What would you like to know? Obviously I've done a poor job of communicating and I need to answer questions to make things more clear. I'll also look at getting the website updated with more information.

As for involvment, the core group of ogranizers is just several random people, of whom I'm one, who came together to organize it. I honestly don't even know everyone's last name (is that bad?).

Beyond that, a priliminary list of speakers is up on the website (Click Details – I should probably rename it speakers). More speakers are to be announced shortly.

We also have a number of sponsors as well, who can be seen by clicking sponsors on the website.

Beyond that, TEDx isn't being driven by any organization locally. It really is just a collection of us who wanted to see it happen. We have tried to keep everything about it local though, beyond the affiliaction with the international TED group.

What have I missed?

- Mark

Not to hijack, but Mark: (Hope all is well with you.) Can you elaborate as to who is involved with the TEDx locally? The site is lacking in any of that info.

For some background on TEDx: TED of course sanctions the events, but beyond that wide latitude is given to the organizers. There is no set number of speakers for the day. TED's requirement is that there be at least 25% videos of previous TED talks. There are other small details, but that is the main one.

We've gone for a day event that is going to have 12 to 14 speakers (live speakers, not counting video). All the final details are falling into place right now. The number of 18 vs. 5 minute presentations isn't set.

It is interesting all these events have ended up in March. I certainly know we didn't plan it that way, but it should give everyone lots to think and talk about.

Let me know if there's anything else I can answer.

- Mark

@Wayne: Glad you're on board! And you're right, if we weren't all overlapping this month then maybe we never would have made an effort to cross-promote or work together. I think it's important to have events throughout the year though, so hopefully we can all plan accordingly.

@Ryan (theRab): Thanks for the link to that post, it pretty much summed it up, you're right. I think besides the definitive time difference and speed of presentations, Ignite & PechaKucha differ in more qualitative ways: their history and atmosphere varies slightly. You'll have to attend and see for yourself!

@Dan: Hehe I hope you're not offended I stuck FizzledDurham outside the venn diagram (I assumed this was the first of its kind, am I right)? I'm sure that's why you created FizzledDurham in the first place, too– to get anyone with an idea a chance to present it.
Your point about voting for Ignite presenters is another huge difference between the other events as well. PechaKucha & TEDx presenters are chosen by the organizers rather than the audience and/or fan base of the presenters.

@Mark: Thanks for stopping by to give us all the missing details about TEDx. As we haven't had one here before it's all new territory. I think I got the "4" presenters number from the main TEDx site. Are there four 18-minute presentations with additional 5-minute ones? I had no idea it was a whole day-long event either, wow! Good luck with the event–hopefully I'll see you there!