Future of the subcommittee

[Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>]

And re-reading the policies document made me aware that we've got some steps to follow here. I was jumping the gun to suggest closing the subcommittee so rapidly; it's my (and the TC's) responsibility to try to help arrange new leadership, if necessary.

• Leadership: Do we have another person willing to serve as co-chair or secretary of the subcommittee? If so, and that person would be willing to be an active and voting member of the TC, we'd meet the requirements. Frank Wegmann, might you be willing to serve as secretary? I got the sense when Carlos first brought up the fact that he would be leaving, that serving as co-chair was not something that you thought you could manager. Alan Houser? Would you be interested in stepping up?
  
  
• Can the subcommittee commit to meeting at least once a month?
  
  
• What work item's will the subcommittee focus on? Based on the report that Carlos gave to the TC on 26 October (see https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/202111/msg00000.html), we got the sense that pursuing a LwDITA spec was no longer feasonable. The TC looked at whether updating the committee note was possible, but thought that would be the right route/too much work and a lack of volunteers. On the TC meeting on 02 November (see https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/202111/msg00008.html), the TC floated the idea of getting a draft LwDITA spec into the OASIS process as a committee specification draft (after DITA 2.0), but then not advancing the LwDITA spec any further.
  

Best,
Kris

On 11/20/2021 4:17 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:

Sorry, meant to send this to the LwDITA subcommittee and not just Alan.

Kris

-------- Forwarded Message --------

Subject:	Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Is there any reason I should not go ahead and close the subcommittee?
Date:	Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:09:28 -0500
From:	Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>
To:	Alan Houser <arh@groupwellesley.com>

I'm in no hurry to close the subcommittee. I will say that this policy should not be news to the subcommittee; it's a DITA TC policy that we created in conjunction with Michael P and Carlos Evia, in order to ensure that we had good alignment between the TC and the subcommittee.

It's certainly covered in the minutes, also in some of our policy documents stored in SVN; I'll attach the PDF:

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
OASIS Distinguished Contributor
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting LLC
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)

On 11/20/2021 3:41 PM, Alan Houser wrote:

Kris/Colleagues -

I request that the TC delay consideration of this issue, for the following reasons:

- This is news to the Lightweight DITA subcommittee; and we have not had a chance to discuss it as a group.
- Dr. Evia will remain a voting member of the DITA TC through at least the December 7 meeting (the third âmissedâ meeting; assuming that the TC meets on Nov 23).
- The policy does not appear to be âknowableâ in advance; I could not find reference to the policy in the DITA TCâs charter or other documentation (I acknowledge that I did not search past meeting minutes or thoroughly check OASIS policy documentation).

Respectfully,

-Alan

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