PolishLinux reports about possible manipulation around OOXML process in Poland:
The Chairwoman of the polish Technical Committee, Mrs Elżbieta Andrukiewicz, has distributed documentation about the BRM authored by Microsoft:
In general the slides presented a false impression of the results of the BRM, claiming that 98% of the OOXML issues have been resolved during the meeting which is obviously not true. What is even more interesting is the real author of the slides. An anonymous KT 182 member confirmed that basing on the properties of the PowerPoint file which the members received, the author is Raul Pesch, Platform Strategy Manager, Microsoft Nederland.
She has also prevented the distribution of a letter to committee members, letter from the President of the Standards Body PKN to the Committee members which was recommending the abstention (if someone reads Polish, we are interested to have an english version):
However, a source close to KT 182 revealed that no one in the committee knew about the letter since Andrukiewicz didn’t even bother informing the members about the letter and replied to Schweitzer on her own. The PKN president was so surprised that Andrukiewicz decided not to distribute it that he made the letter available on the Internet (here is the original [in Polish]). As far as I know such situation is a precedence in 84-year history of PKN.
She has also changed the voting rules for the email ballot to "If you don't vote, it is counted as a YES":
As the consensus has not been achieved, Andrukiewicz decided that the voting should continue by e-mail and all the missing members should be allowed to vote. What she did not mention is that if the missing members fail to send her an e-mail with their stance, it will be automatically assumed they vote yes. This is one of the crazy rules of PKN process of opinioning new ISO standards.
What a nice broken chairwoman they have in Poland. It reminds me of the swiss cheese chairman.