I'm in Edinburgh for the OSS Watch conference tomorrow. I'm staying in the University of Edinburgh's accommodation. I've been here before on business. This time it's a totally different place.
There are police everywhere.
I went across to the diner to get some food earlier, and there was a queue of police stretching out the door. I decided to head into the city instead. It took a black cab about 15 minutes to negotiate around the various road blocks and redirects.
Coming back to the residences, more police from all over the country were just arriving. Hundreds of them. It's like an army assembling, and is quite intimidating. I guess that's the intention.
Of course, the advantage of this is that it will be the securest open source conference in history!
Posted by savs at July 3, 2005 10:46 PM