Hi Pirates,<div><br></div><div>We're the Tunisian Pirate Party, many of us have been involved for a long time already in net freedom, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">civil rights and hacktivism. For years now, we're having this project about doing an international conference on the subjects with speakers from countries where internet is censored and governments/dictatorships are very oppressive against freedom of speech and civil rights along others from countries were the political situation permits free speech, political opposition or some sort of it. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida Grande'">We've advanced on the content of the conference and the way it'll include offline and online submission (broadcasted live hopefully). We did not do alot of promotion yet as we want this event to be relatively small in size nevertheless we've planned to launch a website, engage press relations and build up a buzz online. If you feel to join, help or have ideas we'd really appreciate that, the tentative dates are December 31st, Jan 2nd. </font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">We're looking for </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida Grande'"> + speakers from pirate parties that could contribute ideas and analysis on the above mentioned topics.</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "> + an offline venue with reliable internet connection that fits around 50 people, accessible by airplane, free or inexpensive (west or east europe, africa, mediterranean islands). </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "> + help in organisation, marketing, housing, connectivity, PR, bringing local sponsors (some bucks and ingredients to organize a closing party could be helpful). </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida Grande'">Well I think that's it, we've got many motivated and talented people that are willing to travel and volunteer. We've got the slides, talks, translation resources in arabic, french and english and cheerful ideas to spread. We were thinking of organizing the event in an african country (with no cyber censorship) but the travel costs are quiet an issue for most of us so europe would be fine. Last but not least we could get some talented artists to join in as special guests so that we spend a happy new pirate year.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida Grande'">I'm sorry if this email doesn't fit well the list, but we'd really appreciate it if you can join us, do something or spread the word.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida Grande'">SuX</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida Grande'">Parti Pirate Tunisien</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida Grande'"><a href="mailto:sux@partipirate-tn.org">sux@partipirate-tn.org</a></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "> </span></div>
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