At 06:58 AM 10/3/2003, you wrote:
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.
Ugh. In my opinion this is a bad idea. The way I was thinking about the committees is that they'd be chosen more or less at random on a regular basis from a pool of volunteers. The terms could run something like 3 months and no one would serve more than once on a given board in a 12-month period. I think that as long as we've got boards for this sort of thing, there ought to be a little more variety in them. All we have to do is limit volunteers to people who have been active for 6+ months or something, and we automatically weed out people who aren't really interested.
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"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of great moral crisis." -Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321