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Subject: Groups - Minutes, 16 March 2009 (Focus_area subcommitte_meeting_16_March_2009.txt) uploaded
------------------------------------------------------- Focus Area Subcommittee Minutes Monday, 16 March 2009 ------------------------------------------------------- Minutes recorded by Kris Eberlein 1. ROLL CALL Present: Kris Eberlein, Scott Tsao, Don Day, and Gershon Joseph. 2. REVIEW AGENDA Kris asked that it be modified to include a report from Gershon about the Adoption committee's discussion of the draft mission statement. 3. REPORT FROM ADOPTION COMMITTEE Gershon reported that the committee had discussed both the overall structure of dita.xml.org (especially forums and events) and the draft of the mission statement. People had divergent options about the forum. Some people think this should be handled by the Yahoo! group alone; others think that the forums provide an opportunity for discussion that is not on the Yahoo! list but that is still public. If the forum is retained, it needs work to so that it can be used in an optimal function; a knowledgeable person must monitor it frequently. Gershon mentioned that he thought that that many threads on dita-users would yield a fruitful DITA FAQ, similar to the way in which Bob Stayton authored "Docbook XSL: A Complete Guide" (now in its 4th edition) based on user group comments. Regarding the mission statement, discussion ensued about where the DITA Open Toolkit should be in a prioritized list. Vendors wanted it lower; Su-Laine's suggestion to deemphasize advertising was also contentious. 4. DISCUSSION ABOUT MISSION STATEMENT AND SITE General discussion about the importance of the DITA Open Toolkit as the reference standard and most mature implementation. Don Day raised the point that most vendor's implementations tend to be geared towards a particular processing stream, for example, PDF. He reminded subcommittee members that WinAnt and the DITA Open Platform are two open implementations that attempt to provide a more user-friendly interface for the DITA Open Toolkit. He suggested that perhaps better documentation of the DITA Open Toolkit samples and how to run them from the command line might be helpful for DITA adopters. Scott Tsao reiterated the point that he made earlier by e-mail, that he thought content modeling, implementation details, and the items listed as 3-6 in Su- Laine's original e-mail were most important to him. And there are a lot of different ways to implement DITA: specialization or not, conversion of legacy documentation or not ... Kris Eberlein raised the point that two of the most popular pages at dita.xml.org were 1) Who's using DITA, and 2) DITA user groups. She will post to the e- mail thread about the mission statement about this. She also raised that point that DITA adopters are a diverse community, and we might not be able to agree on precisely ranked priorities. Gershon asked where does "Selling moving to DITA" fall on the list of proposed priorities? Maybe it is covered under #4, "Implementing DITA." He reiterated that he thought that people needed a lot of help. Don Day mentioned an earlier article about about "DITA for Managers," which we found through a Google search. Would we want to add pages to dita.xml.org about business-value justifications? It would take some work to do the research and figure out what to update. Kris Eberlein mentioned that one of our primary challenges is to improve the information architecture and navigation for dita.xml.org, given the constraints imposed by Drupal. Gershon asked if there was anyway that we could control what goes where on the Resources page, or change the category to which a resource had been assigned. Should we consider moderating posts? Kris raided the point that moderating posts would apply also to other sections of the site; is that a direction that we want to consider? Action: Kris Eberlein will contact Carol Geyer and see if the order in which events are listed on the Event page can be reversed. Currently the oldest (2006) events show up first; this is in contrast to how items are listed on the News page. Action: Kris Eberlein will contact Carol Geyer and get more information about whether we can reassign items categorized as resources. Action: Everyone to post comments about specific sections of the site to http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/FocusAreaAnalysis -- Kristen Eberlein The document named Minutes, 16 March 2009 (Focus_area subcommitte_meeting_16_March_2009.txt) has been submitted by Kristen Eberlein to the DITA Adoption Focus Area SC document repository. Document Description: View Document Details: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=31689 Download Document: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/31689/Focus_area%20subcommitte_meeting_16_March_2009.txt PLEASE NOTE: If the above links do not work for you, your email application may be breaking the link into two pieces. You may be able to copy and paste the entire link address into the address field of your web browser. -OASIS Open Administration
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