Baie Welkom
Koen!
First, many thanks for reviewing my Fast
track tutorial and providing constructive feedback. I'm glad you decided to join
the WSG and mailing list, and provide us with your Hollands insight when needed.
There are many helpful and learned individuals here, so please keep an on the
postings. A warm welcome once again,
Kind regards,
Frank
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Subject: [WSG] Introducing myself
Sent: Sun 8/12/2007 6:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WSG] Introducing myself
Hi all,
This is a message to introduce myself
I'm male, 47 and live in the northern part of The Netherlands. My wife and I have two sons, the older one being a succesfull game-programmer
After working several years in the management of a couple of municipalities, I now work as a senior-lawyer for a municipality.
What has that to do with webstandards? Well in fact ...nothing.
This is a message to introduce myself
I'm male, 47 and live in the northern part of The Netherlands. My wife and I have two sons, the older one being a succesfull game-programmer
After working several years in the management of a couple of municipalities, I now work as a senior-lawyer for a municipality.
What has that to do with webstandards? Well in fact ...nothing.
But I can tell you my greatest passion during the last 2.5 decades was programming (just anything) on a computer. I remember buying my first computer back in 1983. It was a ZX Spectrum. In those days I first tried to program some machine code, but without any significant success. I just shouted it from the roof when after after entering '1 + 1' the screen showed '2' (or something near 2).
The last couple of years I became more and more interested in accessibility of (government)information on the web. I consider that a condition for any modern democracy to function.
In 2004 with some friends I founded an association who maintains a Dutch forum for starting php-programmers, called PHPFreakz. You can find the forum at http://www.phpfreakz.nl
After beeing chairman of that association for a couple of years I withdraw. I'm now just a 'member of honour'.
At present I'm member of the advisory committee for the Dutch 'Webguidelines for Governmentsites'
(http://webrichtlijnen.overheid.nl/english/ ). Some English spoken posts about these guidelines can be found here:
* http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2007/01/new_dutch_acces.html
* http://www.webstandards.org/2007/01/15/the-dutch-embrace-web-standards/
Background information on these guidelines was given in a presentation
Raph de Rooij recently gave at http://gilbanedc.com/. You can find his presentation here: http://www.raph.nl/presentation.pdf
Furthermore I'm member of the Normative Committee of a Dutch foundation called 'Drempelvrij' (In English: 'Barrierfree'). This foundation is responsable for the certifying of websites thats meets WCAG 1.0 .
So, I'm not a professional webdesigner, since I don't make websites for a living. There's one website i made recently: http://www.regels-stadskanaal.nl
On the site one can find all the legislation of the municipalty I work for. The site became a prototype of the '
Guidelines for governmentsites'.
Suggestions to improve this site a very
welcome
Cheers,
Koen Willems
Cheers,
Koen Willems
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