As one of its tasks, the current board is looking into decisions and meeting minutes taken in the past that were not yet published according to our statutes. What follows are previously private minutes from the 2023-02-07 (in person) meeting of the previous board, which are now made public. Some elements in the minutes might be redacted as there is a need for confidentiality, or as individuals are mentioned in specific contexts.
Disclaimer: The following private minutes from the previous board are published as is. They have not necessarily been confirmed by the respective session’s chairperson or keeper of the minutes, nor approved by the respective board.
0905 Begin
0905-1000: Budget, staff / ED / board interaction
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Budget
- explaining the budget draft (Florian)
- broad discussion (all)
- legal issues affecting the draft (Paolo)
- if budget is voted by non bidders will clear the issue (Thorsten)
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(09:47) staff / ED / board interaction
- imput needed from someone, [REDACTED: name of law firm or lawyer]? with deep knowledge of german legislation (Cor)
- our legal counsel and/or [REDACTED: name of law firm or lawyer] will fit (Paolo)
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not my take (Cor)
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two angles (Thorsten)
- personal interactions
- more general matters
- [REDACTED: name of law firm or lawyer] will be effctive
- not necessary to start from scratch
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putting a lot of policies will not going to fly (Paolo)
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guidelines to satisfy all sides (Thorsten)
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repeated complaints against [REDACTED: name of individual board member] (Florian)
- so not the ideal person to drive this
- staff does not want a policy, [REDACTED: name of individual board member] wants
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do you think [REDACTED: name of two board members] to lead this against [REDACTED: name of law firm or lawyer] advice (Paolo)
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some not able to learn (Emiliano)
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invite to come up with proposals (Thorsten)
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pending point needed to be solved (Emiliano)
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heated exchange…
10:08 meeting suspended
10:24 meeting continues, MC and team joined
- disconnection between members and governance (Marina)
- disconnection between local/international groups and TDF
- some people helping with tendering (Thorsten)
- exhausted and frustrated people, some on their way to leave (Florian)
- urgent fixing needed
- loosing time to fix things since months (Stephan)
- found a way during yesterday meeting to address the major issues (Emiliano)
- even communication problems (Marina)
- some disconnection (Paolo)
- welcome more participation of the MC to board meetings
- with the MC some interests and point of view are not being as predominant as without the MC making meetings and problems resolution more effective (Paolo)
- have only fragments (Olivier)
- what issues we are facing?