DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 29 January 2007

[Gershon L Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>]

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Gershon L Joseph
Director of Technology and Single Sourcing
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Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Secretary, OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee
Member, OASIS DocBook Technical Committee

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DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 29 January 2007

(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)

The DITA Translation Subcommittee met on Monday, 29 January 2007 at 08:00am PT
for 40 minutes.

1)  Roll Call

    Present:
        Gershon Joseph (chair, since JoAnn is at California DITA Boot Camp)
        Kevin Farwell
        Nick Rosenthal
        Nancy Harrison
        Robert Anderson
        Don Day
        Andrzej Zydron

    Regrets:
        JoAnn Hackos

2)  Accept Minutes from 22 January 2007
    Accepted. [Gershon moved, Nancy seconded, no objections]

3)  Review open action items

    3.1 ACTION: Gershon to investigate whether he can use a client's samples.

        CONTINUED. (client is awaiting legal OK)

    3.2 ACTION: Nancy to incorporate the review input and submit updated BP doc
        for review.

        COMPLETED.

    3.3 ACTION: Andrzej and Rodolfo to revise the conref best practice document
        Felix Sasaki provided input regarding Japanese. Andrzej to revise
        BP document to include this new information.

        COMPLETED.

    3.4 ACTION: Gershon and Don will present the approved best practices on
        indexing and Translation Memory as committee drafts for approval by the DITA
        Technical Committee.

        ON HOLD (until DITA TC closes 1.1 spec)

    3.5 ACTION: Everyone to review the document JoAnn posted on 13 November
        (subject: Document from Christian Lieske).

        CONTINUED [we hope to discuss next week]

    3.6 ACTION: Don to raise glossary work item at the TC after the 1.1 draft to
        see if it needs its own subcommittee.

        ON HOLD (until DITA TC closes 1.1 spec)

    3.7 ACTION: JoAnn will contact Carol Geyer to discuss the possibility of a 
        maintenance mode for the committee.

        CONTINUED (JoAnn not on conf call this week).

4) Returning business:

4.1 Review the new draft of the Multi-language Best Practice (Nancy Harrison)

    Nancy led the committee through the changes

    ACTION: Nancy to update the document according to review input during the
    meeting and to add marked up DITA examples into the document.
    
    Gershon: Let's plan to review and approve this BP next meeting.

4.2 Review the new draft of the conref best practice (Andrzej Zydron)

    Andrzej led the committee through the changes. 

    ACTION: Andrzej to update the conref BP doc for vote next week.

--out of time. Meeting adjourned at 9:00--

5)  New business:

    Continue discussion of a new charter for the committee going forward.