A Six-State Virtual Government Information Conference will be held in August. This is not a WebJunction event, but the organizers are using WebJunction.org to provide information about the conference. Here is what the announcement reads (as published in the Government Information in the 21st Century section):

Join your colleagues from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming (the Six States) in our first online conference. This conference will take place August 11-13 and 16-17, 2010. It will be a free conference open to all, but we ask that all attendees register.

We’ll kick off the conference with a keynote presentation by Gabriela Schneider, communications director for the Sunlight Foundation, a national organization that promotes transparency and accountability in government focused on digitization of government data and easy info accessibility for all. We’re also planning exciting sessions on using Census data, tracking use of e-resources, maps and GIS, and more. A preliminary schedule is posted on the conference website.

Schedule conflicts? Don’t worry. You can attend any or all of the sessions or view the archived presentations at a later date.

To participate you need an internet connection, OPAL conference software pre-loaded on your computer, speakers and a microphone (optional). Additional information can be found at the conference website.

This sounds like a great (and free!) opportunity!