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Invitation to the General Assembly on Ferbruary 12th in Munich

Invitation to the General Assembly Dear Pirate, Pirates without Borders would like to invite you to the ordinary Pirate Assembly in Munich on Friday 12th  February. The venue is the Head Quarter of the Bavarian Pirate Party. The address is: Schopenhauerstr. 71,  80807 München Germany https://s71.piratenpartei-bayern.de/ We will start with the assembly at 7PM CET.  Please send any motions to board@pirates-without-borders.org until January 29 , 2016 at the latest. Preliminary agenda: approval of annual reports; approval of annual accounts; discharge from liability; decision on the budget; election of the President of the Assembly; elections of the Board Members election of lay auditors. Oder proposals by members or the Board The definite agenda …

Shut Down of own ShareLaTeX Server

Dear users of ShareLaTeX The Board of Pirates without Borders has decided to shut down its on server and to move most of the System to an other server. But the ShareLaTeX will not be migrated.  So we would like to invite you all, to migrate your ShareLaTex projects to the ShareLaTeX of Stefan Thöni, you can reach it ounder https://latex.savvy.ch The ShareLaTeX of PWB will be shut down on December the 22nd.  Kindly Regards Moira Brülisauer Administration Pirates without Borders

[cancelled] International Orgaweekend 2015 (#iowe15)

Please note: This event was cancelled due to the low number of registrations up to 10th of July. Fellow Pirates Without Borders, we would like to warmly invite you to the International Orgaweekend 2015 (#iowe15) during the „Pirate Summer“ event in Piotrowice Nyskie, Poland. This event is dedicated to all the people who are heavily comitted to providing the political pirates a smooth infrastructure. Following the spirit of Pirates Without Borders, the IOWE15 will increase networking and exchange across borders. We have arranged a colorful and broad variety of workshops and speeches for you. This is the opportuninty for individual pirates to spend time together, to get to know each …

Invitation to the Pirate Assembly

Dear Pirates, Pirates without Borders would like to invite you to the ordinary Pirate Assembly in Prague on Saturday 28th February. The venue is the Head Quarter of the Czech Pirate Party. The address is: Řehořova 19 Praha 3 – Žižkov 13000 We will start with the assembly at 1PM CET. Please send any motions to board@pirates-without-borders.org until February 13, 2015 at the latest. Follow the link to see the Agenda. The definite agenda will be published on February 14, 2015 and sent by e-mail. Further details, including leisure programme, will also be sent by e-mail. We plan to have the following programm for the PA Weekend: Friday, Febraury 27th …

What was and what is to come

Since its the beginning of a new year (for which, of course, we wish you only the best), we, the Pirates Without Borders Board, also thought it fit to think a little bit about last year as well as the coming one. What was 2014? For us, the board, 2014 was the first year of our two-year term. Elected in March, we did not merely take over leading positions, but a complete relaunch of the organisation. Apart from the fact that the board changed completely, with none of the former members applying again, we also used the general assembly in Munich this year to replace the statutes with a completely …

Report from the Marina Kassel

Introduction Pirates without Borders was invited by the national Board of the Pirate Party of Germany to their national board meeting in Kassel, to the «Marina Kassel». Pirates without Borders was represented by Denis Simonet and the Board Member Moira Brülisauer. Link to more Infos about the event: Date: 8th and 9th of November 2014 Venue: Youth hostel „Jugendherberge Kassel“ Budget: Pirates without Borders spent EUR 190 on this representative task Report Denis and Moira arrived in the late evening on Friday 7th November in Kassel, checked in and joined the social get-together in the bar «Cuba Club», where they met many of the attendees in an informal atmosphere – …

Preliminary schedule of the International Orga Weekend

The preiliminary schedule for the International Orga Weekend in Frankfurt is out! also available in German Saturday, 29th November 09:00 Accreditation and Construction Arrival and registration of visitors. Who has not been paid, paid the entry fee. Those who stay on site, can check into their rooms. Construction by all under the direction of Moira, accreditation by Sebastian Schwarzweller 11:00 Typesetting with LaTeX (Workshop) General introduction to the application of the typesetting software LaTeX. Thanks to the new online tool „ShareLatex“ there’s no need for a hassling instalation anymore. LaTeX is suitable for documentation, minutes, statutes, etc. Presented by Stefan Thöni 12:30 Lunch together at the youth hostel 14:00 Grassroots …

Blog-Relay-Stick: I vote Pirate!

Well, since sticks have been coming in from all kinds of directions (I thank @Drachenrose, @ws_develop, @frau_semm and @jinx_hh, if i remember correctly), this seems to be one of those rare occasions in which I have to blog. To those of you unaware of the Practice: a blog-relay-stick is a fixed set of questions, that one person answers in a blog and then calls on several persons to do the same. This particular stick (aka, set of questions) has a strong thematic focus on upcoming german elections. However, since some of the advice in the following sentences can be applied universally and also since it always has been part of …

Announcement International Orga Weekend

[UPDATE] Registration deadline set to 27th October 2014. Pirates without Borders would like to warmly invite you to the International Orgaweekend. It is an event dedicated to all the people who are heavily engaged in and comitted to providing us, the international Pirate Parties, with a smooth and flexible Infrastructure. Following the spirit of Pirates Without Borders, the International Orgaweekend is supposed to make networking and creative exchange across borders possible. We have arranged a colorful and widespread variety of topics and speeches for you. For instance, we will have Workshops considering LaTeX, Redmine, OTRS and lots more. We will discuss different methods of ballots and primary elections – be …

Board meeting of the PWB board on June 23rd.

All members of the board were present; the board thus had a quorum. Data as given by the treasurer showed that PWB currently have 214,00 € cash and 1803,66€ on the account. The number of members is 112. President Sebastian Schwarzweller reported that he is still looking for a location for an International Orga Day, which turned out harder than expected due to high demands the PWB have on the location. The board discussed which requirements are obligatory, and Moira offered her help in the search. In addition to that, the President will participate in the PPI board meeting in London the first weekend in July.  Treasurer Pat Mächler reported …