DITA Adoption TC Meeting Minutes -- 12 April 2010

Minutes for the DITA Adoption TC meeting
Committee meeting -- 12 Arpil 2010, 11 am to 12 am ET

Roll call – Gershon Joseph, JoAnn Hackos, Marc Speyer, Mathew Varghese, Deb Bissantz, Frank Miller, Paul Grosso, Bruce Nevin, Joe Gelb, Troy Klukewich, Chris Goolsby, Bryan Schnabel

Regrets from Sowmya Kannan, Kris Eberlein, Donald Roehmer, Glenn Emerson

Accept minutes from previous business meeting on 29 March 2010 – Gershon proposed, JoAnn seconded

Next meeting: 26 April 2010

Reviewed Open action items
1. (June 2009) 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) 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. Draft has been submitted.

6. (1 March 2010) JoAnn will encourage all members of the DITA Translation Subcommittee to join the DITA Adoption Technical Committee.

7. (12 October 2009) JoAnn suggested preparing an article where all referencing mechanisms are explained and uses cases are provided. -- to be assigned

8. (12 April 2010) Marc Speyer and JoAnn Hackos will prepare information about the Shell Model generator and work with Elovirta to improve the interface. Intention to create a series of web pages on dita.xml.org to introduce the concept of preparing a Shell Model, link to the generator, and provide pages from the tools vendors about integrating the Shell Models into the tools and add a link to the process for doing so in the Open Toolkit.

Business

1. ITEM: DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA1.2SpecSignup

Review commences on 12 April. All review due on 30 April 2010.

All members who have signed up for reviews are urged to begin as soon as possible. JoAnn will send reminder and sample of the format for submitting comments. JoAnn will also write to Sowmya Kannan and Briana Wherry to ensure they can complete reviews.

Joe Gelb will handle the Classification Elements (Gershon will add to review list).

Everyone to send their comments to Gershon, JoAnn, and Kris who will add comments to the DITA TC Review Wiki.

2. ITEM: Follow up on discussion of the Shell Model generator developed by Elovirta.

http://www.elovirta.com/dita-generator/ (shell generator tool home page)

Reviewed ideas from last meeting. Discussed need to provide instructions to help users integrate their Shell Models with various editors. Don Day suggested at last meeting a link to the instructions for adding them to the OT. JoAnn suggested possible page on dita.xml.org with an introduction to why Shell Models might be useful. Marc Speyer volunteered to prepare the initial draft of the reason d’etre. JoAnn and Hal Trend will advise Jarno on changes to the interface. Marc and Gershon will meet with Hal at the CMS conference to review the generator. Will need to ask the tools vendors to provide instructions for integration to the web pages.

3. ITEM: OASIS FO plug-in for DITA-OT

Marc S asked about the status of the plug-in. JoAnn that Hal had found the problem of the copyright page and had communicated with Tony Self. Will send the “bug” report to Joe Gelb and the information on the correction to Marc. The Plug-in is working properly with the corrections.

4. ITEM: Will table Marc’s article on domain and topic integration until he has an opportunity to review the new draft of the spec on this area and correct the style with the new information on the plug-in.

All other members, please read the article before the next meeting.

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/36619/domain_and_topic_integration_v0_4.pdf

5. All other items are on hold until the DITA Adoption TC members have completed their spec reviews. We will review the status at the next meeting.

Members not participating in the reviews are urged to read the feature articles that are ready for review.

Acronym Best Practice

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=36612

Task Model Feature Article

New version coming soon to the Documents folder

Meeting adjourned at 9 am Pacific Standard Time.

JoAnn Hackos PhD

Co-chair

DITA Adoption TC

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