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IMPORTANT: GENERAL ASSEMBLY POSTPONED

Bailey Lamon December 7, 2022 December 7, 2022

Dear Pirates, We regret to inform you that the upcoming PPI General Assembly, which was originally set to take place this weekend, Saturday December 10th and Sunday December 11th 2022, will be postponed. The General Assembly will now take place during the weekend of January 28th and 29th 2023. We deeply apologize for any stress or inconvenience this may bring to you all. We understand that this situation is not ideal and it wasn’t an easy decision, but for various reasons we feel as though it is the right decision in the long run. The new deadline for statute amendments and member applications is Saturday, December 31st. There is no …

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PPI Update on our Presence at the UN in Geneva in 2022

Mike November 4, 2022 November 4, 2022

As an organisation with the observer status with the UN Economic and Social Council, PPI is involved in quite a lot UN meetings. Thanks to our active team in Geneva, Switzerland, headed by our board member Carlos Polo, we manage to maintain our presence at these meeting quite well. Below is just a few recent examples of our participation: WTO Forum 22 PPI was present at WTO Forum 2022 with the aim to incorporate the debate of e-commerce. It is well known that the benefits of the exchanges should be better redistributed. Concerning the Metavers, PPI has participated at the conference, as one key point for the scaling and …

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INVITE: PPI Winter GA 2022!

Bailey Lamon October 8, 2022 October 8, 2022

Dear Pirates, We are pleased to invite you to the final Pirate Parties International General Assembly of 2022. This will take place on both Saturday, December 10th and Sunday, December 11th. As usual the event will take place predominently online using Mumble, however, there is an optional physical element this time. Our General Secretary has booked the Pirate Centre in Prague for the weekend and we invite all of our members to attend in person if you desire. This is entirely optional but will be a fun addition to the event. Everyone present in person should bring their own computer to vote but there will be an option to use …

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Next PPI board meeting Tuesday, August 23rd

admin August 17, 2022 August 17, 2022

All are welcome to PPI’s monthly board meeting Tuesday, June 21st. Find us at BigBlueButton. An audio alternative is @PiratesOnAir’s live stream. Meeting times are: 05:00am EST 09:00am UTC 11:00am CEST

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Reminder: PPI General Assembly This Weekend!

Bailey Lamon June 28, 2022 June 28, 2022

Hello Pirates, Hope you are all doing well. We have a General Assembly this weekend! That is this Saturday, July 2nd. The event will start at 9:00 UTC/11:00 CEST/5:00 EDT. We will be meeting on the PPI Mumble Server: mumble.ppi.rocks in the room ‘Online GA’. Mumble is an audio chat tool and if you’ve never used it before, you can download it for free here: https://www.mumble.info Members of the PPI Board will join the Mumble room early so we will be there to answer questions and help you out with anything you might need before the event. You can find a draft agenda here: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/proposed-agenda-july-2022/373 Remember to review the Discourse …

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INVITATION: PPI Mid-Year General Assembly!

Bailey Lamon May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022

Dear Pirates, We are pleased to invite you to the mid-year General Assembly of Pirate Parties International, which will take place on Saturday, July 2nd, 2022! As you know, we have been keeping the habit of having 2 GAs per term, our last one being in January which marked the end of the previous term. This upcoming GA will be one day long and will not include elections of PPI officers. As always we will have board and financial reports, acceptance of new members, statute amendments and motions. Please submit your membership applications, statute amendments and motions through our Discourse forum: https://ga.pp-international.net/c/july-2022-general-assembly/28. The deadline to submit statute amendments and membership applications …

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Invite: Introduction to PPI Standing Committees

Bailey Lamon February 16, 2022 February 16, 2022

Dear Pirates, You are hereby invited to join Pirate Parties International for our first working group event of the year, “Introduction to PPI Standing Committees”. We felt that before we start getting the Standing Committees going again, it would be a good idea to have an introductory session first. There are currently 5 PPI Standing Committees and as a group we will go through each one, explain its focus and have a discussion around what its individual tasks and goals should be. We hope that Pirates from the international community will actually join each committee and take control of its direction, as opposed to the board setting up individual sessions …

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Global Pirates elected new leadership for the coming two years

Mike January 11, 2022 January 11, 2022

January 11th 2022 – Pirate Parties International (PPI), the global umbrella organisation of Pirate Parties around the world, held its 16th General Assembly on Saturday, January 8th, during which new leadership was elected. Every year Pirate Parties from all over the world elect half of PPI’s board. In this weekend’s election, a German Pirate, Gregory Engels, was successfully re-elected as the organisation’s vice-chairman. The chairwoman, Canadian Bailey Lamon, still has one year remaining on her term. The rest of the board now consists of Pirates from Catalonia, Chile, Czechia, Israel, Russia and Switzerland. “We would like to welcome our newest member, the Pirate Party of Serbia, which brings our total …

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General Assembly THIS WEEKEND! Here is everything you need to know.

Bailey Lamon January 4, 2022 January 6, 2022

Hello Pirates, As you all know, this weekend (Saturday, January 8th and Sunday, January 9th) is the PPI General Assembly! We are very much looking forward to meeting with all of you again and having a productive and FUN weekend! If you haven’t already, please register your delegates by emailing the PPI Board: board@pp-international.net. You can register at the last minute if you choose, but it is much easier for all of us if this is done in advance. Each PPI member is permitted up to 6 delegates. Please submit your motions and nominations for PPI Officers on the Discourse forum: https://ga.pp-international.net/c/ga-jan-2022/26 There are no statute amendment proposals for this …

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PPI Stand at the Internet Governance Forum; Dec 6 to 10 in Katowice, Poland

Mike December 2, 2021 December 5, 2021

From December 6th to 10th the PPI will have its own stand (no. 29) at the UN’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF). If you’ll be in town, feel free to stop by and have a talk. Present at the stand will be some local Polish Pirates, as well as Gregory Engels, PPI vice-chair (Germany); Mike Gill, PPI general secretary (Czechia); Alexander Isavnin (Russia). Even Mikuláš Peksa, the Czech member of European Parliament will stop by from time to time. You’ll find us right between the stand of the OECD, Polish Ministry of Development and the Moscow Free University (pay them a visit as well). See you in Katowice!