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Subject: Answers to outstanding questions you had for me
Members of the DITA Adoption TC - I had some outstanding questions on which I owe you answers. Below are the issues that you raised at the meeting I attended and their answers. I believe that I also owe you more info on the templates and I will get back to you with those. Regarding the answers below, I have taken the list from the email. I think it is everything but if not, please let me know what other questions I should address for you. Also, if you want to discuss any of these further, please let me know and I'll be happy to dial in again. - It takes too long time to deliver first release of an article to the community Please see the note below about Carol Geyer's developing Marketing Groups. I think that will help significantly to address this issue with Committee Notes. - Minor changes to published articles vs time & hassle to publish them The Board Process Committee has prepared a modification to the TC Process document that will allow TCs to move forward to approve CSDs or CNDs if only non-material changes have been made since their last public review. This will mean that, once effective, documents with only minor changes can be approved and published without further public review. This change should substantially reduce the delays associated with minor document fixes. These changes will be presented to the full board at its July Face to Face meeting and I expect them to be approved. - Contributors (authors) not recognized As we discussed, the authors can be listed on the cover pages of your documents. - OASIS fee structure prohibits wide community representation on the TC You would need to discuss this with Scott McGrath. The fee structure is not something I can address. - No longer permitted to present webinars OASIS in fact encourages webinars by TCs. We would be delighted to have the TC hold more webinars. Dee Schur will be happy to work with you to set up and run webinars supporting DITA Adoption. - Cannot present webinars or any other OASIS deliverable in partnership with another TC Same answer as above. Please work with Dee (for webinars) or with Jane Harnad (for events) to set up joint presentations. We are happy to help you accomplish these. We'd also love to help set up interop demos. But bottom line, we want to help show off what you have accomplished and will work with you to promote your work in the ways you believe will have the most success. - New type of committee - Adoption Committee Please talk with Carol Geyer on this. Carol is working on starting Marketing Groups and would be happy to talk with you about how this could work and be of use for DITA Adoption. The Marketing Group idea will focus on providing members with ways to do education, outreach and adoption-supporting work in support of one or more TCs and their deliverables. - You could not establish liaisons with other organizations You can establish liaisons as a TC. The OASIS Liaison Policy allows any TC to set up a relationship with another working group or organization. All that is required is that the selection of the liaison be communicated to Laurent (an email suffices) and that the liaison be listed on the TC or MS web page. See Liaisons to a Technical Committee or Member Section in the Liaison Policy document (http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/liaison#tcliaison) This policy has been effect since May, 2009. - You are unable to get DITA documents translated because the translation has to be done by OASIS members OASIS has a translation policy document that spells what you need to do to translate a document. You can find it at http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/translation. There is nothing in the policy document that restricts translation activities to OASIS members only and in the Procedure section, it states: "You may work alone or together with others in the XML community." Therefore, so long as you follow the notification and other requirements outlined in that document, you are free to work with whoever you want to get DITA documents translated. Again, please get back to me with any questions or clarifications. Feel free to invite me to future meetings and involve me in helping you move forward with zest! Best regards, /chet ---------------- Chet Ensign Director of Standards Development and TC Administration OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society http://www.oasis-open.org Primary: +1 973-996-2298 Mobile: +1 201-341-1393 Follow OASIS on: LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/OASISopen Twitter: http://twitter.com/OASISopen Facebook: http://facebook.com/oasis.open
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