Agenda: DITA Adoption TC Meeting - 05-04-2021

["Dr. Stanley Doherty" <stan@modularwriting.com>]

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                   AGENDA
          OASIS DITA Adoption Meeting
                  05-04-2021
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1. Ongoing review of OASIS DITA charters:
   a. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita/charter.php
   b. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita-adoption/charter.php
   
2. Charter comments and discussions to date:
   a. March 02, 2021 updates to the Adoption TC charter:
      https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/68382/OASIS-DITA-Adoption-Technical-Committee-Charter_draft_03-02-2021.docx
   b. February 02 list of questions to discuss with DITA TC (https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/68327/dita-adoption-to-dita-tc-questions.txt)
   b. February 02 edits to the existing charter (https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/68242/OASIS-DITA-Adoption-Technical-Committee-Charter_notes_02-02-2021.docx)
   c. January 10 comments from Gershon Joseph (below)
   
3. TC name change: 

   a. The TC reviewed Chet's 03-16-2021 email feedback on OASIS 
      guidelines for renaming existing TCs.

   b. The Adoption TC was not in favor of changing its name if that
      involved:
      - Additional overhead in creating a new TC.
      - Losing the cross-over charter elements currently in the DITA
        TC and Adoption TC charters. 

   Resolution: Keep the current TC name. If the Adoption TC picks up
   lots of new members, it can revisit the issue of renaming and 
   reconstituting itself. 

4. OASIS integration and support: 

   a. The TC had a lively discussion about the benefits and drawbacks
      of doing user advocacy work from within the OASIS 
      organizational structure. 
      - Membership costs
      - Narrow institutional focus on the development of XML language
        specs versus "advancement" of the same. 
  
   b. The TC was not confident in its understanding of the
      relative benefits/drawbacks of OASIS relative to other
      relevant standards or professional advocacy organizations.

   Resolution: We need more information from and about other 
   organizations.
   - ISO (Keith to contact)
   - CIDM (Gershon to contact)
   - ACM (Stan to contact) DONE
   - Write the Docs (Stan to contact) DONE
   - IEEE (Stan to contact) DONE
   - W3C (TBD)