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#2019_call_for_election_facilitators! ). 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" to be available in case the liaison becomes unavailable due to real life priorities or other issues. I have pinged the people 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, 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.