OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- 19 July 2010 Meeting Minutes

[Joann Hackos <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

Title: OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- 19 July 2010 Meeting Minutes

Minutes for the DITA Adoption TC meeting
Committee meeting – 19 July 2010, 11 am to 12 am ET

Roll call – Bruce Nevin, JoAnn Hackos, Marc Speyer, Joe Gelb, Kris Eberlein, Troy Klukewich, Brianna Wherry, Deb Bissantz Paul Grosso. 
 
Regrets from Gershon Joseph, Donald Rohmer, Frank Miller, Joe Gelb, Chris Goolsby, 

Accept minutes from previous business meeting on 28 June 2010 – JoAnn moved, Kris seconded

Next meeting: 2 August 2010

Reviewed Open action items with these changes:
Closed several items regarding the publication of the latest feature articles

Business

1. ITEM: DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec Update
Kris reported on the status
 
JoAnn provided a draft of a Status feature article. 
Comments: Paul, add a backward compatibility paragraph. Remove final text of sentence “as a part of ...” in first para. Check spelling. Note version 1.5 of the OT. Add Componize to the adopter list. Inquire about additional adopters through the Yahoo user group. Add pointers to the DITA Adoption page in dita.xml.org. Explain don’t have to use new features to be listed as an early adopter of the DITA 1.2 spec.
 
2. New ITEM: Formation of an Asian Adoption Subcommittee
Approved the charter for the Asian Adoption Subcommittee, chair Mathew Varghese.  Mathew moved, Bruce seconded.
Unanimous approval. JoAnn will notify Mary McRae to set up the committee in Kavi.
 
3. ITEM: Reviewed the list of feature articles. 
All committee members are asked to review the feature article list and add dates by which they will commit to submitting a draft for committee review. 
Send Sowmya a note about her article since she hasn’t been at meetings recently. Marc will help Kris with link management. Brianna committed to November for her scale article. Kris will ask Jang Graat to take over Robin Sloan’s articles. 

Discussed new article about upgrade migration to DITA 1.2. Problems if users have modified the DTDs rather than using specializations. Marc will take on this assignment. Add to the feature article list.

4. ITEM: Discussion of the Tools Awareness article begun by Su-Laine. 
All committee members were asked to review the new PDF version of the article and suggest additions or changes.
 
 
Meeting adjourned at 9 am Pacific Standard Time.
 
JoAnn Hackos PhD
Co-chair
DITA Adoption TC