Conference - JITP 2010: Politics of Open Source

[Joseph Guarino]

Hello Everyone,

I figured some of you on this list might be interested in this
conference on the politics of FOSS.  

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JITP 2010: Politics of Open Source

May 6 & 7, 2010

University of Massachusetts Amherst

http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net/

The Politics of Open Source is an interdisciplinary conference organized
by the Journal of Information Technology and Politics (JITP) that
examines the politics associated with the Free/Libre and Open Source
Software (FLOSS) Movement. A complete program is available at
http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net

Regular registration is open until April 21.

The conference features two keynote lectures:

Eric von Hippel, Professor and Head of the Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Group at the Sloan School of Management at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Fellow at the Berkman Center
for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Dr. von Hippel
specializes in research related to the nature and economics of
distributed and open innovation. He also develops and teaches about
practical methods that firms can use to improve their product and
service development processes. He is the author of Democratizing
Innovation (MIT Press, 2005) and The Sources of Innovation (Oxford,
1988).

Clay Johnson, Director of Sunlight Labs. Prior joining Sunlight, Clay
was one of the four founders of Blue State Digital, the progressive
left's premier technology and online strategy firm. This firm, which was
born out of the Howard Dean campaign, was also responsible for Barack
Obama's Web presence. Before joining Blue State, Johnson was the lead
programmer for Dean for America in 2004, overseeing the development of
grassroots tools like GetLocal, DeanLink and Project Commons. Prior to
entering politics, Johnson was a technologist at Ask Jeeves (now
Ask.com) where he helped to develop the company's Web syndication
product. He also started the first Internet Knowledge Exchange,
KnowPost.com, and worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a Venture
Capital firm, but still claims that he learned the most from his first
job -- as a waiter at Waffle House in Atlanta, Georgia.

And invited panel presentations featuring:

John M. Weathersby, Founder and Executive Director of the Open Source
Software Institute, and

Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Development Manager at Sun Microsystems
and OpenOffice.org

For more information and to register, visit
http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net/

Thanks,
Joseph Guarino
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