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Creator Josef Ohlsson Collentine News

The Pirate Movement on Facebook and Twitter – November 2012 | PirateTimes

The Pirate Movement on Facebook and Twitter – November 2012 December 10, 2012 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News During the month of November the Pirate movement grew with 63.957 followers on Facebook and 12.364 followers on twitter. This brings the total amount of people following a pirate party on Facebook or twitter to 661.852 people.  The statistics were gathered on 5 December, which is one month and three days from the last analysis. The biggest increase in followers is because of a revision on the number of Pirate Parties that exist in the world  and an update on the statistics. The latest count is 22 registered + …

Anouk Neeteson Creator News

Hipsters vs Pirates. Is there a difference? | PirateTimes

Hipsters vs Pirates. Is there a difference? December 6, 2012 · by Anouk Neeteson · in Guest Opinion HipstersHipsters were born from the counter-culture. In the past decade the hipster movement has grown and has gradually moved from periphery into the mainstream of society. When punk became plastic and the hip hop lost their momentum for social change, the remaining counter-cultures merged together into a single, continuously mutating trans-atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and habits, which can be described as a hipster movement, explains Douglas Haddow.Hipsters are a subculture, formed of young adults in the 20s and 30s, who value independent thinking, progressive politics and have a strong affection …

Creator General Assembly News Patrick Schiffer

Netherlands Pirates Elects New Core Team | PirateTimes

Dutch Pirates Elect New Core Team November 30, 2012 · by Patrick Schiffer · in General Assembly 25 November 2012 the “Piratenpartij Nederland” (Pirate Party Netherlands) convened their annual general assembly. Well attended by over 60 Pirates, they elected several positions of the PPNL Core Team. Open positions included Audit Committee, Presidium and Members Council. There was in all cases positive, neutral or negative vote for the members. Not all of the positions were filled and there had been discussions and disagreements on a number of points which were dependent on previous motions. So Pirate Party Netherlands is still searching for more people to fill the board, especially for people …

Creator General Assembly News Patrick Schiffer

Patrick Schiffer | | PirateTimes – Part 2

Dutch Pirates Elect New Core Team November 30, 2012 · by Patrick Schiffer · in General Assembly Over 60 Pirates attended the annual meeting of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands on 25 November 2012. They elected members to their “Core Team” and although some positions remained vacant they developed a way to enable people who, although not gaining enough votes to gain a position, if they got a simple majority they could become reserve board members. They also reinvigorated the party’s commitment to the Uppsala Declaration and further strengthened the democratic principle with structure changes. About Patrick Schiffer I am living in Duesseldorf, Germany and I am a Member …

2012 News Pirate Times

2012 November | PirateTimes

Dutch Pirates Elect New Core Team November 30, 2012 · by Patrick Schiffer · in General Assembly Over 60 Pirates attended the annual meeting of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands on 25 November 2012. They elected members to their “Core Team” and although some positions remained vacant they developed a way to enable people who, although not gaining enough votes to gain a position, if they got a simple majority they could become reserve board members. They also reinvigorated the party’s commitment to the Uppsala Declaration and further strengthened the democratic principle with structure changes. German Pirates pull through on issues despite struggle with formalities November 28, 2012 · …

Creator General Assembly News Patrick Schiffer

German Pirate Convention struggles but pulls through on important issues | PirateTimes

German Pirates pull through on issues despite struggle with formalities November 28, 2012 · by Patrick Schiffer · in General Assembly Last weekend, the Pirate Party of Germany held their second federal party convention of 2012 in the Ruhr city of Bochum, Northrhine Westphalia. Over 2000 registered Pirates from all over the country came to discuss and vote on motions for the party manifesto. The party’s working groups had improved upon the motion texts tirelessly for months – through late-night teleconferencing sessions via Mumble, the primary working mode of PPDE, as well as on several face-to-face meetings, like EuWiKon earlier this year. Compared to earlier Pirate conventions, the agenda was quickly …

Creator Election News Stathis Leivaditis

Stunning Rise of Electoral Influence for Pirates de Catalunya | PirateTimes

Stunning Rise of Electoral Influence for Pirates de Catalunya November 27, 2012 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Election A very good campaign that attracted the attention of people, which can be seen in their elections results as well as the greatly increased followers in social media, gave Pirates de Catalunya a rise to their electoral influence. In the early elections for local parliament held on Sunday, November 25, they got more than double of their previous percentage, 0,21% in 2010 increased to 0,49% in this election.  This increase also meant that they nearly tripled the number of votes obtained, from 6.451 to 17.942.  This result was achieved with the …

Andrew Reitemeyer Creator Iceland Interview News

Iceland has a Pirate Party | PirateTimes

Iceland has a Pirate Party November 25, 2012 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Interview On Saturday 24 November 2012 Iceland Pirates voted the newest Pirate Party  into existence. PP-IS Pirate Eva Þuríðardóttir told the Pirate Times;“We were all so excited finally the day was here, an Icelandic Pirate party the air was electric both figuratively and literally speaking, it has been such a joy and privilege to work with such a cohesive and a talented group of people, what characterises this group is how ready and willing everyone is to work together for future undertakings, we are just beginning.” There are seven “leadership” positions, two of which were chosen …

Creator Loïc News Pirate Topic

Mediagoblin: Media hosting done right | PirateTimes

Mediagoblin: Media hosting done right November 21, 2012 · by Loïc · in Pirate Topic Do you share videos, sounds, pictures or 3D models? If so, you probably had to create accounts for countless sites, one for each medium. Every single one of them is run by a different private company with its own agenda and onerous user agreements that you have to trust for keeping your files online. But don’t worry, this won’t last. The GNU project is working for safe, free and transparent content hosting. Its new baby is named MediaGoblin. MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform. Now what does that mean? If you know about …

Andrew Reitemeyer Creator Election News

UK Pirate Party by-election result | PirateTimes

UK Pirates Get a Good Result in Manchester By-Election November 18, 2012 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election The United Kingdom Pirate Party had a good result in the recent by-election held on 15 November 2012 in the city of Manchester. The seat in Manchester Central was left vacant after the sitting Member of Parliament, Tony Lloyd of the Labour Party, resigned to become Police and Crime Commissioner for the city. In the “first past the post” electoral system, currently in use in the UK, the safe Labour seat was won by the labour candidate Lucy Powell. However the leader for PPUK, Loz Kaye, who stood for the Pirate Party made a good showing. …

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