[pp.int.general] International PP Press Service

[Mozart]

Yeah, that sounds okay. But maybe it'd be better if it were  
fortnightly, considering there are a fair number of PPs (not sure how  
many actually). Otherwise it'd be a few months between updates. It'd  
certainly be good to see a slight emphasis away from the European  
integration and into more of a truly international co-operation. I  
think PPAU would be quite willing and able to submit something when  
the details are decided.

Regards,
Mozart.

On 14/01/2012, at 11:01 AM, Justus Römeth wrote:

> Ahoi Pirates
>
> I'll try to take this into my hands after my thesis, so I might as  
> well start the brainstorming now.
>
> As written in the other mail (on PPDE reaching 20k+ members) it  
> might be a good idea to start an information service about what is  
> going on in the world of the pirate parties. I see this as a way of  
> facilitating news across language barriers (where they seem to stop  
> way too often nowadays) about what is going on in each and every  
> pirate party, a way for know-how to get dispersed, to invite to  
> assemblies and meetings and the likes. The idea is basically to  
> strengthen the feeling that the pirate party movement is an  
> international community, and can then maybe grow to be more than the  
> sums of it's part. In light of a European election coming up in 2014  
> that may be a good idea.
>
> I am thinking of a newsletter written monthly for now in the PPI  
> list, and maybe published on a blog (or the PPI website if it is  
> deemed important enough), giving information on day to day political  
> work of different pirate parties, from a local council in some  
> backwater town in Germany to the struggles of pirate parties in  
> Russia, Slowenia, Brazil, Ohio or Marocco to get registered as a  
> nation-/statewide party. At the moment it is quite hard to come by  
> information about what is going on in the different national parties  
> if you don't speak the language, and the idea is to provide a place  
> where that is happening in English.
>
> Once that is running and we have a few contributors actively fanning  
> out through the Internetz to get information on the different  
> parties, and people like it well enough, we could go to publishing  
> more frequently, translating into other languages, maybe even  
> hosting a podcast, and the likes, but that's for the future to see.  
> I think a newsletter every month with stories from 5 to 8 pirate  
> parties is doable.
>
> I do like the name 'Message in a Bottle' the German PP-affiliated  
> news service has, in English it sounds even better imo. So that  
> would be my idea for a name, but I am up for other ideas. When I get  
> bored over my thesis over the following weeks I'll try to spread the  
> information a bit further. For now I am interested in your input.
>
> So to summarize: What do you think about the idea of having a  
> newsletter (that may grow into a news service with blog and so on)  
> in English about what is going on in the different pirate parties.  
> Do you think this is a good tool to foster something like an  
> international community, to support PPI and PWB so to say? Would you  
> be willing to maybe come up with an article every other month to  
> help the service about what is going on in your PP?
>
> Cheers
> Justus
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