Again, I'm just absorbing the wonderful discussion...
The USSF is nonhierarchical, more of a gathering than conference
explicitly 2 years ago WSF pushed for regional social forums worldwide
USSF a result
regional committees for US
like seven regions
social forum process: creating a space for people to self-organize
designed to accommodate a lot of people
WSF has had 10,000 to 50,000 participants
been interesting to try to transplant into United States
just a space, does not have its own stances at this time