Anyway

The cur­rent weath­er fore­cast for Van­couver is sunny and warm (into the high 20s; around 80 F) mak­ing it a pretty good place to be right now. All the garden­ers of course are busy turn­ing on the water­ing sys­tems, but giv­en Van­couver also has lots of water this isn’t as much of a prob­lem as in oth­er places. We’re look­ing for­ward to hav­ing a decent sum­mer this year, unlike the last one which was basic­ally miser­able for most of the time.

Which makes Van­couver a pretty good place to be in July: the weath­er is usu­ally superb, sunny and warm but not too hot, life reas­on­ably relaxed, the sea­wall and beaches full but not over­flow­ing. Just the right time of year for stand­ards com­mit­tee meet­ings! I’ve hos­ted DOM WG meet­ings in Van­couver in August, with par­ti­cipants enjoy­ing the com­bin­a­tion of effect­ive work and a bit of tour­ist­ing. If you’re look­ing for an excuse to vis­it Van­couver, now’s your chance — not only is the Liberty Alli­ance hold­ing one of its quarterly spon­sors meet­ings in July (the week of July 17th, to be pre­cise), it’s also hold­ing a con­fer­ence jointly with the Inter­net Iden­tity Work­shop on the Thursday and Fri­day. This will fol­low the stand­ard IIW “uncon­fer­ence” format, to allow for lots of flex­ib­il­ity in top­ics and speak­ers. The attendee list is cer­tainly impress­ive! I’ll be there for as long as the baby lets me (I assume she’ll be the young­est participant).

Liberty Alli­ance non-mem­bers will also be wel­come to attend the Liberty Alli­ance meet­ing itself on Tues­day and Wed­nes­day (NDAs will have to be signed). This is the first time that the Liberty Alli­ance has opened up a spon­sor meet­ing to non-mem­bers in this way; I hope lots of people who are inter­ested in iden­tity issues take the oppor­tun­ity to find out more about what the Liberty Alli­ance does and how it operates.

Regis­tra­tion for both the Open­Space event and the Liberty meet­ing for non-mem­bers is at Iden­tity Open­Space Regis­tra­tion; early-bird regis­tra­tion is now closed but it’s still cheap­er to register now than onsite.

If you want an altern­at­ive set of hotel, res­taur­ant, and tour­ism recom­mend­a­tions, try the North­ern Voice Van­couver page (North­ern Voice is the blog­ging con­fer­ence I help organ­ise each year). The Liberty Alli­ance meet­ing hotel is about a block from the North­ern Voice con­fer­ence location.