Re: [dita-adoption] Adoption: Getting the right data

["mathew varghese" <mathew.techwriter@gmail.com>]

Steffen,

You just brought up a great point. Personally, I feel that DITA has the potential to become the de facto standard for storing and delivering technical content in the coming years. While DITA has it's limitations, it is simple enough to be adopted quickly and robust enough to deliver solid results consistently – characteristics shared by winners like TCP/IP. I feel that we should aim for one or more of the following:

 

1. Endorsement from IEEE (I've been a member for over 7 years, but I've not seen anything major about DITA being discussed in PCS (Professional Communications Society))
2. Support by top software vendors (DITA support in MSW 200X??)
3. Increased user base (STC could conduct poll)

 

Best regards,

 

Matt

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:04 PM, <srf@dita-exchange.com> wrote:

Hi all,

In connection with the work of the Adoption TC, the fact that our objective is to support the adoption of DITA leads me to the question of how we can measure our success.

Except from merely measuring activities and events, I suppose that we really need to a)have some data on the CURRENT DITA adoption - to compare against b)future REALIZED DITA adoption.

It is certainly not easy to collect these data - the only idea I have would be to setup an anonymous form on dita.xml.org and then try to get everyone on the various email lists to fill-in the form.

Any other thoughts and ideas on this?

Steffen Frederiksen