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Proposals for the Fortran Standard Committee
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Fortran Committee #71

Open jacobwilliams opened 4 years ago

jacobwilliams commented 4 years ago

I think it would be helpful if the committee produced some documentation on:

certik commented 4 years ago

Fortran is an ISO standard. ISO has an international committee (https://wg5-fortran.org/), and national bodies. The US national body is (https://j3-fortran.org/).

Most of the work seems to happen in the J3 committee (the US national body).

To join the committee, simply join the J3 mailinglist, email Steve Lionel and start attending the meetings. Anybody can join, and you would be an observer. In order to be able to vote, you have to be part of some organization that is part of ISO (and pays the fees) and you become their representative.

I agree it would be nice to document this in the README of this repository, or elsewhere.

sblionel commented 4 years ago

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/09/22/the-real-doctors-of-fortran touches on this.

I am not the contact for J3, that would be Dan Nagle. The rules from INCITS (which manages US standards committees on behalf of ANSI) say that you may attend only twice as an "observer" - to attend more you have to join. If you want to join as your own member, as I do now, you have to pay INCITS each year, currently about $1300 for an individual. Or, you may get your employer or other organization to pay the fee. But many J3 members are "alternates" of primary members, and that is free. Generally we're always glad to have new members and will find someone to sponsor you as an alternate if needed. The caveat is that alternates don't get to vote in plenary if the primary member is present.

As for ISO, becoming a member of J3 automatically gets you an ISO membership (which has no fees.)

sblionel commented 4 years ago

I should also add that anyone can join the J3 mailing list - there's no relationship with membership. All we ask is that you have an interest in Fortran. Just go to https://mailman.j3-fortran.org/mailman/listinfo/j3 and fill in the join request. It will then be reviewed by list administrators, mainly to keep out spammers.

marshallward commented 4 years ago

Should we consider closing this issue and moving the information to the wiki? It's not a language proposal, but it's invaluable information.

certik commented 4 years ago

@marshallward yes, let's move this into the Wiki, or even README. After that we can close this.