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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">My proposition: <br>
PPI GA to be held entirely on Internet. There is no more
egalitarian realm of today.<br>
I am sure that all pirate parties have enough resources to connect
via irc/voip/video on that future pirate platform. And if someone
does not have connectivity/resources, better to redirect couple of
hundreds of bucks to establish permanent online presence of that
(most probably _new_) party than to burn thousands of bucks in
aeroplane motors and hotel toilets.<br>
<br>
We have enough hacking skill/experience/resources to connect _all_
pirates of this world with much much less money than spent on
overall old-politics PPI - in fact EU "PPI" GA.<br>
<br>
~<br>
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Lads, let us stop fool ourselves. At this point PPI is
dis-functional and useless. No spirit and warmth. <br>
I remember how hyped&motivated I was to meet/work with
K`Tetch, Valio, duke, coretx, steffen, nicco, XaviVila... on
#ppi-coreteam back in the days. I was really honoured to
participate/collaborate with this crew, and I still am. People
like this inspire. PPI today? Just pictures on global surveillance
facebook network and neverending "<i>I will report back on this
issue on next PPI online mumble meeting.</i>"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Board#Meetings"><http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Board#Meetings></a><br>
<br>
If we want keep our pirate movement rolling, and if we want to
brake more barriers of the past we need to stop this eroding trend
of becoming yet another corrupted political party.<br>
<br>
Meaning/work of PPI
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International"><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International></a><br>
"<i>to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain
communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the
world.</i>"<br>
can be done online with _much_ more efficiency than this ego
pumping machinery. <br>
Do you read the ppi mumble minutes
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Board#Meetings"><http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Board#Meetings></a>? This
person was here, that person was there. Then, on fb/tw/g+ we can
see some "top level" pirates picturing themselves on a "very
important pirate conference" somewhere in safe and islolat€d EU.
No real impact, no fresh blood, no new radical ideas, no new
radical solutions and not a single barrier broken for a while.
It's a self-satisfying club.<br>
<br>
Our pirate union should kick&role with pirate idea in front,
people behind.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 12/07/2012 02:51 AM, Mozart Palmer wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAP+JU8ZVyQfkATe13OjD-HkHsq2+UURmzKxh8KhjsZofCmcb-Q@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Totally agree with Andrew. If it's a matter of
convenience then PPI truly is a European circle jerk. Be a remote
delegate if you can't be there in person.</blockquote>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
I prefer to have options, rather than plans.<br>
<a href="http://blaeks.wordpress.com/">Aleksandar Blagojevic aka
blaeks</a><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Serbia">Pirate
party of Serbia</a> </div>
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