[pp.int.general] Invitation online GA

[Koen De Voegt]

Dear members of PPI,

You are hereby invited to take part in PPI's first online General Assembly
on March 14, 2015. Please note that the registration procedures and general
timeline for the General Assembly differ to a traditional General Assembly,
so please do read all linked documentation!

Future updates will be added to the wiki page for this GA:

http://wiki.pp-international.net/Online_GA_2015

<https://gist.github.com/bbqsrc/5f2fa62c0f0a468f112f#high-level-explanation-of-proceedings>High
level explanation of proceedings

An online general assembly is held, using a proposed rules of procedure
tailored for this purpose. A General Assembly Team is created for handling
the General Assembly.

Proposals are submitted to the wiki. Proposals may be edited by the
proposer until a specific deadline. All discussion on proposals occurs on
the talk pages. Amendments to these proposals may be proposed until the
deadline specified in the timeline.

A seven day voting period occurs instead of voting on SAPs at the meeting
itself. A mumble meeting is to be held at 12:00 UTC on 14 March in order to
meet the requirements of the statutes, with a Rules of Procedure allowing
deadlines to be enforced and limiting the meeting to accepting the RoP, the
agenda, and the voting ballots.

Delegates register with the GA Team using a PGP key. The public key will be
published so the identity of ballots can be easily confirmed. GA Team has
its own procedures for managing this, published as part of their RoP. All
submitted ballots must be signed with a registered PGP key or the ballot
will not be accepted.

The GA Team is required to assist with PGP-related issues, so you need not
worry if you're having difficulties, as they will assist.

The GA Team will tally up the votes on the day after voting closes and the
results will be announced and added to the minutes.
 <https://gist.github.com/bbqsrc/5f2fa62c0f0a468f112f#details>Details

This GA will be for the purposes of statute amendment proposals, formal
motions and resolving the issues relating to membership affiliation fees.
All other issues (such as elections or new member admissions) are beyond
the scope of this extraordinary GA and shall be held over until the Poland
GA in July.

Please acquaint yourself with the timeline for this GA:

http://wiki.pp-international.net/Online_GA_2015/Timeline

A General Assembly Team has been formed for managing the GA:

http://wiki.pp-international.net/Online_GA_2015/GA_Team_Rules_of_Procedure

Currently the GA Team has one member. If your Party is aware of a suitable
candidate, it would be greatly appreciated if they could be nominated as
soon as possible!

A simplified Rules of Procedure have been developed to implement this
timeline:

http://wiki.pp-international.net/Online_GA_2015/Rules_of_Procedure
 <https://gist.github.com/bbqsrc/5f2fa62c0f0a468f112f#key-dates>Key dates

   - Feb 14: deadline for statute amendment proposals, registration period
   begins
   - Mar 13: deadline for registration
   - Mar 14: Mumble meeting occurs at 12:00 UTC, 7 day voting begins at
   conclusion
   - Mar 22: results published and minuted.

 <https://gist.github.com/bbqsrc/5f2fa62c0f0a468f112f#creating-proposals>Creating
proposals

As it is intended for as much discussion regarding proposals to occur
significantly prior to the beginning of the meeting, proposals will be
placed on their own wiki pages and linked to from an index of proposals.

The page listing all proposals is here:

http://wiki.pp-international.net/Online_GA_2015

The technicalities of this are currently being sorted out (admin access for
GA Team members, etc).

If for whatever reason we are unable to attain administration access for GA
Team members on the PPI wiki, a wiki specifically created for the GA will
be configured by PPAU as a matter of urgency.
 <https://gist.github.com/bbqsrc/5f2fa62c0f0a468f112f#loose-ends>Loose ends

This announcement should appear on the website in the coming days.

As I cannot guarantee that all member parties are actually on this mailing
list, please do your best to inform parties in your region that this event
is occurring.

The GA Team email address will be created shortly (the address for
registration, etc) and an update will be provided as soon as that occurs.


Special thanks go to PPAU and Brendan Molloy for assisting in the
organisation of this online GA

Best regards,
Koen De Voegt - Co-chair PPI
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