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I'm recording the audio for these presentations for our listeners and friends who aren't able to join us.

So if you don't want to be recognized, don't say your name in your comments and I'll try not to call you by name.

Man, it's just such a pleasure to have you all here and to be with you and to be together for this little day of discussion.

I had a lot of fun with a lot of you last night. We were able to make it.

I guess I want to begin by not only thanking you, but just talking a little bit about what this is about.

Some of you know that I had this idea earlier in the year or last year to create a foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit.

With the goal of serving people like us, I guess, that's a pretty vague conceptualization, but that's kind of what it was about.

So I got some lawyer and accountant friends to help me out and we set up the Open Stories Foundation.

We didn't call it the Mormon Stories Foundation because my lawyers told me that that could hold us liable to potential lawsuits from the church.

So we took out the word Mormon and called it Open. When I worked for MIT, I helped start something called the Open Course Wear initiative, which was this idea of sharing worldwide learning.

So I'm all about openness and Mormon Stories so far has kind of been all about stories, so that's kind of where the name comes from.

But this foundation was set up to make it so those who donated Mormon Stories could do so and get a tax write off.

But I do have some dreams about what it could turn into and these dreams are pretty humble because I'm in the middle of a PhD program and all of you are really busy.

So I don't know if any of them will materialize, but I guess I'll talk a little bit more about what that's all about.

Everything here is brought to you by the Open Stories Foundation and by your contributions, so those of you who contributed, thank you so much for that.

I want to just start by thanking our hosts.

I'm going to just talk briefly about what today is about.

Can you believe that I'm able to change and advance the slides by swiping this little iPhone?

This is Travis. Isn't this amazing?

It's a Microsoft product.

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