Toby Bartels wrote:
In the meantime, have Ed and mav accepted my nominations for mediator? (Is mav even reading this list right now???)
Just to clarify, I have a bunch of saved emails in a folder of people who have volunteered for mediation or arbitration, and I'm slowly working my way through the huge backlog of emails from last week and the week before on the topic, refining my ideas of how this should work.
It'll be a bit longer, but then I'm going to make a more or less formal proposal for how the committees should organize themselves and what the parameters of their function should be. This will likely be 'enacted' immediately, but with the understanding that we're going to all struggle carefully and slowly and thoughtfully to a more "organic" set of operating procedures for the committees.
And I'm going to also propose that the initial appointments will be for staggered terms, with votes set in the future. And I'll be retaining a right of 'executive clemency', i.e. the ability to pardon people who the arbitration committee has seen fit to ban, although I doubt I will use it unless in my opinion the entire process has gone completely off the rails.
--Jimbo