Minutes
Meeting 3 of the 9th PPEU board 16.6.2024, 11:00 CEST/09:00 UTC
Meeting in Brussels @ Le Phare du Kanaal, Soledad Room
and remote https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPEU-Board
Members of the Board
C: Mikuláš Peksa
TR: Alessandro Ciofini
BM: Giuseppe Calandra (cal)
BM: Florian Roussel
BM: Jan Mareš
BM: Sara Hjalmarsson
BM: Petra Kovačec
Standing invitations
Mattias Bjärnemalm, Pirate Parties Network Officer
Meeting opened at: 11.05
Meeting chaired by: Beau
Secretary for this meeting: Alessandro with the great help of Florian
Recording: https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/jdrApFoPXqbBt3L
Pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/Board9Meeting3
RoP: https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=documents:rop2023
Participants:
C: Mikuláš Peksa
TR: Alessandro Ciofini
BM: Giuseppe Calandra (cal)
BM: Florian Roussel
BM: Jan Mareš
BM: Sara Hjalmarsson
BM: Petra Kovačec
Excused:
Not excused:
Guests:
Mattias Bjärnemalm, Pirate Parties Network Officer
PiratesOnAir
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_02
0.5 Confirmation of any decisions taken in between meetings
0.5.1 Budget allocation
0.6 Written reports
1. Decisions without discussions
1.1 Time and place for next board meeting
2. Decisions with discussions
2.1 Recognition and appointment of Marketa as PPEU's Bank Account Owner
2.2 PPEU Calendar for the rest of the year
2.3 Membership Situation of PP-CH
2.4 Donation Scheme
2.5 Correspondance by email with the board
3. Discussions without decisions
3.1 Follow up from the teambuilding Weekend
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
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Minutes:
0.1 Election of meeting chair
The meeting elected Sara hjalmarsson as meeting chair
0.2 Election of meeting Secretary
The meeting elected Alessandro as meeting secretary and agreed that we would work collectively on the minutes in the pad
0.3. Approval of the agenda:
Yes: all
No: none
Abstain: none
0.4. Approval of the minutes of the last meetings
https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=pp-eu:board-meeting09_02
Yes: Alessandro, Jan Sara, Mikuláš, Florian
No:
Abstain: Petra , cal
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.
0.5.1 Budget allocation
Date: 2024/05/28
Link: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/3rd-board-meeting-vote-on-budget-allocation/673
Decision: the board agrees to the use of 217,8€ of budget in order to book a room for its meeting and following informal activities on the 16th of June
Proposal: the board confirms the decision regarding budget allocation, taken on Discourse 2024-05-28.
Yes: Mikuláš, Florian, Sara cal, Alessandro, Petra, Jan
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: the next board meeting will be held online 4th of July at 18:30 CEST
Yes: Florian, Petra, cal, Alessandro, Sara, Jan
No:
Abstain: Mikuláš
2. Decisions with discussions
2.1 Recognition and appointment of Marketa as PPEU's Bank Account Owner
Proposal: PPEU uses a Fio Banka (Czech Bank) account. Marketa currently owns it and appoints people as managers when needed, in order for them to access and operate the account. She stated her willingness to continue in this role and help us gaining and rotating access to the account. The board thanks Marketa for the offer and agrees for her to stay owner and facilitate the onboarding of bank account managers from PPEU.
Vote on Discourse:
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/9th-board-3rd-meeting-votes/680
Alessandro : I was in contact with Marketa and Florian on the matter. We organized a meeting on the 10th of July in Prague to accomplish the appointment of Alessandro as the Bank Account Manager. We did the same with Veronika previously for her to act as Account Manager.
2.2 PPEU Calendar for the rest of the year
Discussion: Meeting calendar for Board and Council meetings for the rest of the year - https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/meeting-calendar-for-board-and-council-meetings-for-the-rest-of-the-year/677
Proposal approved
Proposal: the board approves the following calendar for the European Pirates:
2024
23 June - Council meeting (online)
4 July - Board meeting
11 September - Deadline for Member parties to apply to host the November Council Meeting
12 September - Board meeting
17 October - Board meeting
- deciding on the agenda for the November Council meeting
14 November - Board meeting
24 November - Council meeting (online unless hosted by member party)
- can be moved to 23-24 Nov, 30 Nov-1 Dec, or 7-8 Dec if hosted by Member party, to acommodate their needs
11 December - Deadline for Member parties to apply to host the February Council Meeting
12 December - Board meeting
2025
16 January - Board meeting
- deciding on the agenda for Feb Council meeting
13 February - Board meeting
22 February - Council meeting (online unless hosted by member party)
- can be moved to 21-22 Feb, or 28 Feb-1 March if hosted by Member party, to acommodate their needs
Vote on DIscourse:
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/9th-board-3rd-meeting-votes/680
Calendar approved
2.3 Membership Situation of PP-CH
Discussion: Confirm the status of PP-CH, if contacts or actions were taken. They are going to be at the Next Council Meeting and apply. This point is here to make sure that everything is in order
Proposal: The board confirms that PP-CH has requested membership and that everything is in order for them to take part in the 16th Council Meeting (23.06.2024)
Vote on Discourse:
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/9th-board-3rd-meeting-votes/680/4
Proposal approved
2.4 Donation Scheme
Discussion: The donation scheme review and vote should have taken place in Discourse, which didn't happen. The proposal is to adopt it now. Another alternative is to set up an asynchronous validation process giving time to every board member to review it. XXX is tasked to oversee this process.
Proposal: the board approves the following donation scheme : https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/9th-board-2nd-meeting-2-4-donations-scheme/651/6?u=emerodh
Vote on Discourse:
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/9th-board-3rd-meeting-votes/680/6
Proposal approved
2.5 Correspondance by email with the board
Discussion: There is incoherence in the way the correspondance is handled. See https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/9th-board-2nd-meeting-3-3-correspondence-by-email-with-the-board/650
Proposal: The board tasks Florian with the help of Cal to handle the matter of taking corrective measures and to submit asynchronously for validation or to the next board meeting.
Vote on Discourse:
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/9th-board-3rd-meeting-votes/680/7
3. Discussions without decisions
3.1 Follow up from the team building Weekend
Mab : It was useful The board needs to make sure it translates into actions. How to make sure that all following steps are addressed to the board, the council, etc…
Beau : I am willing and committed to taking all the notes from the Friday and the Saturday workshop to turn it into a report in order to have a tangible base in order to build on. I also need to do it for the Swedish Pirates to report to them.
Alessandro: with the help Mikuláš we will make up&running a Pirate Hub (network topic). Stay tuned :XD
Florian: I had something in my mind, but not all them now because I'm tired. I will also try and work to make sure that everyone interested to reach out us won't be gosthed (community topic). RoP should be updated accordingly
4. AOB
4.1 Reimbursement to Florian and Mikuláš for Pirati stuff
4.2 Who pays for today's room ?
Florian : We'll get the invoice online sent by email to Florian (most likely) and I will forward it to the treasurer office. We can rely on Markéta and Veronika to execute all the payments needed up to today.
4.3 PPEU social media
Jan: social media should be phased out, so who will handle that?
Mikuláš: this ability of taking care of whatever IT stuff for PPEU will be limited. Gitlab will shut down. Mattermost is also to be addressed. I would like to keep Mattermost.
There are two activities: IT servers cost and IT people. We need to assess and make provisional budgets
Beau: it would be good to create a new thread about it on Discourse and have a proper topic at the next board meeting
Florian will do it
Meeting closed at: 12:35 CEST
Next meeting: July 4th, 2024, 18:30 CEST