Week 34, 2022
Monday 22 February to Sunday 28 August 2022.
These notes are inspired by David Buck's first week notes in 4 months. It’s nearly 5 months for me with the last few just being bullet points, which I’ll use to ease myself back in:
Civil service stuff
Cross-government community stuff
- Attended the UK Gov Camp 2023 organisers kick off meeting,
- Chat with civil service colleague about digitalising civil service write round process,
Chat with a fellow One Team Gov member about some interesting work he's doing, Hub team delivery manager
- Jen’s away so this is my 1st week of attending all team ceremonies, rather than just the ones in my normal 1230 to 1700 working hours,
- Fortnightly end / start of sprint ceremonies on Tuesday - no surprises,
- HMPPS delivery manager community of practice - I ran a lean coffee,
- Origins of the hub chat with original member,
- Digital & Communications manager monthly meetup,
- Trip to HMP Erlestoke to deliver training and saw the Westbury White Horse.
Freelance community and unconference stuff
- Ran the monthly community manager's meet-up,
- Got paid for my first freelance unconference organiser job I did last month,
- Chat with fellow Indiependent community member about asynchronous unconferences,
- Chat with another Indiependent community member about a training deliver opportunity.
Personal stuff
- Lunch with David & Nour,
- Stopped my Instapaper subscription,
- Attended Eczema clinic,
- Visit Odd son and family,
- Attended Proms Spectacular at the 3 counties showground,
- Visited Cheltenham for the morning.