Why SANE?
The professional AV industry deserves open, practical standards that are free to read, easy to cite, and open to improve.
AV has a knowledge problem.
Not because people in AV are dumb. Quite the opposite actually!
This industry is full of people who can walk into a weird room, inherit a pile of mixed hardware, and somehow make it all behave before the client arrives.
The problem is where the knowledge lives.
Some of it is in paid documents. Some of it is buried in vendor guides. Some of it is locked inside company standards. A worrying amount of it is in the head of one person who "usually handles that."
That works fine until they leave, get busy, switch jobs, or take a vacation. Then suddenly nobody knows why the displays are named that way, what half the cable labels mean, whether the room was actually commissioned, or where the final documentation went.
What SANE is doing about it
SANE exists because this stuff should be easier to find, easier to use, and easier to improve.
We are building open, practical AV standards for the everyday parts of the work: naming devices, labeling cables, drawing systems, documenting networks, commissioning rooms, and handing projects over to the people who have to live with them.
The goal is not to make standards sound important. The goal is to make them useful.
Free to read. Public to discuss. Easy to cite. Open to improve. AV is already complicated enough. The standards should not be the hard part.