Dear all,
Thanks to those of you who were able to attend the *General Assembly today!*
If you weren't able to attend, you can* watch the recording here*.
<https://youtu.be/AABAFHRDljc>
As part of the Assembly, we kicked off *voting for the user group's board*.
*All five existing board members* (LiAnna Davis, Susanna Mkrtchyan, Ziko
van Dijk, Filip Maljkovic, and João Alexandre Peschanski) are running
again.
*Another candidate*, Bukola James, was nominated during the meeting; she
introduced herself to voting members beginning at 25:55 in the YouTube
recording.
Since she was not nominated prior to the start of the meeting, she is not
included in the form, but you are welcome to write her in -- If you select
"no" to the full re-election question, you will get an opportunity to write
in candidates.
According to the User Group's by-laws, there can be up to 7 board members,
so you can vote for all six candidates running if you'd like; simply write
in their names.
*Voting will be done via this Google Form
<https://forms.gle/BMDGU5NzFnxb9i7q6> *and is open to anyone who was a
member of the user group at the time voting began. Please check if
your username
is listed on this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Members&oldid=23859163>
under
"Members List", and if so, please feel free to participate and vote!
*Voting is open until 16:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 10 *(one week from the
start of the meeting). As a special advisor to the group, I was asked to
oversee the process. I will therefore be analyzing your votes and
announcing the results.
All the best to all the candidates!
Shani.
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Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Special Advisor, Wikipedia & Education User Group.