dita.xml.org: Thoughts about the Editorial Board roles from CarolGeyer

[Kristen James Eberlein <keberlein@pobox.com>]

(The e-mail was sent by Kris Eberlein on 8/19 to a subset of the DITA Adoption Committee)

I am forwarding an e-mail that Carol Geyer sent me yesterday. It outlines notes that she jotted down after participating in the DITA Adoption Committee call yesterday. As you heard yesterday, she suggests that we structure this subcommittee so that individual people take clearly-defined responsibility for oversight of specific sections of the site: Wiki Knowledgebase, News, Services, etc.

I asked if the Editorial Board had ever compiled a list of the Board's responsibilities, and Carol's answer was "Not really."

We talked briefly about some other questions, primarily about usability of the site.

I have sent e-mail to the previous Editorial Board members, encouraging them to:

1. Consider joining the new subcommittee (after joining the DITA Adoption Committee, if necessary)
2. Talk with me about "what the Ed Board did well and what didn't work, particular pain points that the new subcommittee needs to address, any quick fixes that we could make to improve usability, etc."

If anyone is interested in participating in any of these phone calls, please let me know. Currently I have plans to talk with Su-Laine Yeo (Just Systems) and Don Day (IBM).

Best,

Kris

Kristen James Eberlein

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	DITA Edboard roles
Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:07:28 -0400
From:	Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>
To:	'Kristen James Eberlein' <keberlein@pobox.com>

Board

1. Develop ideas for new topic pages in wiki. Seed page with content and/or invite others experts to. Promote new topic pages on DITA mailing lists.

2. Add a new poll question on a monthly/quarterly basis. Promote new questions and results of completed polls on DITA mailing lists.

3. Host a 'How to use DITA XML.org' webinar. Post recorded webinar to the site. Link to it from the main nav.

4. Decide if we want to continue to maintain RESOURCES as a directory or if it should be integrated into the WIKI section.

Wiki editor

1. Sign up to receive notifications of new updates to this section of the site (via email or RSS).

2. Monitor DITA mailing lists.

3. Go through existing WIKI pages and add "See also:" section at the bottom of each page with links to other appropriate pages, especially ones listed in RESOURCES section.

News editor

1. Sign up to receive a daily Google News alert for "DITA". You'll get one email a day containing 0-3 links to articles online.

2. Review articles and identify any that are worth linking to from DITA XML.org (this usually ends up being 1-3 articles a week).

3. Create a News entry for each worthy article using the form at http://dita.xml.org/node/add/news
 

Products and services editor

1. Encourage vendors to post listings in Products and Services directories. (You may subscribe to Google alerts to receive press releases on new products.)

If you're interested, please let me know, and I'll provide full instructions. This is a great way to contribute to BPEL XML.org, stay on top of BPEL-related news, and receive recognition as a major contributor to the site--all for less than 30 minutes a week.

Tags

1. Encourage the use of tags by tagging existing content. Review new posts to the site on a weekly basis (http://dita.xml.org/tracker) and add tags.

Resources

1. Maintain 

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