[pp.int.general] Pirate-Partner-Cities

[P. Maechler]

Dear Martin,

Thanks for proposing this idea to the list.
Personally I'm very well in support of it (*).
The question is rather on which basis it should be started.
It's clear to me that it would require enough bottom-up momentum to  
start and sustain. However without some networking beyond pure  
bottom-up inbetween the partners this momentum might be lost all too  
soon; e.g. for best practice exchange (e.g. which joint activities did  
bring us closer?) and visibility of the network (aka "we're not alone  
with doing this thing").

kind regards
pat



(*) I recall that I discussed an idea in similar form about a year ago  
or so with a few pirates in PPI. Then I was rather thinking about an  
analogy to partner cities, but not necessarily just using the existing  
partner cities. Your proposal could indeed solve the question on which  
basis a party should choose a partner and reduce a lot of overhead; on  
the other hand a party might have just bad luck with the partners of  
their city as there are no pirates at all or they are not even closely  
interested in this activity (e.g. not well staffed, way too busy,  
etc); however in this case the party might look for existing similar  
groups to contact as well (hacker collectives, free culture groups,  
groups that aim at improving the core of democracy, etc).

Zitat von Martin Rieth <martin.rieth at piratenpartei-goettingen.de>:

> Ahoi Pirates, (feedback wanted)
>
> i do like the idea of an international network of interacting pirate-parties.
> To achieve such a goal i want to start the following, and am looking for your
> opinions and support ...
>
> Almost every city does have partnercities in other countries.
>
> We (ppi) promote and support the network-building of pirate-partner-cities.
>
> For example: I am writing from Göttingen, Germany
> We do have the following partner-cities in other countries:
> UK: Cheltenham
> Poland: Torun/Thorn
> France: Pau
> Germany: Lutherstadt Wittenberg (former east germany)
> China: Nanjing
>
> So i am looking forward to connect or possibly start to build a  
> pirate-party in
> that cities and start networking right from the start ...
>
> I say 42, Martin Rieth
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