I’m going to post more detailed entries this week, but I thought I would kick things off.  We’re in St. Louis, and I’m writing this in the lobby of the Renissance Grand.  We got through registration and we’re about to go to the orientation dinner for staff/volunteers.  It’s weird that in 10 years, Urbana has changed quite a bit.  It’s quite a bit bigger and as we passed by the Edward Jones Dome on the way in, it’s a whole different scale than my first experience.

We just got back from our orientation to our job assignments.  For the technical end of the site, take a look @ Urbana.org starting tomorrow night.  Expect the video to come up about 2 or so hours after the evening session concludes.  I’ll be uploading the video and encoding it (along with 3 others); it’ll be in flash format.  There will also be mp3s that will be downloadable. 

It’ll be some good times; the director of the site bought us some Starbucks giftcards which could be some indication of what this week will look like.  I’ve been looking forward to large amounts of caffeine :). 

As we look at agencies, there are 17 potential ones we’ll check out at some point during the week.  We’ll be scoping those out during our free time. 

So tonight, sleep, and we’ll go from there.