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.

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 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 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.