[pp.int.general] Is PPI dead, or was it ever really born? (WAS: Please stop these ridiculous e-mails about the PPI conference...)

[Ralph Hinterleitner]

Dear all

Thomas and I mostly agree on the fact that we disagree (on a personal
level). However, we're both pirates and thus share objective targets
which are way more important. I'd like to ask you to re-read his
message carefully and get a grip on your sensitivities! Thank you.

Cheers
Ralph


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thomas Bruderer <apophis at apophis.ch>
Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:34 AM
Subject: [pp.int.general] Please stop these ridiculous e-mails about
the PPI conference...
To: pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net


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 happened, 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 didn't 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 association! 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 unanimous
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 Brazilians 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 didn't throw him
out.

Its also a shame that some parties didn't 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 doesn't 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 opinions, and especially a lack of
respect. We all volunteer for our common goal of a better world, with
a useful 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 alignment 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 organisation will leave PPI for
a while; BUT THAT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!

Thomas Bruderer,
current Actuary of PP Switzerland