Rebecca a écrit:
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 09:13:02 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Our new mediator, Improv, is willing to make things move, and planning a meeting with a whole lot of things to discuss. Planning a meeting on irc is tough; so possibly, some of these things can be discussed on the new mailing list ? Thanks to him anyway :-)
That's not a bad idea, but note that some of us who've spent a lot of time thinking about some of the problems with mediation, such as sannse and I (who've both written fairly long responses on the matter), are no longer mediators, and thus wouldn't have access to the list - whereas we would probably be able to attend an IRC chat.
-- ambi
The problem is that it seems organising an irc session seems VERY difficult.
On the other hand, what I can see is that currently, mails are sent to people who resigned from the committee and perhaps do not care at all of these mails, while possibly other persons are not reached. In sending the recent mails, I also noticed an adress not valid anymore. Finally, each time you want to send a mail, you need to dig in all email adresses, which is frankly very boring to do (to the point you may end up not writing at all).
Hence, my suggestion for a redirection mail address. Finally, a mailing list was set. Fine as well.
Note Ambi, that if you are no more part of the committee, normally you should not receive any more mails. So, between not receiving mails and not be able to read archives from a mailing list, there is not much much difference :-)
In any case, I *think* that this list should not be used for mediation cases themselves, for which it is really best that privacy is seriously ensured. Any mediation case should only be discussed with personal mail adresses, NOT mailing lists.
This list should rather be for organisational discussions and the rule of thumb would be "do not say anything on it, that you would be severaly unhappy if it becomes public".
Now ambi, I'll be frank. First, Sannse and you are not the only ones who have given a lot of thoughts on the matter. I already mentionned how pissed off I was that all the comments we made after the creation of the mc have been dumped when the forum was closed. My memories of that time was basically taht dozens of hours of thinking and typing have just been put in the trash. The rest of discussions were on private mails, so are lost just as well. And when I say pissed off, consider it an understatement.
If we set a mailing list, at least, we know the information will NOT be lost entirely. We know that new members will be able to read discussions afterwards.
Private mails are lost. Forum talks are dumped. Irc logs are not always published and restrict the discussion to those available and those with irc access. Not everyone unfortunately.
I would not oppose at all if older members of mc were part of these discussions and consequently members of this new mailing list. But it really depends on what other mediators think of this.
Now, *you* decided to quit the MC. You had the choice. When you were elected to be on the AC, you resigned from the MC. I think you should consider whether it is wise to be part of the two groups at the same time. If you wish to 1) be on the mc mailing list 2) be part of irc discussions on the topic, and why not 3) going on mediating between people ?
In this case, you would still be a mediator without being one ? You would be a mediator and an arbitrator ?
I think we need to be consistent and separate both activities.
Anthere
PS : if previous mediators now arbitrators still are involved in defining what mediation is, should be and how conflicts should be approached and fixed, I would love that previous arbitrators, such as The Cunctator, still be involved in arbitration as well.