From PPI
- Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING
- --- 06.16.2026 17:00 UTC/19:00 CEST/DST ---
- Audio recording:
- Video: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
- Pad:https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-board-meeting-2026-06-16-51hn09o
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: Gregory, Alex, Grigorii
- excused: Bailey, Keith, Schoresch, 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: Bart, Numero6
- excused: Thomas, Kayra,
- unexcused:
- Quorum established with 4 out of 9 board members present.
1.2 - Others
- Guests:
- participating:
2 - PROCEEDINGS
- Meeting opened at 17:12 UTC by Gregory
- Meeting chaired by Gregory
- Secretary for this meeting is all
- Streaming started: https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/
- Recording started: <have not started>
- Postal votes: none
- Votes delegated (§5 Votes (5. 3.) ROP):
- Notes on meeting process: no
- Bart: Peertube is an option to use as recording, publishing and saving a stream of the meeting.
- Gregory: historically we used to publish board meeting recordings on https://archive.org/details/piratepartiesinternational - this is still an option for preservation. perhaps we should look into the possibility to reupload the recordings that are stored at ag-technic to archive.org.
- we will investigate further ways to do streaming / recording of meetings if key persons are not present.
3 - APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
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 Yes : Alex, Gregory, Bart, Numero6
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 No :
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 Abstain :
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4 - REPORTS
4.1 - Short reports of the board members
Board
- Keith Goldstein: not present
- Gregory Engels: Busy with local politics, was elected to local foreign Commettee, but have to battle to let Pirates be elected to the main council,
- Bailey Lamon: not present
- Alexander Isavnin: nothing to report on global level
- Sebastian Krone: not present
- 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.
- 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.
- Maycow Toledo: not present
- Carlos Polo: not present
- Grigorii Dizer: nothing to report
Alternates:
- Babak Tubis: not present
- Schoresch Davoodi: not present
- Thomas Gaul: not present
- Numero6: Nothing to report
- Bart Overkamp: Nothing to report
- Kayra Kuyumcu: not present
5.1 - Proposals
- GA Organization
- Update Discourse, done by Gregory
- Publish statute amendments
- the starting time has been announced to be 13: 00 UTC
- Collect delegates, make sure parties got the message
- In the European Pirates calendar.
- Shall we ask Marketa PPCZ or Patrick PPDE as keynote speaker?
- open topic.
- Preparation for GA will continue in Board chat.
- there were no formal requests for new memberships
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
from last meeting:
- 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
- the update will be after the 27th of June (next MAG meeting)
5.5 PPI HQ update
- The office is set up and running. All tax returns have been filed.
5.6 Updates
- Blogs
- on Edward Snowden Day:
- https://pp-international.net/2026/06/edward-snowden-day/
- on VPN updates in China
- https://pp-international.net/2026/06/chinas-escalating-crackdown-on-vpn-use/
There was a long going Pirate Beer on May 30th.
6 AOB - Any other business
- no.
- Next meeting will be the GA on Saturday.
- Discussion on current IT services and alternative options happened after closure of the meeting. Present board members agreed that current services are more than just website, are our intependence and have competitive cost. Som services need to be archived or restructured.
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- Meeting Closed: 17:32 UTC by Gregory
