Current Situation
Everyone in the world is having difficult time due to the situation, and I hope you and people around you are doing well.
Changes in Everyday Life
As the situation worsens, the thing in my life has been changing day by day. First of all, I just don’t go out anymore. I order necessities online. I won’t need to go out for those for now, but it may be just because I don’t live with my family meaning that I only have to take care of myself. As for school, we started our complete remote session today (5/19/2020) for the rest of the semester. Since the college had told us before this thing became more realistic, I was ready for it. However, it was still surprising when I first heard about it. The tool our college decided to use is a feature from BlackBoard called Blackboard Collaborate. From my experience in Blackboard, I was expecting things would become much harder like poor connection. However, at least for me, as a student taking lectures, things went surprisingly well and smooth. I appreciate the work of professors and the owner of technologies who made these accessible for us. Surprisingly, there is a better tool that we are switching to from next week. It feels a little wired staying in my room for the whole day, but I have more time to do my stuff. I noticed that it does not necessarily make me working more. I used to think if our college is closer, I would be able to work more or something like this, but that won’t happen. I appreciate that I had access to the library now. The environment is precious and hard to be replaced.
As for what the world will be after it settles, I really have no idea. This could be the most significant event in my life affecting the entire world negatively. However, one thing that’s becoming more certain to me is that the world deeply depends on information technology. It is a silly assumption, but if there is no internet today, for example, there would be more human infractions that presumably make the situation worse.
InkScape
Completed:
- Created a slack group for the team.
Todos:
- Make a final decision on what we are doing for the project
- Complete todos from last week that are not completed yet
I am still waiting for a response to my request to the Website Moderator. However, It doesn’t look like I am going to be accepted, so I will start working on the main project.
Outside Activity
Completed:
- Added an English name to a public hall since it was showing in Japanese in English setting on OSM.
- Edited albums and members section on a Wikipedia page about my favorite Japanese rock band.
Todos:
- Make the band’s English wiki more informational.
- Contribute more to OSM. Editing area around my home town.
- Make at least one edit on one of my classmates’ blogs.