Cascadia Wikimedians,

My apologies if you have already seen the forwarded email, & for not getting this out sooner.

As a user group, Cascadia Wikimedians will have a vote in the next 1½ months for two of the Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board.

Here is the timeline of the process:

- Nominations from 15 to 30 April.

- Reviewing and screening by the community from 1 to 7 May.

- Voting for nominees by Affiliates from 8 to 31 May.

- Results by the end of June

"Each affiliate organization is responsible for selecting one person as its voting delegate." I anticipate that the Wikimedia Cascadians board will designate this person. Each user group will have a vote; there will be no individuals voting in this election.

If you are interested, please review the material in the links below. Even if you are not a member of Cascadia Wikimedians, we would like your input.

Before the nomination period closes, if anyone is interested in discussing this, I could meet you at Cafe Allegro on one of the weeknights next week, 4/22 through 4/25, talk by phone or Zoom, or correspond by email. Let me know by personal email if you are interested. I am not expecting that we as a user group will nominate anyone; I am sure that there will be plenty of qualified candidates.

I will schedule a meetup for Tuesday, May 14th, to discuss for whom we should vote. If anyone needs to participate remotely, please let me know so I can set up a Zoom call.

Yours, Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray -- raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Erica Litrenta elitrenta@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 1:53 AM Subject: [All-affiliates] ASBS 2019: Nominations now open To: Wikimedia Affiliates all-affiliates@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello everyone, and apologies for "cross-posting":

- The Resolution https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2019 has been approved https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2019&type=revision&diff=19007735&oldid=19002749&diffmode=source by the Board of Trustees; - *Nominations phase is now open, from April 15 00:00 UTC to April 30 23:59 UTC. See the Call for Candidates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Call_for_Candidates and Nominations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominations pages* ; - Community members may ask questions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Questions of the candidates; - Your main representative has just received an email to confirm that they are indeed the primary contact and will perform official actions on behalf of your group (such as endorsing candidates and then voting). Some groups also need to verify their eligibility status in due time https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports, as explained in the email; - New content is available to spread awareness around the process - the infographic I am attaching has clickable links and can be translated https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Infographic_translations, and a primer https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Primer_for_user_groups is available, that we hope will be particularly helpful to those new to such a process; - Finally, *you are welcome to help with translations*! Pick one page from the ASBS category https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats_2019_election and, in the next couple of weeks, please consider translating profiles of the candidates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats_2019_election_nominations in particular.

Thanks for your attention from myself and the Facilitators for ASBS 2019,