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