HavenFestPVD as the First Thumos Village
Villagers Instead of Vendors
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[1] When this picture of Jairson Ascencao was taken at 2 AM on 1/1/2020, he and Nickantony Quach were spending the very first hours in the New Year working together to develop further the ticketing process for HavenfestPVD. All participants are expected to pay the entrance fee. As soon as you paid the fee, you become a chaser at the Festival. As spelled out by this Coalmont article earlier, a chaser can play the role of a spectator or a vendor, who rents a space at the Festival.
[2] However, Jairson does not like the word vendor as it suggests that the only reason why you rent a space at the Festival is to sell something. This is not true. Anyone can rent a space at the Festival even if sales is not involved. That’s why he proposed the use of rentor, tenant, then settler. Nick does not like any of them. When Jairson proposed the use of villager, Nick asked him to explain why. He was happy to oblige:
Villagers are not visitors of the village. They settled there before they provide any service to visitors. If the service involves sales, they are called vendors. Otherwise, without sales, they’re not vendors.
[3] Nick immediately accepted the argument and agreed to use villager instead of vendor in the ticketing process. Not long after, Nick raised an important question.
“Is the Festival a village?” Asked Nick.
“Yes,” replied Jairson. “It is.”
“What type of village?” Asked Nick.
“A Haven village, I think,” replied Jairson.
“Does that mean there are no plans to spread this around globally?” Asked Nick.
“I’m not sure what you mean,” said Jairson.
“When you think of the type of village that would define this location, what would you call it?” Asked Nick.
… Jairson said nothing.
“Would you say Thumoslang is the official language of this village?” Asked Nick.
“It definitely is,” said Jairson. “That’s how we support each other.”
“Then would it be a Thumos village?” Asked Nick.
“…Yes,” said Jairson, “it would be.”
[16] Nick is the creator of Thumoslang. He is just a dream chaser. It was Jairson who created the concept of Haven at the start of October before he understood the power of Thumoslang. It was Jairson who created the concept HavenfestPVD in late December after he became fluent in Thumoslang. Therefore, Jairson is the first Thumos villager.
[17] Here is a conclusion before Jairson crashed in bed due to the lack of sleep since 5 AM on the last day of 2019. Community organizers in other cities who want to build from scratch a new Thumos village can look at HavenfestPVD as the first model.
Day 99 | Wednesday, 1/1/2020
[18] It’s 3 AM on the first day of 2020. Nick is still totally awake because he woke up from a long nap two hours earlier. He and Jairson have been working around the clock since two days ago in order to get their Festival operational enough to offer HavenfestPVD 2020 Winter Day 1 on the first Monday of the year. All is part of the HavenfestPVD 2020 Winter Season.
[19] It’s 6:40 AM. Nick woke Jairson up. He caught an early bus home with a plan to return for work on Festival ticketing in six hours. Without the Festival, he would have spent the rest of New Year day with his family and friends in his hometown. That was 24 hours after he cancelled the meeting with his godmother, who, for a long time, has been trying to meet him in person. He has serious dedication for the Festival.
[20] Jairson never worked so hard and so much in 24, 48 hours before, except for two other times. The first time was in his last year in high school when he did many sleepless nights for coding on a computer. The second time was in college when he worked like mad for his business plans. One could not understand how much dedication Jairson has until one realized that, at the age of 20, he forfeited several opportunities to join his friends for a New Year’s Eve parties on top of a guaranteed chance for sex.
“Why?” Asked Nick. “Why are you willing to give it all up for this?”
“Because I want to create jobs for myself and my friends,” said Jairson. “I do not want my friends to be forced moving out of state in order to make a living.”
