[pp.int.general] International PP Press Service

[Mozart]

I don't think it has to be that complicated and official. It's merely  
just a heads up to each party that says "this is what we're up to."  
Probably the press officer would take responsibility (or the party  
could just delegate one person to do the write up for that fortnight).  
Are Pirate Parties worldwide that childish as to have big  
disagreements over what is essentially an internal bulletin? All  
parties can volunteer: it's not like anything is gained from doing it  
except extra work. The individual parties would be responsible for  
deciding who did the writing or compiling (or even individuals could  
just say "yeah, I'll do it." As I said, there's no gain to be got.

- Mozart.

On 14/01/2012, at 9:29 PM, Pat Mächler wrote:

> 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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