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Here's my official write-up of day three of the RWOT5 Design Workshop:
Here's what I didn't write in the official record:
Tuesday was the most tiring day, in large part due to many hours of listening to presentations (and actively recording them). However, today was the busiest. I jumped up, worked in Joe's group to do some brainstorming, bounced to Lionel's group to offer some feedback, bounced to Joe's group to do some writing, then during the final plenary was simultaneously taking notes, updating our draft documents contents, and writing up the above synopsis of the final day. Whew!
Also, I've come to feel really confident with all this identity stuff. I feel like I was able to speak very articulately and offer insightful points and good explanations several times, and I no longer have any fear of speaking up to the whole group. Which is kinda cool.
After the workshop, I had dinner with my old friend Bill F., who gamed with us for years in Berkeley before moving eastward. It was great to catch up with him, to remember old times and old friends and to catch up with where we are now.
He's been out to California several times since he moved, but it's different to get to talk in person on a one-on-one basis. It was terrific to get to do so!
And I was super-touched and super-honored to learn that he'd considered me to be his best man at his wedding if his son hadn't been comfortable with it.
Anywho, the whole get-together was a high-point of an entirely good day.
I took the train back a bit, then walked the rest.
I perhaps shouldn't have done the walking, though it was so beautifully temperate outside, and all around a very pleasant walk.
That's because I have a blister on the right foot that's been getting worse the whole time. I've walked a lot while out here, but I also packed dress socks for the three days of the conference, then walked 4-6 miles each day in them. Whoops! But when I packed I was expecting to me 8 or 9 blocks from our work space, not 3 miles.
Thankfully, Heather, my apartment-mate these last days, had a big bandaid. I hope that'll be enough to keep it from worsening tomorrow.
Because tomorrow I once again get to see Boston, not just white boards and computer screens.
(What follows: Vacation Day, Flight Day, Weekend Day, then five workdays, before the next trip ...)
The final day of the Web of Trust design workshops tends to be the quietest day. We get started a little later and then have a shorter day. Today we had six hours to finish up work on our papers, to get them to a first draft before we split apart and headed back to our homes.
Amazingly, rather than losing a few papers over the course of the workshop, this time they multiplied. The 8-9 planned papers, specs, and code repos blossomed to 16 by this final day. Some of the outputs were relatively short, such as a DID template and some DID method specs, but these are the exact sort of thing that can be valuably generated at a workshop of this type by bringing together all of the involved people and getting them talking.
Substantive work for almost all of the projects was uploaded to the drafts document folder by the end of the day. Overall, this is the highest amount of deliverables that we've ever seen for a RWOT conference, supported in large part by the highest turnout ever. With so much work that is rapidly maturing, it seems likely that we'll also see the largest amount of final work ever, over the next couple of months.
The final day of RWOT5 ended with a look at this fifth conference and at the movement overall. We're planning our next conference somewhere on the west coast, possibly Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Seattle, or Vancouver, possibly in February. The exact date should be announcefd at IIW, in two weeks.
Here's what I didn't write in the official record:
Tuesday was the most tiring day, in large part due to many hours of listening to presentations (and actively recording them). However, today was the busiest. I jumped up, worked in Joe's group to do some brainstorming, bounced to Lionel's group to offer some feedback, bounced to Joe's group to do some writing, then during the final plenary was simultaneously taking notes, updating our draft documents contents, and writing up the above synopsis of the final day. Whew!
Also, I've come to feel really confident with all this identity stuff. I feel like I was able to speak very articulately and offer insightful points and good explanations several times, and I no longer have any fear of speaking up to the whole group. Which is kinda cool.
After the workshop, I had dinner with my old friend Bill F., who gamed with us for years in Berkeley before moving eastward. It was great to catch up with him, to remember old times and old friends and to catch up with where we are now.
He's been out to California several times since he moved, but it's different to get to talk in person on a one-on-one basis. It was terrific to get to do so!
And I was super-touched and super-honored to learn that he'd considered me to be his best man at his wedding if his son hadn't been comfortable with it.
Anywho, the whole get-together was a high-point of an entirely good day.
I took the train back a bit, then walked the rest.
I perhaps shouldn't have done the walking, though it was so beautifully temperate outside, and all around a very pleasant walk.
That's because I have a blister on the right foot that's been getting worse the whole time. I've walked a lot while out here, but I also packed dress socks for the three days of the conference, then walked 4-6 miles each day in them. Whoops! But when I packed I was expecting to me 8 or 9 blocks from our work space, not 3 miles.
Thankfully, Heather, my apartment-mate these last days, had a big bandaid. I hope that'll be enough to keep it from worsening tomorrow.
Because tomorrow I once again get to see Boston, not just white boards and computer screens.
(What follows: Vacation Day, Flight Day, Weekend Day, then five workdays, before the next trip ...)