Tomorrow is the Free Press Summit: Ideas to Action in Washington, D.C., where nearly 500 people are converging to talk about how we continue to create a better media system. The event is free and open to the public (doors open at 9 a.m.). Seats will be given to registrants first, and then we’ll fill the room to capacity. If you can get there, you should.

Most of us who care about these issues won’t be in the city, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be part of the conversation. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. EST, we’ll be live streaming video of the event and convening a live online chat. Go to www.freepress.net/summit to tune in and participate.

Summit guests include Sen.Byron Dorgan, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn; BBC Director of Policy and Strategy John Tate; journalists Farai Chideya and Jose Antonio Vargas; Frontline Executive Producer David Fanning; Josh Silver of Free Press; and Jehmu Greene of the Women’s Media Center, among others. Here’s the full agenda.

We’ve also invited dozens of policy makers, activists, leaders, media makers and others from different pockets of the media reform movement to join us online. If you can't make the Summit in person, please join us on the web throughout the day.

We’re facing critical questions in the coming year: Will the Internet remain an open and neutral platform for communication? What are the information needs of communities in the 21st century? What kinds of policies will ensure that those needs are being met? And how can we turn those ideas into action?

It isn’t just the folks in D.C. that should be shaping this conversation – your voice matters, too. Our live online chat will be a platform for you to speak, listen to others, and engage with dozens -- if not hundreds -- of fellow Free Press activists. Help us make sure no one is left out by spreading the word of this event on Twitter and Facebook.

Hope to see you either in D.C. or online tomorrow.