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Subject: Re: [dita-help] Lateral Thinking - Cloning the DHSC
Hi Tony, The charter of the DITA TC was not changed in any way; whatever was allowable previously is still allowable. That said, there's no reason not to have parallel subcommittees - one working on the actual DITA specialization and another working on its adoption. Regards, Mary Mary P McRae Director, Standards Development Technical Committee Administrator OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org twitter: @fiberartisan #oasisopen phone: 1.603.232.9090 Standards are like parachutes: they work best when they're open. On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Tony Self wrote: > Greetings colleagues > > For those of you not at the last meeting of the DITA Help Subcommittee, one > of the interesting discussions we had related to how to progress the DITA > Help Technologies Guide. You may recall that a change at the OASIS level > moved the responsibility for publishing whitepapers and the like to Adoption > committees. As a subcommittee of the DITA Technical Committee, we are > therefore unable to "officially" publish the DHTG. > > Some lateral thinking resulted in an innovative idea: what if we clone the > DHSC as a subcommittee of the DITA Adoption TC? This would basically involve > setting up a duplicate of ourselves. We would then run joint meetings, with > the first part of the meeting covering spec issues (the domain of the DITA > TC), and the second part covering adoption issues (the domain of the DITA > Adoption TC). Ideally, everyone involved in the DITA TC subcommittee would > join the "parallel universe" Adoption TC subcommittee. This would mean that > anyone interested would have to join the Adoption TC first; there's no cost > to this, of course. > > Everyone at the meeting agreed to pursue this idea, mainly because it > sounded a bit crazy! If it works, it would mean that we can expand our aims > of guiding people towards best practice in using DITA for Help, but still > continue our role in recommending changes to the standard for 1.3 to better > accommodate Help implementations. > > What does everyone think? > > Regards > > Tony Self > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php >
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