Minutes from Feb 9th 2015

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

My notes are pretty minimal - apologies,
and I promise to remember to ask for volunteers next time!

I have several todos below, none of
which I have been able to accomplish in the last two weeks. Again I apologize,
and I aim to do better in the next two.


My notes from last meeting:

Status review for industry focus areas:
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learning and training - john, amber,
scott, birgit
        use
cases - 4 categories
         
      public school education - us k-12
         
      higher education - very interested in more
input from professors on call - carlos interested
         
      corporate training
         
      educational publishing      
         
machine industries - sissi, jang
        jang
has to focus on paying work at the moment
        sissi
willing to continue work - michael p to meet with her and review past work,
next steps
software development - me, stan doherty,
others on specific streams
        use
cases - 3 categories
         
      technical writer and developer collaboration
- (focus on api documentation, agile development requirements) - carlos
interested in this stream
         
      upstream requirements and specifications -
including traceability of requirements to content - aaron interested in
this stream
         
      technical writer and support collaboration
- amber interested in this stream assuming it starts later in year
         
              look for
intel presentation on this at dita north america conference
marketing and ecommerce (new, split
off from software development
        noz,
me, don day, amber for first mtg
        michael
p to set up mtg with them to follow on
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Discussion of lightweight DITA mappings
        markdown
mapping in progress
        need
for json mapping?

easydita has "better web help"
project on github that uses json/html5 mapping for dita
don has conversion as part of expedita
problems: json doesn't have representation
of attributes on elements
don developed a partial transform to
json for citrix's interactive training - included titles, shortdesc, etc.but
not full content
there are json-based databases out there,
including ones used for dita storage - again, easydita?

Mappings we are likely to need (to/from
lightweight dita):
xml
html5
markdown
json
epub3?

Goal is to share tables as dita documents
for now

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Additional discussion
don would like marketing examples from
within ibm
        michael
p to explore
carlos:
        consider
companies at virginia tech for pilots of lightweight dita
        can
put out rfp essentially for them to respond
        as
part of training for them to develop their docs etc.
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Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Enterprise Content Technology Strategist
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley