CommunityData:Related seminars at UW

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

UW Meetings and Seminars

• 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.
  • dub mailing lists are the safest way to stay connected.
  • Upcoming DUB Seminar calendar (ICS calendar feed)
• The Center for Statistics and Social Sciences (CSSS) has a weekly seminar that tends to be technical but good.
  • CSSS seminar email list
  • ICS calendar feed
• eScience Institute "advances data-intensive discovery in all fields."
  • There's a (not that great) calendar of upcoming eScience events
  • escience_bbl is an email list for an escience brown-bag lunch that, as far as I can tell, does not happen anymore. It's a good source of information about events.
• 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.
  • reproducible@uw.edu mailman list
• 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.
• Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) is a group at the iSchool. Meeting are rare but they sometimes and advertise them.
  • tascha-share — a mailman list for information sharing around TASCHA folks
• UW Data Science Seminar — This seminar has been fantastic.
  • dataseminar@uw.edu — the announcement list for seminars
• Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia — Distinguished lecture are common and, if they're in our area, they tend to be good.
  • The Colloquia and Distinguished Lecture Viewing Options includes lots of options for viewing online as well as links to Atom and RSS2 calendar feeds.
  • talks@cs.washington.edu — The CSE talks announcement list.
• Communication Colloquia — Usually held on Wednesday afternooon from 3:30-5pm.
  • com-colloquium@uw.edu is purportedly for announce colloquia but it is not reliably used.
  • Department of Communication Events Calendar — includes four separate Google Calendar feeds and is kept much more up-to-date.
• Change — UW's ICT4D group.
  • Mailman announcement list

Non-UW groups/meetings working in adjacent spaces

• Cascadia Wikimedians User Group — The Seattle-based group working on wikis and Wikipedia work in the local area.
  • wikimedia-cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org — mailman list
• SeaFOSS — calendar of local Seattle free/open source software meetups. Not frequently updated, as far as I can tell.
• TA3M-Seattle — Technology Activiy 3rd Monday, Seattle. Meets most third Mondays, often at UW.
• Puget Sound SIGCHI — This seems to be mostly professionals, I think events usually cost money, and they usually sell out.
  • Meetup Group
• Python Data Science Meetup — Basically a meat market but some of the talks look good.
• Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy) — Very active group. See above IRT the meat market thing.
• OpenStreetMap Seattle Meetup — Runs missing maps events and other OSM related projects.