[pp.int.general] First 'official' US party

[Pirat@LennStar.de]

I don't think that we in DE are working that well ;)
The biggest problem was the amazing increase during the middle/end 2009.
That was also reason for an amazing number of problems we are not
finished digesting.

My advise from these experiences is: begin small, if possible, work
local, get a team together (face to face if possible!) and *then*, after
you are working, spread. Even if it takes a year to this point. It's
definitly more fun and less stress, and a big increase as ours takes at
least a year to work, too. (Partly because of german Party laws
admittedly. I suspect there are constitutions out there with less words ;))

The Internet is fine and helps a lot in organizing, but nothing is
better then face to face. You need that as a base on which the internet
can play its strong points.

LennStar


Am 10.03.2011 14:34, schrieb Kenneth Peiruza:
> 
> IMO, small-scaled Pirate Parties are easier to build and to grow up ( if
> the  law let's you register a party easily).
> 
> PP-SE was the ignition spark, in a mid-small populated country (by
> European standards), after that beginning, we only have one Pirate Party
> referent in a big country: PP-DE, which works amazingly well. There has
> been no other strongly rooted pirate party in any other big country.
> 
> On the other hand, PP-CZ and PP-CH do even have representatives, and
> they are working really fine, with lesser infrastructure than PP-SE/DE
> and PP-Austria and Finland do also have an amazing social rooting. So,
> Pirate Parties from small countries are usually more successful.
> 
> Most members of PP-ES in Catalonia chosen this strategy last summer.
> Creating a party in Spain just requires 3 people, around 180 € and some
> weeks waiting. We became official last 4th of October.
> 
> In 6 months PP-Cat achieved 70 members per million (MPM), whilst we had
> only 4 MPM before (in 4 years).
> 
> Despite the fact that we belong to the Internet age, probably we do
> still organize better in front of a tea/beer.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kenneth Peiruza
> 
> On 10/03/11 00:12, Jay Emerson wrote:
>> Yeah, because I advised them not to join and instead just focus on their
>> state party.  Although that was his plan to begin with because well, look at
>> USPP's meetings.
>>
>> So all credit to O'Keefe on this.
>>
>> State Party focus seems the best way to go. Woot!
>>
>>
>>
>> Jay Emerson
>> Administrative Officer
>> Pirate Party of New York
>> On Mar 9, 2011 6:05 PM, "Andrew Norton" <ktetch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I should have pointed this out here when I was made aware of it at the
>> start of the month, but with one thing and another, it slipped my mind.
>>
>> The US has it's first officially recognized Pirate Party, int he
>> Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As a side note, it's not a state party
>> recognised by, or affiliated with (at the present time), the USPP.
>>
>>
>>
>>> http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/07/massachusetts-voters-can-now-register-as-pirates/
>> http://ktetch.blogspot.com/2011/03/uss-first-pirate-party.html
>> http://torrentfreak.com/mass-registered-pirate-party-110304/
>>
>>
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