I think it's more a case that we have bigger fish to fry at the moment. We have a lot to do if we want to have something up and running by the next DITA NA conference.
We pretty much agreed that the current colour scheme and logo are not great. I think "ick" sums it up nicely.
But first we need a taxonomy for classifying content, then a navigation structure, determining governance, porting articles, etc. With what limited time we have this is just not a priority and I don't want us to lose focus on what needs to be done first. Am not shelving the idea, just postponing it until we can properly deal with it.
Cheers!
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:49 AM
To: Carol Geyer; Don Day; dita-adoption-fasc@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [dita-adoption-fasc] Minutes for February 8, 2016 DITA Adoption FASC Meeting
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)
I must admit, I'm kind of disappointed you decided against a new name for the site. Now seems like the perfect time.
Also, it would be great to have a new site logo that incorporates the bird.
Ah well, it's up to y'all.
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From: Keith Schengili-Roberts <keith.roberts@ixiasoft.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:39 PM
Subject: [dita-adoption-fasc] Minutes for February 8, 2016 DITA Adoption FASC Meeting
To: "dita-adoption-fasc@lists.oasis-open.org" <dita-adoption-fasc@lists.oasis-open.org>
Present: Don Day, Keith Schengili-Roberts, Kris Eberlein
Absent: Mark Poston
Gave Kris a "tour" of the existing MindMap / draft taxonomic hierarchy for the website. Along the way she made some excellent point that we need descriptions for most/all of the nodes, so that people are clear what the labels/metadata will mean in context.
Other discussions:
- suggested that when a version of the new website is launched that those who have product- or service-related content on the existing website should have a deadline to migrate their own content
- need for guidelines for content we want to have on the new website, including:
- key message: website is here to promote DITA (not other, competing methodologies)
- content is filtered by DITA thought leaders
- dita.xml.org this is somewhere you can go for curated, accurate, good content on DITA
Discussion on possibly re-branding dita.xml.org:
- Kris made the good comment that we should concentrate on rebranding the user experience rather than the name
- existing tagline is good
- logo (and colour scheme) could do with some work ("lacks nuance")
- in the end, it was agreed that changing the name of dita.xml.org was not a high priority
Action items:
- Comment/describe definitions for hierarchy nodes
- Kris to send to all her previous research on dita.xml.org website
- Kris to re-examine existing website and derive Subject Scheme for Products and Services
Keith Schengili-RobertsDITA Information Architect / DITA SpecialistIXIASOFT825 Querbes, Suite 200, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H2V 3X1tel + 1 514 279-4942 / toll free + 1 877 279-4942cell + 1 647-472-7367
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