December 6th 2007 Meeting Minutes

[mboses@invisionresearch.com]

Attached are meeting minutes for review and approval during January 7th 2008 meeting.

Regards,
Michael Boses

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DITA for Enterprise Business Documents  Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 6 December 2007
Chaired by Ann Rockley rockley@rockley.com and Michael Boses mboses@invisionresearch.com 
Minutes by Michael Boses mboses@invisionresearch.com 
The DITA Enterprise Business Documents subcommittee met on Thursday, 6 December 2007. Meeting was scheduled for 10:00 EST and commenced at approximately 10:30 EST after some technical problems with the conference call infrastructure. Meeting lasted approximately one hour.
1.  Meeting Attendees
	Eric Severson 		Flatirons Solutions Corporation 		Group Member 
	Michael Boses 		In.vision Research Corporation 		Group Member 
	Amber Swope 		Justsystems Corporation 		Group Member 
	Josef Pellizzari		Novartis 				Guest 
	Mary McRae 		OASIS 					Group Member 
	Steven Manning	Rockley Group				Group Member 
	Ann Rockley 		Rockley Group 				Group Member 
	Howard Schwartz 	SDL 					Guest	
2.  Agenda
	Welcome 
	 Introductions 
	 Review of Goals 
	 First steps 
	 Scope of the subcommittee focus (discussion) 
	 Next steps, next meeting
3. Introductions
A brief introduction and background was provided by each attendee. It was suggested that these backgrounds might be added to the DITA for Enterprise Business Documents Wiki site by each individual. 
4. Review of Goals
Ann Rockley and Michael Boses briefly reviewed the goals as described on the DITA for Enterprise Business Documents subcommittee home page http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-busdocs/. 
5. First Steps
Ann Rockley discussed the resources that had been posted to the subcommittee Wiki site http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/BusDocs?action=show. These are intended to provide background reading for interested parties, and to provide guidance on preparation of Use Case documents.
6. Scope of Subcommittee Focus
Eric Severson, Amber Swope and others agreed that the goal is to create a set of documents that represents the business case, and then to determine the set of characteristics that make these documents members of the group. 
General discussion on how to define the boundaries of Enterprise Business Documents centered on the need to create a taxonomy that describes, in a general sense, the scope of these documents across industries.
Eric Severson suggested that Flatirons had prepared such a taxonomy and might be able to share it with the group.   
7. Next Steps, Next Meeting
All members of the subcommittee, as well as interested observers and guests were asked to provide a use case that represents one facet of enterprise business documents that illustrates business requirements. Ann Rockley suggested that while the subcommittee will focus primarily on document structure, it was important to ground the discussion in the business requirements that drive the work of the subcommittee. Items were requested to be posted as early as possible before the next meeting, with some flexibility due to the holiday schedules.
Mary McRae provided  very welcome advise on some of the blog material that will help with administration of the OASIS resources. Mary also suggested that the subcommittee may want to look at the Web Board Conference Room facility provided by IBM and Acrobat Connect, which Adobe has made available to all OASIS members. 
Next meeting was scheduled for January 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am EST.