Je vais rédige le reste de ce message en anglais parce que je fait bien en comprendre Français, mais malheureusement je fait tres mal en écrire / parler cette langue.
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What is PPI and the PPI coordinator?
As some of you may know Andrew Norton was the coordinator of PP international (PPI), which aims to be a collective for the Pirate Party movement around the world. Like many of us, Andrew worked for free, because he was convinced of the ideals of pirate parties. He was the guy who was responsible for managing all the non-technical stuff.
The server, the domain and everything else technical was (and still is) provided by people from different national pirate parties (mainly SE and NL).
What changed?
Unfortunately Andrew stepped down 3 weeks ago (partly because he felt "burned out") as PPI coordinator when there was no successor in sight.
That was when I made my proposal as coordinator (Click me), or more precisely as a founder of a coordination team (PPI coreteam). But unfortunately Andrew already gave away all his rights by then and there is yet no "formal way" to elect the PPI coordination. There are discussion in some national parties about organizing a PPI conference to settle this issue and reform PPI, but this will still take some time.
What do you expect from us?
In first place I'd like to have the approval of some (or most) presidents of established national pirate parties, that we as coreteam can take over the PPI coordination.
By now I have gathered 4 people that show a clear interest in working within the coreteam; among them cwicket, which is for sure way better in French than me
Why should we even care about PPI?
There are different goals which IMHO must be tackled on an international level:
1. Guarantee communication between all pirate party members and affiliates around the world (we already have that more-less with the PPI mailing list and the message board)
2. Guarantee communication between all pirate party board of directors to all members worldwide (i.e. let them report in a cyclic manner, collect those reports in a regular newsletter)
3. Organize regular opportunities for party delegates [in RL or VL] to establish common goals across nations
4. Evaluate best practices across nations for party work (such as finding new members)
5. Coordinate development work with established parties for nations that do not have an established party yet.
This is far from being a complete list; it's just to show you the most important issues.
