In Seattle, we have done cross-pollination recently
with TA3M by
speaking at their meetings. These events are more about networking
and information exchange between technologists and information
activists than they are about recruiting new contributors, but I
think we all would agree that we enjoy these events. I think we
should at least document our speakers and the subjects of our
presentations as they relate to Wikimedia. (I may give a presentation
in November, subject TBD. In July, J-mo gave a research presentation,
and this month I gave a brief intro to SeaFOSS and the IEG program).
I've heard that in NYC, the largest TA3M city event, Wikipedians use
TA3M to meet once a month in NYC in person. Maybe there are other
NYC-area Wikipedia events, but TA3M is used for some NYC Wikipedian
face time.
When I helped co-create TA3M Seattle, I was hoping for
cross-polination of information exchange between all the local tecnology
user groups, and I was hoping for some Open Data coverage, beyond more
Open Source, so I'm very happy to see Wikipedia involved with TA3M
Seattle!
Thanks for speaking at TA3M, J-Mo, and Pine, and Mako! And thanks
for Lane for initially getting TA3M and local Wikipedians
connected!
Lee