The KC Game Dev Universe and KC Crowdfunding Universe crossover issue you've been waiting for! I'm going to present some of my data from scraping Kickstarter, and surely some other things will happen! Here's a link to the crowdfunding meetup event:
http://www.meetup.com/Crowdfunding-Kansas-City/events/185413542/
Feel free to sign up for their group if you'd like to be notified of future crowdfunding meetups
See you there!