Status of the DITA Machine Industry subcommittee

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

OASIS has asked us to be more rigorous about ensuring that our subcommittees are active:

• Meeting regularly
• Having a minimum membership
  
• Having strong, active leadership
• Making demonstrated progress on defined deliverables

Accordingly, I am reaching out to ask about the status of the Machine Industry subcommittee.

Is it time to close the subcommittee? Closing a subcommittee means that the SC Web page will be frozen and this e-mail list deactivated; the subcommittee can be relaunched later if there is interest in resuming the work.

Looking at Kavi, I see the following data points:

• The subcommittee has not had a formally-scheduled meeting since 2010, although in-person meetings were held at both DITA Europe 2010 and DITA Europe 2011. Minutes from the DITA Europe 2011 meeting were posted to the SC mailing list.
  
• The subcommittee does not have a chair.
• There has been no e-mail on the list during 2012 and few posts in 2010.

I'd like to see discussion on the list about either reviving or closing the subcommittee.

If folks are interested in reviving the subcommittee, please let me if there are ways that Don or I or the larger DITA TC could help.

-- 
Best,
 
Kris
 
Kristen James Eberlein
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
Co-chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Charter member, OASIS DITA Adoption Committee
www.eberleinconsulting.com
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