Also today, the Council approved a draft decision concerning enlargement of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development, by the inclusion of 10 new members. Three of those seats would be allocated to the Group of African States, two to the Group of Asian States, one to the Group of Eastern European States, two to the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States and two to the Group of Western European and other States.
By other provisions of that text, the terms of office for the new members would coincide with existing terms of membership, with dates to be determined for each region by lottery. The election of the 10 new members would be held at the organizational session in February 2007. The Council agreed, however, to defer consideration of remaining matters, contained in the report of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (document E/2006/31), until that date. »

• Matsuura speech
• Agreement
• Appendix.

Interesting Excerpt : Do you ever wish you'd opted for a BSD-style license instead of the General Public License (GPL)? (Unlike the GPL, BSD-style licenses such as those used for the Apache Software Foundation Web server and the FreeBSD Unix offshoot permit open-source code to be made proprietary. )
Absolutely not. I personally think that the BSD license is a dead end for serious projects, since it inevitably results in forking with no way to re-join if it becomes commercially viable. (Editors' note: Forking is dividing a programming project into two different, overlapping projects.) Forking a project is in my opinion hugely important, since forks are how all real development gets done, and the ability to fork keeps everybody honest (i.e. if you don't do a good job and keep your users happy, they can always fork the project and go on their own). But equally important is the ability to join back forks, when/if some group finds the right solution to a problem. And that's where the GPL comes in: you can really think of the whole license as nothing more than a requirement to be able to re-join a forked project from either side.