Hello, another year went by and we have to get prepared to elect the 2025-2026 XSF Board and Council soon. When you are interested in running for Board (business stuff) or Council (technical stuff) for the upcoming term, please create an appropriate Wiki page by November 2nd, 2025, 00:00 UTC and link it from here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Board_and_Council_Elections_2025 When you need to learn more about those roles, feel free to ask questions on the list, our XSF chatroom, or contact people directly which have been in those roles before. Proxy voting is scheduled to start on November 3rd, and we will hold our annual meeting to elect the next XSF Board and Council on November 20. The meeting particulars are: Date: 2025-11-20 Time: 19:00 UTC Location: xmpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org?join Thanks, Alex