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Subject: Re: [dita-adoption] Agenda: DITA Adoption TC Meeting - 04-07-2020


Chet beat me to it! I am actually in the middle of filling in the necessary forms for creating the GitHub repositories now.

And as Chet says below, I need the GitHub ID from a member (or two) from the group to make the application (I can take care of the other details). Could one or two people to volunteer to help be a co-maintainer of the GitHub repositories being set up?

Cheers!


Quoting Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org>:

Happy Monday everyone,

Just jumping in with some answers to items in your minutes...

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 5:21 PM Dr. Stanley Doherty <stan@modularwriting.com>
wrote:


INDIVIDUAL ACTION ITEMS
1. Keith: Request of Scott McGrath that DITA Adoption have BOTH an
   open source (public) and ATC-only Git repo.

You request these using
https://www.oasis-open.org/resources/tc-admin-requests/open-repository-request
 and
https://www.oasis-open.org/resources/tc-admin-requests/request-a-tc-github-version-control-instance-be-created.
For each, you will need a name for the repo, a one-sentence description, a
statement of purpose, and the names, email addresses, and GitHub ids for
the people who will be the maintainers.


2. Stan: Nag the team on 03-17 about adding comments to DUG wiki.
3. Keith: Notify Scott McGrath that the three Adoption TC subcommittees
   are no longer active and should be achived.

Thanks. I will take care of this.


4. Stan: Include in the Action items email Kathy's notes from CIDM
   DITA basics instructors about common customer pain points:
   a. Bridging the DITA mechanisms with what they see in their
      authoring tool.
   b. Understanding that DITA content creation is just a part
      of the structured markup publishing ecosystem i.e. that
      they will need other things besides an understanding of
      how to use an authoring tool to create DITA content
   c. Relating their existing content creation processes to
      working in DITA (example: just writing the content
      and then figuring out what topic type it is afterwards)
   d. Understanding map-level linking behaviors at bottom of
      topics in HTML output
5. Gershon: Prep the discussion about DITA financials.
6. Stan: Capture all the meeting notes about organizing our
   approach to whitepaper publishing.
7. Stan: Draft an ATC handout/flyer for review at the next meeting.

MEETING TOPICS
1. DITA User's Guide (Scott)
   >>> Review the roles/tasks for DUG.
   Discussed audiences and skills for the UDG. Posted notes to the wiki
site at:
   - https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_User_Guide
   The DITA Adoption TC is in the process of creating a DITA User Guide.
This
   guide is designed to address the following audiences:
   * Technical writers: some brand new to DITA and XML, some familiar with
     structured authoring
   * Technical editors: some brand new to DITA and XML, some familiar with
     structured authoring
   * Senior writers/ISD: some brand new to DITA and XML, some familiar
with
     structured authoring. Stubbing out the information design and maps.
     Probably many have deep product knowledge.
   * Conversion specialists: familiar with scripting and tools, XML, but
might
     not know DITA inheritance/hierarchy/specialization/content models
   * Publishing specialists: familiar with style requirements, but might
not
     know the DITA-OT or structures.

2. Adoption SC futures (Keith)
   - DITA Adoption Focus Area Subcommittee
   - DITA Adoption Help Subcommittee
   - DITA Adoption Asia Subcommittee

3. DITA migration financials (Gershon)
   > Migration clients - did measure investments (both tools and skills)
   > Gershon - saw ROI ahead of projections
   > Contributors:
     - Localization overhead (hit ROI much more quickly)
     - Reuse % (hit ROI much more quickly) + team productivity
     - Instructional design and writing teams collaborated - driven
       financially to reduce overhead, + single sourcing brought big ROI
   > Tasks could be written by either team (training or ID)
     - Stretch goal - feature designers (PMs, Product Owners) could
       draft descriptions and use a concept topics
     - SMEs contributing as casual contributors = goals
   AI/Gershon and Keith - get together offline to shape this
      project.
   AI/Gershon - drive the discussion/development
   AI/All - recruit helpers/supporters/MBAs/accountants
   AI/Keith - work up some of the financial info that he has (costs just
on L10N ROI)
            - Tagging the input so the TMS is DITA-aware BEFORE the DITA
switch-over
              produced great results, clean slate
   AI/Gershon - write up the TM updates/setup -
   AI/wiki eventually

4. Whitepaper authoring / stylesheets:
   a. DITA-OT CLI installation and use (Stan)
      > PDF:
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/66664/bookmap_atc_install-tc-stylesheets.pdf
      > Sources:
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/66663/atc_install-tc-stylesheets_02.zip
   b. Oxygen Editor plug-in installation and usage (Gershon)
   c. Framemaker plug-in installation and usage (Kathy - check on the
      possibility of borrowing a CIDM FM license.
   d. XMLmind plug-in installation and usage (Gershon)
   e. PDF processors -- coordinate discussiuon with DITA TC about
approaching
      processor vendors for licenses.
      > Syncro Soft: Chemistry
      > Miramo
      > RenderX
      > Antenna House

5. Document review options (discussion)

6. Whitepaper updates
   a. Review Stan's June 30 email about a DITA conversion
      checklist.

https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/ditaconversionchecklist#preview
      > Whitepaper check-in a few months
   b. Keith: Continue progress on "How keys should be implemented"
      whitepaper (Q3).
   c. Keith: Roll the "Future of DITA" presentation into a Spring 2020
      whitepaper.
          AI/Stan - forward to the ATC links to Keith's Boston DITA Users
             Group presentation on DITA futures.
   d. Looking ahead: What is the future of DITA/DITA 2.0 (Keith)?
      > What do I need to know to get ready for 2.0?
      > What should I prep?
      > What would a typical user/group see as changes?
      > Review in the spring as a possible whitepaper.
   e. Stan: Complete the conversion of the badging whitepaper
      files in Markdown to DITA 1.3.

7. https://dita.xml.org/ futures
   > Carol Geyer (Oasis) gets complaints about the site being out of date
or
     dysfunctional. She is asking us what we plan to do about it
long-term.
   AI/Keith - review the emails forwarded by Stan and check it out.

8. DITA 2.0 / LwDITA adoption planning
   AI/Gershon (I believe) - brainstorm about topics that should be
      included in an Adoption whitepaper about "What do I need to do
      to get ready for DITA 2.0?"
   AI/Stan - Touch base with Zoe about her current outline for the
      DITA TC Migration Guide.
   AI/TEAM - Develop a list of questions for vendors about their
      plans for adopting/supporting DITA 2.0 and LwDITA in 2021.
   AI/Scott - Engage the LwDITA SC about their current plans for
      developing or supporting a LwDITA Migration Guide.
      > Is there some automation involved with migrating
            DITA 1.3 content to LwDITA?

9. DITA samples development
   a. DITA collections
      The CIDM article on sample DITA collections is at:
      > https://www.infomanagementcenter.com/dita-collections/
   b. Keith:  Spent some more time on the Mitchell airplane manual,
      making the tables accessible. Everything is on my local
      system at this point.
   c. Scott: Run the MDITA transform when Keith posts the finished
      B-25 sample work.
   d. Stan: Build out some working content badging samples
      to support the writing in the badging whitepaper (Q3).
      > GitHub: https://github.com/StanDoherty/dita-badges

10. Call for participation - opportunities for writing:
   a. All: Discuss developing a separate whitepaper on DITA 1.3 flagging
      best practices. Include revision marking and PDF changebar
      processing.

11. Parking lot items
   a. Review Scott's May 3 email on DITA/LwDITA 1.0 migration strategy.
      > How do we anticipate LwDITA evolutions?
          > May need to update as the spec evolves.
      > Keep as an email for now; revisit late this year.
          > Eventually turn it into a procedure.
          > Wiki - migration
   b. All: Consider creating some LwDITA versions of the content?
      Word/GoogleDoc can be converted to MDITA and from there to HDITA.
          > Whitepaper - another output type
   c. LwDITA and HTML5 alignment (XDITA)

12. DITA NA planning
    - Scott -- metrics dashboard
    - Stan - conref push
    - Gershon - next-gen publishing map (pub map)

13. Upcoming ATC meetings
    > Tuesday, May 5
    > Tuesday, June 2
    > Tuesday, July 6
    > Tuesday, August 4
    > Tuesday, September 1



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