<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div><span>Hi all,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I was asked today to be a facilitator in the 2019 elections of WMF's
Board <span><br><div><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2019</a></div></span>. I am interested to become a candidate because I feel much more
involved in the form of the process than the politics, at least this
year. </span></div><div><span></span><span></span><br clear="none"><span></span></div><span>Some among you suggested I wrote also on this list for a feedback, so let me know if you have any comment.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I
am a member of chapters and UGs and in my UG I am not the one who is
charge of the direct connections to WMF. That means that I am not going
to be the person who will cast the vote for WikiDonne in any case.
Explaining to people in my main UG how and what to do it would have been
my task in any case, because I attended the meeting, so maybe it's a
more efficient use of time to help more UGs at the same time in doing
so. I assume chapters know how to vote besides some changes, so the
"literacy effort" will be probably more targeted to UGs at this round.
In any case I am here to facilitate both, that is the elections as a
whole, I am aware of it.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I have asked
around, to chapters and UG people here in Berlin, people say I could be a
good facilitator. I was told maybe we have already too much
facilitators, in that case I can be a replacement. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">As
I said around, I think the whole process is rushed, and many people
agree with this feeling, but it's there so we have to take the best out
of it. That's why i feel the knowledge I have of it might be more useful
as a guide.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span><div><span>Let me know,</span></div><div><span>Alessandro</span></div><div><span></span><br></div><div><br></div><br></div></div></body></html>