OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- Meeting Agenda -- 30 August 2010

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

Title: OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- Meeting Agenda -- 30 August 2010

Agenda for next DITA Adoption TC meeting
Committee meeting -- Monday, 30 August 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET

Please go to the Wiki page for the agenda. See Gershon’s invitation for call-in information. Dial into the webex and follow the instructions on the screen for the telephone connections. 

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

Roll call

Regrets:

Accept minutes from previous business meeting

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/39071/Minutes_for_the_DITA_Adoption_TC_meeting%20%2016%20August%202010.doc

Next meeting: Monday, 13 September 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET

Review open action items
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/members/action_items.php

Business

1. Discuss the process for getting the Asian Adoption SC up and running (Varghese)

2. ITEM: Article about Tools and DITA Awareness (Su-Laine)
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201006/msg00025.html (PDF rendition)
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/36488/Tools_and_DITA-awareness_2.dita (DITA source)
Discuss with a view to approving as a white paper or article:
Is the content complete or do we need to add more to this?
Discuss the intended target audience to ensure this article meets that intent.

3. ITEM: Review status of Feature Article assignments. Revise as necessary.
DITA Feature Articles
Review commit dates

4. RECURRING ITEM:Improvements to linking (Kris Eberlein) (on hold)
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/document.php?document_id=30211

5. 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
Consider leveraging the DITA Help SC world time clock examples
Agree on what to do about DITA-compliance and the enforcement thereof (if anything)
List DITA 1.2 features we expect vendors to support
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201008/msg00003.html (JoAnn and following)

6. ITEM: DITA White Paper Template (McRae)
Mary asked us to share this with the OASIS TCs who may wish to author white papers in DITA
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201007/msg00018.html
Need volunteer to document and package

7. NEW ITEM: DITA 1.2 elements needing styling and translatable strings (Yeo)
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201008/msg00016.html (Su-Laine and following)

8. ITEM: SWOT analysis and plans for follow-on white papers (reassign this task)

SWOT analysis:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_SWOT_Analysis
SWOT analysis with business focus:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Business_SWOT_Analysis
SWOT analysis with author focus:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Author_SWOT_Analysis
SWOT analysis with IT focus:
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.
Add to the SWOT analysis wiki, which we will turn into a best practice document


On Hold: 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 what’s happening in that area. I will keep you informed of developments at my end.

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
Adoption Committee members who use or intend to use DITA 1.2

RECURRING ITEM: Subcommittee reports
Focus Area Subcommittee
Can we resurrect this activity?
Asian Adoption Subcommittee (Matt)
Help Adoption Subcommittee (Tony, Chris G)

RECURRING ITEM: Continue defining TC activities and roadmap.
Work with the Matthew Varghese and others 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.
We now have multiple wiki pages for the issues that we are discussing. Several of these should lead to best practice documents.

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:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/Comments_about_focus_area
Open floor for comments, questions, etc.
Review action items from this meeting
Adjourn