CZ:Charter drafting committee/Position statements/Peter Schmitt

The main objective of the charter is to clearly define the fundamental principles on which CZ is based and which are considered as essential features and therefore may not be changed.

Of course, the main structures and processes have also to be installed and defined, however, they should only have the form of (firm) guidelines and avoid the inclusion of detailed procedures because their implementation (which are to be judged against the basic principles of the charter) will have to be adaptable according to future developments and experiences.
Among the topics for which such guidelines are needed are, of course:
Editors/experts, authors, readers/users, approval,
and how decisions are made and enforced (constables).

When drafting the charter the experiences since the start of CZ will have to be compared to and combined with the fresh observations obtained by those who have joined only recently.
(Changes to the originally formulated "preliminary charter" must not be taboo, but should be carefully reasoned.)

Nominees who have accepted

Nominee	Link to position statement
Raymond Arritt	statement
Robert Badgett	statement
Martin Baldwin-Edwards	statement
Howard C. Berkowitz	statement
Stephen Ewen	statement
Shamira Gelbman	statement
D. Matt Innis	statement
Meg Ireland	statement
Russell D. Jones	statement
Brian P. Long	statement
Daniel Mietchen	statement
Tom Morris	statement
Joe Quick	statement
Supten Sarbadhikari	statement
Peter Schmitt	statement
Anthony Sebastian	statement
Drew R. Smith	statement
Ro Thorpe	statement
David E. Volk	statement
Alexander Wiebel	statement