Just after my speech in the plenary session, during the ensuing pause, I stumbled upon the Chairman of the Conference Adama SAMASSEKOU who told me he was just looking for me. We discussed a little bit, as Adama SAMASSEKOU seemed very supportive of the idea of Open Access. It happened that I met him later, we had a longer talk and I was able to present him my friend Richard Stallman. Then, by chance, Adama SAMASSEKOU went into the room where we were just celebrating the last C&T meeting with Champagne, in order to chair yet another smaller diplomatic meeting. It was a great opportunity to give him as a present an Open Access T-shirt. Adama SAMASSEKOU is very warmly thanked to have allowed pictures to be taken on this occasion, in order to help promote Open Access.

From left to right :
Francis Muguet, Adama Samassekou, Lyndal Shope-Mafole (chairperson)

I have been lobbying hard in the alleys of the Conference during pauses, mostly as an advocate for Open Access (but without forgetting to mention Open Source / Free Software ), while giving to some delegates Open AccessT-shirts and Caps. Open Source / Free Software advocacy is being taken care of by the Free Software Foundation. I could not give T-shirts to all the people I dicussed with, because the limited supply that I could hide in my portfolio went out pretty fast.