==== Minutes ==== **Meeting 8 of the 9th PPEU board 12.12.2024, 18:30 CET/17:30 UTC** Meeting is remote\\ Members of the Board\\ C: Florian Roussel\\ VC: Sara Hjalmarsson\\ VC: Marek Barbuš\\ TR: Alessandro Ciofini\\ BM: Giuseppe Calandra (cal)\\ BM: Petra Kovačec\\ BM: Jan Mareš\\ BM: Babak Tubis\\ BM: Björn Leví Gunnarsson\\ Standing invitations\\ Mattias Bjärnemalm, Pirate Parties Network Officer\\ Meeting opened at: 18:30X \\ Meeting chaired by: Florian\\ Secretary for this meeting: Alessandro, Sara\\ Recording: \\ Pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/Board9MeetingX \\ RoP: https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=documents:rop2023 \\ **Participants:** C: Florian Roussel\\ VC: Sara Hjalmarsson\\ TR: Alessandro Ciofini\\ **Excused:** \\ BM: Björn Leví Gunnarsson\\ VC: Marek Barbuš\\ BM: Petra Kovačec\\ **Not excused:** \\ BM: Giuseppe Calandra (cal)\\ BM: Jan Mareš\\ BM: Babak Tubis\\ **Guests:** \\ Mattias Bjärnemalm, Pirate Parties Network Officer\\ Thomas Gaul (Council member PPDE)\\ Bastian\\ PiratesOnAir\\ Dennis Klüver\\ Numero6\\ Mia Utz\\ **Agenda:**\\ 0. Formalities 0.1 Election of meeting chair\\ 0.2 Election of meeting Secretary\\ 0.3. Approval of the agenda\\ 0.4. Approval of the minutes of the last meeting: https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=pp-eu:board-meeting09_07\\ 0.5 Confirmation of any decisions taken in between meetings\\ 0.6 Written reports \\ 1. Decisions without discussions\\ 1.1 Time and place for next board meeting\\ 1.2 Decision on having the next Council meeting being an entirely online meeting\\ 1.3 Decision on dates for next Council meeting\\ 2. Decisions with discussions\\ 2.1 Stop Destroying Videogames ECI\\ 3. Discussions without decisions\\ 3.1 Onboarding of new board members\\ 4. Any other business\\ \\ Discussions in bold cursive are priority discussions and can, if needed, be discussed before point 1 of the agenda\\ The meeting is scheduled for a maximum of 60 minutes. It can be extended by consensus \\ --- **Minutes:** ** 0.1 Election of meeting chair** Florian was elected as meeting chair\\ **0.2 Election of meeting Secretary** The meeting elected Sara Hjalmarsson and Alessandro Ciofini as meeting secretary and agreed that we would work collectively on the minutes in the pad\\ **0.3. Approval of the agenda:**\\ Yes: Florian, Alessandro Sara \\ No: \\ Abstain: \\ **0.4. Approval of the minutes of the last meetings**\\ https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=pp-eu:board-meeting09_07 Yes: Florian, Alessandro, Sara \\ No: \\ Abstain: \\ **0.5 Confirmation of any decisions taken in between meetings**\\ Any decisions taken by email, in mattermost or Discourse, or by any other means shall be listed below, including time and place for the decision. They shall be confirmed by a vote of the Board. \\ Yes: \\ No: \\ Abstain: \\ **0.6 Written reports** \\ Any written reports or other updates that has been submitted before the start of the meeting shall be added here. Verbal reports given during the meeting go under 4.0 (AOB). \\ **1. Decisions without discussions** **1.1 Time and place for next board meeting** Proposal: Next board meeting will be held online Thursday the 16th of January at 18:30 CET.\\ Yes: Florian, Sara, Alessandro\\ No:\\ Abstain: \\ **1.2 Decision on having the next Council meeting being an entirely online meeting** Proposal: as no member parties have offered to host the next council meeting, it will take place entirely online. Yes: Florian, Sara, Alessandro\\ No: \\ Abstain: \\ **1.3 Decision on dates for next Council meeting** Proposal: Confirmation that the next Council meeting will take place on Sunday the 23rd of February 2025, starting at 10:00 CET. Yes: Florian, Sara, Alessandro\\ No: \\ Abstain: \\ **2. Decisions with discussions** **2.1 Stop Destroying Videogames ECI** Based on the presentation given by the Stop Killing Games ECI team at the last Council meeting, and the indicative support from the Council that the ECI is in line with the political aim of the European Pirates, and further developed in a follow-up meeting between said team and Mab, the board is presented by the following proposals:\\ Proposal (2.1a): The board decides to endorse the Stop Destroying Video Games ECI (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en#) on behalf of the European Pirate Party, and it encourages all Member parties of the European Pirate Party to also endorse the ECI.\\ Yes: Sara, Florian, Alessandro\\ No: \\ Abstain: \\ Proposal (2.1b): The board decides to instruct Mab to set up a subforum on the European Pirate Party Discourse dedicated to the ECI. The aim of this subforum should be to facilitate pirate participation in the activities of the ECI campaign.\\ Yes: Florian, Alessandro, Sara\\ No: \\ Abstain: \\ Proposal (2.1c): The board decides to mandate Mab, in his role as Pirate Network Officer, to assist the ECI on behalf of the European Pirates. This mandate includes drafting joint communication material, publishing material promoting the ECI on the European Pirate Party webpage, recruiting pirates from our member organisations to get involved in the activities of the ECI, as well as reaching out to external actors on behalf of the European Pirates to encourage them to also endorse and support the ECI.\\ Yes: Florian, Sara, Alessandro\\ No: \\ Abstain: \\ Proposal (2.1d): The board opens an async vote to appoint Cal as the contact person responsible for the contacts with the Stop Killing Games ECI team on behalf of the European Pirate Party.\\ Yes: Florian, Sara, Alessandro\\ No: \\ Abstain: \\ **3. Discussions without decisions** **3.1 Onboarding of new board members** No new board members are present today, so this topic will be postponed to the next board meeting\\ **4. AOB**\\ https://pad.pirateparty.gr/p/AOBsPPEU20241212 (from PPGR)\\ We take note of the PPGR communications and advise them to open separate threads for all mentioned topics on the Discourse.\\ The topics related to the ECI Stop Killing Games should go into the dedicated Discourse Category to be created by mab.\\ All the rest can be placed under the General Category accessible through this link: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/c/general/4\\ Meeting closed at:19:05 CET\\ Next meeting: 16th of January 2025, 18:30 CET\\