RE: [dita-adoption] "DITA on its way out" thread

["Bruce Nevin (bnevin)" <bnevin@cisco.com>]

The specific user comment that was quoted (reporting what "someone
said") may reflect garbled information about HTML 5. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Morrison [mailto:dmorrison@dita4all.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 6:21 AM
> To: dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [dita-adoption] "DITA on its way out" thread
> 
> 
>   Hi Su-Laine, Gershon,
> 
> I have volunteered to do some work in this are so I would be 
> happy to help monitor the site.
> 
> I am also formulating a rough plan of action to improve other 
> parts of dita.xml.org. Part of the plan is to consider what 
> to do with the forum. 
> One possibility is to reduce its scope and refer users to 
> other forums for different subject matter.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Doug Morrison
> Information Architect
> http://dita4all.com
> 
> 
> On 13/10/2010 10:23, Gershon Joseph (gerjosep) wrote:
> > Hi Su-Laine,
> >
> > Thanks for bringing this message to the attention of the 
> Adoption TC.
> >
> > I too agree the forums area (and all of dita.xml.org in 
> fact) is a deterant largely because so many posts are now 
> being blocked as spam. Users find this very frustrating. I 
> think we could find someone to volunteer to check the forums 
> once a day (perhaps we can subscribe to the forums?) and 
> respond. I'd be willing to do so provided it's not getting 
> too much traffic. Another option is for a group of us to take 
> turns on being the "duty person" who monitors the site. That 
> way each one of us would have our day we're on duty to 
> monitor the site, and it would be less work than having only 
> one duty person.
> >
> > I'm open to thoughts and suggestion...
> >
> > Gershon
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Self [mailto:tself@hyperwrite.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:05 AM
> > To: 'DITA Adoption TC'
> > Subject: RE: [dita-adoption] "DITA on its way out" thread
> >
> > Greetings, colleagues
> >
> > I agree with Su-Laine that this is a concern. Although I'm not in a 
> > position to volunteer for at least six months, it might be good to 
> > find a volunteer to visit the dita.xml.org forum daily and 
> respond to 
> > posts in some way. I'm not sure about the etiquette of referring 
> > posted queries to the Yahoo! DITA Users group.
> >
> > Tony Self
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Su-Laine Yeo [mailto:su-laine.yeo@justsystems.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2010 9:53 AM
> > To: DITA Adoption TC
> > Subject: [dita-adoption] "DITA on its way out" thread
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> > 		
> >  From http://dita.xml.org/blog/dita-on-its-way-out:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Blog entry: Submitted by spaguniak on Tue, 2010-10-05 22:08.
> > A software developer (co-worker) told me the other day that 
> DITA was 
> > on its way out...along with XML..and that everything will 
> revert back 
> > to HTML. Is this true--or do you see this becoming a 
> reality in the future?
> >
> > csh | Mon, 2010-10-11 23:15
> > Well, given the fact that there's not much activity in the 
> forum and 
> > I'm getting no response from the site on a question that I tried to 
> > post that was marked as spam, your friend might have a point...
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Am I the only one who thinks that the "Forums" area of 
> dita.xml.org is 
> > currently more of a detriment than a help?
> > What do you think of taking this area of the site down and 
> replacing 
> > it with a page suggesting that readers pose their questions to the 
> > dita-users group on Yahoo?
> >
> > Su-Laine
> >
> >
> > Su-Laine Yeo
> > Solutions Consultant
> > JustSystems Canada, Inc.
> > Office: 778-327-6356
> > syeo@justsystems.com
> > www.justsystems.com
> > XMetaL Community Forums: http://forums.xmetal.com/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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