"My first contact with the 'UN WSIS Contributory Conference on ICT & Creativity' June 2-3 2005 in Vienna was the invitation to the 'Digital Rights/Creative Commons' workshop I received by email on Monday, 14 Feb 2005. That was rather unfortunate timing as I had entered a paper to the world's coolest Free Software conference, the 6th Free Software Forum (FISL) in Porto Alegre, Brazil around the end of January.
"So I felt obliged to at least give the Free Software Forum organizers a chance to respond before withdrawing, but response did not come until Wed, 30 Mar 2005 by which time I already had to make a decision about going to the UN WSIS contributory conference..."
