Catching up...
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Domenica, 10 Aprile 2005
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Alright, just trying to catch up a little bit on what happened
during the past weeks.
As you may have seen in the FSFE newsletter, just after our first Freedom Party, I have been visiting Boston, seizing the
chance to talk to meet and talk to Peter Brown, US FSF's new Executive
Director, Janet Casey of the Free Software Directory, and of course
Eben Moglen, Lawrence Lessig and Richard Stallman. Also, I was quite
happy to talk with people attending the Associate Member meeting from
all over the United States, as well as meet again Niibe Yutaka,
chairman of the Free Software Initiative
Japan (FSIJ), FSFE's associate organisation.
Having barely survived the flight back (I should write about that),
I was still kept quite busy by the start of the Fellowship and the
necessary setup of our small office in Hamburg, Germany, which you may
already have read about in Karsten's blog.
So once more I found myself on the plane early Sunday morning
without having had a single free day in between. This time to Geneva
for the WIPO Meeting on the so-called "Development Agenda." This
meeting will be quite fundamental for the future of WIPO, which has
been the source of many of our headaches in the past, such as TRIPS,
DMCA/EUCD and -- to some extent -- software patents.
This could be one of the first little steps towards turning WIPO into a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation."
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