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.
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Today it happened ... the world lost its perspective.



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