Norman Richards (super-smart/thoughtful guy doing product management stuff at JBoss) has posted a download of the Seam hands-on lab from JBoss World. This is a nice way to get started with Seam, and much more interesting than listening to me rant on about conversations and state management and unified component models for an hour and a half...
http://docs.jboss.org/seam/jbossworld-seam-lab.zip
(Warning: it's a bit enormous because it bundles the appserver!)
