[pp.int.general] The conference - what went wrong; how can we do better?

[Błażej Kaczorowski]

I haven't ... this is one of arguments

Blazej

On 21 April 2010 21:20, Rodrigo Pereira <rodripe at gmail.com> wrote:
> rodrix
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> 2010/4/21 W Tovey <will.tovey at pp-international.net>
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>> That would be nice, but where does that money come from? We were only able
>> to get any money for the last conference because we fudged some details and
>> visited the European Parliament. Until it gets some kind of major donations
>> (of the order of €100,000 - shouldn't be too much for some companies who
>> might be interested in our cause) PPI isn't going to be able to fund
>> anything by itself.
>>
>> Now, if PPI had membership fees.... but no, that would never work and we
>> are nearly all opposed to that.
>> So, that just leaves donations from Pirate Parties; except most parties
>> are desperately trying to raise money for themselves and don't have anything
>> to spare (I know the UK is).
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> For this conference, we significantly deplete the capacity of our donors. If
> this is a hack, this is a hack to harm the countries outside Europe that had
> no ability to send a delegate.
>
> We could have used that money in our development but we would rather go to
> Europe to see this farce.
>
> Has some way to get money back?
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> This stupidity has cost to us EUR 1194.43 . We can send the vouchers to you.
>
> This is equivalent to 200 shirts in Brazil
>
> But, we signed the statutes, congratulations... :\
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>> In summary; PPI doesn't have any money and so can't fund anything.
>>
>> -Will
>>
>> On 21/04/2010 19:37, Rodrigo Pereira wrote:
>> > 2010/4/21 Nicolas Sahlqvist <nicco77 at gmail.com>
>> >
>> >> I tend to think that the form of PPI will not make it more or less
>> >> international, it is rather the way we push for PPI to become more
>> >> international and that is a challenge considering most PP's are located
>> >> within Europe. Any ideas how we make PP's more popular in Latin
>> >> America,
>> >> Asia, Africa and Caribbean?
>> >>
>> >>
>> > I have a suggestion. Give EUR 500 not only for Europeans but for the
>> > delegates from outside Europe too and you will have enough "interest" of
>> > the
>> > delegates from other countries to attend a "international" conference.
>> >
>> > No more,
>> >
>> > Rodrix
>> > Brazilian Pirate Party.
>>
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