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The Latin American experience
This trip is taking longer than it should. The connection was crappy as they get: Swissair to Zurich, Iberia to Madrid, and then on to Buenos Aires. Including the two 2-3 hour waiting sessions, the slightly delayed 13hrs flight to … Continue reading
Living in the airport
Sometimes I can really relate to the movie "Terminal" with Tom Hanks. It is now 16hrs after I touched down in Hamburg, coming back from the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. Guess where I am sitting right … Continue reading
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Life after WSIS?
It is probably too early to summarise everything that took place in and around the WSIS, in particular its statements and activities. Thinking about a first summary, there are a couple of things that come to my mind, though. Firstly, … Continue reading
Leaving Tunis
After a short "last-minute one-person drafting session" to find some language on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Free Software and Open Access for the PCT Working Group to go into the Civil Society statement last night, I’ve again endured the bus … Continue reading
Business as usual: secret service, rfid, repression
The Tunisian government is deadly afraid of Civil Society. There is no other explanation for what is going on here in Tunis. And since I assume that most of you have never had first-hand experience of this kind, let me … Continue reading
Off to Tunis
I am aware that I am likely to get the "luxury version" of Tunis, and unlike Tunisian people won’t have anything to fear from speaking my mind — also because that is what "THE FAQ" says. I still have to … Continue reading
Back from tweakfest.ch 2005
Although their web site was unusable for heavy Flash usage, the tweakfest.ch 2005 was actually very interesting. Thanks again to all the organisers for an entertaining event, interesting discussions and a good time. One of my personal highlights was Fuminori … Continue reading
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It’s official: Going to Tunis
As many of you may know, the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is taking place 16. to 18. November in Tunis. To this point, Free Software Foundation Europe has been very active in the WSIS so … Continue reading
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Short stop in Hamburg
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 … Continue reading
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Reasons to not fly KLM and SkyTeam
…as I found myself sitting all the way in the back (second last row) all the way in the middle between a vertically challenged U.S. citizen and a bloke from the UK. Okay. To be fair: Both were friendly and … Continue reading