Drive-by voting

Since the Swedish stance in favour of OOXML, I've had no particularly exciting moments in the related committee of the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS). Because the decision was withdrawn in the media chaos that followed, Sweden will not be able to vote on Microsoft's ECMA's proposal, or go to the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in February. It'll be interesting to see how the story ends...

Meanwhile, I thought I'd remind you of how committed Microsoft's partners are to actual standardisation work, as opposed to, hmm, something else. See my table below, listing organisations ordered by degree of participation. (You can also find out the date of joining for some members. Note that many of them have decided not to be part of the committee in 2008.)

Oh, and IAMCP has sued SIS in order to make sure that "IAMCP and its members can continue to work with standards in a reliable manner".

What a sandbox.

Organisation	5 Jun	15 Jun	14 Aug	16 Aug1	VOTE 27 Aug	26 Sep	26 Nov2	17 Dec
Riksarkivet (chair)	x	x	x	-	NO	x	x	x
IBM	x	x	x	x	N/A3	-	x	x
Microsoft	x	x	x	x	YES	x	-	-
Illuminet AB	-	-	x	x	NO	x	x	x
Verva	-	x	x	-	NO	x	-	x
IAMCP Sweden Chapter4	x	x	-	-	YES	x	-	-
Sun Microsystems AB	-	x	-	-	NO	x	-	x
EPiServer AB	x	x	x	-	YES	-	-	-
HumanData Inventus AB	x	-	x	-	YES	-	-	-
iBizkit AB	-	-	-	-	YES	x	-	x
Diamo AB	-	x	-	-	YES	-	-	-
WM-data	-	x	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Kungliga Biblioteket5	-	-	-	-	NO	-	x	-
Exor AB	-	-	-	-	YES	x	-	-
Formpipe Software Linköping AB	-	-	-	-	YES	x	-	-
FS System AB	-	-	-	-	YES	x	-	-
International Development Europe	-	-	-	-	YES	x	-	-
SourceTech AB	-	-	-	-	YES	x	-	-
Rikspolisstyrelsen	-	-	-	-	N/A6	x	-	-
Camako Data AB	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Connecta AB	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Cornerstone	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Emric AB	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Fishbone Systems AB	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Google Sweden	-	-	-	-	NO	-	-	-
HP	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
IT-Vision AB	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
KnowIT Stockholm	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Modul 1	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Nordic Station AB	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Sogeti	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Solid Park AB	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
TietoEnator Digital Innovations	-	-	-	-	YES	-	-	-
Cybernetics	-	-	-	-	N/A3	-	-	-
ReadSoft AB	-	-	-	-	N/A3	-	-	-
Strand Interconnect	-	-	-	-	N/A3	-	-	-

Footnotes:

¹ This meeting was only for editorial purposes.
² This meeting was organized specifically to discuss coordination between various working groups in SiS.
³ Left before the OOXML vote.
⁴ The person in question is listed to be representing "VeBe IT-Management AB" during the first three meetings (including one absence).
⁵ Is a member of other committees as well.
⁶ Became a member after the OOXML vote.

Sweden outsources its coin production

DN (newspaper in Swedish) writes that domestic AB Myntverket has lost to the competition - and their owner - Rahapaja OY in Finland; the Riksbank (Swedish national bank) are required by law to make public inquiries to see which organizations are suited for the coin production, and setup contracts for some years at a time. Apparently AB Myntverket wasn't seen as conforming to requirements of an ISO-compliant environmental policy.

Naturally, the matter is disputed. Still, Agneta Rönström of The Riksbank doesn't expect an appeal. After all, Sweden has only been in this business for 1012 years straight. Who said there couldn't be more "drama" before switching to the Euro here? :-)