[pp.int.general] PPI Forums/Site | PPI Manifesto

[R Serkowski]

I've been keeping the forum fairly clean since I deleted the 8000 odd  
spam messages about a month ago from the forums which had accumulated  
over time, since May I think. When I had a look at the backend, the  
captcha had been turned off for some reason, so I re-activated it, and  
have been checking back every few days or so to clean up the odd spam  
and bring down some ban hammer wrath on the few spambots that are  
still getting through. That said, the forum should probably be  
upgraded to phpBB3, it has an, as of yet, unbroken Captcha.

To change the link of the Finnish PP (and add the PPAU) someone has to  
either change the links here,  http://pp.3025-game.de/rss.php?lang=en&origin=PP 
   or write up a new block in Drupal or something. I don't have access  
to the main site though, so I can't help.

Whilst I’m here, I may as well speak my mind on the PPI manifesto, and  
I’ll try to be as succinct as is possible; Will it act to define what  
the PPI will be? As yet, I’m still unsure as to what the construction  
of the PPI is, or will be. No doubt, as Carlos has pointed out, we  
need a document that enshrines all that we stand for, and this will of  
course be an ongoing development as we refine our philosophical,  
economic and policy arguments, and kudos to Carlos for pushing it as  
hard as he has, but I think more consideration must be given to the  
practicalities of the organisation that will represent this  
international movement.

What is clear to me, and I think everyone on this list, is that for  
the movement to be successful in fundamentally altering current public  
perception, and effecting the legislative changes the national parties  
seek, we must have a strong, and united international body, to counter  
international associations and bodies which seek to perpetuate, and  
even extend the current regimes, and in turn, this strong  
international front will feed, and strengthen national parties. In my  
mind, the PPI should be constructed in the sense that it is a  
federation, rather than a party, a body representing all PP’s, and any  
other organisations that might also subscribe to the movement’s  
principles - and should act as a body which disperses information  
about all national parties and their affiliates, and the programs they  
are involved in nationally. Of course, this is looking to the  
hopefully not too distant future, and perhaps I should concentrate on  
developing our national party here in Australia rather than wasting  
time on overly long, rather pointless emails such as this one, but I  
think its something we should think about as we continue to draft the  
manifesto.

Hope to be able to continue contributing to this list in the future,  
some interesting discussion happening.

Regards,

R Serkowski
PPAU


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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:10:55 +0300
> From: Anton Tamminen <anton.tamminen at piraattipuolue.fi>
> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] PPI forums and pirateweb
> To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk
> 	<pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
> Message-ID: <48B5A6BF.50505 at piraattipuolue.fi>
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> Andy Milner wrote:
>>
>> As far as PPI is concerned ought to spend some time deleting all the
>> spam posts from the spam bots that keep getting on there. Thats
>> probably why admin approval is required, so far from it being
>> "disgusting for the average user" it's keeping it from being as full
>> of porn as it has been in the past.  I have been, previously,  
>> deleting
>> and general housekeeping but unfortunately for me I very rarely have
>> the time at the moment to keep on top of things.  Worklife takes the
>> priority...
>>
> If it is indeed you who manage the site; can you please delegate  
> some of
> it to others and give them admin access to both the cms and the forum?
> There is outdated information on the site that would require immediate
> updating (such as that the finnish pirate party isn't "TYP") and the
> site contains no meaningful news items on our progress as a movement  
> etc
> etc.
>
> -- 
> Anton Tamminen
> International Secretary, Member of the Board
> Piraattipuolue - The Pirate Party, Finland
> http://www.piraattipuolue.fi
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