I plan to attend, and can video the talks if desired. Pine
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Blibbet <[email protected]> wrote: > This Monday's TA3M, based at UW, features 2 speakers, one of which is > about Wikipedia! > > ----------Original Message---------- > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:51:56 -0700 > From: Blibbet <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [announce] July 21st: TA3M Seattle meeting > > What: July 2014's TA3M-Seattle meeting > When: Monday, July 21st 2014, 7:00-9:00pm > Where: University of Washington (main campus), > Paul G. Allen Center For Computer Science & > Engineering (CSE), Room CSE 403 > <http://uw.edu/maps/?cse> > <http://www.washington.edu/maps/> > > We're meeting at the UW campus, same location as last month: UW CSE > 403, in the Paul Allen Center, 185th NE Stevens Way. The building has > several entrances, the 'main' entrance is the one that gets marked on > google when you search for "3785 Benton Ln, Seattle, WA 98105". If > doors are locked after hours, we'll have someone at this main entrance > to let people in. The elevators are on the left, once you exit the > elevator on the fourth floor, 403 is on your left about 20 feet. > > This month we have Jonathan Morgan of Wikimedia Foundation giving an > introduction to Wikipedia, an essential skill for modern citizens. > > We also have Professor Ryan Calo of the Tech Policy Lab, speaking on > Privacy! > > Justin, one of the TA3M Seattle team, will be leading this month, his > first time! > > ====== > > Schedule: > > 7:00-7:15, Justin: welcome > 7:15-7-??, break? > ?:??-?-??, Jonathan: Wikipedia > ?:??-?-??, break > ?:??-9:00, Ryan: Privacy > > ====== > > Presentation 1: > > Introduction to Wikipdia > by Jonathan T Morgan > > Jonathan will be talking about the Community Data Science Workshops > that he ran with Mako at UW in during April/May 2014, as well as a > series of webinars he's currently running for the Wikimedia > Foundation. Both activities are geared towards teaching people with no > previous experience in programming or data science how to leverage open > datasets and free web-based tools to ask and answer interesting > questions. > > Jonathan is a Research Strategist in the Grantmaking Learning & > Evaluation team at the Wikimedia Foundation, and has have worked for > Wikimedia since 2011. In 2013, he earned his PhD in Human Centered > Design & Engineering from UW, the dissertation was called "Coordinating > the Commons: Diversity & Dynamics of Open Collaborations". > > ====== > > Presentation 2: > > Consumers and Privacy > by Ryan Calo > > "Ryan Calo will talk about why companies do, but shouldn't, treat > consumers like guinea pigs." > > < > http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/what-does-it-really-matter-if-companies-are-tracking-us-online/278692/ > > > > Professor Ryan Calo is Faculty Director of the Tech Policy > Lab <http://techpolicylab.org/> University of Washington, amongst many > other things. His full bio is at: > <http://www.law.washington.edu/directory/Profile.aspx?ID=713&vw=bio> > > ====== > > About TA3M Seattle: > > TA3M-Seattle (Techno-Activism, 3rd Mondays) is a monthly event focusing > on online surveillance and censorship, open access, and open > technology. We focus on the open source tools that are used to combat > it, and issues and initiatives associated with this area. We bring > together software developers, activists, concerned citizens, and > others, so we they can both educate each other, and share knowledge. > There are TA3M groups in many cities worldwide; Seattle started in > August 2013. For more details, please read the wiki and the announce > list archives. > <http://seattle.ta3m.net> > <https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:seattle> > <https://lists.openitp.org/pipermail/ta3m-seattle/> > > ====== > > EOF > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >
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