More than a year ago, to help foster the growing community of artists/technologists in the Pacific Northwest, we organized a workshop bringing together key stakeholders in the region, as a collaboration between Microsoft Research, Cornish College of the Arts, and the Genius Foundation. The workshop was structured as a focus group including a brief questionnaire to generate feedback for how to best support this community. 
In August 2015, we presented a paper summarizing the lessons learned from the workshop at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2015. Perhaps one of the most interesting challenges we discussed during this session, is the difficulty in helping interdisciplinary communities collaborate, particularly given their different professional constraints.