[pp.int.general] Communication problem, real or perceived?

[Jan Huwald]

If you are in a hurry, read at least 2.1 and spread the word about!

1. monthly chat

1.1 During my (still ongoing) time in the board of the German pirate party I 
learned to hate latenight  (open) discussions in IRC. Textchat is efficient 
for voting, pasting text and ascii art. It behaves badly if it comes to 
expressing long, complex statements in your foreign language.

1.2 As we are a global movement the time shift will erase every possible time 
for a regular (!) meeting. Therefore I prefer email and urge you to simply 
use it more intensiveley (and think about 2., 4.)

2. task forces

2.1 One the Vienna international conference we agreed on starting several task 
forces (or international working groups). I think now it is the time to get 
them running. I will promote them to the German pirates during our next 
newsletter (approx betwean today and sunday). I will promote the int. wiki 
page http://wiki.pp-international.net/Task_Forces as a concentration point 
for all volunteers. I ask you to do so in your party, too!

2.2 Task forces should issue monthly reports on their progress

2.3 Task forces may reduce the neccesarity of getting all int. pirates 
together by splitting up problems.

3. Re: press releases from the int. pirates: about a board of the int. pirates 
we should continue to discuss. A part of this discussion will take place 
within the Legal Team (one of the working groups), especially about election 
details and how to form a legal body (or if, at all)

4. I agree that all parties should paste their press releases and important 
movements wihtin their country to this mailinglist. For the later I suggest 
regular digest. Hopefully I can motivate somebody to do this for Germany .. 
Christoph Leng, how it is about you?

Regards,
Jan Huwald
Political Secretary, German Pirate Party

Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 06:00:54 schrieb Andrew Norton:
> I've been looking around, reading around, and it seems to be there is some
> sort of gap in communication. It seems we're all working separately, or at
> least not as cohesively as we should, or could. I've spoken to many of you
> recently (or at least some of you on IRC, and most of those who've replied
> with the 'Jabber of the pirates') and often I get the same question - “hows
> it going in your country” and its one I also have to ask.
>
> We're not communicating well between each other, or again, thats my
> perception. It would be nice, for instance, to know when national groups
> put out a press release about something (you are putting out press releases
> and stuff, right?)
>
> The other thing is there is no real 'private' communication between us all.
> This mailing list is open to anyone that wants to be on it. Whilst that
> might be great in some aspects, its not so good in others, especially if
> there's any sort of discussion over anything that might cause controversy.
>
> What I would like to propose is that we just start talking more, and
> talking smarter. 1)Some sort of monthly meeting, on IRC, or any other
> method, between different party members, so we can all keep each other
> informed about how things are going. 2)Some sort of secured area, just for
> party members, so we can discuss things in private, even if it's just a
> moderator-approved-join list. 3)That we each announce press releases to a
> list, be it this one, or another one, so we al are kept abreast of each
> party's breaking news, and can either make support statements or whatever
> may be needed. Maybe even the 'international Pirate Party' issues the said
> releases, in the name of each national party. Dunno how feasible that is,
> but its worth thinking about. I'm more than willing to help out with time,
> and effort. Right now, due to the main composition of the US party
> supporters, many of our people are otherwise occupied. In addition, the
> regulations for registering a party here are difficult, and seem designed
> to make forming a party near impossible reason, despite being 'in
> existence' for almost a year, we'll probably be one of the last party's to
> officially become a political party.
>
> Andrew Norton
> PPUS International Liaison
>
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