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Swedish Pirate Party Elects its First Leader | PirateTimes

Swedish Pirate Party Elects its First Leader May 5, 2016 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in General Assembly On Monday, 2 May 2016, a new Chairperson for the Swedish Pirate Party (PPSE) was elected. PPSE has been without a leader since the end of 2014. At the current General Assembly the members of the party decided to elect Magnus Andersson, from Gothenburg, to this position. The Swedish Pirate Party provided the seed for the Pirate Movement that later spread across the globe. The founder of the party, Rick Falkvinge, was the leader of the party from 2006 until 2011. Rick decided that five years of leadership was enough and handed over to …

Iceland’s Pirates Have a New Steering Committee | PirateTimes

Iceland’s Pirates Have a New Steering Committee September 2, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in General Assembly This post is also available in: Spanish In the weekend of 29-30 August 2015 The Pirate Party of Iceland held a General Assembly in which they elected a new steering committee and passed two important motions. As we publish the latest polls indicate PPIS is now polling at 36% and would have 26 seats – three more than both current governing parties and it would not be practicable to form a government that did not include the Pirates if elections reflected these numbers. The new steering committee has a daunting task ahead …

Pirate Parties International First Online General Assembly | PirateTimes

Pirate Parties International First Online General Assembly March 30, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News The first Online GA for Pirate Parties International was held on Sunday 29 March 2015. It was held in a specially designed conference room in the Mumble instance held on the servers of the Pirate Party of North Rhine Westphalia in conjunction with a Piratepad and was conducted with no more problems than would be expected at a conference held at a physical location. There were 16 Pirate Parties represented, which was enough to establish a quorum of 1/3 of the ordinary 41 members. The PPI members present were: Catalonia, Czech Republic, …

PPI Takes Help from PPAU to Arrange Online GA | PirateTimes

PPI Takes Help from PPAU to Arrange Online GA January 12, 2015 · by Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer · in General Assembly The Pirate Parties International (PPI) Board and Pirate Party Australia (PPAU) will cooperate to conduct an online General Assembly meeting on (or before) 15 March 2015, according to minutes of the most recent PPI Board meeting. On 5 January 2015 PPAU proposed an agenda item for consideration at the PPI Board meeting scheduled for the following day. The proposed item requested that the PPI Board consider and vote upon a motion to hold an online General Assembly meeting. The contents of that motion are noted in the Board’s minutes. The motion, …

PPSE GA: New board, Changes and Plans for 2015 | PirateTimes

PPSE GA: New board, Changes and Plans for 2015 November 30, 2014 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in General Assembly The General Assembly of the Pirate Party of  Sweden recently ended with some changes. The meeting decided to make the future GA’s a bit more flexible, in lead up time, from the previous mandatory six weeks to the Presidium deciding the period. The Presidium will also be able to prepare the GAs further in advance with several of the nomination applications being mandated earlier than previously was the case. Some changes in political stances: The gambling monopoly on the Internet should be removed, allowing a level playing field for competitors The …

Dutch Pirate Party attacked in hacking incident | PirateTimes

Dutch Pirate Party attacked in hacking incident November 25, 2014 · by Guest Author · in General Assembly During the General Assembly of the Dutch ‘Piratenpartij’ (PPNL), hackers penetrated the security of the party’s infrastructure. Some of the databases that were affected were the member administration system and the webmail. It is still not clear whether the intruders copied any data, changed files or compromised the party’s infrastructure in some other way. In response to the discussion amongst members in PPNL, about whether the person responsible had honest intentions to address the party’s flawed security,  the informal leader of PPNL, Dirk Poot,  stated an email to the general mailinglist of the ‘Piratenpartij’: If this had …

Important 3rd Congress for the Pirate Party of Greece | PirateTimes

Important 3rd Congress for the Pirate Party of Greece October 23, 2014 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in General Assembly, Interview This post is also available in: Greek In a country where crisis has transformed the political scene to a swampland, the Pirate Party of Greece stands calmly and watches the landscape, seeking for new opportunities and incentives for action. In the almost three years since its founding, PP-GR  has achieved a lot, always fighting for the core principles of the Pirate movement. It recently took the initiative to form an electoral coalition with other parties, with the goal of entering the Greek Parliament. The third Congress of PP-GR will …

Pirate Parties International GA 2015 Location Decided | PirateTimes

Pirate Parties International GA 2015 Location Decided July 23, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News Although the exact dates  have yet to be settled, the board of Pirate Parties International has confirmed the decision by their members to hold the 2015 General Assembly in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish bid beat the other contenders from Iceland, Milan and Tallinn. The proposed venue is Akademia Kozminskiego and the designated room can hold up to 400 people. With a high speed internet connection guests will have access to wifi and streaming of the proceedings will be available to Pirates unable to attend.  Accommodation in the area starts at 20 …

Jelle De Graaf | PirateTimes

Pirate Party in the Netherlands General Assembly July 16, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in General Assembly On Sunday, 6 July 2014, a General Assembly (GA) of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands was held in the city of  Utrecht. The turnout was around 55 persons at the meeting. On the agenda for the GA was the election of… The First Elected Pirate in the History of Dutch Politics March 30, 2014 · by Matthijs Pontier · in Election The Piratenpartij Netherlands (PPNL) has achieved an historic result with the Amsterdam elections of 2014. With the seat for Jelle de Graaf in the board committee of Amsterdam West, PPNL has the first …

Pirate Party in the Netherlands General Assembly | PirateTimes

Pirate Party in the Netherlands General Assembly July 16, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in General Assembly On Sunday, 6 July 2014, a General Assembly (GA) of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands was held in the city of  Utrecht. The turnout was around 55 persons at the meeting. On the agenda for the GA was the election of new board members, as the current administration was becoming too small, and there were several motions on the program, left from their previous GA which was dominated by the European Elections. The president opened the meeting and after a few words of thanks and welcome, a minute of silence was observed for Ronnie Popkema who passed away recently. …

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