United States Pirate Party

Hello.
 
Pirate Party of Kazakhstan.
http://pirateparty.kz
info@pirateparty.kz
Skype:  grandkz65
 
My name Marat. I am speak Russia. Little in English.
 
 

I was inspired to write this letter upon seeing the picture of Swedish MEP Andersdotter because she is about a year younger than me and is already writing the future of her country.

The Pirate Party should promote CopyLeft and laws establishing CopyLeft as replacements for unjust Copyright laws. When it comes to software, society should make laws to protect people's freedom instead of machine code. The GPL subverted bad laws to perform a public good.  The next logical step is to make laws that positively protect software freedom and the sharing.

Last year, Richard Stallman voiced some concerns about Swedish Pirate Party policy for software.

I know that many of you have been reading about the secret ACTA negotiations that are going on currently, and we found a leaked portion of those agreements, the section that is probably the most important to us in our circles: The Digital Environment section (Article 2.17). I felt that it was important to you to explain what all this legal talk means, and how it effects you.

Polls are now closed, and we have two new officers.

For Operations, Glenn Kerbein wins with 14 votes, against Jay Emerson's 5 votes, and 2 abstain/none of the above.

For Promotions, Travis McCrea wins with 11 votes, against Nate Blanchard's 9 votes, and 1 abstain/none of the above.

Congratulations to our new officers!

Congratulations to our two new officers, Bradley Hall for Records, and Shirley Runyon for Financial! Both were unopposed when the deadline for nominations passed last night, so now they join Marcus and myself as officers of the national party.

On February 16th, we will be holding the elections for the Operations and Promotions positions.

The candidates for Operations are:

 I'm announcing my candidacy for the position of ops officer.
 
I know I previously stated I wouldn't run for office, but I feel it's needed.
 
Unlike some, I don't make promises I don't deliver on, blow up every time I'm asked a question, nor do I profess to be an expert on a topic, yet be unable to find basic information on that topic.
 

The next meeting will be on February 9th, at 9 PM EST. All are welcome to attend. It will take place in http://tinyurl.com/piratepartyIRC (irc.name141.com #uspirateparty). The agenda for the meeting is http://memwiki.pirate-party.us/index.php?title=2010-02-09

Currently, we only have two officers at the national level--myself, and Marcus Kesler, head of the State Advisory Board. Besides the open positions on the SAB, we have openings for the Operations, Promotions, Records, Legal, and Financial officers, and at last count, four willing candidates to fill three of these positions. Jay Emerson is running for Operations, Bradley Rush is running for Records, and Travis McCrea and Nathaniel Blanchard are running for Promotions.

 
 
We take a look at a recent article regarding the idea of having an ID system online, to be able to identify the identity of who does what online. 
The full article can be found here: http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2010/01/30/drivers-licenses-for-the-internet/
the article is by BARBARA KIVIAT