I'm bumping this thread up, folks, because this is the master thread for Article 5: Dispute Resolution and the Outside Forum.
I hope that I will be able to open a vote on those four Hearings articles by tomorrow morning (EST) - that no new major issues will surface - and when the voting is done, all four of them will be locked, along with the other big thread "Assembling Hearing Procedures in Full."
We only have one more item in this Article, namely, "Offenses That Merit a Penalty," and I will post that discussion thread tomorrow, along with a discussion thread for Article 2: Member Rights and Responsibilities, because these two issues are inter-related.
Once those two new discussions are underway a bit, a will put up a last thread asking for volunteers to take over my position as discussion leader here. Alandriel is also a discussion leader - I don't know if she wants to switch jobs with me because of her being offline on weekends, but we can hash it all out in the thread.
In that thread, I will outline exactly what I do here, in terms of emails, updates of first posts, etc. Truehobbit has done a thread and so has Faramond, who might like to rejoin us. And everyone has seen it done, so it shouldn't be too tough for someone to take over. I will continue on the committee, but it is the endless amount of editing that takes time which I no longer have.
In that thread I will also get you started on the Mission Statement and Key Principles, because there is an easy way and a hard way to approach those topics. I will tell you what the nice, tight, easy way is, and then whoever takes over from me can do it anyway they want.
I'll leave it for the new discussion leader to actually set up the threads for those topics so that they will be able to edit the charter text within the thread as we go along.
Thanks! (don't say good-bye until next weekend)
Jn