPI) from PPCZ, former member of EU parliament became EU director for AccessNow, that's a great possibility
- Do we have a position or report on the Impact of AI on Energy consumption and how should we find a position in this political discussions?
- Are we able to create a general programmatic overview and analysis of the different national programmes former & current?
- Revive the Joint PPI-PPEU Working Group
- Keith will write to PPEU Board.
- Can we please open the black box “US Pirates”. I would be very happy if we could have a presentation of the structure of the US Pirates here. What groups are there, how can you reach them, what do they do?
- They can be reached on Discord.
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- Next Board Meeting: Tuesday, 18.02.2025 20:00 UTC
- SCENE_SCUBA_Orientation Meeting on Feb. 11th at 20:00 UTC
- Meeting Closed: 15:22 UTC by Keith
- Need access to Twitter, FU X.,
- inventory of our socials,
- Bluesky account needed
- create accounts for rising socials, like Bluesky (Mastedon) find a bot/service for crossposts
- Create inventory of relevant news sources (get back to AI wg, maybe AI search and summarization of relevant news)
- Daily PPI commenter, review of what´s happening in the world and our opinion about it.
- Pirate Times
- 2 people to boost messages .
- 2 people to create or find content.
- CfP for content. 1 pager...
send CfP to all pirates, not just members
- CfP for Pirate content, manifestos, what it means to be a Pirate.
- furthering the discussion on ongoing political issues and its impact on societial development
- Discord, Telegram, Whatsapp, and close contact posting.
- New quadrennial report for 2021 - 2024
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- PART I
- Introduction
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- Contribution of the organization to the work of the United Nations
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- Initiatives taken by the organization in support of the Millennium Development Goals / Sustainable Development Goals
Yes : Bailey, Keith, Alex, Mark, Gregory, Babak, Schoresch,Thomas, Bastian
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