Over the next few weeks I'll be posting essays on lesswrong.com, summarizing my thoughts so far on how to make progress. It'd be helpful if everyone attending had at least skimmed those posts and some of the related content. The first post is here:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/ouc/project_hufflepuff_planting_the_flag/
The Facebook Event for the unconference is here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/196054120899901/