[OSGeo-Discuss] Politics of Open Source Conference -- May 6, 7 2010 at UMass Amherst, Amherst MA

[Charlie Schweik]

Dear OSGeo colleagues-

Some on this list, particularly people in the New England area of the 
U.S., might be interested in this conference. Please forward to others 
if you know of people possibly interested. Thanks in advance. -- Charlie 
Schweik

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JITP 2010: Politics of Open Source 

May 6 & 7, 2010  

University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA

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 
<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/ 


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