6th edition of P2P Conference is in history now. I am more than happy I had the chance to invite as speakers Robert,

Monty

and Patrick

/Pictures: Nikolay/

We had an amazing weekend full with technology, freedom and beer The coolest think is now we have more than 20 new volunteers that will help us for ‘Mozilla in Bulgaria’ project.

I understand also, what the black vodka is and I learned 3 finish drinking songs. I am ready to go to Finland now Cool !

Drumbeat …. Boom
The funniest part was the Mozilla Drumbeat Workshop. We had more than 100 people taking part. I will write an article about that later.

Pictures

Nikolay

Stefan

Lybo

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.

(I am the ugly guy with Mozilla t-shirt )
Picture from here

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 Pirate party was officially founded in Bulgaria Sunday and became a member of the International Pirate movement, piratskapartia.bg informs.

Two party members will travel to Brussels to attend the World Pirate Conference held between April 16 and 18 with representatives of 45 countries.

The idea to establish such party has been in the works for a year now while its Initiative Committee began functioning several months ago. The process of the party’s founding concluded with a Forum in Sofia where delegates from 20 cities and towns voted the party’s code and program and elected its national leadership.

The party insists that copyrights are revoked because they lead to the creation of cartels, loss of democratic values and obstacles for culture and knowledge to reach ordinary people.

Main party principles include: protection of citizens rights, legislative reform in the areas of patent and copyright laws, fight against monopolies, making the right of internet access an essential human right, legal protection and guarantees of free access to information and culture.

In adherence to widespread internet terminology, the party members call themselves moderators and administrators. The Chair of the Initiative Committee, Angel Todorov was elected National Party Administrator. Todorov, along with the member of the party’s National Council, Bogomil Shopov, are the delegates for the Brussels forum.

The Bulgarian Pirate Party was officially congratulated by the country’s Green Party, which reminded the new structure about the partnership between the Greens and the Pirates in the European Parliament.

The Pirates also received congratulation notes from similar formations in Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Russia, Serbia, Luxembourg and Romania while the congress was attended in person by representatives of the Serbian Pirates Party.

Novinite.com