DL.org @ Open Repositories 2010Ola,
Finally arrived in a sweltering Madrid for the Open Repositories 2010 conference after some delays due to a family attempting to board a dog (yes, I said a dog) and a considerable amount of luggage along with just a couple of kids!
Hospitality should begin with a capital “H” as hotel staff and conference organisers go out of their way to assist and make sure I get to where I am supposed to get (apparently there are two congress centres here in Madrid, which is good to know ) and take minds off the heat.
BTW – You will be pleased to hear that our four-legged friend, who behaved impeccably throughout the flight, landed safely in Madrid undisturbed by the delay. I later discovered that the airline in question supports the passage across Europe of our canine friends super-trained to sniff out illegal substances (thus supporting an EU project whose name escapes me). It just leaves me wondering what some of the low cost airlines might make of all this. In for a penny, in for a pound? Perhaps a bit more than a penny.
Off to catch up on some of the conference highlights thus far.
Tags: open repositories
