March 1 2010 Regular Meeting Minutes

[mboses@quark.com]

10:00 am  11:55 am EST 

In attendance:

Bruce Nevin
Tim Grantham 
Rob Hanna
Steve Manning
Josef Pellizzari
Zarella Rendon
Michael Boses

Agenda

  1. Open action item: Aggregated authoring paper.

There was discussion concerning the current status of the paper as well as the target audience. The purpose of the paper is to express the requirements for aggregated authoring, and to facilitate feedback from authoring vendors as to their ability to support these requirements today or their concerns, if any, over the requirements. Steve will upload a draft of the paper to the OASIS site this week.

  2. Continuing Discussion: BusDocs relationship to other committees/subcommittees and upcoming projects and goals.

There was discussion concerning whether the BusDocs charter and backgrounder sufficiently reflects the activities of the committee. Michael will add a link to these documents to the minutes. All members of the subcommittee are asked to review the documents again so that we can discuss this at the next regularly scheduled subcommittee meeting on March 15, 2010.

A specific question to consider when reading the documents is whether they address documents that would normally be created with a structured lifecycle that includes versioning, reviews, and approval.  

Charter: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-busdocs/index.php

Backgrounder: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25981/DITA%20for%20Enterprise%20Business%20Documents%20Sub-committee%20Background.pdf

3. Consensus on date for Mary to join the meeting.

Deferred this to the March 15, 2010 meeting when more members of the subcommittee will be present to decide on best date.

4. Enterprise Use Case for Interoperability of Content 

Michael will send an email on OASIS to start a discussion that will use a very generic product development lifecycle as an enterprise use case.

5. Business Document Meta Model

Rob will post the first draft of his meta model document to OASIS along with the comments that were accumulated on Basecamp. 

6. Migration of Basecamp

Discussion continued on the migration of content from Basecamp to the OASIS site. Steve and Rob suggested that all of the content on Basecamp should be moved.
 
Regards,

Michael