I saw two news items this week that might be of interest to the Boston group:
- The WMF is seeking a Wikipedian to serve as a full-time fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The goal is to help use the Belfer Center's resources to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics such as nuclear security. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/26/can-you-help-wikipedians-collaborate-w...
- Harvard's libraries have put the metadata on 12 million items in their collection in the public domain: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/04/24/2b2keverythingismiscbig-data-for-... metadata consists of information about books, such as sizes, and sometimes tables of contents.
Best, Gabe