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Subject: FW: [dita-adoption-fasc] Groups - Minutes, 16 March 2009 (Focus_area subcommitte_meeting_16_March_2009.txt) uploaded
Here¹s an interesting old post about data.xml.org JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD President Comtech Services Inc. 710 Kipling Street, Suite 400 Denver, CO 80215 Joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com 303-232-7586 We will be hosting the CIDM Online Conference on July 29, 2015 More information is available: https://forum.infomanagementcenter.com <https://forum.infomanagementcenter.com/> On 3/16/09, 10:06 AM, "kjeberle@us.ibm.com" <kjeberle@us.ibm.com> wrote: >------------------------------------------------------- > Focus Area Subcommittee Minutes > Monday, 16 March 2009 >------------------------------------------------------- > >Minutes recorded by Kris Eberlein > > >1. ROLL CALL >Present: Kris Eberlein, Scott Tsao, Don Day, and Gershon Joseph. > > >2. REVIEW AGENDA >Kris asked that it be modified to include a report from Gershon about the >Adoption committee's discussion of the draft mission statement. > > >3. REPORT FROM ADOPTION COMMITTEE >Gershon reported that the committee had discussed both the overall >structure of dita.xml.org (especially forums and events) and the draft of >the mission > >statement. > >People had divergent options about the forum. Some people think this >should >be handled by the Yahoo! group alone; others think that the forums provide >an > >opportunity for discussion that is not on the Yahoo! list but that is >still >public. If the forum is retained, it needs work to so that it can be used >in an > >optimal function; a knowledgeable person must monitor it frequently. > >Gershon mentioned that he thought that that many threads on dita-users >would yield a fruitful DITA FAQ, similar to the way in which Bob Stayton >authored > >"Docbook XSL: A Complete Guide" (now in its 4th edition) based on user >group comments. > >Regarding the mission statement, discussion ensued about where the DITA >Open Toolkit should be in a prioritized list. Vendors wanted it lower; >Su-Laine's > >suggestion to deemphasize advertising was also contentious. > > >4. DISCUSSION ABOUT MISSION STATEMENT AND SITE > >General discussion about the importance of the DITA Open Toolkit as the >reference standard and most mature implementation. > >Don Day raised the point that most vendor's implementations tend to be >geared towards a particular processing stream, for example, PDF. He >reminded > >subcommittee members that WinAnt and the DITA Open Platform are two open >implementations that attempt to provide a more user-friendly interface for >the DITA > >Open Toolkit. He suggested that perhaps better documentation of the DITA >Open Toolkit samples and how to run them from the command line might be >helpful for > >DITA adopters. > >Scott Tsao reiterated the point that he made earlier by e-mail, that he >thought content modeling, implementation details, and the items listed as >3-6 in Su- > >Laine's original e-mail were most important to him. And there are a lot of >different ways to implement DITA: specialization or not, conversion of >legacy > >documentation or not ... > >Kris Eberlein raised the point that two of the most popular pages at >dita.xml.org were 1) Who's using DITA, and 2) DITA user groups. She will >post to the e- > >mail thread about the mission statement about this. She also raised that >point that DITA adopters are a diverse community, and we might not be able >to agree > >on precisely ranked priorities. > >Gershon asked where does "Selling moving to DITA" fall on the list of >proposed priorities? Maybe it is covered under #4, "Implementing DITA." He >reiterated > >that he thought that people needed a lot of help. > >Don Day mentioned an earlier article about about "DITA for Managers," >which >we found through a Google search. Would we want to add pages to >dita.xml.org > >about business-value justifications? It would take some work to do the >research and figure out what to update. > >Kris Eberlein mentioned that one of our primary challenges is to improve >the information architecture and navigation for dita.xml.org, given the >constraints > >imposed by Drupal. > >Gershon asked if there was anyway that we could control what goes where on >the Resources page, or change the category to which a resource had been >assigned. > >Should we consider moderating posts? > >Kris raided the point that moderating posts would apply also to other >sections of the site; is that a direction that we want to consider? > > >Action: Kris Eberlein will contact Carol Geyer and see if the order in >which events are listed on the Event page can be reversed. Currently the >oldest (2006) > >events show up first; this is in contrast to how items are listed on the >News page. > >Action: Kris Eberlein will contact Carol Geyer and get more information >about whether we can reassign items categorized as resources. > >Action: Everyone to post comments about specific sections of the site to >http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/FocusAreaAnalysis > > -- Kristen Eberlein > >The document named Minutes, 16 March 2009 (Focus_area >subcommitte_meeting_16_March_2009.txt) has been submitted by Kristen >Eberlein to the DITA Adoption Focus Area SC document repository. > >Document Description: > > >View Document Details: >http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=31689 > >Download Document: >http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/31689/Focus_area%20subco >mmitte_meeting_16_March_2009.txt > > >PLEASE NOTE: If the above links do not work for you, your email >application >may be breaking the link into two pieces. 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