HASTAC ("haystack": the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its second annual conference.

TechnoTravels/TeleMobility: HASTAC in Motion

HASTAC II - SECOND ANNUAL HASTAC CONFERENCE
MAY 22-24, 2008 (just before N2Y3!)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE and UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

This is the first part of a rant I have been mulling over for about 3 years now. I want to get it up before the end of the event, so I will save my proposal for a second post.

Advanced nonprofit technology practitioners need a place to connect and learn from each other. Who will fill this gap?

For years this was the collective whine from the hundreds of NTAPs who attend the Nonprofit Technology Conference to help other colleagues in the sector. When NetSquared was announced in 2005, I was excited to hear they would be bringing together the best minds from the nonprofit world with the leading technologists. Would this be the long-awaited venue for advanced "NPTECH" conversation?

I'll be there late Friday night - Monday late afternoon, and would love to meet folks, talk shop, imbibe.

On AIM: ianwrootslab; on gtalk: iwilker. 

-- Ian

Chris Pirillo and Ponzi Indharasophang are currently organizing the 6th annual Gnomedex tech conference, a successful and unusual part of the tech conference scene. Chris is the founder and tech evangelist of the online publishing group Lockergnome. Ponzi is the CEO of Lockergnome, a producer of various multimedia and a member of the Blogher community.

I caught the two of them at SXSW and asked them to tell me what they've learned about conference organizing in a Web 2.0 world.