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In addition to the weekly lab meetings, there are a variety of other things you might want to consider signing up for.
In addition to the weekly lab meetings, there are a variety of other things you might want to consider signing up for.


== UW Reading Groups ==
== UW Meetings and Seminars ==
 
* [[Sociotechnocanonicon]] — Our very own great books discussion series allows members of the CDSC to build their familiarity with some of the classic works which are foundational in studies of online communities and peer production. Typically runs only in summers. Contact [[Mako]] in the late spring/early summer if you'd like to be involved and are not on the collective@ mailing list.
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/uw-scrg UW Social Computing Reading Group] — A weekly meeting, run four quarters a year. Folks sign to "host" which means suggesting a paper. Mostly folks from HCDE, the iSchool, and Communication.
** [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/uw-scrg Google Group] — You have to be added to the list. Contact [[Mako]] to have your email added.
 
== UW talks series, colloquia, and seminars ==


* [http://dub.washington.edu/ dub] — "Design Use Build" is a backronym that describes a very broad group of folks working on humans and computers. There is a weekly seminar (Wednesdays 12:00-2ish, free lunch). Maybe 25% of talks are of interest.
* [http://dub.washington.edu/ dub] — "Design Use Build" is a backronym that describes a very broad group of folks working on humans and computers. There is a weekly seminar (Wednesdays 12:00-2ish, free lunch). Maybe 25% of talks are of interest.
** [http://dub.washington.edu/gettinginvolved.html#tab_mailing_lists dub mailing lists] are the safest way to stay connected.
** [http://dub.washington.edu/gettinginvolved.html#tab_mailing_lists dub mailing lists] are the safest way to stay connected.
** [http://dub.washington.edu/calendar.html Upcoming DUB Seminar calendar] ([http://dub.washington.edu/calendar.ics ICS calendar feed])
** [http://dub.washington.edu/calendar.html Upcoming DUB Seminar calendar] ([http://dub.washington.edu/calendar.ics ICS calendar feed])
** [https://uwdub.slack.com/ DUB Slack] is actually used. There's a #digitalyouth tag which is probably of interest to a number of folks here.
* [https://www.csss.washington.edu/ The Center for Statistics and Social Sciences (CSSS)] has [https://www.csss.washington.edu/seminars/current-quarter a weekly seminar] that tends to be technical but good.  
* [https://www.csss.washington.edu/ The Center for Statistics and Social Sciences (CSSS)] has [https://csss.uw.edu/index.php/seminars a weekly seminar] that tends to be technical but good.  
** [http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/csss-seminar CSSS seminar email list]
** [http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/csss-seminar CSSS seminar email list]
** [https://admin.stat.washington.edu/v1/calendars/csss-seminars?format=ics ICS calendar feed]
** [https://admin.stat.washington.edu/v1/calendars/csss-seminars?format=ics ICS calendar feed]
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* [https://uwescience.github.io/reproducible/ Reproducibility and Open Science Working Group] is a group, associated with eScience, that is working on issues of reproducible research. There are some meetings, but they're infrequent. The email list is pretty low traffic and decent.
* [https://uwescience.github.io/reproducible/ Reproducibility and Open Science Working Group] is a group, associated with eScience, that is working on issues of reproducible research. There are some meetings, but they're infrequent. The email list is pretty low traffic and decent.
** [http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/reproducible reproducible@uw.edu] mailman list
** [http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/reproducible reproducible@uw.edu] mailman list
* [http://escience.washington.edu/about-us/working-groups/uw-data-science-studies/ Data Science Studies Group] — List for work that is about ''studying'' data science and data scientists. Tends to be heavy on qualitative and critical work and questions of ethics, privacy, and data science thnography.
** [http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/escience_datasciencestudies escience_datasciencestudies@uw.edu] — Data Science Studies List
* [https://www.hcde.washington.edu/seminar-series HCDE Seminar Series] is a class taught each fall that is (mostly) outside speakers in CSCW that is also a set of open talks. There are usually quite good things! If there's a list, I'm not sure where it is. In any case, announcements seem to be all sent to DUB.  
* [https://www.hcde.washington.edu/seminar-series HCDE Seminar Series] is a class taught each fall that is (mostly) outside speakers in CSCW that is also a set of open talks. There are usually quite good things! If there's a list, I'm not sure where it is. In any case, announcements seem to be all sent to DUB.  
* [http://tascha.uw.edu/ Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA)] is a group at the iSchool. Meeting are rare but they do sometimes happen and they are advertised on other lists (like dub).
* [http://tascha.uw.edu/ Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA)] is a group at the iSchool. Meeting are rare but they sometimes and advertise them.
** <strike>[https://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tascha-share tascha-share] — a mailman list for information sharing around TASCHA folks</strike> (this group is closed; no idea how to stay up-to-date on TASCHA specific events)
** [https://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tascha-share tascha-share] — a mailman list for information sharing around TASCHA folks
* [http://data.uw.edu/seminar/ UW Data Science Seminar] — This seminar has been fantastic. Big budget, presumably, and brings in complete stars in the field.
* [http://data.uw.edu/seminar/ UW Data Science Seminar] — This seminar has been fantastic.
** [http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dataseminar/ dataseminar@uw.edu] — the announcement list for seminars
** [http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dataseminar/ dataseminar@uw.edu] — the announcement list for seminars
* [https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia] — Distinguished lecture are common and, if they're in our area, they tend to be good.  
* [https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia] — Distinguished lecture are common and, if they're in our area, they tend to be good.  
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** [https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/talks talks@cs.washington.edu] — The CSE talks announcement list.
** [https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/talks talks@cs.washington.edu] — The CSE talks announcement list.
* Communication Colloquia — Usually held on Wednesday afternooon from 3:30-5pm.
* Communication Colloquia — Usually held on Wednesday afternooon from 3:30-5pm.
** [https://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/com-colloquium com-colloquium@uw.edu] is purportedly for announcing colloquia but it is not reliably used.
** [https://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/com-colloquium com-colloquium@uw.edu] is purportedly for announce colloquia but it is not reliably used.
** [http://www.com.washington.edu/calendar/ Department of Communication Events Calendar] — includes four separate Google Calendar feeds and is kept much more up-to-date.
** [http://www.com.washington.edu/calendar/ Department of Communication Events Calendar] — includes four separate Google Calendar feeds and is kept much more up-to-date.
* [http://change.washington.edu/ Change] — UW's [[:wikipedia:ICT4D|ICT4D]] group.
* [http://change.washington.edu/ Change] — UW's ICT4D group.
** [http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change Mailman announcement list]
** [http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change Mailman announcement list]
* [https://simpsoncenter.org/ The Simpson Center for the Humanities] hosts lectures and microseminars with STS and digital humanities scholars. Not always relevant, but the source of some of the most high profile speakers at UW — especially the yearly Katz lecture. 
** [https://simpsoncenter.org/calendar/ Simpson Center events calendar] is regularly updated.
** Sign up for their [https://simpsoncenter.org/about/connect/weekly-email weekly email].
* [http://techpolicylab.org/ Tech Policy Lab UW] — A collaboration between CSE, the law school, and the iSchool. Tends to have 3-4 very high-profile and excellent talks each year. These are usually big talks in Kane and usually "require" RSVP/tickets. In practice, you can just show up.
** [https://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/techpolicylab techpolicylab@uw.edu] — Email announcement list for the lab.
** [https://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tech_policy tech_policy@uw.edu] — List to "Share events at and around UW related to technology policy." In practice, this tends to be a semi-regular happy hour that is mostly local lawyers working on tech policy work.
** [http://techpolicylab.org/lectures/ Lecture Page] which includes video recordings of recent lectures.
* '''High Performance Computing Club''' — Often runs classes and talks related to Hyak and other HPC related topics.
** [http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/hpc-list hpc-list@uw.edu] — mailman list
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/uw-citsci-community UW CitSci Google Group] — group for citizen science at UW
* [https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/data-science-studies/home/activities/data-then-and-now-seminar?authuser=0 Data Then and Now Series] — mostly STS talks about data with an an emphasis on history
* [http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/digitalyouthlab Digital Youth Lab] — A collection of folks at UW interested in youth and computers. It was active in 2016-2018 but has not been active since then. Maybe worth signing up for? Might just be dead.
* [https://soundcsed.csforallwa.org/ Puget Sound Computer Science Ed Meetup] — Run by Amy Ko and meets 2-3 times a year with a nice collection of CS Ed folks at UW and others from the surround computing. There primary mode of communication is the CS Ed Slack channel and the instructions involve reaching out to Amy Ko (ajko@uw.edu) in order to get online.


== Seattle-based (but Non-UW) groups/meetings ==
== Non-UW groups/meetings working in adjacent spaces ==


* [http://cascadia.wiki/ Cascadia Wikimedians User Group] — The Seattle-based group working on wikis and Wikipedia work in the local area.
* [http://cascadia.wiki/ Cascadia Wikimedians User Group] — The Seattle-based group working on wikis and Wikipedia work in the local area.
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* [https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/ Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy)] — Very active group. See above IRT the meat market thing.
* [https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/ Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy)] — Very active group. See above IRT the meat market thing.
* [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/ OpenStreetMap Seattle Meetup] — Runs missing maps events and other OSM related projects.
* [https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/ OpenStreetMap Seattle Meetup] — Runs missing maps events and other OSM related projects.
* [https://gslug.org/ Greater Seattle Linux User Group]
** #gslug on irc.freenode.net
** [https://gslug.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists Mailing lists] for discussion and announcements
== Online Seminars ==
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase Wikimedia Research Showcase] — Fantastic research showcase that is online on the web the third Wednesday of every month (Pacific time). Announcements go out on the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l wiki-research-l] mailing list as well as the [https://twitter.com/WikiResearch WikiResearch twitter].
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