Re: [dita] FW: Proposal for a DITA Help subcommittee

[Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>]

TC List--this was supposed to be on our agenda today, and I missed it
entirely since I did not look far enough back in the email. Please review
this proposal for a DITA Help Subcommittee for next week, at which time
we'll consider the resolution. Thank you!

(Tony, sorry that I overlooked this.)

Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
Phone: +1 512-838-8550
T/L: 678-8550

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
   --T.S. Eliot


                                                                           
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Esteemed DITA TC members

For your consideration at the TC meeting on Tuesday, July 31, 2007, I
propose that the TC officially establish a  Help subcommittee. The below
provides the proposal name, goals, deliverables, chair, and initial
membership for this proposed subcommittee.

Thank you for your consideration and support.

Tony Self
HyperWrite Pty Ltd
Tel :  +61-3-9803-8291
E-mail: tself @  hyperwrite.com

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Subcommittee name
"DITA Help  Subcommittee "

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of the OASIS DITA Help SC (DHSC) is to:
      develop a top-level design for authoring of Help systems and user
      assistance content for implementation using DITA;
      establish recommendations for the integration of DITA-authored Help
      systems and software applications using context-sensitivity;
      remove the obstacles to effective use of DITA for Help systems
      through the creation of best practice guidelines, cookbooks and
      worked examples, and to promote the use of DITA for creating Help
      systems and user assistance content;
      develop informal support for processing DITA for delivery as Help
      systems and user assistance;
      establish guidelines that promote best practices for applying
      standard DITA approaches to Help systems and user assistance content.
Proposed chair
   Tony Self,  HyperWrite Pty Ltd (though open to other nominations or
co-chair)

The deliverables of the DHSC will be:
      recommendations to the DITA TC for specification changes to better
      support Help systems and user assistance content;
      a high-level processing model description that defines the standard
      use of DITA for Help systems and user assistance content;
      explanations and guidelines for the use of DITA for Help systems and
      user assistance content.
Initial membership
The following TC members have expressed interest as initial members in this
subcommittee:
1.         Stan Doherty, Sun Microsystems
2.         Deborah Pickett,  Moldflow Corporation .
3.         Alice Etim, IBM
4.         Robin Sloan, PTC
5.         Seth Park, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
6.         Scott Prentice, Individual
7.         Tony Self ,  HyperWrite