[pp.int.general] International PP Press Service

[Pat Maechler aka Valio]

ack; you're probably right with that
hardly anyone is willing do that work more than once if it would be
just for the sake of being troll-ish or similar

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Mozart
<mozart.palmer at pirateparty.org.au> wrote:
> 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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