[pp.int.general] Invitation online GA

Sun Jan 25 21:43:41 CET 2015

Hey!

You are sending this around January 25...

... so any deadline February 14 means you pretend all this to be utter bullshit.

Anybody really pretending to think seriously about what is being asked will need more time.

But of course, if you only want fast consumption of a few ideas already regurgitated by the standard luminaries... don't bother and go on marching through the graveyard. You will reach the hole, eventually ;(.

Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:54:08 +0100
From: koen.devoegt at antwerpsepiraten.be
To: pp-leaders.discussion at lists.pp-international.net; pp-leaders at lists.pp-international.net; ppi-ga-org at lists.pp-international.net; pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
Subject: [pp.int.general] Invitation online GA

        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

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.

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

Key dates

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

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.

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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