As you may have read in Karsten’s blog, the WIPO meetings in Geneva were indeed very exciting. It seems there is a realistic chance that WIPO will change fundamentally if the Friends of Development group keeps up the pressure and not too many of them sell out the rest in the bilateral negotiations that the United States, European Union, Canada and Japan are no doubt now entering into with each of them.
So after coming back with the last flight on Friday around 23:00, I spent most of yesterday doing things like washing clothes, sorting papers and doing the necessary travel aftermath in terms of receipts & financial stuff. Also, I managed to at least do a short round on my motorcycle and catch some sleep, which was a very good thing.
After summarizing my KLM experience for my flight back from Boston, I will now try to get away from the computer and enjoy the nice weather out there. Maybe I should go to the sauna…
Next week will again be busy — even if not unusually so.
Tomorrow I need to go to Milano, where I will meet with our Italian team and celebrate the Fellowship with the next freedom party before continuing on to Torino, where I will speak to World Bank managers about Free Software in World Bank financed projects on Wednesday. Then I will fly on to Munich to speak at the LiMux migration on Thursday before going back to Hamburg on Friday.
