The Pirate Party International assembly was held in Kazan, Russia the weekend 20-21st April. We had a remote hub in our external office in Brussels where we welcomed Pirates from all over Europe to participate. In whole, we had around fifteen participants in our remote hub, from six countries.

This was my first event I had to organize for the EuroPirates here in Brussel. Suddenly I had to turn into a video conference expert. With good help from Elin and Cristian, we managed to put up quite decent video conference setup in the external office. I was quite happy with the result and had a lot of fun taping all the extension cords to the floor and on the table in order to make sure that nobody tripped!

The aim of this General Assembly of the Pirate Party International was to elect a new board, discuss about the infrastructure of PPI, voting on amendments to statutes and admittance of new members and observers of the PPI. The new board is co-chaired by Grégory Engels from the German Pirate Party and Vojtěch Pikal from the Czech Pirate Party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gOMTlvw9SH0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XZQOfJ3P28

This Monday, the 22:nd of April, we at Amelias office are organizing an awesome film screening of the fascinating documentary TPB:AFK – The Pirate Bay: Away From Keyboard – here in the European parliament. TPB:AFK is a documentary about three of the people behind the Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient torrent tracker. The documentary thus follows Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm and gives many insights into their life as well as to the politically rigged trial where they were sentenced to outrageously unjust and unproportionate sentences on behalf of the media industry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=809RGOrsOXw