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General elections in the Netherlands | PirateTimes

General elections in the Netherlands August 24, 2012 · by Anouk Neeteson · in Election You may have missed it, but Holland is slowly but surely being gripped by election fever as election night creeps closer. It is still a while away though, as they’re being held on 12th of September. Yet the electioneering battle has already started, still low key, as the various parties position themselves. The Dutch ‘Piratenpartij’ recently entered the political arena in a multi-party system, meaning it is difficult to get noticed. A recent poll still puts them at 2/150 seats at the house of representatives. With another three weeks before elections take place to get …

Introduction of the Norwegian Pirate Party | PirateTimes

Introduction of the Norwegian Pirate Party August 21, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Interview Piratpartiet, the Norwegian Pirate Party, started up this July, after years as an inofficial group. They have already released a political platform, and are getting ready for next year’s national election. The Pirate Times had a sit-down with party spokesman Sturla Ellingvåg. We discussed the challenges so far, the future, and thoughts about broadening their Pirate Party platform. Pirate Times: What are the most important topics for the Norwegian Pirate Party? What do you focus on, and where do you find you are most needed? Sturla Ellingvåg: We only started up this July and for now we …

PP UK Sysadmin Wins OpenDNS Award | PirateTimes

PP UK Sysadmin Wins OpenDNS Award August 19, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Pirate Party News The OpenDNS SysAdmin Awards were just handed out. The awards are annually given out to: “elite network managers who persevere great challenges, oversee epic rollouts, hack creative work-arounds and manage limited budgets“ all without much appreciation. The winner this year, in the prestigious “Flying Solo” category, is the UK Pirate Party‘s system administrator Steve Wilson. The SysAdmin Awards of 2012 are the sixth annual, and according to OpenDNS this year they received more than triple last year’s entries. Wilson and the other winners in respective categories are receiving custom made awards with built-in …

The Progress of the PPI Board After 122 Days of Work | PirateTimes

The Progress of the PPI Board After 122 Days of Work August 18, 2012 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News The PPI board has now served one third of their elected time and it is a good time to summarize what they have accomplished. This might also be a good opportunity to give the board praise for accomplished tasks as well as point on things they are still behind on. With two thirds of their time left, the future reports from the board will hopefully indicate further improvements and progress made. The current Board was elected April 15th 2012 at the PPI Conference in Prague. The …

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

The Pirate Movement on Facebook and Twitter – August 2012 August 15, 2012 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News The pirate movement has a total of 536.794 followers on facebook + twitter today! This is a very impressive number and shows that it is indeed a movement that is here to stay. Important to remember is that it’s not only the number of followers that counts but more importantly the level of interaction and impact the posts might have on followers. This is harder to measure than just focusing on the numbers of followers. Inspired by what Piraten-Statistiken (Pirate’s Statistics) used to do, we will be reporting …

Pirate Times – Part 76

A first for international Pirates: An online & asynchronous council meeting Support the Referendum on Catalan Independence The Pirate Times is “Under the Weather” Swiss Privacy Shield Down! PPI turns 7 years old, accomplishments over past year A Program for the EU Pirates August 14, 2012 · by Loïc · in Pirate Party News The idea of a Pirate Party for Europe and the European Union has been underway for some time. And even though its organisation and agenda have yet to be determined, the work to create it has already been started. The… You can participate in European politics August 13, 2012 · by Daniel Ebbert · in Pirate …

Loïc | | PirateTimes

A Program for the EU Pirates August 14, 2012 · by Loïc · in Pirate Party News The idea of a Pirate Party for Europe and the European Union has been underway for some time. And even though its organisation and agenda have yet to be determined, the work to create it has already been started. The… About Loïc Grobol I am a pirate since late 2011, a member of the French Parti Pirate. Maths teacher and former linguist, I spend a large part of my spare time campaigning for a Federal EU.     News about the pirate movement International Pirate News: #ppintSign up: bi-weekly newsletter contact@piratetimes.net All Content …

You can participate in European politics | PirateTimes

You can participate in European politics August 13, 2012 · by Daniel Ebbert · in Pirate Party News In the last week of June, a group of 20 young pirates from Germany traveled to Brussels for a visit to the European Parliament and the European Commission. The group had many meetings with lobbyists and representatives of different organizations during their stay in Brussels. One of the meetings was an hour of discussion with Joachim Ott, who is responsible for citizen participation in the European Commission. He opened with the statement, “If you see the European Union as more democratic at the end of the hour than now, I won”. The …

EDRI | PirateTimes

You can participate in European politics August 13, 2012 · by Daniel Ebbert · in Europe, Pirate Party News In the last week of June, a group of 20 young pirates from Germany traveled to Brussels for a visit to the European Parliament and the European Commission. The group had many meetings with lobbyists and representatives of different organizations… English Français Español News about the pirate movement International Pirate News: #ppintA bi-weekly summary of news Join our team of writers! contact@piratetimes.net Search All Content (not specified) is CC-BY 2013 PirateTimes. Please link back to us. Recent Comments Loading… Calendar of the PPI

Sweden Found an Effective Way of Broadening their Politics | PirateTimes

How Sweden Found an Effective Way of Broadening their Politics August 13, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Learning (tips&tricks) In less than two years the Swedish Pirate Party has grown from a single-issue movement to an all-encompassing party with a growing political platform. All of this was achieved through a democratic process of crowdsourcing, mostly thanks to the party’s new official “broadening blog”. The Swedish Pirate Party started out in 2006 as a single-issue political party, focusing on only a handful of issues concerning copyright, patents and privacy. In the early years, most members agreed that this was the way to go – they would sail into parliament, …

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