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Before the Viena conference in 2007, PPI was nothing but a mailinglist. Andrew Norton (United States) was appointed as coordinator of the PPI collective in September 2008. He had to step down in August 2009 due to the high workload and resulting health issues.

He passed the function over to the "coreteam" which since then lead Pirate Parties International. Patrick Mächler & Samir Allioui lead this team of hard-working pirate volunteers as co-presidents. So far, at lot of progress has been made.

Currently we are particularly interested in hearing what ideas pirates and PPs have about PPI. In particular, we would like to know what people want or expect from PPI, how it should operate and what functions it should have. (We are aware that some parties have proposed starting an internal work group on these sort of issues, but think it would be best if we all worked together on this.)

Just a note to make it clear: In our sense the name PPI stands for "Pirate Parties International", not "Pirate Party International". Both have been used in different circumstances and we would like to remove any confusion about this, e.g. for the sake of corporate identity. The original idea behind PPI was not that it would be a "party", but a NGO - an umbrella organisation for all pirate parties around the world and to focus their efforts. We feel that "Pirate Parties International" makes this more obvious. Thus we'd like to ask whether there are any objections if from now on we stick with "Pirate Parties International" and discourage the usage of "Pirate Party International".

If you have any thoughts on this please contact us either through the coreteam email, the mailing list or use the comments section.

The Pirate Party Austria regrets to announce, that its founder and
former board member, Florian Hufsky, deceased on December 16th .

Thanks to Florian Hufsky's pioneering spirit, Austria was one of the
first countries with an own pirate party, founded in summer 2006. Back
then he was one of the few brave people, who stood up against those,
who want to enforce economic or governmental interests by sacrificing
civil rights.

Florian's enthusiasm was a huge inspiration for pirates on a national,
as well as on an international level. The pirate movement would not be
the same today, if it wasn't for Florian's untiring support at the

Hi PP-leaders,

We in PPI have been made aware of the PP's initiatives to fight ACTA
such as the Swedish, Australian, Austrian and German press releases.
There are also initiatives for national taskforce in Germany etc. so
we in PPI see this as a international issue due to the scope of ACTA
where me and Laurent Le Besnerais
(laurent.lebesnerais@pp-international.net) are leaders of a taskforce
against ACTA. We started working on a DRAFT for a action plan against
ACTA and we want your feedback before proceeding (publish etc.) so
please have a look at the DRAFT or send to your national ACTA