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Microsoft-stacking in WG4

25. June 2009 18:03 / jlundstocholm / Generel Comments (6)

Traditionally, for every meeting we have in WG4, some conspiracy-theory is born on how much money the delegates received from Microsoft, how many sports-cars we each got from Microsoft or how we each had a Microsoft employee sitting on our laps dictating what we should say.

So, I thought I'd beat the usual nut jobs to it and present the attendance list myself. The minutes from the meeting will be available soon, but who wants to wait for exiting news like this?

The attendance list was this:

Name	Affiliation	Employer/sponsor
Pia Lange	Host	Dansk Standard
Makato Murata	WG4 Convener	International University of Japan
Sam Oh	SC34 Chair	Sungkyunkwan University
Keld Simonsen	NO HoD	DKUUG?
Dave Welsh	US HoD	Microsoft
Mario Wendt	DE HoD	Microsoft
Klaus-Peter Eckert	DE	Fraunhofer Fokus
Jesper Lund Stocholm	DK HoD	CIBER
Rex Jaeschke	ECMA HoD, project editor	Consultant
Doug Mahugh	ECMA	Microsoft
Shawn Villaron	ECMA	Microsoft
Kimmo Bergious	FI HoD	Microsoft
Alex Brown	GB HoD	Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd.
Gareth Horton	GB	Datawatch
Jaeho Lee	KR HoD	University of Seoul
Jung-Jin Yang	KR	The Catholic Univeristy of Korea

So out of a total of 1416 people attending ... 56 people were in some way affiliated with Microsoft and/or ECMA. What the hell, throw the Microsoft shill Alex Brown into the pot as well - that'll make it a total of 67 people.

I don't know what to say ... I'm shocked.

Update: I have been notified that I missed two persons on the list, Dave Welch and Keld Simonsen. List and numbers have been updated accordingly.