[pp.int.general] International Pirate Day

[Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Kenneth Peiruza
<kenneth at contralaguerra.org>wrote:

> 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!
>

I like it man !!!

>
>    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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