<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>5 dec 2008 kl. 19.59 skrev Carlos Ayala:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">¿What do you [The Swedish Pirate Party] consider a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; ">member</span>? I mean, we differentiate in PIRATA between supporters -less responsibilities, also less capabilities- and actual members -full responsibilites (including membership fee) and full capabiilties (including being eligible to fill inner offices and to become PIRATA candidates)-. Do you make that difference too, or you consider both as members?</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Piratpartiet has one level of membership - "member". In the beginning, PP had a symbolic membership fee of 5 SEK/year (about 0.50 €/year) payable by SMS text message. Since then membership in PP has been made free of charge. (I don't recall the exact date that difference was made.) Memberships must be manually renewed every year. This also ensures that members have to take an active role every year to renew their membership.</div><div><br></div><div>PP requires full data about our members -- full name, address, date of birth, telephone number, and a functional e-mail address, which must be confirmed before the member is added. This is to ensure that members are in fact real, and not just random names.</div><div><br></div><div>Aside from that, PP solicits contributions from members. Contributions are made to a Swedish bank account, and in principle, the names of contributors are not released. PP refers to people who regularly (monthly) donate to the party as Guldpirater (Golden Pirates). In principle PP has no way of knowing who is a Guldpirat or not.</div><div><br></div><div>PP also has a youth organisation, Ung Pirat (Young Pirate). Membership in Ung Pirat automatically means membership in Piratpartiet, and those joining the party are given the option to join Ung Pirat if they're under the age of 26.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Per von Zweigbergk</div><div><br></div></body></html>