On Saturday 12 November 2011 22:11:20 Darrell Anderson wrote:
> First hurdle is I know nothing about etherpad. I am willing to learn, but
> somebody else should add the item to the discussion.
>
> Second hurdle is I would like to participate in these meetings, but I know
> nothing about etherpad. I have registered an account but I am a proverbial
> deer in the head lights. What do I need? What do I do? How do I learn?

what you need is a browser that can handle javascript well, such as google 
chromium, konqueror from TDE will not work :)
the rest is more or less self-explaining.
the document in work can be edited by several persons simultaneously, each 
ones contributions are in a specific colour, thus easy to distinguish.

werner