Moreover, creating a forum is easier than it first appears. All board candidates and all members have an incentive to agree on a single forum. It helps candidates publicly debate issues and make contact with voters. Candidates merely need to agree among themselves on a common forum. They may also consult with leading user groups and active members.
Means also exist to publicize the existence of a forum.
Once defined, such a list is likely to attract more subscribers and so grow into a definitive forum. A regional forum could be an existing listserv or a new one. Although this can be addressed by list moderation, moderation raises issues of censorship. Both would be archived in web form. A few weeks remain to put such lists in place in each region.