Posted by Nightweaver
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:29:00 GMT
Alas, I’m back in Belgrade. I had the best time ever in Switzerland and I’d like to thank my hosts Fernanda and Georg for making my stay a real pleasure. I’ll be writing a full IGF review for GNUzilla very soon. As for my stay in CH…well, you’ll have to go for the photos. They say much more than I could ever write…and to be honest, I have no time to write a full review of the past week…it was just too damn good over there.
You may find all the photos here:http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/eccegeek/DCOSIGFJuly2007
P.S. I’ve switched to Picasa. Much faster and nicer than Flickr.
P.P.S. Just for the record. Fernanda is working for Google as sys admin and load balancing specialist. Another uber geek chick on my list.:))
P.P.P.S. Not too many pictures of myself…don’t ask why.:)
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Posted by Nightweaver
Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:27:00 GMT
After almost 12h of sleeping I may say I’m feeling great. IGF has been a really precious experience and a chance to meet some very interesting people. Main subject of our rather small meeting was “Open standards”. The full review must wait till I get the full list of participants of IGF. Just for the record, there were representatives of Sun Microsystems, W3C, IPJustice, OSI, CTech, Chile, Pakistan, BSA..etc. We had a really nice day of talks on Open standards and making decisions on IGF’s big meeting in Rio De Janeiro in November…which I hope to attend.:-)
To be honest, the real talks were done in between regular ones – during coffee and lunch breaks. Those were the moments I’ve spent going around, talking to all the people and getting to know my “friends and foes”. Had really nice conversation with representative of Pakistan on Free Software. It was a really nice chance for me to advocate FSFE and Free Software as whole. He was quite interested in it and we spent quite some time discussing. I also got a chance to chit-chat with Susy Struble from Sun Microsystems which was really valuable thing as Georg Greve, president of FSFE , told me afterwards. I also had an opportunity to have a very nice conversation with Robin D. Gross founder and Executive Director of IP Justice an international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law and protects freedom of expression.
The day ended in a pub in center of Geneva. Georg and I weren’t able to make it to dinner sponsored by Sun Microsystems so some of the guys at meeting decided to spend some time with us in the pub. This meant having some quality time with very important people…and as Georg stated, that doesn’t happen very often on such events…I was lucky:-)
That’s it for now…more to come when I get back to Belgrade on Thursday. I’ve notice quite an increase of visitors to my site…almost 1500 in the last 3 days. Very nice. Some of you asked on IM if I made some photos. Sure I did..a lot of photos. Alas, my mind is very lost lately thus I forgot USB cable for my camera…you will have to wait till I get back home.
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Posted by Nightweaver
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:18:00 GMT
Prevod pamfleta iz mog prethodnog teksta i još jedan uvod u put u Švajcarsku i učestvovanje na Internet Governance Forumu.
Ujedinjene Nacije se sastoje od niza tela i aktivnosti koje na razne načine utiču na lokalnu politiku uključujući i stvaranje i nametanje globalne politike. Takvi globalni sporazumi i ugovori su međusobno povezani sa bilateralnim ugovorima koji često svoje korene imaju u UN i obično nadglašavaju nacionalne interese.
Ovo ih čini veoma moćnim instrumentima koji se stvaraju u bolno sporom i obično netransparentnom i neizbalansiranom procesu koji pretenduje da povlašćuje velike industrijske igrače u najbogatijim zemljama a često nauštrb malih i srednjih preduzeća tih istih zemalja.
Pošto smo uključeni u ovaj nivo globalne javne politike neophodno je da detektujemo i oblikujemo globalne trendove kako bi sprečili nanošenje štete neizbalansiranim zakonodavstvom i kako bi informisali o Slobodnom softveru i digitalnim pravima na globalnom nivou. FSFE je aktivna na tri polja unutar UN: Svetski Samit Informacionog Društa (WSIS), Forum o Internet Upravi (IGF) i Svetska Organizacija za Intelektualnu Svojinu (WIPO).
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Posted by Nightweaver
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:22:00 GMT
Kao što je moj prijatelj Ivan Jelić pre nekih nedelju dana napisao na svom blogu, FSN i ja kao član organizacije ćemo biti prisutni na prvom u nizu UN događaja u okviru FSFE. FSFE je već jako dugo aktivna pri UN u više projekata. Ovaj članak neće biti posvećen objašnjavanju slobodnog softvera, to možete naći na FSN sajtu . Prikazaću vam šta se to sve tamo događa i šta to mene čeka početkom jula u Ženevi. Potrudiću se, svakako, da i u toku događaja ostavljam informacije na ovom blogu.
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