Agenda for tomorrow's Focus Area Subcommittee meeting

[Kristen J Eberlein <kjeberle@us.ibm.com>]

Here are my thoughts; many thanks to Su-Laine and David Hollis for jump starting this. Send me your thoughts and any suggestions, and I'll post the agenda on the calendar and send out a notice tomorrow morning.

1) Roll call
2) Review agenda
3) Administrivia

• Volunteer to take minutes.
• Added meetings to the Focus area subcommittee section; scheduled the 3rd Wednesdays for only 4 times. Hopefully we won't need them all.
• Start thinking about what we might need as Document categories.

4)  Discuss suggestions made at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/Comments_about_focus_area. Some of these suggestions are ones on which I think most people agree; others are controversial. Can we deal with the easy ones?

• Making the home page static
• Removing the forum
• Requiring approval for people to start a blog; clearer guidelines for what is appropriate content
• Consolidate the Resources area into the knowledgebase (Su-Laine Yeo)
• Remove the Knowledgebase area all together by moving its content to specific areas (Scott Tsao)

5) Discuss 'What is the mission of dita.xml.org?" (I think different committee members have very different opinions here also.)

• A site where we can host DITA resources: Toolkit documentation, Lone user tutorial, Specialization tutorial, samples
• Encyclopedia of DITA
• General-purpose DITA Wiki (posts by Toolkit collaborators; listing of DITA events, news stories, and press releases)
• Host for DITA blogs and DITA user groups

6) Are there practical tactic tasks that we can move ahead with?

• Updating the editorial board page
• Making the home page static
• Monitoring dita-users list for threads that should be mined and moved to the Knowledgebase. Can we develop a workable process for this? I think it would be helpful to separate monitoring the list from writing topics for the Knowledgebase. We could maintain a list on an Adoption Committee Wiki page, solicit volunteers to write topics, and track completion.
  

Best regards,

Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Advisory Information Developer, IBM Internet Security Systems
Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
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