Networking

You should have something to offer this person besides an item on their to-do list. It's pretty easy both to meet people and to offer them something, even if it's just like a little, little happy stroke to their ego. If they tweet, you could, I don't know, you go like their tweets. And if they're working on some project, you can use it and then give feedback on it. Some way to introduce yourself that isn't just like, Hey, I'm a stranger. Can you help me with this thing?"