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Steve,

Again, great to have you back. I’ve often wondered about having a conferences, where the attendees have access to a wiki long before the conference event, where they write the program in collaboration, basically listing the topics they want to learn about, and people who can teach that, then put their names under them as presenters. A Collaboratively designed conference.

Great show!

– dave –

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