Wishing I had been able to make it all the way to Australia for the Melbourne DAC, just now getting under way. Lots of people I'd like to catch up with there. For what it's worth, I may have the distinction of being the only researcher based at a North American university who has made it to both of the Bergen, Norway DACs, but to neither of the ones that were held stateside.
In any case, DAC has always been good fun and good people, and generally very good work too.
Adrian Miles, meanwhile, has been taking a lot of flak for posting a set of remarks about things he'd do differently as the local organizer. I think folks should cut him some slack. He's been working like a madman for about a year to make this thing happen, and if his public comments were ill-timed then it's probably also high-time to give the backlash a rest already too.
Posted by mgk at May 13, 2003 11:21 PMGood point re: Adrian's remarks. I was just thinking how crazed one can get hosting an ordinary large faculty dinner party--and the scope of the DAC conference is so much larger.
Posted by: Lisa at May 14, 2003 10:22 AM | Link to Comment