We should identify the people who will be WOW liaisons for this voting
process, to María S. //SJ
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From: Erica Litrenta <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: [All-affiliates] Again, welcome.
To: Wikimedia Affiliates <all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Shani and all!
Here's an attempt at clarifying information I've sent before:
There are currently 4 people volunteering for being facilitators (listed at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019#20…!
). Facilitators are an important part as they help all eligible affiliates
to participate if they so choose and also serve as liaison to the
Foundation’s own board liaison on ASBS, María.
So first thing should be to identify the Liaison with María. Then someone
else should be appointed as their "deputy
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deputy#Noun>" to be available in case the
liaison becomes unavailable due to real life priorities or other issues. I
have pinged the people
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019&type=revision&diff=18931621&oldid=18930999&diffmode=source>
who already volunteered to be facilitators to remind them that this is the
first decision you'll take and they hence should help you make speedily.
If I'm allowed to chip in my 2c: this could be as easy as someone saying
"I'm gonna be that person if you don't mind". The main reason why I
recommend such an approach is that we have a very, very tight timeline
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019#Tentative_timeline>,
in which deciding who's going to be that person isn't by far your most
complex task ;)
As you may have noticed, I have issued a call yesterday in the hope that
more people join the facilitator group, because if we had 3 people when 40
entities could vote... so with anywhere between 100 and ~130 affiliates it
is probably important to have at the very least a couple more to ensure the
facilitating volunteers aren’t overextending themselves!
However, I don't know how long it can take for people to decide to step up,
so it appears desirable that this first decision is taken already in a day
or two.
When you consider that the Board is supposed to approve a new agreement on
the process as established by all of you in 10 days or something, then you
can see how facilitators will be key into expediting things until the most
critical phase that you'll face, which is finding and discussing your Board
candidates based on the profiles people identify as desirable in Berlin and
beyond!
HTH.
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