[pp.int.general] Is PPI dead, or was it ever really born?

[W Tovey]

 I don't really want to get too involved in this, but there were a
couple of points here I should probably comment on:

On 27/09/2010 12:40, Andrew Norton wrote:
> We discussed it 5 months ago. It wasn't that it was deliberately
> pointed away, so much as 'if you aren't physically present, we don't
> care about you'. Reinforcing the EU-centric 'mindset' that pervades
> the PPI.
If this was the attitude given off during the conference itself, I
apologise for that. It was my responsibility to liaise with the remote
delegates and so any issues there were my fault. I am, however, happy to
offer some advice to whoever is organising the next conference as to how
to improve on this.
>  One for a translation task force 3 weeks ago (what happened to the
> old one?), and one June 24th on 'best practices on creating a party'
I would imagine this is the same taskforce, just trying to get more
people involved in it. And I can confirm that it is actually doing stuff.

In my experience of PPI internal workings, most of the time seems to be
dealt with the "crisis of the week", whatever that may be. With
long-term projects, what usually ended up happening was they reached a
point where one person (either on the Coreteam, or more often, someone
we had trouble getting in touch with) was needed to take some action for
the issue to proceed, which meant things went very slowly.

Similarly, there is some stuff that does get done that may not be easy
to spot. In particular, I note that the Wiki has finally migrated over
to the PPI website, which was something the old Coreteam was trying to
get done for several months with no success.

Anyway, I don't particularly wish to get involved again in the internal
politics of PPI (having enough trouble with internal PPUk stuff of
late), so will neither criticise or support any aspects of the current
Board, I just wanted to make a few minor "factual" or personal points.

-Will