On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:54:52PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > Keld: > > I gather that I am in a lucky position living > > in a big city in one of the more developed countries of the world, but > > generally universities in all countries at least in the industrialized > > world have systems so a student can get hold of any major technical book > > In Germany, I noted that almost everyone active in standardization > happened to live in Berlin, where DIN is. May be it's similar in > Denmark? It shouldn't have to be with the Internet ...
I know some from �rhus that are active, actually the chair of the Danish JTC 1 mirror is from �rhus. And people active in Linux oriented std stuff also come from other places than K�benhavn, but K�benhavn is the main place of active people. Maybe 80 % active in Danish ISO standardization come from Greater K�benhavn, which holds about 1/3 of the Danish polulation. In Danish Linux i18n and l10n it may only be 60 % k�benhavnere... So it is a little better there. Yes, people could easily participate thru the internet, but as standardization is kind of high tech and is generally for more educated people, and the techies get educated in university cities and also get employment in high tech industries mostly gathered in the cities, the active people tend to come from bigger cities. Actually for those of you who are interested, you can freely participate on an ad hoc basis in much of the ISO standardization work. This is done on mailing lists for each of the working groups and these are in practice open for keen volunteers, even if you are not affiliated directly with a national standardization org. There are some formalities, but if you are interested in a specific topic, I might be able to help you get involved. You could drop me a mail, if that is the case. Kind regards keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
