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Prague Day Four, In Which the Work Begins
Sep. 3rd, 2019 07:43 pmToday was the start of RWoT9, located in Paralelní Polis, also the home of Bitcoin Coffee. Where, yes, you pay for your coffee with Bitcoin (or Litecoin). But the coffee cafe is closed for the next few days, accommodating us.
The day pretty much flew by. It seemed like we went from the 8am start to the 6pm end without pause.
The morning was a little stressful because we were wrangling over definitions. I'd come into the workshop with some hope of getting support to expand my glossary of RWoT terms. But, we have another attendee who has a process for creating terminologies which is very precise and systematic, and he wanted to try it at RWoT and see if it could be generalized. But, he already tried it at RWoT8 and the group fell apart. So we came to (polite) logger heads over this twice in our early groups. And it was all for naught, because when we got to the organization of people into teams I didn't have enough support to do the paper. Alas.
The afternoon was busy as we organized into our teams, then headed out to prepare our abstracts for our paper. I decided to help Joe with some work for creating rubrics for measuring the decentralization of DID methods. So that'll be the heart of the next few days.
I always duck out on the organized dinners during the conference, because I've had my share of people, and can't do a day of people followed by a night of people, with more people planned for the next day. (I usually attend the dinner on the last night, though often that just about kills me from exhaustion ... depending on the people, of course, as I've had some great last-night convos too.) Unfortunately our area here, out in the Holesovice corner of Prague seems to be mostly fancier dining than I like. With a very few exceptions. So I instead tried a doner kebab place which got good ratings saying that for being so cheap it should be terrible, but isn't. High praise. It was indeed very tasty, and hopefully not too spicy.
Anywho, one day rushed by, three more to go.
The day pretty much flew by. It seemed like we went from the 8am start to the 6pm end without pause.
The morning was a little stressful because we were wrangling over definitions. I'd come into the workshop with some hope of getting support to expand my glossary of RWoT terms. But, we have another attendee who has a process for creating terminologies which is very precise and systematic, and he wanted to try it at RWoT and see if it could be generalized. But, he already tried it at RWoT8 and the group fell apart. So we came to (polite) logger heads over this twice in our early groups. And it was all for naught, because when we got to the organization of people into teams I didn't have enough support to do the paper. Alas.
The afternoon was busy as we organized into our teams, then headed out to prepare our abstracts for our paper. I decided to help Joe with some work for creating rubrics for measuring the decentralization of DID methods. So that'll be the heart of the next few days.
I always duck out on the organized dinners during the conference, because I've had my share of people, and can't do a day of people followed by a night of people, with more people planned for the next day. (I usually attend the dinner on the last night, though often that just about kills me from exhaustion ... depending on the people, of course, as I've had some great last-night convos too.) Unfortunately our area here, out in the Holesovice corner of Prague seems to be mostly fancier dining than I like. With a very few exceptions. So I instead tried a doner kebab place which got good ratings saying that for being so cheap it should be terrible, but isn't. High praise. It was indeed very tasty, and hopefully not too spicy.
Anywho, one day rushed by, three more to go.