For discussion: hosting/sponsorship of dita.xml.org

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

The ol' dita.xml.org site is getting a
bit long in the tooth, and short on the pizazz. It doesn't have much in
the way of sponsorship to pay to update the tech, and in any case the tech
it's based on isn't DITA-friendly, which means we're showcasing non-DITA
tech on our main DITA community site.

An alternative to consider: getting
one of the companies that provide DITA-based web systems to provide and
maintain the hosting tech as a non-cash sponsorship that let's them show
what DITA can do.

Kris, JoAnn and I talked over the possibility
with Carol Geyer, and agreed that it was an interesting idea, with some
caveats - we'd need some explicit requirements for the relationship, along
the lines of:

1.        XML.org
Editorial Guidelines remain in place. 
2.        Provider must maintain corporate membership
in OASIS. 
3.        The OASIS DITA Adoption Committee and OASIS
staff are solely responsible for curating content. 
4.        Only OASIS is authorized to offer site sponsorship;
Provider cannot charge or solicit fees in exchange for visibility on the
site. 
5.        Provider will receive Focus Area Sponsor
benefits in exchange for services. 
6.        Provider may publish a description of the
implementation on the site and/or issue a press release subject to approval
by OASIS staff; however, OASIS cannot be portrayed as endorsing the Provider’s
product over others. 
7.        OASIS retains copyright on the site content.


I hope we can talk this over in a bit more detail in the call today. I
think the status quo at dita.xml.org is pretty nasty, so an alternative
that gets us an updated site with actively maintained tech that is based
on DITA seems pretty attractive to me.

Michael Priestley, Senior Technical
Staff Member (STSM)
Enterprise Content Technology Strategist
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley