In article <3r57s3Fhvab3U1@news.dfncis.de>, Ian McCulloch
<ianmcc@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes
>"...
>In my spare time, I'm a member of Standards Australia subcommittee IT/9/22
>(Programming Languages) and in particular the Australian C++ Working Group,
>and an officially accredited "Technical Expert" to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21
>(Programming Languages - C++), the ISO C++ Committee..."

No doubt he will clarify, but my understanding is that  almost 3 years
ago Australia decided to withdraw as members of SC22. I have not checked
the details recently so perhaps they retained observer status which
would allow their technical representatives to attend as non-voting
members.

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Peter Lupton wrote:
> Is anyone from Australia interested in setting up a C++ programming
> standards committee under Standards Australia. We need to demonstrate
> sufficient industry and academic interest in C++ to setup a committee.
>
> If we did we did setup a standards committee:
> - We would have a representative vote on the ISO C++ standard.
> - We would have an opportunity to have meetings in Australia.
> - The ISO standard would then become an official Australian and New
> Zealand standards.
>
> Is anyone interested? We need at least 8 or so committee members with
> credible academic or industry support.
>
> PS. This also applies to New Zealanders. The standard committees are
> joint Australian / New Zealand.

Yes.  I was wondering about the Standards situation in NZ.
I am currently in the UK, but will be back in NZ towards the end of
next year.

Tim

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Tim Penhey wrote:
> Peter Lupton wrote:
>
>>Is anyone from Australia interested in setting up a C++ programming
>>standards committee under Standards Australia. We need to demonstrate
>>sufficient industry and academic interest in C++ to setup a committee.
>>
>>If we did we did setup a standards committee:
>>- We would have a representative vote on the ISO C++ standard.
>>- We would have an opportunity to have meetings in Australia.
>>- The ISO standard would then become an official Australian and New
>>Zealand standards.
>>
>>Is anyone interested? We need at least 8 or so committee members with
>>credible academic or industry support.

Hi Tim, I am interested in that. I am a lecturer in CS at University of
Southern Queensland, interested in programming language design. I assume
we would mainly be meeting electronically? USQ is in Toowoomba, and
personal meetings would be expensive.

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Peter Lupton wrote:

> Is anyone from Australia interested in setting up a C++ programming
> standards committee under Standards Australia. We need to demonstrate
> sufficient industry and academic interest in C++ to setup a committee.
>
> If we did we did setup a standards committee:
> - We would have a representative vote on the ISO C++ standard.
> - We would have an opportunity to have meetings in Australia.
> - The ISO standard would then become an official Australian and New
> Zealand standards.
>
> Is anyone interested? We need at least 8 or so committee members with
> credible academic or industry support.
>
> PS. This also applies to New Zealanders. The standard committees are
> joint Australian / New Zealand.

I would be interested; but I am not currently resident in Australia and
won't be for at least a few years - does that matter?

I am not sure whether this is close enough to his interests, but Russel
Standish at UNSW comes to mind as another possibility.

Anyway, isn't there already a Standards Australia C++ group?  Fergus
Henderson's homepage http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh/ says:

"...
In my spare time, I'm a member of Standards Australia subcommittee IT/9/22
(Programming Languages) and in particular the Australian C++ Working Group,
and an officially accredited "Technical Expert" to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21
(Programming Languages - C++), the ISO C++ Committee..."

Cheers,
Ian McCulloch

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In article <434C8B79.2030905@usq.edu.au>, Ron House <house@usq.edu.au>
writes
>>>Is anyone interested? We need at least 8 or so committee members with
>>>credible academic or industry support.
>
>Hi Tim, I am interested in that. I am a lecturer in CS at University of
>Southern Queensland, interested in programming language design. I
>assume we would mainly be meeting electronically? USQ is in Toowoomba,
>and personal meetings would be expensive.

Two years ago, at considerable expense to many companies and individuals
we held meetings of both WG21 and WG14 in Sydney. The meetings were well
attended and those that went enjoyed the hospitality as well as getting
the work done. However not a SINGLE Australian 'expert' came and
participated.

Many of us found that sad as we normally expect to have up to half a
dozen extra attendees from the host country, some of whom then go on to
participate on a more regular basis.


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Author of 'You Can Do It!' see http://www.spellen.org/youcandoit
For project ideas and contributions: http://www.spellen.org/youcandoit/projects

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Is anyone from Australia interested in setting up a C++ programming
standards committee under Standards Australia. We need to demonstrate
sufficient industry and academic interest in C++ to setup a committee.

If we did we did setup a standards committee:
- We would have a representative vote on the ISO C++ standard.
- We would have an opportunity to have meetings in Australia.
- The ISO standard would then become an official Australian and New
Zealand standards.

Is anyone interested? We need at least 8 or so committee members with
credible academic or industry support.

PS. This also applies to New Zealanders. The standard committees are
joint Australian / New Zealand.

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