The painting on the left I gave myself as a present at the end of December. The title is City Lights, and I like the explosion of color, and patterning in rectangles and triangles. It’s made by Hungarian artist Pető Csenge, and I bought it from her directly. It was unframed and to get it framed I had to wait for the framer to be open again after the lifting of some of the lock down measures. A little over a week ago I went and selected a dark blue frame, and picked the framed painting up last Saturday. It now hangs on my home office wall, and I like the result, also in combination with the photo next to it, that echoes the color scheme and division in different squares.
A week that saw me return to a more regular state. I’m writing this on Monday evening, which is a holiday and feels like it is actually Sunday evening. So I missed my regular moment of posting week notes. I’ll post date this to yesterday when I publish.
This week I
Did the monthly invoicing for my company
Also met payroll for the same. It’s actually a source of satisfaction every month that I send out those payments to our team.
Had the weekly client meetings
Discussed the paths forward for the national program on satellite data provision, in response and anticipation of the upcoming EU legal framework, for the topic to be included in the interdepartmental discussions on this program
Had a board meeting of the NGO I chair
Particpated in the Open Government Alliance’s first session, a network of various stakeholders around the Dutch Open Government Action Plan
Created and gave two presentations on the proposed EU legal framework for digitisation, AI and data use, which I think were both well received. Specifically it seemed a novel notion to treat the half dozen now proposed legal instruments as part of a whole and as a system, which articulates the EU’s geopolitical position on everything digital and data.
Went into town to get one of the presents for Y’s birthday coming week
Had the quarterly session with the Tactical Council on EU information, which advices the Dutch Geo Information council
Prepared a session next week for a client with the JRC
Picked up the painting, silk screen print and photo print I had framed.
Did some work in the garden, planting some vegetables with Y.
But first, coffee. Neon sign in a coffee / icecream place in our neighbourhood.