Today we'll have a program-wide discussion in order to freshly assess some of the fundamental issues of the Milky Way and chart the course for the rest of the program and beyond. This will be similar in spirit to our introductory meeting, but will now incorporate the things we have been learning over the past 2 months.

In order to allow as many BTMWers as possible to participate we are going to stream the audio and (attempt to) stream the video for this special discussion. I will have ichat and gchat up and running so you will be able to participate remotely by "chatting" me with your questions/suggestions. This will allow some ability to respond to the discussion from wherever you are.