Re: [dita-help] Lateral Thinking - Cloning the DHSC

[Joann Hackos <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

Title: Re: [dita-help] Lateral Thinking - Cloning the DHSC

Hi Everyone,
I think the members of the DITA Adoption TC would welcome this move. We’re thinking of doing the same thing with the Translation SC. We’ve already published a feature article on glossary that was originally developed in the Translation SC, which is part of the DITA TC. The feature articles and best practices seem better suited to the Adoption TC.
JoAnn


On 1/20/10 3:59 AM, "ian balanza-davis" <ibalanza_davis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Tony

Even though it would appear the current subcommittee can publish the guide, I personally think it would be very helpful to clone. Not only would each SC potentially have a better focus, but I would get the 48 hours a day I currently need.

Before going down this route we should review/renew the discussion I remember about where -- WRT help systems -- specialization stops and implementation begins.

Ian

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From: Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
To: tself@hyperwrite.com
Cc: dita-help@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Wed, 20 January, 2010 0:41:22
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

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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
>
>
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