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Subject: Re: [dita] FW: Proposal for a DITA Help subcommittee
Esteemed DITA TC members
For your consideration at the TC meeting on Tuesday, July 31, 2007, I propose that the TC officially establish a Help subcommittee. The below provides the proposal name, goals, deliverables, chair, and initial membership for this proposed subcommittee.
Thank you for your consideration and support.
Tony Self
HyperWrite Pty Ltd
Tel : +61-3-9803-8291
E-mail: tself @ hyperwrite.com
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Subcommittee name
"DITA Help Subcommittee "Statement of Purpose
The purpose of the OASIS DITA Help SC (DHSC) is to:
- develop a top-level design for authoring of Help systems and user assistance content for implementation using DITA;
- establish recommendations for the integration of DITA-authored Help systems and software applications using context-sensitivity;
- remove the obstacles to effective use of DITA for Help systems through the creation of best practice guidelines, cookbooks and worked examples, and to promote the use of DITA for creating Help systems and user assistance content;
- develop informal support for processing DITA for delivery as Help systems and user assistance;
- establish guidelines that promote best practices for applying standard DITA approaches to Help systems and user assistance content.
Proposed chair
Tony Self, HyperWrite Pty Ltd (though open to other nominations or co-chair)
The deliverables of the DHSC will be:
- recommendations to the DITA TC for specification changes to better support Help systems and user assistance content;
- a high-level processing model description that defines the standard use of DITA for Help systems and user assistance content;
- explanations and guidelines for the use of DITA for Help systems and user assistance content.
Initial membership
The following TC members have expressed interest as initial members in this subcommittee:
1. Stan Doherty, Sun Microsystems
2. Deborah Pickett, Moldflow Corporation .
3. Alice Etim, IBM
4. Robin Sloan, PTC
5. Seth Park, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.6. Scott Prentice, Individual
7. Tony Self , HyperWrite
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