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First PPI Board Meeting of 2022!

Dear Pirates, We hope you are all having a great start to the new year and staying safe. The board of PPI hereby invites you to our very first board meeting of the year, which will take place on Sunday, January 23rd at 21:00 UTC/22:00 CET! The meeting will be in our usual place on BigBlueButton: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v Feel free to drop by with your ideas, questions, or just to say hi! Also, we would like to inform the community in advance that because of the massive timezone differences between PPI board members and folks in the Pirate community in general, we will be rotating our board meeting times this year. …

Global Pirates elected new leadership for the coming two years

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 …

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

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 …

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

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!

Czech Pirates are joining the new government!

Czech Pirates are joining the new government! In a momentous vote, the Czech Pirates (Česká pirátská strana) approved their participation in the forming five-party coalition government. Thus set to make the Czechs the very first Pirate Party being a member of a government; in the entire world. In early October, the election took place. And for the Czech Pirates, it was an extremely bittersweet victory. They run on a joint ticket together with the STAN party (Mayors and Independents) and with 15,6 % of the vote got 37 MPs in the 200-seat lower house. Problem being that due to heavy preferential voting by the STAN voters, seats in the Parliament …

INVITE: Campaigning During COVID-19 Part 2!

Dear Pirates, We are pleased to invite you all to the meeting of our SCENE committee on Saturday, August 21st. The topic for this meeting is “Campaigning During COVID-19” and it is an extension of the meeting we held for the same topic back in February. When: Saturday, August 21st @ 13:00 UTC/15:00 CEST Where: PPI BigBlueButton Room https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v Multiple PPI member parties have participated in elections in their countries this year already, and there are several more who are currently preparing to do the same. The pandemic has proven to be a challenge when it comes to campaigning because as we learned in the first meeting, the campaign strategies …

Pirate Security Conference Aug. 14 and 15

This weekend, Aug. 14 and 15, 2021, the annual Pirate Security Conference will take place. The title of this year’s conference is “New Horizons – Multidimensional World Politics and Security Aspects”. While the event is usually held physically, alongside the Munich Security Conference in February, due to health concerns revolving around the COVID-19 situation, and ongoing cancellations, it was decided to hold the event online. You can watch the event at the following link: https://pirate-secon.net/stream-2/ Or using the following Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/Hb6xNd6JrZk The conference will focus on the following 3 topics: 1. How do you prepare for disruptive challenges? 2. How do you prepare for a multipolar world? 3. How …

The PPI General Assembly is this weekend! Here’s what you need to know!

Dear Pirates, As you know this Saturday, July 3rd 2021 is the day of our mid-year PPI General Assembly. We are excited to connect with you all again and do some catching up as well as make plans for the future! Here are the things you need to know about the GA: Start time: 09:00 UTC, 11:00 CEST Location: Mumble! The server is mumble.ppi.rocks, port 64738. If you are new to this and have never used Mumble, you can download it here: https://www.mumble.info/ Scroll down and click on the room “PPI Board,” and then another room called “Online GA.” This is where we will meet. PPI Board members will be …

INVITATION: SUMMER GA 2021!

Dear Pirates, As we move further into 2021 we believe it is time for our mid-year General Assembly. We would like the opportunity to meet with our members and check in with one another about what we have been up to since the end of last year. We are excited to invite you to our early-Summer General Assembly, which will take place on Saturday, July 3rd, 2021! The event will begin at 09:00 UTC (11:00 CEST) and will be held entirely online using Mumble, just like last time: mumble.ppi.rocks, port 64738. Scroll down and click on the room “PPI Board,” and then another room called “Online GA.” This will be …

Upcoming discussion: Membership data systems

Dear Pirates, Join us this Sunday, April 25th at 17:00 UTC/19:00 CEST to discuss the management of Pirate Party membership data. We will meet in the PPI Big Blue Button room: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v A few questions to get the discussion going: -How does your party manage its membership data? What tool(s) do you use? -What is needed to have a secure and effective management system? In other words, what do you consider “best practices”? -What sorts of laws must you keep in mind when it comes to membership data (ex.GDPR)? -Do you see any potential benefits to having a decentralized, member-controlled system at the international level? If so, what does that …

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