This is a scientific conference to be held May 9-11, 2008, inside World of Warcraft, devoted to research on WoW and on virtual worlds in general. It was proposed by John Bohannon, who creates the Gonzo Scientist feature for the AAAS journal Science. The organizer is William Sims Bainbridge, a social and information scientist, whose conference e-mail address is wsbainbridge@gmail.com and whose personal website is HERE.

 N.B.: Bill will be out of contact April 24-27 while attending the Cultures of Virtual Worlds conference in Irvine, California.  Guild members, please invite sincere conference participants to the guild, and he will send them starter packs when he returns.