I am a member of the International Technology Law Association (ITECHLAW.ORG) and almost always participate in the annual meeting. This year’s conference will be in London in November.

Participating in the annual meetings for me is mostly a networking opportunity. Unfortunately, the level of quality of the sessions is not always high enough to justify attending the the annual meetings. In particular, the sessions on open source the last two annual meetings have been disappointing. Far too basic and simplistic views presented by lawyers who did not seem to have their hands very much into the real nitty gritty of open source law.

This Friday (28 September 2007) I (together with a bunch of other Danish IT lawyers) had the pleasure of having lunch with the ITechLaw President, Enrique J. Batalla, who is a prominent lawyer from Madrid. I didn’t get a chance to discuss ITechLaw issues with Enrique, but he gave another extremely valuable advice to me as a father of to kids that eventually (who knows) will go the university:

“Never allow the kids to enroll into Erasmus program (the European intra-university exchange program). You will loose them forever.”

Both Enrique’s kids went abroad for a semester on the Erasmus program, found love, got married and now lives in Berlin and Oslo 🙂

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