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/ Treasa Ní Chonchúir

Edinburgh

The W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (the TAG) met at the Informatics Forum of the University of Edinburgh. Former TAG participant Henry Thompson is a professor at the university and graciously hosted us; Amy handled the logistics and planning.

The meeting

A two-way city street has a bike lane along the near sidewalk. Each side of the street is lined with gray stone buildings dating from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. A traffic light is red, and cars are waiting on both sides of it. A group of people walks along the sidewalk at a distance. They’re sufficiently bundled up that it must be cold out, but there’s little else in frame to suggest the temperature.
Out for a stroll with the
A rainbow descends from a cloudy sky, meeting the city at a dark church steeple. The portion of the city skyline that’s visible is a mixture of older and newer buildings, all various shades of gray that suggest a continuity of building material over the centuries. The church whose steeple is receiving the rainbow is at center. In between the camera and the city buildings is a large-ish cleared space, in whcih at least one statue is visible; it’s presumably a city square of some kind.
A over

My third and last term on the TAG ends in a couple months; this was my last F2F. (Or was it???) I’m gonna miss it—the work, sure, but especially the people. I’m very grateful to the W3C community for trusting me with a TAG seat for the past six years. It’s been an honor and a pleasure.

The city

Arthur’s Seat
A large, brown-and-green hill looms over the tops of buildings. The sky above the hill is blue. Not much is visible of the buildings besides roofs and chimneys.

I’d been to Edinburgh twice before: once in 2007 with Erin and Kathleen, and again in 2009 with Erin, Lindsay, and Paul. A lot can change in 15 years, but Edinburgh is timeless.

We had amazing food the entire week; many thanks to Amy for picking out all the restaurants and pubs.

The people

I got to meet up with foldleft for a pint at The Regent while I was in town, which was lovely. We’d last seen each other in Shinjuku in 2019.