Lane Rasberry is the only one I know really well and I would strongly support them on the WMF Board.

Best James

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1. [URGENT] : give your opinion about the Board of Trustees elections (Florence Devouard)

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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 11:45:18 +0200 From: Florence Devouard fdevouard@gmail.com Subject: [Offline-l] [URGENT] : give your opinion about the Board of Trustees elections To: offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: be2bf0bf-ad67-4f51-898a-ecaec1b6a468@gmail.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------OZFREm4Jvy0lpS7KKEYgsqHh"

Hello guys

Sj and I actually missed the first call for opinion of the UG with regards to candidates to the Board of Trustees. Sj saw the reminder today... and the deadline for the UG submission is on the 28th midnight.

So time is short. Sorry about that.

For your complete information, please see Ramzy email below (but you do not need to read it all if you do not with too)

So what we need from you

*A. Please check out the full list of all candidates to the BOT. This is here: *

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidat...

*B. For each of them, please give a grade from 0 to 5*

0 means: no support 5: super extra massive support

If you do not mention the name or if you do not mention a grade, the person will get 0.

To make it simpler for you, the list

Abdul-Rafiu Fuseini https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Abdul-Rafiu_Fuseini:

Ahmad Ali Karim https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Ahmad_Ali_Karim:

Bobby Shabangu : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Bobby_ShabanguJames Alexander : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/James_AlexanderJonathan Cardy : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Jonathan_CardyLane Rasberry : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Lane_RasberryMaxime Baidakov : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Maxime_BaidakovMichał Buczyński : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Micha%C5%82_Buczy%C5%84skiMohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Mohammed_Kamal-Deen_FuseiniRavan J Al-Taie : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Ravan_J_Al-TaieShahen Araboghlian : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Shahen_AraboghlianWojciech Pędzich https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidates/Wojciech_P%C4%99dzich:

*C: Send your votes, either to Sj or to me*

We will compile. And the 6 most voted upon will be presented for the UG We will obviously not share your votes with anyone.

Thanks !

Flo and Sj

-------- IF YOU WANT MORE INFO, READ BELOW---------

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  Select up to 6 candidates that your Affiliate decided to be most
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  o There will be a list of all 12 (twelve) eligible candidates, and you will be able to select a maximum of 6 candidates; these candidates are not ranked. o

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