[pp.int.general] International PP Press Service

[Pat Mächler]

So you would rather opt for a maximum participation-no safeguard solution?
Not that I would fight that; I just ask; of course one also has to
accept the possible problems that may come with it.

Possible safeguards which I did consider
1) a fixed set of parties that are eligible to volunteer or
2) people (i.e. press officers) that are officially appointed by
national parties or
3) someone that is coordinating the whole process overall (e.g.
appointed by PPI GA or board).

-pat


On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Mozart
<mozart.palmer at pirateparty.org.au> wrote:
> Why not a fortnightly publication with a half an A4 page of information from
> each Pirate Party? Each fortnight a party could volunteer to format, edit
> and compile it as a PDF and maybe it could be hosted on PPI or something? It
> wouldn't be an "official publication," more an internal update, so it
> wouldn't need to be too formal and professional. As long as it was neat.
>
> – Mozart (PPAU)
>
> 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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