Last time I spoke to FSFE I got the impression that they can not give <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "><span class="highlightedSearchTerm" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 170); ">political</span> endorsement to any <span class="highlightedSearchTerm" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 170); ">political</span> party since they want to be able to criticize any party that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "> promotes non-free software. </span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; ">It may therefore be hard to convince them to become a member of PPI even if PPI would officially support free </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; ">software since</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "> Pirate parties would need to address the issue in there principals to make it solid and there may be reasons why PP's may not be able to do so. PPI could</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "> loose members by having strong political opinions that are not supported by the Pirate parties so damaging to the creditability of PPI.</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; ">I also think the other organisations you mention would like us to stronger address there core issues and it would be hard to please them all. Besides this, PPI would not only represent the PP's if we allow organisations that are not Pirate parties to join so I doubt there membership would be approved and the membership paragraph in the statutes would have to be adjusted so I even doubt such a amendment would be approved.</span></div>
</span></span></font><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>I do however think PPI could work with those organisations on common issues, rather then those organisations having to deal with each pirate party. </div><div><br></div>
<div>I am interested how you look at this so please drop your opinions!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Nicolas</div><div> PPI</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Alex <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:formless@gmail.com">formless@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">i agree. 1 vote per country makes no sense. and it also implies no<br>
flexibility whatsoever.<br>
what if 1 country has more than 1 party? and what about organizations<br>
like FSF, FCM,<br>
IT-Pol, EFF, ORG, PPF, AEL, FKI, FFII etc etc. They could be part of<br>
PPI. Officially.<br>
basically they are part of the movement already, well... sort of.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
>3. Balance of power in PPI General Assembly will always be problematic<br>
> - if we decide voting power:<br>
> - one vote for 1 country - USA will be in trouble, (what with UK?),<br>
> youth pirates also, pirate communities, foundations and so so on - ok<br>
> you can build country body and that join - bureaucracy is enemy of<br>
> democracy.<br>
<br>
</div>> Blazej<br>
> PP Poland<br>
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