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On 3/16/09, 10:06 AM, "kjeberle@us.ibm.com" <kjeberle@us.ibm.com> wrote:

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>      Focus Area Subcommittee Minutes
>                Monday, 16 March 2009
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
>Minutes recorded by Kris Eberlein
>
>
>1. ROLL CALL
>Present: Kris Eberlein, Scott Tsao, Don Day, and Gershon Joseph.
>
>
>2. REVIEW AGENDA
>Kris asked that it be modified to include a report from Gershon about the
>Adoption committee's discussion of the draft mission statement.
>
>
>3. REPORT FROM ADOPTION COMMITTEE
>Gershon reported that the committee had discussed both the overall
>structure of dita.xml.org (especially forums and events) and the draft of
>the mission 
>
>statement. 
>
>People had divergent options about the forum. Some people think this
>should
>be handled by the Yahoo! group alone; others think that the forums provide
>an 
>
>opportunity for discussion that is not on the Yahoo! list but that is
>still
>public. If the forum is retained, it needs work to so that it can be used
>in an 
>
>optimal function; a knowledgeable person must monitor it frequently.
>
>Gershon mentioned that he thought that that many threads on dita-users
>would yield a fruitful DITA FAQ, similar to the way in which Bob Stayton
>authored 
>
>"Docbook XSL: A Complete Guide" (now in its 4th edition) based on user
>group comments.
>
>Regarding the mission statement, discussion ensued about where the DITA
>Open Toolkit should be in a prioritized list. Vendors wanted it lower;
>Su-Laine's 
>
>suggestion to deemphasize advertising was also contentious.
>
>
>4. DISCUSSION ABOUT MISSION STATEMENT AND SITE
>
>General discussion about the importance of the DITA Open Toolkit as the
>reference standard and most mature implementation.
>
>Don Day raised the point that most vendor's implementations tend to be
>geared towards a  particular processing stream, for example, PDF. He
>reminded 
>
>subcommittee members that WinAnt and the DITA Open Platform are two open
>implementations that attempt to provide a more user-friendly interface for
>the DITA 
>
>Open Toolkit. He suggested that perhaps better documentation of the DITA
>Open Toolkit samples and how to run them from the command line might be
>helpful for 
>
>DITA adopters.
>
>Scott Tsao reiterated the point that he made earlier by e-mail, that he
>thought content modeling, implementation details, and the items listed as
>3-6 in Su-
>
>Laine's original e-mail were most important to him. And there are a lot of
>different ways to implement DITA: specialization or not, conversion of
>legacy 
>
>documentation or not ...
>
>Kris Eberlein raised the point that two of the most popular pages at
>dita.xml.org were 1) Who's using DITA, and 2) DITA user groups. She will
>post to the e-
>
>mail thread about the mission statement about this. She also raised that
>point that DITA adopters are a diverse community, and we might not be able
>to agree 
>
>on precisely ranked priorities.
>
>Gershon asked where does "Selling moving to DITA" fall on the list of
>proposed priorities? Maybe it is covered under #4, "Implementing DITA." He
>reiterated 
>
>that he thought that people needed a lot of help.
>
>Don Day mentioned an earlier article about about "DITA for Managers,"
>which
>we found through a Google search. Would we want to add pages to
>dita.xml.org 
>
>about business-value justifications? It would take some work to do the
>research and figure out what to update.
>
>Kris Eberlein mentioned that one of our primary challenges is to improve
>the information architecture and navigation for dita.xml.org, given the
>constraints 
>
>imposed by Drupal.
>
>Gershon asked if there was anyway that we could control what goes where on
>the Resources page, or change the category to which a resource had been
>assigned. 
>
>Should we consider moderating posts?
>
>Kris raided the point that moderating posts would apply also to other
>sections of the site; is that a direction that we want to consider?
>
>
>Action: Kris Eberlein will contact Carol Geyer and see if the order in
>which events are listed on the Event page can be reversed. Currently the
>oldest (2006) 
>
>events show up first; this is in contrast to how items are listed on the
>News page.
>
>Action: Kris Eberlein will contact Carol Geyer and get more information
>about whether we can reassign items categorized as resources.
>
>Action: Everyone to post comments about specific sections of the site to
>http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/FocusAreaAnalysis
>
> -- Kristen Eberlein
>
>The document named Minutes, 16 March 2009 (Focus_area
>subcommitte_meeting_16_March_2009.txt) has been submitted by Kristen
>Eberlein to the DITA Adoption Focus Area SC document repository.
>
>Document Description:
>
>
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>
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