Minutes
4th Meeting of the 10th PPEU Board - Sunday the 25th of May, 18:30 CE(S)T / 16:30 UTC
Meeting is remote
Members of the Board
C: Florian Roussel
VC: Lenya Rún
VC: Sara Hjalmarsson
TR: Alessandro Ciofini
BM: Babak Tubis
BM: Giuseppe Calandra (cal)
BM: Marek Barbuš
BM: Mili Sloukova
BM: Ute Elisabeth Gabelmann
Standing invitations
Mattias Bjärnemalm, Pirate Parties Network Officer
Meeting opened at: 18:30
Meeting chaired by: Florian
Secretary for this meeting: Sara and Alessandro
Recording: https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/FAwgNLZT4SPHPtx
Pad: [https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/BoardXMeetingX](https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/BoardXMeetingX)
RoP: <https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=documents:rop2023>
Participants:
C: Florian Roussel
VC: Sara Hjalmarsson
TR: Alessandro Ciofini
BM: Babak Tubis
BM: Giuseppe Calandra (cal)
Excused:
BM: Mili Sloukova
Not excused:
VC: Lenya Rún
BM: Ute Elisabeth Gabelmann
BM: Marek Barbuš
Guests:
Bastian
Petr Kocourek
Numero6
Leon
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-meeting10_03
0.5 Notice of any decisions taken in between meetings
0.5.1 UPDATED Secretary General role description
0.5.2 Referral to the Code of Conduct Council
0.6 Written reports
1. Decisions without discussions
1.1 Time and place for next board meeting
2. Decisions with discussions
3. Discussions without decisions
3.1 Ongoing Projects Update
3.2 Update on the Spanish Electricity Outage
3.3 Upcoming Events & Potential Actions
4. Any other business
4.1 Combining forces with NGOs
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
The meeting elected Florian as meeting chair
0.2 Election of meeting Secretary
The meeting elected Sara and Alessandro as meeting secretaries and agreed that we would work collectively on the minutes in the pad
0.3. Approval of the agenda:
Yes: Florian, Alessandro, Sara, Cal, Babak
No:
Abstain:
0.4. Approval of the minutes of the last meetings
https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=pp-eu:board-meeting10_03
Yes: Florian, Alessandro, Sara, Babak
No:
Abstain: cal
0.5 Notice of any decisions taken in between meetings
0.5.1 UPDATED Secretary General role description
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-on-the-referral-to-the-code-of-conduct-council/915
0.5.2 Referral to the Code of Conduct Council
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
Next Board Meeting on the 22nd of June 2025, at 18:30 CEST (16:30 UTC)
Yes: Florian, Alessandro, cal, Sara, Babak
No:
Abstain:
2. Decisions with discussions
No decisions with discussions
3. Discussions without decisions
3.1 Ongoing Actions Update
- IGF
Need a slideshow to display on screen and people in the online booth.
Need to have some form of information handout (eg. brochure) or online handout available via QR-code.
- Onboarding Kit
Still ongoing. Babak asked to be invited so he can know the current strategy and also give help
- Registration
Still missing information from 5 Board Members
Next time: get registeration info from candidates beforehand and/or phone numbers.
- PPEU & You Form
Have not been dispatched yet.
- Referral to the CoCC
Have not been dispatched yet.
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-on-the-referral-to-the-code-of-conduct-council/915
3.2 Update on the Spanish Electricity Outage
Need to ask Lilly to post about it in the Board Chat / Discourse. Point added to the next Board Meeting.
3.3 Upcoming Events & Potential Actions
- August Council Meeting: get budget for dedicated actions (see below)
Decide on the date at the next Board Meeting, Alessandro suggests.
- PPEU Mastodon account: good way to try out fundraising
A German pirate opened a thread on Discourse https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/join-mastodon/920
- Graphical chart
We can draft some material for social networks (with the kind help of Mili)
- IT consolidation
We should seriously think about how to use our systems, planning to having a proposal ready in July to be able to present it to the Council in August
4. AOB
4.1 Combining forces with NGOs
Starting with EDRI
In order to gain understanding and acceptance in the european public it is needed to understand and work together with NGOs like EDRI.
The goal of edri.org is to build a people-centered, democratic society. It would benifit us both to coordinate our work to achive that goal.
Leon has been invited from Babak to briefly talk about it, sharing a short presentation. The project has been named “Guardians of the Internet”, with Patrick Breyer potentially 1st chairman, with the scope of doing activism as a professional job (like WWF, Greenpeace and other NGOs do).
This project also aims to strengthen current forces
Also all non EU countries like Norway or Switzerland can take part of the project
Asking for board's feedback: Florian now understood that the project is starting a new NGO, not only cooperate with EDRI
Patrick was involved but still not answered yet
Presentation could be continued next board meeting
Florian is reminding how to get in contact
Meeting closed at: 19:29: CEST / 17:29 UTC
Next meeting: June 22nd 2025, 18:30 CEST / 16:30 UTC