[pp.int.general] 'Pirates de Catalunya' is official! Please support us!

[Jerry Weyer]

Hi David,

Congratulations on getting officialized! Bureaucracy can be very annoying
sometimes to it's good news you can focus on the content now!

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:17 AM, David Arcos <david.arcos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ahoy, mateys!
>
>
> Good news from Barcelona! This week we just got officialized, so we are on
> time to run for the Catalan Parliament elections, in one month and a half
> (Nov 29th). To enter the Parliament we need 80-90k votes (3%), that would
> give us 3 seats.
>
> We lost a lot of time due to excessive bureaucracy. Among other things, we
> had to change the name (from "Partit Pirata" to "Pirates de Catalunya"). But
> well, we don't have time to complain, as we're working really hard to meet
> the deadlines. After getting the official status<http://pirata.cat/bloc/?p=364>,
> we opened the affiliation <http://pirata.cat/bloc/?p=407>, published the
> electoral programme <http://pirata.cat/bloc/?page_id=425> and in a few
> days we will open the Direct Democracy system <https://xifrat.pirata.cat/> (a
> tuned IdeaTorrent ;)
>
>
> Anyway, I'll ask you for a favor: please promote us!
>
> Our twitter/facebook accounts are less than 2 months old, but quite big
> compared to the other Catalan political parties:
> - http://socvot.dario.im/facebook (1st has 6604 fans, we have 2696)
> - http://socvot.dario.im/twitter (1st has 2075 fans, we have 494)
>
> Compared to the other pirate parties, and given that in Catalonia we are ~7
> million, our numbers are not bad at all:
> http://piratepad.net/ranking-ppi
>
>
> I'm asking you to post our link in your Facebook wall:
>
>>     Support http://www.facebook.com/pirata.cat
>
>
> Of course, you are welcome to post your links on our wall ;)
>
> On Twitter, please make a "Follow Friday" to us. Something like:
>
>>     #FF @partit_pirata http://pirata.cat
>
>
I'll send it around on the PPI account.


>
> Finally, two questions:
> - How to we get @IntPirateNews to follow @partit_pirata? Who manages it?
>

I'll ask the person managing it to follow you!


>  - It would be GREAT for us to be the Pirate Party of the week when we
> start our electoral campaign, in a few weeks. Who should we ask for it?
>

Me :) I'll prepare a Pad with some questions and sent it to you. You can
then give us the answers and the preferred date of publication!


>
> Should you propose any other way of helping us, we would be most grateful
> :)
>
>

>
> Cheers!
>

Good luck for you and your comrades!

Regards,

Jerry


>
>
> David Arcos
> Pirates de Catalunya
> http://pirata.cat
>
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