Invitation PPI Conference Paris 12th/13th of April
Dear Pirates,
we would like to invite you to the 2014 Pirate Parties International Conference which will be held on April 12th and 13st in Paris, France. During this conference, the General Assembly - PPI's highest body - will decide upon
- the admittance of new members to the PPI,
- elect a new board and
- discuss and vote on amendments to the PPI statutes.
The preliminary timetable can be found at the end of this message.
Open Space: Emerging Issues for the Global Society
The world is on fire, democracy under pressure more than ever and all the trends, that the Pirateparties warned about are getting worse by the minute. We want to and have to raise our voices on these gloabl issues in a constructive way.
In that spirit of maintaining communication and co-operation between Pirate Parties around the world an Open Space event workshop is planned to be held on the first day of the conference. Open Space Technology is a powerful tool that allows to handle the most complex matters with the ease of a coffee break, and will allow us to take a glance at the future of the PPI and our visibility in the world. For this session we have picked the theme „Emerging Issues for the Global Society“. Be ready to immerse in this topic in dynamic, high-energetic environment.
Everybody welcome
Each PPI member can register up to 6 persons as official delegates (PPI Statutes IX.4), but all Pirates and interested persons are very welcome to join as guests.
Delegates: Please follow Rules of Procedure
According to the standing Rules of Procedure, all local and remote delegates must present written authorization from a member of their respective board unless they are designated International Coordinator or equivalent on their parties official website. Each person may represent as a delegate no more than 2 parties. (PPI RoP Art.1 §4) We kindly ask the delegates to present such accreditation in advance, in order to speed up the conference proceeding. This is especially true for remote delegations, as we would like to connect you with your designated local proxy for technical set-up.
Registration
To register for the conference please fill in the form at http://ppinternational.eventbrite.com or send in an email to conference (at) pp-international.net
Pay what you ... well: can
This time we do not ask for a participation fee for the conference (for the past conferences we had fees between 25 and 70 Euro) - but instead we will use the „pay what you want“ model. As the event does cost a lot - please pay, even if it's just a little
Official business
The General Assembly will also elect a new board and other officers of PPI. Candidates should either submit their application to http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Co ... ndidatures or e-mail their application to board (at) pp-international (dot) net.
The deadline for submitting proposals for amendments to PPI Statutes was March 14th 23:59 CET. Please consult the submitted proposals at: http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Co ... Amendments Other motions do not have a deadline and can be found here: http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Co ... _proposals
For further information concerning the 2012 PPI conference you can visit http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Conference_2014 or contact the Board at board@pp-international.net.
Kind regards,
the Board of the PPI
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Preliminary timetable:
11. April 2014 - Friday
19:00 - Social event
12. April 2014 - Saturday
09:00 Delegates accreditation
10:00 Opening of the conference
20:00 Social event
13. April 2014 - Sunday
10:00 Conference reopen
General Assembly
* Admittance of new PPI Members
* Reports PPI officers (board, court, lay auditors)
* Elections of PPI officers (board, court, lay auditors)
* Motions and Statutes Amendments
* Issue of statements
* Press Conference
18:00 Official Conference End
(*) all official events will be streamed
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