On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 8:58 AM, Dr. Stanley Doherty <stan@modularwriting.com> wrote:
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DITA Adoption Meeting Agenda
02-26-2017
12:00PM/EST
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WEBEX:
- https://jana.webex.com/jana/j.php?MTID= m3d1969509b36e59ce59445c1e28fb 0ca
- Meeting number (access code): 620 646 621
PHONE:
- 1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)
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Action items from 02-12-2018
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1. Keith: Classify the relative importance of all of the DITA Adoption
items in Jira.
2. Keith: Add source files for Leigh's whitepaper to Jira/email.
3. Keith: Pass along Greg and Scott's names to Rob Hanna as candidate
participants in the panel discussion on the final session at DITA NA 2018.
4. Greg: Create Ansible playbook to work with Discourse server.
5. Keith: Ask Deb Bissantz as to whether she is still interested in tackling a
whitepaper on how to create a DITA Style Guide.
6. Joe: Talk to Austin DITA Users group to see if there is interest in a
local DITA Listening Session
7. Scott: Contact Colorado Doc Leaders group if there is interest in having
a local DITA Listening session in the Boulder area.
Left-over AIs?
8. Greg: Continue progress with http://ditaforums.org/.
> Would welcome some help with Ubuntu-based admin.
9. Keith+Kathy: Continue planning for a "DITA worst practices"
CIDM webinar the week of 02-22-2018 or 03-11-2018.
10. Stan: Follow up with Scott Prentice about Bay Area listening
sessions.
New Agenda Items:
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1. TC JIRA review:
> https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/DITAADOPT/
2. ATC/CIDM free webinar on DIT worst practices
3. Forum updates (Greg)
4. DITA NA listening session
Previous Agenda Items
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A. 2018 Whitepaper Plans
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> https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/Brainstorm
> http://www.slideshare.net/DITA_Adoption
1. DITA Style Guides - Deb Bissantz
2. XSL Usage - Leigh White
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B. 2018 Listening Sessions
> https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/ listeningsessions
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1. Listening session template
AI/Keith - update the listening session PowerPoint template
to include the DITA feature survey.
2. Consider organizing listening sessions along the
following lines:
a. In-person listening sessions in stragetic locations
such as Autin, Toronto, and the Bay Area.
b. Online listening sessions focused on specific
questions.
c. Online listening sessions focused on specific
roles:
> Managers
> Toolsmiths
> Information Architects
> Writers
> Editors
d. Conference venues:
> CIDM NA
AI/Kathy: Touch base with Dawn about options for
a listening session at the conference.
3. Austin
AI/Joe: Touch base with Central Texas DITA User Group
4. Toronto
AI/Keith: Touch base with Toronto-area MeetUp
and user groups.
5. Bay Area
AI/Stan: Reach out to Bay Area User Groups. Explore
setting up three on-site meetings in multiple
locations.
6. Broomfield
AI/Scott: Reach out to the local groups.
If Ft. Collins/Boulder/Denver/Broomfield folks can meet,
consider maybe an Oracle site (Stan).
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C. dita.xml.org
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1. Updates (Keith)
> Keith: The Beta web site can be accessed at:
https://sandbox.ditaweb.com/dxo.deliver/
2. dita.xml.org Authoring Guidelines (standing item)
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D. Adoption Promotion and Recruiting
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1. Activities at CIDM Best Practices in September?
2. Projects for remote ATC members (Ian).
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E. Parking Lot -- Future Activities
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1. Lightweight DITA review and support (Q4/CY2017)
2. Joint paper with TC?
> Long-term adoption/migration:
> Should organizations wait in adopting DITA 1.3 until DITA
2.0 is ready?
> How can organizations adopting DITA 1.3 in the short run
prepare for DITA 2.0?
3. Multimedia extensions to DITA 1.3
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H. Administration
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1. UPCOMING ATC MEETINGS:
> February 26
> March 12
> March 26
> April 9
> April 23 (DITA NA)
2. Roster review: voting members, voting/approval process
> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita- adoption/members/roster.php
Greg Emil
Staff Technical Writer, Zenoss
gemil@zenoss.com
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