The ISO General Assembly is a Big Deal in the world of standardization (our world, as luck would have it) and it is being held this week. This year, the 36th anniversary, is hosted by the Russian Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology (GOST R) in St. Petersburg, Russia and will run until the 21 September. This is not the first time the meeting has been held in Russia, by the way, the members met in Moscow back in 1967.
The General Assembly is an opportunity for ISO members to meet and exchange ideas, eat food and dance. Well, I made up the dancing part to see if anyone was paying attention. Come to think of it, maybe there is some dancing – who knows? Representatives from over 130 countries will be there – maybe some of us can attend next year? Anyone??
There are two good places to get information on it at the moment:
- Twitter, under the hashtag #ISOGA, and
- on ISO.org – they have a dedicated page for it (of course) – it updates frequently.
I’ve posted a variety of YouTube videos, as a play list, below. If your Spanish is rusty you may want to skip ahead on the first one, though there are subtitles. It is, after all, an international organization….
Enjoy – thanks!
(and keep up that whole self-calibration thing)
