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Minutes of the OASIS DITA TC
Tuesday, 30 Novemeber 2010
Recorded by Kristen James Eberlein

Present: Seth Parks, Robert Anderson, John Hunt, Michael Priestley, Don
Day, Kris Eberlein, Su-Laine Yeo, Deb Bissantz, Paul Grosso, David
Helfinstine. Mark Lewis, Eliot Kimber, Thilo Buchholz
Regrets:

1. Minutes
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DOn Day moved that the minutes of the previous meeting be approve. Thilo
Bucholz seconded; approved by accclamation.


2. SC report
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We received a report on the DITA for the Web SC from Mark Lewis and John
Hunt. See the following URL for information about their work on
microformats:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/WebSubcommittee/Microformats_Use_Cases

The SC expects to finish this work in one or two weeks; they then will send
it to the DITA TC for review as an idea document that contains use cases
and "What if ..." scenarios.

Action: Don Day will contact a rep from the Pharma SC about giving an
update at the next TC meeting.


3. Press release about DITA 1.2 approval
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Quotations due to Carol Geyer by Friday, 3 December 2010. We expect
statements from IBM, Comtech, PTC, SAP, and maybe Cisco.


4. Progress of DITA 1.2 ballot
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We reviewed who had voted, and several people took assignments to contact
specific companies that have not yet voted.


5. Survey
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Thilo Buchholz has provided feedback to JoAnn.


6. Eliot's trip to Japan
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Eliot Kimber provided a report about his recent trip to Japan. Interesting
pattern of adoption in Japan, adoption seen more in industry-specific
verticals than by tech writing profession.


7. DITA Europe
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Kris Eberlein and Su-Laine Yeo mentioned user feedback from the recent
conference:

* People who are members or observers of the TC cannot wade through the
e-mail traffic to get a good sense of what the TC is up to; how can we
provide summary information in a more accessible way?
* People perceive DITA as getting too big and too complicated as it expands
past the realm of technical communication
* People want DITA 1.3 to be a small release, focusing on bugs and
usability fixes
* People are concerned that specialized work of subcommittees will be
incorporated into the DITA specification rather than being plugins that can
be downloaded from Sourceforge.



 -- Kristen Eberlein

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