Decidim Association General Assembly

Asistants:

Nil, Maite, Pau Parals, Pauline Bessoles, Roxu, Ruth Cheesley, Andrés Pereira de Lucena, Carol Romero, Dani Patu, Lucien Langton, Maite López-Sánchez, Simon OSP, Xabier Barandiaran, Ivan, Antonio, Bru Aguiló. (16)

1. Results of the votation

1. Do you approve the 2023 accounts and results?
   In favor 12
   Against 0
   Abstention 1

2. Do you approve of the management of the Coordination Committee during 2023?
   In favor 12
   Against 0
   Abstention 1

3. Do you approve the budget for 2024?
   In favor 12
   Against 0
   Abstention 1

4. Do you approve of the updated code of conduct?
   In favor 13
   Against 0
   Abstention 0

2. Annual accounts and results 2023

Association total income:

• 65% comes from public grants (Ajuntament and Generalitat)

• 18% Partners

• Services (Vocdoni)

Association total expenses:

• 50% for staff costs (twice as much as 2022)

  • May 2023: new profile of the junior developer

• 23% : external services

  • Fundraising 

    • La sobremesa helping develop the sustainability plan

    • Freelance profile to help us raise funds

  • UX Expert

  • Decidim Fest

• Corporate income tax for benefits

3. Budget 2024

Explanation

Conservative forecast, the incomes should be lower than 2023. The good point, is that it is more diversified in terms of:

• Partners donations higher

• Public grants (lower)

• Services higher (People powered and BSC)

Higher expenses than 2023:

• 78% related to staff expenses.

• 6% to external services.

Objectives 2024

1. Diversifying income sources, seeking better balance in distribution of incomes

2. Increasing operational capacity

3. Keep some cash flow in case of financial issues

Questions

How can a General Coordinator get paid only 11k?

• The cost in the budget is only the role cost for the last 3 months of 2024 (will be 35 000 a year)

Cost of the demo server: what happens with Metadecidim - The costs of meta.decidim.org and decidim.org sites?

• We are not paying for Metadecidim right now (City council infrastructure), but we need to do it at some point, that's why it's in the budget

4. Management of the Coordination Committee

• 17 Community Meetings

• Redesign Decidim (version 0.28.)

• + 450 Decidim installations 

• 3 Million users

• Definition of a Sustainability Plan 

• Recognitions: Digital Public Good & OSOR Awards

• Launch of the partnership policy with 7 partners

• 2 members leaving the coordination committee

5. Code of Conduct

The code of conduct we have since the beginning of the project: https://github.com/decidim/decidim/blob/develop/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md 

The proposed change: https://github.com/decidim/decidim/pull/12525/files

Question of having the list of banned people publicly, if someone is banned you don't want them representing the project or whatever. Means people know where to check e.g. if having speakers for meetups, or consulting with people.

6. Fundraising updates

Great hopes in the NLNet Zero common funds (50K euros). This fund will be open from now until 2027, 20 millions euros, with open call every year!

7. Partners updates

Puzzle ITC: They claim they are partners:
https://www.puzzle.ch/de/blog/articles/2021/06/22/puzzle-itc-ist-offizieller-decidim-partner

Just a thought on partners: Couldn't we use the Logic Ruth was suggesting for decidim providers who are not partners to make a list public of companies explicitely not supporting the project but benefiting from it?

Mautic example: https://www.mautic.org/mautic-partners

We only list partners and sponsors and that's who we point people to when they ask for help, and their pages show their activity in the community

8. Participatory process for internal regulation

Internal regulation is needed because:

• Lack of regulation on how to decide on political issues

• Making our own governance more actionable

• Some entities mentioned in the statutes have never been created

• Clarify the role of existing entities

9. Open floor for comments

Make partners more visible in decidim.org

Cultural thing: everyone using the software has to pay back

https://speaking.ruthcheesley.co.uk/uIAJxk/establishing-an-incentivised-partners-programme-in-an-open-source-project