{"id":1533,"date":"2024-01-16T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2024-01-17T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T08:27:40","slug":"moving-to-leipzig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/moving-to-leipzig\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Leipzig and the year ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late 2023 ended with a move to Leipzig. The move was driven by a switch back to full-time contracting in June 2023, and the desire to move to a bigger city again.<\/p>\n<p>Leipzig provides a medium-sized city with an amazing cultural legacy, especially so around <a href=\"https:\/\/english.leipzig.de\/leisure-culture-and-tourism\/music-and-theatre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">music<\/a>. The public transport links are good and the swap from the Southern German connections of Switzerland, Austria, and the Black Forest, is for Eastern Europe and Northern Germany.<\/p>\n<p>There are still challenges ahead I am sure (my immigration status here in Germany always feels very fragile as a contractor; my second to last new start in a new country coincided with the beginning of a worldwide pandemic&#8230;). So I don&#8217;t always feel confident moving to a place and saying, <em>here I am, this is where you are going to find me for the next few years<\/em> but I am hoping I can say this with Leipzig.<\/p>\n<h2>Opportunities in Leipzig?<\/h2>\n<p>My current contract is a long-term contract working in the Web3 space, but it also offers me time during my week to look at other projects.<\/p>\n<p>In Leipzig I am hoping to attend some meetups and there are always personal projects I am working on contributing to my field of expertise.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping while I am here I will get the opportunity to meet like-minded digital preservation and open-source software folk. Possibly at conventions, or just around and about and possibly getting together to talk about new ideas, projects, and tooling.<\/p>\n<p>I will keep an eye out for local events and opportunities too. I hope the proximity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnb.de\/DE\/Benutzung\/Leipzig\/leipzig_node.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deutsche Nationalbibliothek<\/a> will attract the odd conference or seminar.<\/p>\n<p>I have been looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/talk-using-a-custom-wikibase-with-siegfried\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikidata<\/a> related tooling for the last few years and I have also been exploring the decentralized web, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/activitypub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ActivityPub<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/emilebosch\/awesome-fediverse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fediverse<\/a>, and I&#8217;m keen to understand how to decentralize more of our work in archives and digital preservation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I will continue to look at avenues for democratizing the different aspects of digital preservation. I have been testing ideas about how to positively impact the environment that might turn into something fun (and hopefully also useful). I continue to think about didactic solutions for the field as well but I am also very happy to talk to people about working together or their needs.<\/p>\n<h2>Reach out!<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in Leipzig or the area, say hi! It&#8217;d be great and see if there is anything we can work on together or even just to grab a coffee in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stadtgeschichtliches-museum-leipzig.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oldest coffee house in Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Services<\/h3>\n<p>If you are an organization or company looking for more formal consultation, research, or training, then reach out via my <a href=\"https:\/\/ross-spencer.github.io\/services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">services page<\/a> to setup a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about my skills via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ross-spencer-b6b9b758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/cv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>The year ahead!<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to pause after the long move (moving 500km across Germany and finding short-term accommodation is hard!).<\/p>\n<p>Professionally we&#8217;re doing some exciting things with Orcfax and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkly.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arkly.io<\/a> &#8212; the different paradigms that we are working with make for a lot of novel solutions thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m cooking up a few things for myself and working on one or two projects with other folk but it&#8217;s a little too early to talk about those just yet. As for engaging with the community, I&#8217;ll continue to stay abreast of what&#8217;s going on and trying to amplify the best work that is going on out there. I really haven&#8217;t an idea what to expect from the year ahead but I&#8217;m excited to see what comes up.<\/p>\n<p>The year also begins with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/national-digital-forum_it-is-with-deep-sadness-that-we-announce-activity-7150670537126486016-7Lep?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sad news<\/a> personally and for the community so my thoughts are with many friends affected right now.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to move on from there but I will wish the best new years possible for those reading and the best of health for the year ahead. 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