Kim, don't burn yourself out, it is necessary to focus on the things right in front of us, and now you have quite a lot in front of you.

Ted, I agree completely about doing something new and centering it on TWWW. We will have to wait and see whether we can get the community foundations behind it. Between now and then we need to develop a working model for these community foundations to engage the on-line communities. Probably in the comments at TWWW someplace I remember a discussion about how foundation might invest very modest sums of money in projects the spring from grass/net-roots organizing.

Phil seems to suggest two intersecting conference tracts, and I think that might be a very good concept. Ideally we can identify at least one person of Peter's stature to convene the donors conversation, and we would intersect that with Open Space in the middle of it.

I wish I could remember the name Julie had for the phases of the AI process, but basically there are two at the start to open up dreams and visions, and it concludes with forming actions. Julie was suggesting that Open Space would fit in the middle, which sounds excellent.

We have a lot of time before a conference next year, and the question is what can we build in the mean time to create a foundation. What are the next small steps. We need to keep working on EFN infrastructure and launch the first versions of our Internet based services long before the conference.