Could people please write to me privately to volunteer for mediation and arbitration committees? You can't be on both, but please indicate your willingness to serve on mediation, arbitration, or either, and your preference, if any, so that I may make some selections based on what people are willing to do.
That is, your email should say something like: "I only want to volunteer for the mediation committee." or "I prefer mediation, but I'd also do arbitration if you asked." or "Either mediation or arbitration is better for me."
Then what I'll do is make appointments, the number depending on the number of volunteers I get, and I'll make them for a defined period and I'll stagger the terms, say 1, 2, or 3 years.
I'll try to get a healthy mix of people on the committee, including some of the people who would almost never vote for a ban. But also some of the people who would almost always vote for a ban. :-) This will most closely replicate my own internal debate on these matters.
Then, a year from now, we can start a series of votes to make those positions community-selected. We can even vote on whether or not to continue the process or go back to Jimbo-dicatorship.
I'd say let's come up with proposals and vote on it, and then have elections, and all that, but it would take months to do it that way, and I think we're all still exhausted from the logo voting debate.
We can work out the details as we go along, rather than trying to figure it all out a priori.
--Jimbo