This weekend from April 16 to 18 delegates of Pirate Parties from 22 countries gathered in Brussels to create the Pirate Parties International (PPI). The aim of the PPI is to strengthen the bonds between the national parties and coordinate the international cooperation of the pirate movement.
Pirate Parties International exists to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world. Pirate Parties International is not a political or authoritative entity.
The two Co-Chairmen of the PPI board will be Gregory Engels from Germany and Jerry Weyer from Luxembourg. Nicolas Sahlqvist from Sweden was elected Treasurer and Joachim Mönch from Germany is the new Chief Administrative Officer of the PPI. The board is completed with Bogomil Shopov from Bulgaria, Jakub Michalek from the Czech Republic and Aleksander Blagojevic from Serbia.
Happiness
Why am I happy? There is a strong idea for Open Web and openness I am taking part of, called Mozilla and there is a political movement that stands for the same things. One of my first tasks will be to introduce the Mozilla Drumbeat idea to the PPI Board and to find a way to participate.
I think both ideas – OpenWeb and Pirate Principles are the future of Web.
Arrr !
Founding members of the PPI were Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands and United Kingdom.
A PDF version of the statutes of the Pirate Parties International can be found here.
The first ever Drumbeat event in Bulgaria will be held during the prestigious P2P Conference in April.
I will try to talk about “What is Web” in front of students, artists, politicians, IT professionals, teachers and business owners.
The main idea is to clarify what Web means to all groups present. Is it the space where you publish some files for your clients or is something more. Is it all about sharing or it is some place to meet new friends?
After the speech we will make a large group workshop for creating idea how to make the web better. The group with the best idea will receive a prize – a journey, immediate after the workshop.
P2P Conference
I am organizing this event since 2004. This years speakers will be Michael Widenius, Patrick Finch, Robert Nyman, Jeremmie Zimmermann, me and other good guys and girls.
The project shall form a working group to create a common platform for sharing of information concerning our digital rights and personal space in the Internet.
The point is the users to be informed of their digital rights, of what is happening with them in different countries, how the users can protect them from violation and to have answers to different questions.
On the other hand, the website must create a community around itself, which community should share information, help developing the idea and participate together with different NGOs in the process of law-making and other legislative changes in different countries, so the Internet could stay in a way that could help the Open Web.
Milestone 0
Until 12.04.2010 we have to collect ALL NGOs working in digital rights area, advocacy groups and lawyers structured by country and continent. Please help us!
How to help?
1. Join Drumbeat.org project;
2. And/Or join our wiki here: http://wiki.iseegecko.org and fill the information.
If you need any help with wiki or with anything else, please feel free to contact me immediately.
Follow us
You can follow our twitter account @privacyfox
1. Europe is different than the rest of the world. Here we have a huge diversity of nations and different ways of thinking mainly due to the political processes during the last 80 years, the different cultures and the fact that we are now trying to build a different kind of society through the European Union.
2. Drumbeat’s idea is leadership. We must understand that we are taking up this immense management and workload resource, because Mozilla’s Mission encompasses the free culture (CC), open source, open standards, open content, new technologies, sharing, future web development and many other things, which makes us not the next bunch of people with ideas how to develop web, but makes us the people who WILL develop the web from now on. On the other hand, Internet access and training must be promoted to all the Internet users.
3. First of all we have to have Web in order to have an open web. We must focus our efforts also in the struggle for neutrality of the World Wide Web, against data retention, against the violation of our private lives through DPI and other spying technologies and so on.
4. Another important task is to create the notion in everybody that WE are the community dealing with this. We must also create ourselves a new image, because 90% of the people believe that Mozilla is Firefox only, another 9% add Thunderbird in the equation, and only 1% actually know Mozilla’s Mission and that it is the most valuable thing in our project. That is why we must not fail and we should weigh our capacities accurately.
5. Drumbeat is not only about promoting Mozilla’s mission, but to create a new way for WEB development – the Open Web.
The project proposal – Privacy Beat
Why do our digital rights fall among our civil rights
Short Description
The project shall form a working group to create a common platform for sharing of information concerning our digital rights and personal space in the Internet.
The point is the users to be informed of their digital rights, of what is happening with them in different countries, how the users can protect them from violation and to have answers to different questions.
On the other hand, the website must create a community around itself, which community should share information, help developing the idea and participate together with different NGOs in the process of law-making and other legislative changes in different countries, so the Internet could stay in a way that could help the Open Web.
How will your idea make the web better?
he Internet is an open system, unfortunately many people are trying to turn it into a closed one these days and they are succeeding step by step.
That is why this project will be something like a global monitoring system for what is going on in the Internet, it will create projects and it will inform the users in order to bring back the Internet’s neutrality, where it had been lost, to protect the citizens form the different surveillance mechanisms through the Internet, where there are any, and to protect the freedom of speech.
This will be a small step to a better Internet from this point of view, as a basic component of the Open Web.
Drumbeat is a new project of Mozilla, aiming to gather a worldwide community around Mozilla Mission (behind the code) in order to come with new ideas and build open technologies for the web. Mozilla Drum-beaters are every day people, who go to places where other Mozilla users and potential users/interested parties gather, and tell them about the Mozilla mission as whole.
Goals
1. represent Mozilla Mission to the wider public.
2. help spread the word about Mozilla, Open Web and FOSS.
3. be a point of contact for local community members and channel the feedback to Mozilla.
4. think of creative ways for promoting Mozilla Mission in your region.
Wanna Join?
Select your country and fill the info from here.
(I am the ugly guy with Mozilla t-shirt
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