[pp.int.general] Please stop these ridiculous e-mails about the PPI conference...

[Thomas Bruderer]

Hello PPI, and especially al the national parties and their representatives,

I am not exactly sure what is more silly, the complaining you do on this 
list about what happend, or the funny things you did on the conference 
or is it your ideas how such an organisation should work.

I try to keep it short, but I'd like to say a few things:

I am not surprised how chaotic it was, but I am surprised how impatient 
you are.

Yes we are young, yes not everything works as expected and yes some of 
the pirates opinions might not be yours or even they might offend you. 
But didnt we want to be fresh, intelligent and try to find the best 
solutions for our upcoming problems? If you behave like you have on the 
ML and on the Conference you don't need a prophet to tell you: YOU WON'T!

You cannot even agree on a simple statute of a assiciation! its not more 
than that! Keep it as important as it is. Each of your national 
organisations can change the statues (BTW who voted for unanimoous 
decisions should get a compass for the real world) , each of the 
organisations can get out of the PPI if they want to. The PPI has an 
interest in keeping neutral, to keep powerful, there is no interest in 
discriminating you. And the German Pirate is not the only Pirate from 
Europe who helped the Brasilians with their ticket.

Its also a shame if someone sleeps in front of the camera in an official 
meeting, and its also a shame that the board didnt throw him out.

Its also a shame that some parties didnt sign the Statutes with certain 
questionable arguments.

Fellow pirates of all over the world, if you really want to gain 
something real out of this, stop this ridiculous fighting about this 
unimportant little things. It doesnt matter if the board is called board 
or coreteam.

If you really want to discuss that, go into a kindergarden and talk wit 
six years old about which name sounds more "interesting". And before you 
flame back to this mail, take a deep breath and think about it: is it 
really important? Does the world change?

We need to focus our efforts on common goals, and our voices needs to 
sound in a common choir... what I hear now is just noise.

Some of you talked a lot, but maybe you should listen to the others once 
in a while... only if you listen to other ideas, we will come to a 
consolidated solution for the benefit of everyone.

I am pretty disgusted of some actions, you seemed like extremists - with 
the head through the wall, and no thought about the consequences.

I see a lack of experience, a lack of a common concept, a lack of 
willingness to accept other opionions, and especially a lack of respect. 
We all volonteer for our common goal of a better world, with a usefull 
concept of what "intellectual property" should be.

EVERY Medal has two sides.

I hope many of you will grow into good politicians, and if you dont 
shoot at every target which is slightly out of alignement to your very 
opinions, I am pretty sure this can last for a long time. But one thing 
is imperative to this: Patience! Some things need time, not hours, not 
days, but probably years and maybe decades. In comparison to this, your 
hours of pain in brussels hopefully seem less a burden, and more like a 
chance. Now new ideas about concepts of the PPI are on the table, tell 
us why they are better than they are now. Maybe we find a compromise, 
maybe not and your organsation will leave PPI for a while; BUT THATS NOT 
THE END OF THE WORLD!

Thomas Bruderer,
current Actuary of PP Switzerland