Formation of a new DocBook SubCommittee for Professional Publishing

[Scott Hudson <scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com>]

Fellow DocBook enthusiasts,

The DocBook Technical Committee is amenable to the idea of sanctioning
certain customizations of DocBook without changing core DocBook.

It has been suggested that subcommittees could be formed for the purpose
of creating official customization layers to support the needs of
various domains. These customizations will officially be "DocBook
variants", but will also drive requirements back to core DocBook.

I would like to propose the formation of a DocBook SubCommittee for
Professional Publishing.

The charter for this SC may include support for:
- Supporting periodicals as regularly published
  technical notes or journals.
- Professional book publishing (such as business, legal, medical, etc)
- Textbooks

The charter will not include support (initially) for:
- magazine and layout-intensive publishing

Please respond if you are interested in participating. If there is 
enough interest, and the TC approves the formation of the subcommittee, 
then the initial tasks will be to create a statement of work, and submit 
it to the TC for approval.

A first priority will be to identify which kinds of professional 
publishing applications are most amenable to DocBook, and where exchange 
and interoperability are most needed in professional publishing.

Of course, all participants need to be OASIS members.

Thanks and best regards,

Scott Hudson
Flatirons Solutions
OASIS DocBook TC

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