RE: [dita-adoption] Groups - OASIS DITA Adoption TC committee meeting modified

["Su-Laine Yeo" <su-laine.yeo@justsystems.com>]

Hi,

Yes, I also heard the term "vendors" used in plural when discussing the
committee's stance on promoting/documenting the Open Toolkit. But I'm
not sure if there is actually more than one vendor in opposition or if
committee members just perceive it that way.

Let me try to make my own position on the whitepaper and Toolkit
documentation more clear, as I don't think I communicated it well this
morning even though I took a long time trying (please excuse me):
- I'm strongly in favour of the Adoption TC writing a whitepaper about
how to evaluate DITA and conduct pilot projects.
- Generating output from DITA is just one part of evaluating DITA and
conducting a pilot project. The whitepaper should put the testing of
output generation into a larger context. 
- I'm in favour of more documentation on generating output and more
documentation on the Open Toolkit. JustSystems is also in favour of
these things. I am not sure if an OASIS committee is the best venue for
producing these documents, however JustSystems and myself are certainly
not *against* the idea at this point.

Best,
Su-Laine


-----Original Message-----
From: Rodolfo M. Raya [mailto:rmraya@maxprograms.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:29 PM
To: dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [dita-adoption] Groups - OASIS DITA Adoption TC committee
meeting modified

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:53:07 -0700
"Su-Laine Yeo" <su-laine.yeo@justsystems.com> wrote:

> Thanks Rodolfo. Just a small question: regarding "Some vendors oppose
> to promoting the Open Toolkit from within this committee." - was
> there more than one vendor in opposition?

Hi Su-Laine,

Two members, from different companies, voted against the white paper
proposal and three expressed concerns about the content of the white
paper. 

During the conversation the term "vendors", in plural, was used to
express disagreement with promoting/documenting the Open Toolkit. 

I wrote "some vendors" in plural to reflect those facts. 

Best regards,
Rodolfo
-- 
Rodolfo M. Raya <rmraya@maxprograms.com>
http://www.maxprograms.com

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