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Subject: Groups - OASIS DITA Adoption TC meeting modified


Added meeting minutes.

 -- Mr. Rodolfo Raya


OASIS DITA Adoption TC meeting has been modified by Mr. Rodolfo Raya

Date:  Monday, 15 February 2010
Time:  11:00am - 12:00pm ET

Event Description:
Call-in details (sponsored by IBM):
Toll-free in USA: 888-294-8505
Direct-dial in USA: 213-270-2170
Participant Passcode: 71382177

Agenda:
Adoption TC Wiki page -- http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/FrontPage

   1. Roll call
   2.

      Accept minutes from previous business meeting on 1 February 2010 (JoAnn)
          *

            http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201002/msg00014.html 
   3. Next meeting: 1 March 2010
   4. Review open action items
         1.

            JoAnn to outline a Beginner's Guide to Getting Output from DITA (tentative title).
         2.

            (3 June 2009) JoAnn to work on a short article that explains DITA basic and to contact Mary McRae and ask her to establish formal relationship between UNESCO and OASIS.
         3. (3 June 2009) Gershon will work on the list of requirements to check for selecting DITA tools that we have in the wiki.
         4.

            (24 June 2009) JoAnn will review and clean the evaluation checklist from Robin, removing company specific details.
         5.

            (24 June 2009) JoAnn will contact David Hollis regarding his article on the SWOT analysis.
         6.

            (24 June 2009) Rodolfo announced that he started working on an article on using XLIFF to translate DITA content. JoAnn and Gershon offered to review the text before its published.
         7.

            (24 June 2009) JoAnn will draft a charter for a new Translation Adoption Subcommittee
         8.

            (12 October 2009) JoAnn suggested preparing an article where all referencing mechanisms are explained and uses cases are provided. -- to be assigned
         9. (1 Feb 2010) Ask TSelf to modify the copyright page to include an area for the revision history 
   5. Business
         1. ITEM: OASIS FO plug-in for DITA-OT
                * Released to DITA TC and successfully tested by many 
         2. ITEM: DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec update (Kristen or Gershon)
         3. ITEM: Discuss review assignments for DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec
                *

                  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA1.2SpecSignup
                * Review period: TBD 
         4.

            NEW ITEM: Article about Tools and DITA Awareness (Su-Laine, JoAnn)
                * Passed on from DITA TC meeting
                *

                  Su-Laine wrote a Tools and DITA Awareness topic. From the DITA TC minutes: Consensus that it won't be part of the spec. Jeff had some comments. What is next step? Adoption TC? JoAnn thought it would be appropriate, fits along with Compliance List for example. Consensus to do so--this will go to JoAnn for the Adoption TC. 
         5. NEW ITEM: Discuss Marc Speyer's draft feature description on domain and topic integration
                *

                  http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/35699/domain_and_topic_integration_v0_3.pdf 
         6. NEW ITEM: DITA 1.1 features articles (Gershon)
                *

                  http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/200911/msg00032.html
                * Gershon signed up to write the DITAVAL feature article
                * Seeking volunteers for the conref and chunking features 
         7. NEW ITEM: Discuss referred action from the DITA TC: DITA Adoption TC to add the tool to their list of DITA supporting tools and write a white paper to help users generate custom shells. Gershon to forward this request to the Adoption TC.
                *

                  New tool -- domain integrator: http://www.elovirta.com/dita-generator/ 
         8. NEW ITEM: Review list (from Bruce Nevin) of DITA 1.2 features and ensure articles are being prepared.
                * keyref
                *

                  reltable:  and  in 
                * conref range
                * conref push
                * generic text anywhere
                * delayed conref resolution (incremental update of published content)
                * conveniences for map composition
                * image @scalefit
                * section subdivisions
                * machine industry specializations
                * glossary specialization
                *

                  learning & training specializations
                *

                  controlled values (picklist support)-- subject scheme map
                * constraints
                * general task type 
         9. ON Hold: ITEM: Review the revised draft of the Generic Task Model feature description
                *

                  http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/200906/msg00014.html 
        10. ITEM: DITA tools evaluation checklists and test suite (Gershon)
                *

                  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/factSheet
                * Gershon plans to move vendor-centric content to a separate page and making this page user-centric
                * Gershon intends to make a new page for the test suite
                      o Consider leveraging the DITA Help SC world time clock examples 
        11. ITEM: Review list of DITA compliance requirements
                *

                  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/factSheet 
   6. ITEM: SWOT analysis and plans for follow-on white papers (David)
          * SWOT analysis:
                o

                  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_SWOT_Analysis 
          * SWOT analysis with business focus:
                o

                  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Business_SWOT_Analysis 
          * SWOT analysis with author focus:
                o

                  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Author_SWOT_Analysis 
          * SWOT analysis with IT focus:
                o

                  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_IT_Dev_SWOT_Analysis 
          * Review the SWOT analysis with business focus.
          * Add comments to the Author and IT pages. 
   7. ITEM Discuss UNESCO and International Atomic Energy Agency liaison efforts
          * From Tony Self: For some time, I have been trying to get Swinburne University involved in OASIS, and have finally made some progress. They might be able to add something to the UNESCO venture, so I wanted to keep tabs on whats happening in that area. I will keep you informed of developments at my end. 
   8. RECURRING ITEM: Articles about DITA 1.2 features
         1. Improvements to linking (Kris Eberlein) (on hold)
                *

                  http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/document.php?document_id=30211 
   9. RECURRING ITEM: Subcommittee reports
         1. Focus Area Subcommittee 
  10. RECURRING ITEM: Call for users of DITA 1.2
          * OASIS needs a list of organizations that intend to use one or more DITA 1.2 features 
  11. RECURRING ITEM: Continue defining the TC activities and roadmap for 2009.
          * Add to the SWOT analysis wiki, which we will turn into a best practice document
          * Work with the Matthew Varghese on use cases for DITA. Add to the wiki on this subject
          *

            Review JoAnn's article on the 1.2 specification and Kristen's page (moved from the DITA TC to the Adoption TC)
          * Review the proposed changes for the dita.xml.org on the wiki.
          * Discuss plans for assisting the DITA TC with the documentation for the multiple packages for DITA 1.2.
          * We now have multiple wiki pages for the issues that we are discussing. Several of these should lead to best practice documents. 
  12. Reminders:
          * Add to the various subpages on the Wiki: everyone add to the meaning of DITA adoption
          * Consider the formation of informal subcommittees to work on specific tasks. The only formal SC being formed is the editorial board for dita.xml.org
          * Reminder: Please explore the dita.xml.org site and add comments, suggestions, concerns, etc. to this Wiki page:
                o

                  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/Comments_about_focus_area

Minutes:
Present: Gershon Joseph, JoAnn Hackos, Paul Grosso, Rodolfo Raya, Bruce Nevin, Joe Gelb, Briana Wherry, Marc Speyer, Frank Miller.

Regrets: Kristen Eberlein, Sowmya Kannan, Mathew Varghese, Chris Goolsby.

Gershon moved to accept previous minutes. JoAnn seconded and none opposed.

Gershon had an action item to contact Tony Self and request updates to the DITA plugin to include a customized copyright notice for this TC. JoAnn already Contacted Tony about this.

JoAnn informed that David Hollis will not continue working on SWOT analysis. Action item 5 completed. 

New ACTION ITEM: Gershon to find a new owner for SWOT related analysis tasks.

New ACTION ITEM: Gershon to contact Kristen and request instructions for using the new plugin for the Open Toolkit that generates output in OASIS format.

Marc is testing the plugin or OASIS output under different publishing tools and will report back about it in a future meeting.

Gershon invited all members to sign up for reviewing the architectural specs. Joann informed that DITA specs have been reviewed several times and have been modified as result. Additional reviews are required.

New ACTION ITEM: Gershon to add the work on acronyms done by the translations sub-committee to the agenda. JoAnn explained that the article would need some changes to be published under this TCs umbrella.

Su-Laine wrote an article about DITA awareness in different tools. JoAnn asked Su-Laine to make an updated version of the article available to this TC. Discussion will continue when TC members get access to the text and can comment on it.

Marc received comments from Chris Goolsby on his draft feature description on domain and topic integration. New ACTION ITEM: Marc to convert the article to DITA format.

Gershon volunteered to write new articles about DITA 1.2 features, but that work will have to wait until the work on DITA 1.2 specs is finished. 

Marc would work on an article about the new chunking features. Gershon and JoAnn suggested a few use cases for that subject. 

New ACTION ITEM: Gershon to add an article that explains ways for sharing content among groups and customizing for own use.

Rodolfo passed a draft of his article on using XLIFF to translate DITA files to Gershon and JoAnn. Action Item 6 completed. Rodolfo will convert it to DITA format and upload the files.

Frank would write an article about conref in DITA, including use cases and code examples. 

The list of feature articles published at the wiki was revised. 

New ACTION ITEM: Gershon to setup a shared screen option for next meeting for testing the online shell/specialization generator created by Jarno Elovirta.

Call dismissed.





This event is one in a list of recurring events.
Other event dates in this series:

Monday, 23 November 2009, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Monday, 07 December 2009, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Monday, 21 December 2009, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Monday, 04 January 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Monday, 18 January 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Monday, 01 February 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Monday, 01 March 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Monday, 15 March 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Monday, 29 March 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Monday, 12 April 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET

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