PPI board meeting Wednesday, November 11th
All are welcome to PPI’s monthly board meeting Wednesday, November 11th. Find us at BigBlueButton. An audio alternative is @PiratesOnAir’s live stream. Meeting times are: 5:00pm CET 4:00pm UTC 11:00am EST
Pirate Party News
This weekend will be the @MassPirates Party Conference! You can still register if attending. Join them live at Pirate Beer this Saturday!
The Massachusetts Pirate Party has released the schedule for their 2020 Party Conference starting this weekend Saturday, November 14th and Sunday, November 15th. If planning on attending, please register in advance they encourage anyone to who’s interested in the Pirate Party. They will email registrants the streaming details, especially participant details for the video conferences. The conference will be streamed live to their YouTube channel. The Massachusetts and United States Pirate Parties will later join Pirate Parties International’s Pirate Beer this Saturday, November 14th, after their Party Conference ends for that day. Pirate Beer start times are: 9:00pm CET 8:00pm UTC 3:00pm EST BOTH days for MassPirates’ Party Conference run …
There will be a pre-GA technical test Friday, November 6th, starting at 8:00pm CET.
There will be a technical test on November 6th to see if BigBlueButton will work for a General Assembly. The BBB channel can be found here. The times are: 8:00pm CET / 7:00pm UTC / 2:00pm EST It’s important all members send at least 1 delegate to this test. Anyone is welcome to attend and encouraged to do so in order to better test BigBlueButton for next month’s online General Assembly. The General Assembly will be held Saturday, December 5th and Sunday, December 6th. Members should visit the General Assembly forum to submit motions, statute amendments and nominations for PPI positions. There is no deadline for registering delegates, submitting motions …
LIVE Presidential Election Night coverage brought to you by the United States and Massachusetts Pirate Parties on Tuesday, November 3rd!
November 3rd Election Night start time begins at: 8:00pm EST / 1:00am UTC / 2:00am CET UPDATE There’s a new streaming link for the election night coverage tonight brought by @USPirates and @MassPirates. When they had tested the stream link before, it had counted as having been recorded which got it to be automatically deleted. James tells me all links now including on the press release on the website I wrote have all been fixed with the new YouTube streaming link included. https://youtu.be/woXE4Q943aM https://blog.pirate-party.us/live-presidential-election-night-coverage-brought-to-you-by-the-united-states-and-massachusetts-pirate-parties-on-tuesday-november-3rd-2/ 8:00pm EST / 1:00am UTC / 2:00am CET ++++ A Pirate Take On The 2020 U.S. Election The United States and Massachusetts Pirate Parties would …
The Pirate Party Luxembourg @Piratepartei has started a fundraiser to help the refugees in Moria.
Two months ago fires destroyed Greece’s largest migrant camp on the island of Lesbos leaving nearly 13,000 without shelter. Gilles from @Piratepartei sent this to the PPEU Mattermost on October 26th: Hello everybody, FYI: PPLU has started an action together with the ONG Boderline Europe to help refugees in Moria (Greece). The collected funds will be used to buy warm clothes (essentially good shoes and socks) to the asylum seekers during the winter. For 30€, every donator receives a special “Coffee to help” mug and a reusable face mask. 100% of the donations will be directly forwarded to the refugees. Feel free to share or donate. https://www.piraten.lu/moria-spendenaktioun/ (English) https://www.piraten.lu/let-us-help-the-refugees-in-moria/?lang=en
The @MassPirates Party Conference is November 14th – 15th! Please notify MassPirates by Friday, October 30th, if you’re attending, if you’re interested in presenting or participating in a panel.
@MassPirates‘ annual Party Conference will be Saturday, November 14th and Sunday, November 15th. The conference will be virtual. It will focus on planning, expanding their platform and organizing how-tos. There will be lightning talks and a number of discussions and panels. Registration is free and they encourage anyone who is interested in the Pirate Party to attend. Register here. Panel discussions will be live streamed onto the MassPirates YouTube channel. The conference will be a mix of video conferences, streamed discussions and pre-recorded presentations. They will email registrants the streaming details, especially participant details for the video conferences. If you are interested in presenting or participating in a panel, please …
@PiratePartyUK to Close Down
On August 30th, Pirate Party UK announced their plans to hold a vote on whether or not to dissolve their Party: Dear Party members, It is with great sadness that we have reached the conclusion that PPUK has run out of steam. We hope that this will not be a permanent situation, but for the time being we think that there is not enough interest or energy to keep going and to justify collecting membership subscriptions. As a result, we will shortly be holding a ballot of all members on the simple proposal: • Pirate Party UK shall be dissolved consistent with article 7 of the constitution. The ballot will …
Register your delegates early for this year’s Online General Assembly. And a pre-GA tech test will be held November 6th.
Please register your delegates early by emailing the PPI board at board@pp-international.net. Submit motions, statute amendments and nominations for PPI positions on our Discourse forum. There will be a technical test on November 6th to see if BigBlueButton will work for a General Assembly. It’s important that all of our members send at least one delegate to this test. We would like to invite you to a technical test on Friday, November 6th, at 6:00pm UTC / 8:00pm CET. We will meet in the PPI BigBlueButton room. The point of this test is to see if BigBlueButton will work for a General Assembly, so it is important that all of …
Invite: SCULL Meeting #4, Internal Party Structure and Management
Hello again, Pirates! It’s time for another SCULL meeting, aka, the PPI Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour! We happily invite you to the 4th SCULL meeting this year. When: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 at 18:30 UTC/20:30 CEST/14:30 EDT. Where: Big Blue Button https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v We look forward to continuing the conversation about the everyday work that goes into running a Pirate Party. In the past, we’ve discussed tech, graphics, and design, democracy tools, and now we would like to talk to you about internal party structure and management. We want to know how you manage things in your party–what are the positions, what do they mean, and who …
Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL), Meeting #3 – Democracy Tools
Dear Pirates, We are happy to announce the third meeting of the Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour, aka SCULL! When: Wednesday, July 22nd at 18:00 UTC/20:00 CEST Where: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v If you have been to a SCULL meeting before, you know that this is a standing committee focusing on inter-party cooperation and the day to day work of a running a Pirate Party. The first SCULL meeting was centered around information technology, while the second meeting topic was graphics and design which resulted in a new PPI graphics vault that all Pirates can connect to through Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks. The topic for this meeting is Democracy …