Re: [dita-learningspec] Design Proposal #12058 Approved!

[Stan Doherty <Stanley.Doherty@Sun.COM>]

Congratulations .... you have set the bar for TC subcommittees with this 
effort.

Lovely job!

Stan
john_hunt@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Dear DITA learning sub-committee,
>
> I'm happy to report that at this week's meeting, the OASIS DITA Technical Committee 
> voted to accept and approve Design Proposal #12058 - Specialization for learning and 
> training, including the supporting design and language specification and DTD/XSD schemas.
>
>
> This makes our learning and training specialization part of the approved design 
> for DITA 1.2. 
>
>
> We can all celebrate. You have all contributed, by providing feedback in 
> meetings, emails, phone calls, and other forums. This is a significant step towards 
> enabling structured content as a standard part of developing, assembling, and 
> delivering good learning and training content. 
>
>
> However, our work as a sub-committee is not done. Our next step is to identify best 
> practices for both content development and processing to target deliverables, develop 
> against sample content, and deliver a complete starter set demonstration package 
> for use with the DITA Open Toolkit, building on the current plugin package, sample 
> content, and core processing we have now.
>
> After taking the next two weeks off to celebrate, let's re-convene on Thursday, 
> November 29 to discuss and plan the next steps together.
>
>
> Thanks again to all of your for your help and support in helping to get us to this 
> important milestone.
>
> John
> ___________________________________
> John P. Hunt, PhD
> DITA Architect / Lotus Information Development Center
> Chair, OASIS DITA learning and training content sub-committee
> IBM Software Group/Lotus Software
> phone: 617.245.8053
> john_hunt@us.ibm.com
>