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 # Overview
 
-DMV (Delaware-Maryland-Viriginia) RSE is a regional affinity group for professionals in RSE (and RSE-adjacent) disciplines serving as an informal gathering for interested professionals to connect, learn about and advocate for RSE (local initiatives and broadly).  
+DMV (Delaware-Maryland-Viriginia) RSE is a regional affinity group for professionals in RSE and RSE-adjacent disciplines. We organize informal gatherings where interested professionals can connect and learn from each other.
 
 # Membership
 
-DMV-RSE is open to anyone who considers themselves a research software engineer and work or are otherwise professionally active in the DMV area, regardless of job title or domain. This includes workers in academic research (students, postdocs, and professors), as well as RSE professionals in government, industry and other sectors (e.g. non-profit orgs).  
+DMV-RSE is open to anyone who considers themselves a research software engineer and lives in the DMV area, regardless of job title or domain. This includes workers in academic research (students, postdocs, and professors), as well as RSE professionals in government, industry and other sectors (e.g. non-profit orgs).  
 
-Membership is open to all [US-RSE members](https://us-rse.org/join/).
+To stay informed, please:
 
-To join, contact one of the coordinators on the US-RSE slack (see the [Questions?](#questions) section below).
+* Join [US-RSE](https://us-rse.org/join/).
+* Subscribe to event announcements by joining one of:
+  * The `#rg-dmv-rse` channel on the US-RSE slack.
+  * Our [Google group](https://groups.google.com/a/us-rse.org/g/rg-dmv-rse)
+  * Our [Meetup group](https://www.meetup.com/dc-research-software-engineers/)
+
+If you are interested in giving a talk or have other ideas for a future meetup, please contact one of the coordinators (see the [Questions?](#questions) section below).
 
 # Activities
 
-We primarily organize in-person meetups (approximately every 2-3 months) hosted at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology in Washington DC. Each meetup consists of an invited talk by a guest speaker on a focused RSE topic with time for networking before and after. The event is followed by a happy hour in a nearby bar.
+We organize in-person meetups approximately every 2-3 months. These are currently hosted at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology in Washington DC. Each meetup consists of an invited talk by a guest speaker on a focused RSE topic with time for networking before and after. The event is followed by a dinner/happy hour at a nearby restaurant.
 
 ## Upcoming meetups
 
+- January 22, 2025, topic TBD
+
 ## Archive of past meetups
 
 - DMV-RSE #1, Sep 26, 2024: Data Pipelines. [https://lu.ma/n1yxzw4a]()
 
 # Group coordinators
 
-- [Jennifer Melot](https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/jennifer-melot/), Technical Lead for the Emerging Technology Observatory initiative at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology's, managing a small engineering team and building data pipelines and web applications.
+- [Jennifer Melot](https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/jennifer-melot/), Technical Lead for the Emerging Technology Observatory initiative at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, managing a small engineering team and building data pipelines and web applications.
 - [Kristijan Armeni](https://www.kristijanarmeni.net), Assistant Research Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, working at the intersection of computational cognitive neuroscience, AI, and language
 
 # Questions?