There is a Semantic Web meetup on Thursday (7/19) evening at the New York Times, featuring Denny Vrandečić of the Wikidata project as one of the speakers.  

You are welcome to come, even if you are not a technical person.

http://www.meetup.com/semweb-25/events/72930342/

Cheers,
Katie Filbert


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Board member, Wikimedia District of Columbia
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