Hi all, this is just a reminder that almost all presentations now have abstracts up at http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Index. All of these abstracts have a discussion page, as well... please use it to list comments or questions you have about specific presentations before the conference begins. Presenters will use comments on these pages to help shape their presentations, and having a list of questions beforehand will be useful in q&a. Let's get the discussions started!

There are a couple of special requests for questions beforehand:

1) the panelists on the reference work publishing panel (two encyclopedists and a dictionary editor, from Berkshire, World Book, and Oxford Dictionaries) would like to know what specific questions you have about their work as editors of these reference works. The abstract is here: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:KC1; please add comments to the talk page.

2) Larry Lessig and Eben Moglen will be presenting; Lessig on free culture and Moglen on GFDL updates and more. We are hoping that in the second hour they will be able to take questions on free licenses. Please add questions to the talk page here: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:EM2

3) Finally, we are very pleased to announce that Ward Cunningham will be giving an on-stage interview on Friday. Please leave questions for this session on the talk page here: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:WC1

thank you, phoebe