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