Cymera November ticket
55gbp (€63.35 / $73.65 / £55)
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conference (16 out of 71)
- Got on eight trains to Copenhagen.
- Attended the Community part of the IATI Members Assembly. Looking forward to the Co-op having even more involvement in the IATI space.
- Saw N after 5.5 years! And hung out in Copenhagen with colleagues.
- Before getting on two trains to Malmo then Stockholm and a ferry to Finland.
- Co-op work.. got our visa sponsorship license after much admin (phew).. Prepped for CoGM in KDY... worked on the business strategy...
- Found an unprecedented 6kg of ceps from two trips to the same woodland .
- And then another 3kg from somewhere else.
- Cooked loads of things with wild mushrooms and garden veg.
- Sunrises.
- Hung out Edinburgh with Tara.
- Went to Fife Pride (with Tara).
- Visited lots of friends, and visited Rhyze, helped by staying in Edinburgh with Tara.
- Read The Joy Luck Club.
- Dad and Ruth came for a visit while I was between trips.
- Went to Rotterdam. Visited Kinderdijk, did touristing, found nature.
- Went to RWOT in Den Haag.
- Generally neglected the gardens.
- Read a bunch of Philip K Dick, but now my extremely old Kindle won't charge.
- Watched all of Our Flag Means Death <3
TPAC 2023
I was on the fence about attending TPAC right from when the idea first entered my head, to the journey there. I'm glad I went though. It was a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and colleagues from the web standards world, and to meet some wonderful new people as well.
The covid precautions taken by the organisers reassured me a lot. It was a four to five hundred person conference, with attendees from all over the world. In spite of relaxed standards taken across most of the rest of the world at this point, we stayed masked, ate outside, and they handed out as many tests as people needed to encourage testing every day. I know a few people who tested positive early on, and attended remotely from their hotel rooms; I hope everyone was so considerate. Last I heard there were a handful of cases reported, and a week later I've avoided it. While wearing masks during a heatwave in Spain for five days running was uncomfortable, I'm glad these were the requirements and I think it was worthwhile. I probably wouldn't have attended without this.
The food was rubbish though; apparently consistently for everyone, not only the vegans :)
The first two days were the most exhausting, and I used up pretty much all of my energy upfront.
I attended the Social CG meeting. I went to the AC meeting, and sat on stage for a TAG panel. I was anxious about this the whole time, as I had carefully arranged my life to avoid public speaking since I left academia, and don't do well thinking on the spot in front of a crowd. Fortunately none of the questions were about anything I had a strong opinion on, so nobody was expecting to hear from me in particular.
I didn't attend many breakouts as I had a few co-op meetings to fit in. I did join the Privacy Task Force breakout, which was a completely packed room, and a surprisingly (sorry, perhaps I'm too cynical) positive discussion. Seems like we're on a good track with the Privacy Principles (though much editorial work remains that I'm on the hook for but not on top of).
At various points I sat in on the RDF Canonicalization and Verifiable Credentials WG meetings. I'm a bit out of the loop, and these meetings were not quite enough to get back into it, but tensions seem high as various pieces of work near completion. I felt like everyone in that room is well overdue a holiday.
In between all of this I spent time in the "hallway track", having excellent conversations.
I was so happy I got to spend time with half of the TAG (Dan, Hadley, Tess, Sangwhan, Lea); as well as Evan, Tantek, Arnaud, Brent, Joe, Juan, Michiel, Amy, Sam, ... ; and Dmitri and Manu however briefly. I also made some amazing new connections, including Lola, Elena, and a bunch of people from Igalia who I was keen to talk about co-ops with. There were plenty of people there I wish I could have managed to see more of, too.
It was an intense week, and I haven't really looked at my email since, but I suspect I have a lot of things to follow up on. I took the scenic route back, via Morocco and Gibraltar, in an attempt to decompress before my whole-co-op meeting next week...
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Five days in Sevilla for TPAC. Reconnecting with old friends and colleagues, and making new ones. I didn't do much touristing, but did manage to find decent vegan tapas. An exhausting but worthwhile week.
I budgeted wrong and used all of my social energy up on Monday, day 1 of this 5 day conference.
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Paris to Toulouse 🚅
Leaving Paris, France at 10:12pm (+02:00) on Saturday the 9th of September 2023 and arriving in Toulouse, France at 7:07am (+02:00) on Sunday the 10th of September 2023
Onwards to TPAC
London to Paris 🚅
Leaving London, UK at 12:31pm (+02:00) on Saturday the 9th of September 2023 and arriving in Paris, France at 3:48pm (+02:00) on Saturday the 9th of September 2023
Onwards to TPAC
Feeling fancy that my agenda for today involves lunch in London and dinner in Paris.
The rest of my agenda involves spending the entire weekend on trains, to get from Fife to Sevilla for W3C TPAC. Pretty sure I'm not going to be able to fit in any meals tomorrow at all.)
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Week in review: 13th - 19th March
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Weeks in review: 5th Sept - 2nd Oct
This month was too busy to keep on top of posting, so I've lumped them into one as best I can.
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Edinburgh to Dysart 🚌
Leaving Edinburgh, Scotland at 5:25pm (+01:00) on Sunday the 2nd of October 2022 and arriving in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland at 6:45pm (+01:00) on Sunday the 2nd of October 2022
Final return from RWOT.
Den Haag to Hoek van Holland ⟿
Leaving Den Haag, Netherlands at 4:00pm (+02:00) on Saturday the 1st of October 2022 and arriving in Hoek van Holland, Netherlands at 8:00pm (+02:00) on Saturday the 1st of October 2022
Wander down the beach to the ferry port..
Hoek van Holland to Harwich ⟿
Leaving Hoek van Holland, Netherlands at 10:00pm (+02:00) on Saturday the 1st of October 2022 and arriving in Harwich, United Kingdom at 5:30am (+01:00) on Sunday the 2nd of October 2022
Return from RWOT11
Ferry from Hoek van Holland to Harwich
193eur (expensed) (€193 / $189.23)
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🗁Added 21 photos to album NL, Sept 2022.
A busy week in Den Haag at the Rebooting the Web of Trust conference. I was mostly on the registration desk and helping people with any issues as they arose. Oh, and organising good dinner venues of course.
Pictured: Dim Sum at Full Moon City. Pizza from Vegan Pizza Bar. Breakfast at Club Vers. Also one evening was a trip back to Rotterdam Markthal (and I detoured to Vegan Junk Food Bar again).
Rotterdam to Den Haag 🚅
Leaving Rotterdam, Netherlands at 5:23pm (+02:00) on Sunday the 25th of September 2022 and arriving in Den Haag, Netherlands at 6:01pm (+02:00) on Sunday the 25th of September 2022
To Den Haag for RWOT.
Eurostar to AMS
68gbp (expensed) (€77.87 / $76.84 / £68)
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