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Subject: Minutes of 4 October DITA for Technical Communication SC


Minutes of DITA for Technical Communication SC

Monday, 4 October 2010

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Present:

 

JoAnn Hackos, ComTech

Gershon Joseph, Cisco

Paul Gross, PTC,

Kris Eberlein, SDL

Seraphim Larsen, Intel

 

Regrets:

 

Darryl Tewes, Individual member

Patricia Gee, Oracle

 

 

1. Meeting time and date

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We decided that we would meet alternate Mondays, 11 AM-12 noon ET.

 

 

2. Roster

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We went through the roster

 

Action: Kris Eberlein to contact Jana Jenkins and Mariana Alupului, IBM

Action: JoAnn Hackos to contact Rob Hanna (Individual member) and Valerie Lipow (Lockheed Martin)

 

 

3. Discussion of general purpose and role of this SC:

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Gershon: Need to further develop technical communication specialization. Lots of people developing their own specializations to meet tech comm needs.

 

JoAnn: Need for experts in technical communication to critically evaluate proposals brought to the DITA TC from a tech comm perspective.

 

Kris: Now that DITA is moving beyond technical communication, we need a SC to look after tech comm interests. DITA started with tech comm, needs to continue to meet needs of tech comm community. Potential disconnect between DITA TC and larger community -- to the larger community, DITA = technical communication. Yet DITA TC is moving on to focus on publishing, pharmaceuticals, enterprise business documents, etc.

 

Paul: Need to ensure that the modules are maintained coherently.

 

Seraphim: Many DITA subcommittees are getting increasingly company-specific, drifting away from original DITA TC vision of open-source content.

 

 

4. Possible items for this subcommittee to address

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We discussed command-line interface documentation and troubleshooting information. Other possible items include:

 

* Quick Reference Guides

* Change control

* Multimedia solutions

 

Best regards,

Kris

Kristen James Eberlein l DITA Architect and Technical Specialist l SDL Structured Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1 (919) 682-2290 l keberlein@sdl.com

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