This Monday's TA3M, based at UW, features 2 speakers, one of which is
about Wikipedia!
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:51:56 -0700
From: Blibbet <blibbet(a)gmail.com>
To: <ta3m-seattle(a)lists.openitp.org>
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!
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Schedule:
7:00-7:15, Justin: welcome
7:15-7-??, break?
?:??-?-??, Jonathan: Wikipedia
?:??-?-??, break
?:??-9:00, Ryan: Privacy
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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".
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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>
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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/>
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