I am so excited to see the global faces and issues represented by the featured project introductions (adding to the excitement was the fact that the first presenters delivered and translated their introduction in French, included a "Yes We Can" reference, and incorporated a direct threat to tyranny in the Ivory Coast. Amazing.) While there is a lot of representation here from the states, this group is truly a global one in heart and representation. In the first round of introductions, attention has been brought to issues and topics like global slavery, cell phones, agriculture, bringing down the Evil Empire's wall by way of photocopiers (and bringing down future evil empires' walls by way of cell phones). It highlighted the face of human rights problems and proposed mobile solutions.

Oh... and a minor note about process fluidity: I found that the introduction of speakers went much more smoothly than I remember it going last year (I believe that we can thank Justin Massa for seeing this improvement through).