<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Yeah, that sounds okay. But maybe it'd be better if it were fortnightly, considering there are a fair number of PPs (not sure how many actually). Otherwise it'd be a few months between updates. It'd certainly be good to see a slight emphasis away from the European integration and into more of a truly international co-operation. I think PPAU would be quite willing and able to submit something when the details are decided.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Mozart.</div><br><div><div>On 14/01/2012, at 11:01 AM, Justus Römeth wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Ahoi Pirates</div><div><br></div>I'll try to take this into my hands after my thesis, so I might as well start the brainstorming now.<div><br></div><div>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.</div> <div><br></div><div>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.</div> <div><br></div><div>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.</div> <div><br></div><div>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.</div> <div><br></div><div>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?</div> <div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Justus</div> ____________________________________________________<br>Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br><a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net</a><br>http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general</blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>