Decidim Association - Coordination Committee Meeting

1. New framework Agreement with Catalan Institutions (Informative)

Inform about the negotiations that the Executive Direction is carrying to sign a new collaboration agreement with Generalitat de Catalunya, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Localret and Diputació de Barcelona. This agreement is a renewal and a merge of the two existing agreements.

Eng: Framework_Agreement_ENG.docx
Cat: Nou_conveni_marc_v.0.2.(2).docx

2. Swiss Local Chapter (Decisional)

To do: Take a decision on the next steps for the Swiss Local Chapter proposal. 

Context: After a few months of being discussing this topic, we finally have been able to move forward with our lawyers. Furthermore, the Swiss people already written a proposal for the Statuses of this Swiss Association that you can consult on Metadecidim (under the related documents section): https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/coordination-committee/f/1799/proposals/17859#comments-for-Proposal-17859 

Finally, our lawyers (Across Legal) had written a text for the Trademark agreement that would regulate the use of Decidim’s trademark by those international Associations.

• The text in Spanish: Decidim_Convenio licencia marca Decidim_2025.07.17.docx

• The text in English: ENG_Decidim_Convenio licencia marca Decidim_2025.07.17 en-GB.docx

Notes:

• Ant: Add a report periodicity in the trademark agreement

• Pauline: We should update in Metadecidim the status 

• We agree on going for the Trademark path

• The CC should read the trademark agreement and decide on:

  • Fee

  • How to manage project budget

• In the next CC meeting we will review the text and make decision on those issues

3. Internal Regulations (Informative)

Inform about the next phase for deliberation and discuss how we start to implement the IR already approved. You can read the Implementation Plan for the Internal Regulations: Internal Regulations Implementation Plan

4. Institutions Committee (Informative)

Inform about the intention to create the Governments Committee and discuss the design and goals. A Committee for those governments who have signed an agreement with Decidim Association.

You can read the first draft is going to be sent to the institutions (eng & spa): Comité de instituciones - Propuesta inicial

5. Salary Scales (Decisional)

To do: Approve the salary scale proposal. 

Context: In order to bring clarity and transparency in a growing TO we need to approve a salary scale. We have drafted a first version that was presented to the CC on January and now we are back with an improved version. 

You can read the Salary Scale document: Proposal of salary structures_January_2025.docx

• Agreement: We can approve the Salary Scale

6. Internal management of the CC (Decisional)

Discuss the xat tools we use to coordinate ourselves.

• Create a bridge between Element and Telegram rooms

• To define the agenda we will follow these steps:

  • Nil sends an email with the agenda and a link to the Metadecidim meeting asking for approval. 

  • If someone wants to add an agenda item, they write a comment in the meeting. If supported by more people, then it is included in the agenda. 

  • Nil sends the documents at least 1 week before the meeting