<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The community meeting approach has promise. I'm concerned with the current systems' unfairness when the stay away part of the procedure - which is good for defusing a problem - creates insurmountable impediments to bring witnesses necessary for a fair listening. Especially because, people don't have every members contact information, and if one can't go to the space, it is become nearly impossible to find the witness necessary for a fair hearing.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The difficult is intensified if one person faithfully adheres to the request to stay away and the other person does not.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A community meeting based approach would hopefully allow the situation to be "frozen" in a designed safe fashion, and except in exceptional circumstances, allow the parties to the conflict the chance to find the witnesses to the "big" event. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">This is important stuff. Thanks.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Naomi Most <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nthmost@icloud.com" target="_blank">nthmost@icloud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Things that come to mind on a day when I am feeling more friendly to the idea of formal policy:<br>
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1) Only one person per proposal for consensus ban. More than that is madness.<br>
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2) The "up for discussion" phase of a proposal to ban (i.e. the first week that an item is formally discussed at a meeting) may only take place if the involved parties who have assented to be contacted have been contacted, and if those involved & assenting parties have been offered mediation and/or community-based resolution. This must be done in writing, or in person and then recorded in writing.<br>
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I am not a github native (I only just converted to mercurial from subversion /last year/) and don't feel at home with the pull-request-based policy process. So I'm writing my thoughts here and offering them up for skewering on the list.<br>
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#2 is predicated on the idea of there being an enacted "community meeting"<br>
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Your friend,<br>
Naomi<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Let's stay in touch. Greg
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