Working Papers & Resolutions: Basics
The Resolutions card on your dashboard, or Resolutions in the bottom bar, takes you to your committee's papers. While the chair has marked a draft resolution as active, Currently Active in the bottom bar opens it directly. This section covers the lifecycle and how papers are organized. See Writing & Editing Resolutions for how to actually draft one.
The lifecycle
A paper moves through these stages, in order:
- Working Paper: a draft, editable only by its creator and anyone they've added as a co-editor.
- Submitted: locked from further editing and visible to the whole committee. Other delegates can now sponsor it.
- Draft Resolution: promoted by the chair once ready to be formally worked on as a resolution. It gets a document number.
- Amendment Phase: the chair debates amendments clause by clause.
- Voting: each operative clause is voted on individually.
- Final: the finished resolution. Never editable again, whatever the outcome.
Moving a paper past Submitted is a chair action. You'll simply see the paper move to its next stage on its own.
Finding papers
Your committee's papers list is split into three sections:
- My Papers: working papers you created or are a co-editor on.
- Submitted Papers: papers the whole committee can see, each showing how many sponsors it has.
- Draft Resolutions: papers that have advanced to draft-resolution status or beyond, shown with their document number.
Click into any paper to read it. Whether you can edit it depends on its current stage and your relationship to it (creator, co-editor, or just a reader).
Next steps
- Writing & Editing Resolutions: creating a working paper and using the editor
- Sponsorship & Share Codes: backing a paper and inviting collaborators
- Amendments: proposing changes to a paper's clauses