With all the wheels in motion for the 2nd annual JITP special issue conference (YouTube08) and journal production under way from the 1st (Web 2.0), now is an opportune moment to begin work on what will be the 3rd Annual JITP special issue conference, JITP-2010, which is tentatively slated for April, 2010. The conference theme will be: "The Politics of Open Source Software" JITP-2010 is accepting volunteers and suggestions for the Program Committee. If you would like to be a part of this planning effort, please send email directly to: Michelle Sagan Gonçalves <mgoncalves@pubpol.umass.edu> (Conference Manager) and Charlie Schweik <cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu> (Conference Co-Chair) Please cc me (editor@jitp.net) when you do and put JITP-2010 in the subject line. thanks, ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu@polsci.umass.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology & Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/