[pp.int.general] Greetings from France: the Parti Pirate has a new URL

[Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet)]

Overjoyed to hear from you guys again!

And yeah - I can definitely sympathize with having lots of internal work
that needs to come before international coordination. I think that goes for
all of us. So I'm just happy to see you're kicking and rolling.

Rick
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valentin Villenave [mailto:v.villenave at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 13:59
> To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk; rick at piratpartiet.se
> Subject: Greetings from France: the Parti Pirate has a new URL
> 
> Hi everybody, hi Rick,
> 
> you probably haven't heard of us for a long time, but I can tell you
> we are still very alive :)
> 
> We are currently trying to clean our own mess (we have to count
> ourselves, rebuild our forum, stay in touch with other French
> IP-related organizations, etc). Therefore, we are not very active
> within the PPI (we particularly blame ourselves for not having said a
> word about the Fratellini affair), but we definitely hope to be back
> in business in a few weeks from now.
> 
> One of our members seems to have taken over the development of the
> PirateCMS project I have mentioned a few months earlier on this list.
> I remember a few guys were interested, so I'll probably digg this
> thread when it's time. We also have lots of projects, but one thing at
> a time :)
> 
> One of the issues we had to address this summer was... the loss of our
> domain name! Indeed, it didn't belong to us, but to the original Parti
> Pirate founder (codename HPK). We had a pretty hard time trying to
> contact him to get the domain name back, but it turned out that he had
> rented it through an amazing wax of brokers, offshore companies etc.
> so we just could *not* get it back.
> 
> We had to build something completely new on a brand new domain:
> parti-pirate.org (instead of .info previously). While we're still
> working on it, our forum and portal are already operational. However,
> the PPI doesn't mention our new URL, nor does the piratpartiet.se
> International Page.
> 
> Can anyone please update these two pages:
> http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/
> http://www.pp-international.net/
> 
> and instead of parti-pirate.info replace it with parti-pirate.org ?
> 
> Thank you very much guys. I hope we'll have enough time and enough
> resources (people, etc.) to become a big, organized structure; then I
> can assure you we will be much more present and useful to the PPI.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Valentin Villenave
>