Living in the airport
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Saturday 19 November 2005
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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 now. Yup. Hamburg Airport for a change.
The past hours were filled with unpacking all my stuff from Tunis,
doing the past-travel paperwork, doing some official paperwork/signing
for Carlo Piana, our lawyer in the Microsoft vs European Union
antitrust case, doing laundry, picking up one batch and depositing
another at the dry-cleaner, replying to some email, packing my large
monster suitcase and getting back to the airport. Oh, and catching a
little bit of sleep in the middle of all that, of course.
Conference tourists call this back-to-back conferencing, and it is
not exactly pleasant. In this case it is hard to avoid, however,
because tomorrow I have my keynote at the 5tas Jornadas Regionales de
Software Libre in Rosario, Argentina.
The prospect of seeing my friends in Latin America again lets me
look at the long flight with a peaceful mind however. Some of them,
like Enrique Chaparro, I haven't seen in over a year and am looking
forward to seeing them again.
Also, I am very excited about being able to witness the first
general assembly of the Free Software Foundation Latin America. This
is a great and very happy occasion.
It appears that my flight is starting to board now, so I better get
going. Argentina, here I come.
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