{"id":76,"date":"2005-05-10T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T17:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/liberty-in-dublin\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T12:14:00","slug":"dublin-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/05\/dublin-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Liberty spon\u00adsor meet\u00ading in Dub\u00adlin, a couple of weeks ago. I\u2019ve been to Dub\u00adlin before, in October\/November 2003, to assist in the Reach PSB<\/span> Phase 1 pro\u00adcure\u00adment<\/a>, and I like the city, so I was glad to get back again, even if it was only three days. Three days is enough time to get to a couple of decent res\u00adtaur\u00adants and a Dub\u00adlin pub (these being upstairs at the Chamele\u00adon Indone\u00adsian res\u00adtaur\u00adant<\/a>, upstairs again at the Mer\u00adcant\u00adile pub<\/a>, and down in the cel\u00adlar at the Thai Papaya<\/a> res\u00adtaur\u00adant). There was anoth\u00ader res\u00adtaur\u00adant but that was on the first, jet\u00adlagged, night, so I\u2019ve for\u00adgot\u00adten the name. Of course, no vis\u00adit to Dub\u00adlin would be com\u00adplete without the end\u00adless trek through Heath\u00adrow Air\u00adport (see Tim\u2019s exeges\u00adis on Heath\u00adrow<\/a>); for\u00adtu\u00adnately this time the escal\u00adat\u00adors worked and the air\u00adport was mostly empty so the lines for secur\u00adity and buses were much short\u00ader. My weak knee also decided to be kind to me and not play up so I guess the new Pil\u00adates exer\u00adcises I have are doing some good!<\/p>\n

Back on top\u00adic\u2026 Dub\u00adlin seems to have a lot of old bank build\u00adings that have been nicely revamped to be pubs (the Mer\u00adcant\u00adile above) and hotels (the West\u00adin, where the meet\u00ading was held) but maybe that\u2019s just the way it appears when you first notice the phe\u00adnomen\u00adon. Unlike in many cit\u00adies where banks were taken over for oth\u00ader uses, the Dub\u00adliners don\u2019t try to hide the her\u00adit\u00adage of the build\u00adings. I still remem\u00adber the first McDon\u00adald\u2019s in Auck\u00adland, New Zea\u00adl\u00adand, which was also in an old bank build\u00ading. They did a good job there as well (undoubtedly assisted by some loc\u00adal by-laws for\u00adcing the issue), so it is pos\u00adsible to reuse old build\u00adings and keep the her\u00adit\u00adage aspects con\u00adgru\u00adent with the new uses.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m new to the Liberty meet\u00adings, so I\u2019m still learn\u00ading who\u2019s who and how the sys\u00adtem works. Com\u00adpared to W3C<\/span> and OASIS<\/span> there appeared to be more Europeans and Japan\u00adese, and more women. The former makes tim\u00ading phone calls tricky (Europe, North Amer\u00adica, Japan pretty much span the globe); the lat\u00adter enables a cer\u00adtain amount of knit\u00adting and needle\u00adcraft to go on dur\u00ading the dis\u00adcus\u00adsions (as well, of course, as the typ\u00adic\u00adal email\u00ading that always goes on dur\u00ading meet\u00adings). The work is done in a slightly dif\u00adfer\u00adent way to OASIS<\/span> and W3C<\/span>. There are a num\u00adber of dif\u00adfer\u00adent groups in the Liberty Alli\u00adance (see Liberty Alli\u00adance Activ\u00adit\u00adies<\/a>) which share the work. So, for example, instead of one tech\u00adnic\u00adal com\u00admit\u00adtee doing everything from dis\u00adcuss\u00ading use cases to design\u00ading the tech\u00adnic\u00adal solu\u00adtion as hap\u00adpens in W3C<\/span> and OASIS<\/span>, the Busi\u00adness &<\/span> Mar\u00adket\u00ading Expert Group comes up with the use cases (the mar\u00adket require\u00adments) and the Tech\u00adno\u00adlogy Expert Group cre\u00adates the spe\u00adcific\u00ada\u00adtions to meet those require\u00adments and sat\u00adis\u00adfy those use cases. This is an inter\u00adest\u00ading way to split up the work; it seems to work well (syn\u00adchron\u00adiz\u00ada\u00adtion between the two Expert Groups is a neces\u00adsary part of the pro\u00adcess, of course). Over\u00adall, a good crowd of people with lots of tech\u00adnic\u00adal and mar\u00adket know\u00adledge about import\u00adant prob\u00adlems; this is going to be a fun part of my job at Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Liberty spon\u00adsor meet\u00ading in Dub\u00adlin, a couple of weeks ago. I\u2019ve been to Dub\u00adlin before, in October\/November 2003, to assist in the Reach PSB<\/span> Phase 1 pro\u00adcure\u00adment, and I like the city, so I was glad to get back again, even if it was only \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cDub\u00adlin Liberty\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-standards","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}