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Subject: Agenda: 08-17-2015 Adoption/TechComm Meeting
==================================================== DITA Adoption/TechComm SC Meeting Agenda 08-17-2015 12:00PM/EST ==================================================== CONNECTION INFORMATION Meeting Number: 201240602 Meeting Password: ditatc 1. Go to https://cisco.webex.com/cisco/j.php?MTID=m8c33283eaac954cd8be7c2cb62abeae6 2. Enter the meeting password: ditatc 3. Click 'Join Now'. 4. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. (866) 432-9903 for the San Jose/Milpitas area (866) 349-3520 for the RTP area. To join the teleconference only: 1. Dial into Cisco WebEx (view all Global Access Numbers at http://cisco.com/en/US/about/doing_business/conferencing/index.html) 2. Follow the prompts to enter the Meeting Number (listed above) or Access Code followed by the # sign. ==================================================== A. Whitepapers ==================================================== 1. Release management whitepaper > AI/Bob-Keith: Release the whitepaper 2. Release management DITA-OT plug-in > AI/Stan: test the most recent plug-in that Tom Cihak uploaded and send an email to the ATC summarizing status 3. DITA 1.3 A-Z Whitepaper > AI/Bob-Keith: Release the whitepaper 4. Scoped keys whitepaper > ATC - Review by Friday, send comments to Leigh and to the ATC list > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/56130/ScopedKeysFeatureArticle.pdf 5. Short description whitepaper > ATC - Review by Friday, send comments to Joe and Keith. > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/56218/shortdesc_article.pdf 6. DITA 1.3 Learning and Training (Mark Myers, Jennifer Gemmell; date not confirmed) 7. DITA 1.3 Scoped Keys Overview (Chris Nitchie; date not confirmed) 8. Content Referencing Practices (Dawn Stevens; date not confirmed) 9. XML mention (Israel Gale) 10. URI-Key Migration AI/Stan: Organize a meeting with Les, Pat, et all to troubleshoot the issues they encountered? ==================================================== B. Discussions ==================================================== 1. DITA SWOT (Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) wiki > https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_SWOT_Analysis a. "Why choose not to move to DITA?" > Capture the top ten reasons companies and departments ultimately decide NOT to > Correlate these reasons with the CIDM survey results on DITA productivity - https://www.infomanagementcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BP2014-12JHackos.pdf b. How NOT to get trapped early in your implementation. > Example - do topic typing from day-1 > Example - have story about interoperating with company wikis (Confluence, MindTouch) 2. Discussion: DITA worst practices: > https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Worst_Practices 3. Discussion: DITA Getting Started > https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Getting_Started ==================================================== C. dita.xml.org ==================================================== 1. Action items: > AI/Keith: Review the remaining TBD sections of the dita.xml.org Knowledgebase. > AI/Bob: Run a site scraping tool against all the on dita.xml.org to build a repository of its contents. > AI/Stan: Dig out his slides on "top reasons" NOT to move to DITA and forward to the ATC list. 2. Content triage (ongoing) the existing dita.xml.org content to determine whether articles there should be: a. Removed eventually b. Preserved c. Revised and re-integrated d. Replaced with something else TOC signups: - http://dita.xml.org/book/dita-wiki-knowledgebase - Reviewer Chapter Title ------------------------ -------------------------------- JoAnn Hackos Capabilities of DITA TBD Setting up DITA Stan Doherty Working with DITA - See email to ATC list TBD The DITA Open Toolkit TBD DITA Community Keith Schengili-Roberts The Business Case for DITA - See email to ATC list M. Priestly/A. Swope The DITA Maturity Model - Don has a DITA-sourced version Bob Thomas DITA Specializations Development - See email to ATC list TBD DITA Standards Development 2. Summary comments - dita.xml.org review > Much of the content there is sparsely written, outdated, or irrelevant to DITA 1.3 users. > ATC attendees converged on the opinion that moving ahead with the current outline would not be wise. > ATC attendees proposed a bottom-up approach to reorganizing the site ... starting with audience analysis. 3. Audience analysis brainstorming - dita.xml.org review > Specify audience types in the actual articles > Revisit the audience profiles at the next meeting a. Newbies (froshpeople) - just being exposed to DITA, quite probably developing a business case or first prototypes for DITA 1) Newbie manager - wants information on previous business cases, wants logic behind a migration - Example - the Nokia business case 2) Newbie information architect - wants information about design decisions, gotchas, et al. 3) Newbie writer - wants information about how to get started with DITA 4) Newbie translation manager - wants information about best practices and pitfalls 5) Newbie tech support professional or implementer - wants information about tools configuration and basic customization issues (including specialization) b. First-year adopters (sophomores) - have been working in DITA for a year and want to profile ROI and to assess next-generation investment points. > Reuse strategies > Metadata investments > New domain vocabularies > Intrinsic XML benefits
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