Issues to consider

• This is the first meeting and so we want to set the tone of collaborative learning while imparting some basic knowledge for a common understanding of what we are doing.
  
• This discussion series has lots of components and lots of ways for people to participate. I suggest that we cover these and record that description separately from the meat of the session so that we can use that short introduction multiple times.
  
• We definitely want people to introduce themselves and briefly state their interest. We can do this through a mix of voice and text to move through it quickly while still covering lots of territory. We need to think about how to do that.
• I have invited some people interested in the technology to join us early and to stay late. We will want them to sign up on our schedule for this project so we should have this page bookmarked and be prepared to tell them about wetpaint for our internal planning.
• How shall we archive our sessions? We can post links to the ED blog and the TF blog, but should we also post them to the OPAL community engagement site which would put them all together? We can also post them on the TF calendar, but that is after the fact...in other words, people would have to know to look at an even that has already passed. I'll also send out the links every week to the Texas Forums newsletter list, but I'll have to know where the best home is.

Proposed agenda

6:45 - 7:00 David

• Sound check if people want to try microphone
  

let people know what's happening as they arrive

• ask them to text where they are from
  

7:00 - 7:05 Taylor

• Welcome from Texas Forums,
  
• introduce production team:
• Paul (host) Paul, you should say a welcome here so that they hear your voice very early on!
• Jon, editor
• David (tech)

7:05 - 7:10 David

• Quick overview of talking, adjusting speakers, whispering to him for help

7:10 - 7:15 Taylor

• Get participants to introduce themselves either using voice or text or both
• Name
• How they heard about this program
  

7:15 - 7:20 Taylor (I have me listed as doing this to separate out the management of the project from the content, but Paul may want to do this. Also, this can come after the Introduction to Extreme Democracy if we need to get Paul's voice in here )

• How we will stay connected in between sessions - blogs, web site, attendr
  
• what the schedule is.

7:20 - 7:30 Paul

• Introduction to Extreme Democracy series - what it is and why we are doing it
• Ask people to say why they are interested in this series
  

7:30 - 7:55 Paul

• Describe readings, pose questions for discussion, point to blogs where reading is posted

7:55 - 8:00 Taylor

• Final questions about technology and series

End of formal session

8:00 - 8:30 David and Taylor go over technical stuff with interested parties.

Does this take care of all of Paul's points:

• Introductions of the principles and support people
• Introductions - if there's not too many people, I'd like them to introduce themselves
• System issues - make sure everyone knows how to use the system and that audio is working OK
• Objectives, work product, schedule, discussion blogs, attendr, etc
• Any other support issues...