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<title>Oxford</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2007/07/27/oxford</biblioid>
<volumenum>10</volumenum>
<issuenum>73</issuenum>
<pubdate>2007-07-27T12:05:29-04:00</pubdate>
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<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
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      <year>2007</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
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<para>An afternoon, and a couple of evenings, of photographs from Oxford
on the occasion of XML Summer School.
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<para xml:id="p1">First, let me say that
<link xlink:href="http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/">XML Summer
School</link> was great fun.<footnote>
      <para xml:id="p3">Full
disclosure: I was invited to speak and the organizers paid my travel
expenses.</para>
    </footnote>. It's wonderfully small; I'm not sure I met
every single participant, but I certainly could have. Not
surprisingly, I know most of the instructors (and count them among my
friends), the organizers and staff did a great job, the social events
were delightful, and the participants were keen, excited, and full of
interesting questions. It's been a long time since I got to talk to so
many “real users” and I always enjoy that.
</para>

<para xml:id="p4">I had most of Sunday and a few hours on some of the evenings to take
pictures. A few are here, they're all
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndw/sets/72157600951526587/">on Flickr</link> (and there's
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/xmlsummerschool2007/">a Flickr Pool</link> of photos from other folks as well).
</para>

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<para xml:id="p5">I probably have a few too many shots of the Radclife Camera.</para>

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<para xml:id="p6">On my way out of town, I heard a news report say that the Thames
had crested. I hope that's true. The flooding didn't seriously impact
the conference, but it was clearly a disaster for some of the
surrounding communities (both in the immediate vicinity of Oxford and
farther afield). Here's hoping for a long, dry, sunny spell.</para>

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