[pp.int.general] International Pirate Day

[Kenneth Peiruza]

Hi all,

    I do also like Turing's birthday, as he was so terribly treated and
he made amazing progress in computing and on defeating the Nazis,
however, I would personally prefer to honor the man who invented the
first machine/way for massive culture and knowledge distribution:

    Johannes Gutenberg ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg

    UN choosen Catalan's book day (St. George's, 23rd of April) to make
the world book day, so, Gutenberg has no big day for such an amazing
contribution to mankind!

    Sadly, birth date is unknown, however death date is 3rd of February.

Points in favor:

    - Not linked to any kind of disrupting background: he even used the
cash of the bible's project to print a lot of other books, he got sued
for this reason and lost all his money for that.
    - That day has no big event around (as far as I could check it,
please correct  me if I'm wrong)       - His invention made it possible
knowledge/culture/leisure/ideas distribution like never before (also
novels could not exist without printers!). Probably the biggest
contributor in such aspects in whole history (appart from that who
invented scripture, but we don't know about he/she)
    - Not linked to IT (so easier to widespread)

Points against it:

    - Only for this year: that day is already passed!



What do you think?


Cheers!

Kenneth Peiruza
Partido Pirata (.es)

En/na W Tovey ha escrit:
> Ships have been around for something like 10,000 years. Naval pirates
> seem to have been around (and documented) since at least the 13th
> century BC. Anyway, if St Columba's day isn't appropriate, how about
> Alan Turing's birthday - although I don't think we should emphasise
> the computer aspect too much - we're not a computer movement.
>
> -Will
>
> On 02/05/2010 14:27, Alex wrote:
>> i don't think they had ships in 597 :-)
>>
>> i suggest may 19 - birthday of Gary Kildall
>> or july 11 - his death date.
>>
>> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Angel Vazquez Hernandez
>> <anvazher at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   
>>> Sorry, I can't log in the wiki. So I must to use this list to my
>>> proposal: 9
>>> june, the Saint Columba death day.
>>>
>>> Saint Columba was the first pirate. Read about Saint Columba in
>>> Wikipedia:
>>> Saint Columba was born on 7 December 521 and died on 9 June 597, he
>>> was the
>>> first person who was judged for a not authorized book copy.
>>>
>>> Saint Columba was a monk, a warrior (read about Battle of Cúl
>>> Dreimhne in
>>> 561), a man of letters (having written several hymns and being
>>> credited with
>>> having transcribed 300 books) and a mythological person (he stopped
>>> Loch
>>> Ness monster, and he knew ¿king? Artorius). He is, also, the patron
>>> saint of
>>> the poets and the bookbinders.
>>>
>>> In Middle Age european culture was in the monastic settlements
>>> founded by
>>> Saint Columba descendants. He was a pirate that made Europe as we know.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/5/2 Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov<bogo at piratskapartia.bg>
>>>     
>>>> So, there are more ideas here:
>>>> http://int.piratenpartei.de/User:Bogomil/Projects/IntPPD
>>>>
>>>> If you don't know how to use wiki, feel free to send proposals here.
>>>>
>>>> Please propose a date and/or add more details. I will give a beer for
>>>> every contribution :)))
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bogo
>>>>        
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Angel Vázquez Hernández
>>> http://anvazher.nireblog.com/
>>>
>>> Coordinador del Comité Sectorial de Sociedad de la Información
>>> PARTIDO PIRATA
>>>      
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