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Subject: Re: [dita-adoption] use of dita.xml.org [was: DITA Generator by Elovirta]
DITA XML.org is intended to support the DITA community in a much broader, less official capacity than the main OASIS TC pages. Any content that relates to DITA and the goal to educate and promote DITA adoption should be appropriate for DITA XML.org, so long as it does not violate the OASIS TC Process, i.e., it is not TC work or feedback on TC work. This gets tricky when you're talking about an Adoption Committee, I realize. From the XML.org Editorial Guidelines (http://www.xml.org/editorial-guidelines): **** XML.org Focus Areas allow contributors to benefit from one another's experiences by articulating use cases, collaborating on best practices, and sharing information. It is important to note, however, that actual work on creating or revising an OASIS Standard or specification must take place within an OASIS Committee, under the open OASIS Technical Process. This process, which governs issues such as transparency, contributions, licensing, participation, and disclosure, assures that OASIS Standards remain widely available and safe to implement, produced in an open, democratic, and accountable method... For those who would like to provide feedback on OASIS work, a "comment" form is provided on each OASIS Committee homepage. Feature requests for additions or changes to specifications should be directed through these comment forms. All comments are documented and reviewed by the appropriate OASIS Committee members and publicly archived. **** Perhaps we should add an explicit mission statement to the DITA XML.org "About" page (http://dita.xml.org/about) that would help define what's appropriate and what is not. BTW, we still have the Editorial Board page (http://dita.xml.org/book/editorial-board). Members of the SC should feel free to add their bios to this page. ~Carol On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gershon Joseph (gerjosep) [mailto:gerjosep@cisco.com] >> Sent: Monday, 2011 March 14 6:37 >> To: Marc Speyer; DITA Adoption TC >> Cc: Joann Hackos >> Subject: RE: [dita-adoption] DITA Generator by Elovirta >> >> Hi Marc, >> >> I didn't see a response to your question, though may have missed it. I >> think you can keep the existing work on using the tool to create a new >> specialization. Perhaps it should be a separate article, so that we >> have one article focusing on customizing the OOTB DITA elements >> available by creating a custom shell, with the other article discussing >> how to use the tool to create a new specialization. >> >> I think an article on how to integrate the tool with 3rd party XML >> tools is a good idea, but best done outside of OASIS. For example, if >> you could develop that as a separate article and post it directly on >> dita.xml.org, I don't think anyone on this TC would have any >> objections. > > I'm not saying I have objections (not having seen the article), but > I'm questioning the implicit assumption that things can be put on > dita.xml.org that wouldn't be appropriate for posting on an OASIS site. > > On the DITA TC's home page, it says: > > The [DITA] Adoption TC includes an Editorial Board that maintains > the DITA XML.org Focus Area. > > and the home page at http://dita.xml.org/ has a prominent banner > saying "Hosted by OASIS" and the site says: > > DITA XML.org is the official community gathering place and > information resource for the DITA OASIS Standard. > > [Note "official".] And the DITA Adoption TC posts its feature > articles on dita.xml.org. I would expect most observers to > believe that dita.xml.org is as "official" as anything else in > OASIS, so I think we have to be as cautious about saying that > dita.xml.org is "outside of OASIS". > > paul > -- Carol Geyer Senior Director of Communications and Development OASIS | Advancing open standards for the information society +1.781.425.5073 x209 (Office) | +1.941.284.0403 (Cell) http://www.oasis-open.org Take a Tour of OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org/home/tour.php
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