OASIS Adoption TC Meeting Minutes -- 11 October 2010

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Subject: OASIS Adoption TC Meeting Minutes -- 11 October 2010

From: "JoAnn Hackos" <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>

To: "DITA Adoption TC" <dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org>

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:00:41 -0600

Minutes for the DITA Adoption TC meeting
11 October 2010, 11 am to 12 noon ET

Roll call 11:00 - Quorum 11:15

Attending: JoAnn Hackos, Gershon Joseph, Bruce Nevin, Troy Klukewich, Kris Eberlein, Doug Morrison, Paul Grosso, Deb Bissantz, Brianna Wherry

Regrets from Don Rohmer, Chris Goolsby, Matt Varghese

Accept minutes from previous business meeting on 30 August 2010: Gershon moved, JoAnn seconded.

Next meeting: Monday, 8 November 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET

Reviewed Open action items briefly.

Business

1. Discussed the status of the DITA 1.2 specification. Should have Nov 1-15 to review. Nov 15-30 for approval voting. Action to all Adoption TC members to ensure that the “official” OASIS member from your company votes. Need 15% approval from the corporate members.

2. Approved the Tools Awareness article begun by Su-Laine. JoAnn Moved, Doug M seconded

Actions: Kris will send to the various groups and dita.xml.org. JoAnn will input to the TC page.

3. Discussed changes to the template for feature articles, effective Oct 15. Gershon requested a list of the changes from Mary McRae. New process in place as of Oct 15.

4. Discussed Su-Laine’s request for TC to consider DITA 1.2 elements that need styling and translatable string. Su-Laine will head the effort. Learning and Training is the source of many new generated text strings.

Action: Troy K will take this up with the L&T SC.

5. Discussed need to kickoff the Asian Adoption SC soon. Will inquire if Matt V has time to do this.

Action: Gershon will help with vote on times and dates. All members should invite other contacts to join.

6. Discussed the Focus Area Subcommittee. Kris E asking for new leadership. Doug M interested. Su-Laine explained that there is not a great deal to do. Subject for next meeting.

Adjourn 12:00 noon ET.

JoAnn Hackos PhD

President

Comtech Services, Inc.

joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com

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Minutes for the DITA Adoption TC meeting 30 August 2010, 11 am to 12 noon ET Roll call 11:00 - Quorum 11:15 Attending: JoAnn Hackos, Gershon Joseph, Bruce Nevin, Troy Klukewich, Mathew Varghese, Chris Goolsby, Kris Eberlein, Doug Morrison, Paul Grosso, Deb Bissantz Regrets from Don Rohmer, Frank Miller, Joe Gelb Accept minutes from previous business meeting on 16 August 2010: JoAnn moved, Bruce seconded. Next meeting: Monday, 13 September 2010, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET Reviewed Open action items briefly. Business 1. Discuss the process for getting the Asian Adoption SC up and running (Varghese) - Members urged to encourage new membership with an interest in the Asian Adoption SC. Gershon has got three new people to join Oasis who will join this TC, two from India and one from China. Matthew has two or three likely prospects. ACTION: JoAnn: Add Asian Adoption SC to home page ACTION: JoAnn: Clean up action items ACTION: JoAnn: ask Carol Geyer to make an announcement in her weekly XML News. 2. ITEM: Discussion of the Tools Awareness article begun by Su-Laine. - Gershon: some areas need more detail and depth. Cannot now point to specifics, as it is too long since he reviewed it. - Definition of DITA awareness: What does "appropriate styling" mean? - A few relatively minor recommendations recorded by JoAnn for Su-Laine; general consensus that this is appropriate for users evaluating tools, and a first step in providing adopters a basis for evaluating claims by vendors. ACTION: All: review this document during the next week. We may be able to review this document in the wiki. Gershon is working on a DITA-to-OASIS-Wiki plugin, will use this as working case. We will review and vote on this at our next meeting in two weeks. 3. ITEM: Review status of Feature Article assignments. Revise as necessary. No change noted 4. ITEM:"Improved link management in DITA 1.2" feature article (Kris Eberlein) http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/document.php?document_id=30211 Skipped. Su-Laine has offered to provide an initial draft. 5. ITEM: DITA tools evaluation checklists and test suite (Gershon) http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/factSheet - Gershon hoping to complete shortly so we can review before our next meeting. 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 - Briefly mentioned. Adjourn 12:00 noon ET. [Recorded by Bruce Nevin]