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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!

INVITE: Reviewing the Year and Planning for Next Term!

Dear Pirates, Can you believe it is almost the end of the year? It seems as though 2021 just flew by, and we are already in the process of organizing the end-of-term General Assembly for January 8th and 9th of 2022. As the winter holidays get closer the PPI Board thought it would be a good idea to have one more event to bring Pirates together in an organized setting before the holidays and the GA. We thought about how oftentimes at GAs we try to gather your feedback and set aside time for brainstorming, but this does not tend to last long or even happen at all because by …

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 …

ANNOUNCEMENT: PPI General Assembly January 2022!

Dear Pirates, It’s that time again! As we move into the final stretch of this year, it is time to start preparing for our main General Assembly of the year. Due to problems finding suitable dates in December this year, we are pleased to announce that the PPI General Assembly will take place on January 8th and 9th of 2022. Our last GA was on July 3rd and it was only one day long. This next GA will need to be 2 days because will have a much larger agenda. There will be more reports to give as well as elections, in addition to the usual voting on motions and …

INVITE: Online Advertising Discussion (SCENE)

Dear Pirates, We would like to invite you to a meeting of the SCENE committee on Wednesday, October 13th. The topic for this meeting is the Google Ad Grant [1] which PPI has been approved for, as well as an exchange of experiences about online advertisement by Pirate Parties in general. The Google Ad Grant is a grant of up to 10,000 USD per month in Google search ads for approved NGOs. It is a tool for gaining visibility and in turn, raising awareness and gaining support for one’s cause(s). We would like to discuss with our members how to use it in a way that benefits the whole Pirate …

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