Just posted the following on the Metaverse U Conference website:

I am very happy to announce that the next Metaverse U Conference also will take place at Stanford University. We have booked a great that holds about 150 people so we are aiming for something more focused for this second iteration of the conference.

Organized by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, the Stanford Humanities Lab and the Preserving Virtual Worlds project of the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information ResourcesPlay-Machinima-Law, is a two-day conference to be held at Stanford University on Friday and Saturday, April 24th-25th, 2009.

About a year ago today I co-founded the Stanford Open Source Lab with some likeminded people. In celebration of this we are putting on an (un)conference tomorrow, Friday Nov. 14^th 2008, from 12 noon to about 7ish. The event takes place at Wallenberg Hall on the Stanford campus and is free and open to all interested parties. You will find all the details the Open Source Lab Wiki.

On February 16-17 2008 SHL hosted the Metaverse U Conference at Stanford University. Over two days attendees from across industry and academia interacted with leading thinkers on virtual worlds. A portion of the contributions from our sponsoring partners was spent to enable anyone to attend the full conference for free via Second Life. We were delighted to see the community get behind this mixed reality approach when participants from 5 different continents showed up. Virtual attendees were given equal footing in the Q&As with us alternating questions from the room and Second Life.