FW: [dita-adoption-fasc] FW: [dita] Editorial Preface for the DITA Help Technology Guide

I
sent this to the FASC sub-list by mistake. Resending to the main list.

Also,
additional background here: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/threads.html#00010

 

Su-Laine

 

From: Su-Laine Yeo
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Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:15 AM

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Subject: [dita-adoption-fasc] FW: [dita] Editorial Preface for the DITA
Help Technology Guide

 

Hi
Adoption TC members,

 

FYI
for those of you not on the DITA TC.

 

Su-Laine

 

 

Su-Laine Yeo

Interaction Design Specialist 

JustSystems Canada, Inc.

Office: 778-327-6356 



www.justsystems.com 

 

 

 

From: 
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Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 6:17 PM

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Subject: [dita] Editorial Preface for the DITA Help Technology Guide

 

Greetings --

 

Over the weekend, Tony Self (Help SC Chair) and I
brainstormed a bit on how to respond to Su-Laine's concerns about the DITA
Help Technology Guide. The following preface addresses, in our opinion,
Su-Laine's concerns. 

 

The document before the DITA TC for approval tomorrow now
consists of the document that you received three weeks ago and this Editorial
Preface. 

 

Stan

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Editorial
Preface

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This first release of the DITA Help Technologies Guide is a work in progress
designed to support users, consultants, and vendors working with Help systems
and OASIS DITA. Here are a few notes about the Guide to provide context:

 

*
Endorsement:
OASIS, the DITA Technical Committee, and the DITA TC Help Subcommittee 

  endorse
no open-source or commercial technologies supporting DITA. Please view the
technologies 

 
in this Guide as equally appropriate possible solutions for the particular set
of Help-related 

 
requirements that you face and not as a particular set of endorsed or
recommended technologies 

  or
implementations.

 

*
Technologies reviewed:
The selection of tools and technologies in this first release of the Guide 

 
emerged mostly from a series of demos of DITA-related Help technologies done by
and for members 

 
of the DITA Help Subcommittee. The Subcommittee continues to invite users,
consultants, and tools 

 
vendors to participate in reviewing this current release of the Guide and in
submitting topics for upcoming 

 
releases of the Guide. It is our goal to be inclusive (all submissions are
welcome) and even-handed 

 
(no technologies are 'preferred' over others). If any reader perceives content that
does not reflect 

 
the goals of inclusivity and even-handedness, contact the Subcommittee. 

 

*
Update schedule:
We hope to update and republish this Guide quarterly. If you, a colleague, your

 
team, or your company has developed DITA-related implementations or
technologies that you 

 
want to submit to the DITA Help Subcommittee to include in upcoming releases of
the Guide, 

 
please contact a member of the Subcommittee (see below).

 

*
Editorial reviews:
The DITA Help Subcommittee works with individual authors in the development 

 
and final integration of submitted topics. Final editorial and production
controls rests with the 

 
Subcommittee. 

 

*
Technical reviews:
Whenever possible, Subcommittee members request that the implementations 

 
and tools profiled in the Guide be available for them to test informally. These
informal technical reviews 

 
are designed primarily to provide contributing authors with feedback. The
Subcommittee makes 

 
no guarantees that these implementations or tools work as profiled or that the
Subcommittee 

 
would support these implementations or tools.

 

*
Feedback: Please
send feedback to Stan Doherty () or Tony 

 
Self (). 

March
16, 2009

 

Stan
Doherty

Editor, DITA Help Technologies Guide

Secretary, DITA TC Help Subcommitee

Member, DITA TC