The Hague, Day 8: The End (of this RWOT)
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shannon_aI had to look up my past entries to figure out what day of the trip it was. It's my 8th day in Holland (but the 10th day of my trip since I layed-over in San Jose after the first 6 hours of air flight). It's increasingly a blur since it's been constantly busy days without any of my usual week markers.
Anyway, we finished RWOT today! Yay! Three years later, we finally held a new event. My group finished perhaps 80% of its paper draft. Today, we split up the writing of four more identity-focused threats among our four team members and each went at it using the model of the threat we wrote together yesterday. It worked out to be a pretty good process, as I thought it would be. Some of us finished, some not quite, and we still need a conclusion, but I'm pretty sure we'll be able to work it out. (We roughed out what still needs to be done, and Kate, who came up with the idea originally, will be leading on that in the coming weeks.)
Today was also the day when I make the rounds to figure out what everyone's paper is and how to contact them after the event, since I'm the editor-in-chief who gets everything finalized from here on out. We have 15 pieces I believe. Based on the last two events, we'll have 7-8 complete. But this year felt like things had progressed more than usual and that we'll have a higher percentage as a result. (I always think we'll have a higher percentage based on peoples' feeling on the last day, but I swear it's different this time, in large part because we _finally_ managed to get people to work in smaller groups, and I think that meant more progress.)
(Today was probably also my day of greatest potential COVID exposure, because almost 4 days after the poster session, we're spot-on at the average incubation period of the current strains of COVID. Meanwhile, when I met people in their personal writing groups, most of them were unmasked, though I was not.)
We did some final group discussions about RWOT after pencils-down at noon, including plans for the future. It looks (fingers crossed) like we're back on schedule for semiyearly workshops, which was always a part of my own plans after we moved to Hawaii, to help give some balance to our more rural urban life, so yay. (And yay to see this design workshop, which offers people creative and progressive work in the identity space unlike anything we know, is going again, irrespective of how it impacts me personally!)
If you wonder what I've been going on about, here's links to the rough, unfinished drafts of papers, as they exist today:
https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot11-the-hague/blob/master/draft-documents/README.md
Neither Chris nor I felt comfortable going to a final dinner tonight, because of COVID concerns. We'll have to see how we can change that in the future, because COVID isn't going away. Perhaps after the bivalent shot?
But we had a good little dinner together at a vegetarian burger place that was quite tasty. Nice to be able to spend time with him while here, as we're now an ocean away.
And so RWOT11 is over!
I have tomorrow scheduled for a fun day, my reward for working through the workshop. Kinda wish I was going home, as it's been a long while away. I'm wanting to see my cats, my Kimberly, and my Taco Bell. But I don't know that I'll be in the Netherlands again, so I'll enjoy that and then head to the airport (too) early on Sunday.
Anyway, we finished RWOT today! Yay! Three years later, we finally held a new event. My group finished perhaps 80% of its paper draft. Today, we split up the writing of four more identity-focused threats among our four team members and each went at it using the model of the threat we wrote together yesterday. It worked out to be a pretty good process, as I thought it would be. Some of us finished, some not quite, and we still need a conclusion, but I'm pretty sure we'll be able to work it out. (We roughed out what still needs to be done, and Kate, who came up with the idea originally, will be leading on that in the coming weeks.)
Today was also the day when I make the rounds to figure out what everyone's paper is and how to contact them after the event, since I'm the editor-in-chief who gets everything finalized from here on out. We have 15 pieces I believe. Based on the last two events, we'll have 7-8 complete. But this year felt like things had progressed more than usual and that we'll have a higher percentage as a result. (I always think we'll have a higher percentage based on peoples' feeling on the last day, but I swear it's different this time, in large part because we _finally_ managed to get people to work in smaller groups, and I think that meant more progress.)
(Today was probably also my day of greatest potential COVID exposure, because almost 4 days after the poster session, we're spot-on at the average incubation period of the current strains of COVID. Meanwhile, when I met people in their personal writing groups, most of them were unmasked, though I was not.)
We did some final group discussions about RWOT after pencils-down at noon, including plans for the future. It looks (fingers crossed) like we're back on schedule for semiyearly workshops, which was always a part of my own plans after we moved to Hawaii, to help give some balance to our more rural urban life, so yay. (And yay to see this design workshop, which offers people creative and progressive work in the identity space unlike anything we know, is going again, irrespective of how it impacts me personally!)
If you wonder what I've been going on about, here's links to the rough, unfinished drafts of papers, as they exist today:
https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot11-the-hague/blob/master/draft-documents/README.md
Neither Chris nor I felt comfortable going to a final dinner tonight, because of COVID concerns. We'll have to see how we can change that in the future, because COVID isn't going away. Perhaps after the bivalent shot?
But we had a good little dinner together at a vegetarian burger place that was quite tasty. Nice to be able to spend time with him while here, as we're now an ocean away.
And so RWOT11 is over!
I have tomorrow scheduled for a fun day, my reward for working through the workshop. Kinda wish I was going home, as it's been a long while away. I'm wanting to see my cats, my Kimberly, and my Taco Bell. But I don't know that I'll be in the Netherlands again, so I'll enjoy that and then head to the airport (too) early on Sunday.