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RE: [dita-adoption] OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- Meeting Agenda 9 November 2009

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RE: [dita-adoption] OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- Meeting Agenda 9 November 2009
Title: OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- Meeting Agenda 9 November 2009

Reminder for those folks who have changed back from summer time to winter 
time: today's meeting is at 4:00 p.m GMT.

 

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Gershon

 

From: Joann Hackos 
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Sent: Sunday, November 08, 
2009 11:56 PM
To: DITA Adoption TC; Austin 
Mike-B07417
Subject: [dita-adoption] OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- Meeting 
Agenda 9 November 2009

DITA Adoption TC committee meeting has been modified by 
JoAnn Hackos 

Date:  Monday, 9 November 2009 
Time:  04:00pm 
- 05:00pm GMT Event 

Description: Call-in (sponsored by IBM) 
details:
Toll-free in USA: 888-294-8505
Direct-dial in USA: 
213-270-2170
Participant Passcode: 71382177 

Agenda: Adoption TC Wiki 
page -- http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/FrontPage 

Regrets: 

Roll call 

Accept minutes from previous business 
meeting on 26 October 2009 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/200910/msg00039.html

Review 
open action items 
JoAnn to outline a Beginner's Guide to Getting Output from 
DITA (tentative title). 

(3 June 2009) JoAnn to work on a short article 
that explains DITA basic and to contact Mary McRae and ask her to establish 
formal relationship between UNESCO and OASIS. 

(3 June 2009) Gershon will 
work on the list of requirements to check for selecting DITA tools that we have 
in the wiki. 
(24 June 2009) JoAnn will review and clean the evaluation 
checklist from Robin, removing company specific details. 

(24 June 2009) 
JoAnn will contact David Hollis regarding his article on the SWOT analysis. 

(24 June 2009) Rodolfo announced that he started working on an article 
on using XLIFF to translate DITA content. JoAnn and Gershon offered to review 
the text before its published. 

(24 June 2009) JoAnn will draft a charter 
for a new Translation Adoption Subcommittee 

(3 August 2009) Gershon to 
copy the modified statement to the wiki page for articles about DITA. 

(12 October 2009) JoAnn to revise the formats for three published 
feature descriptions (Glossary, Ref Range of Elements, Keyref) and add them to 
the TC home page. Completed

(12 October 2009) 
Gershon will try to 
create a plugin for the Open Toolkit that allows publishing DITA file in 
OASIS-approved format.

(12 October 2009) Kris will create a wiki page for 
signing up as reviewers and will forward the link to the TC.

(12 October 
2009) JoAnn suggested preparing an article where all referencing mechanisms are 
explained and uses cases are provided. -- to be assigned

Business 

NEW ITEM: Discuss referred action from the DITA TC: DITA Adoption TC to 
add the tool to their list of DITA supporting tools and write a white paper to 
help users generate custom shells. Gershon to forward this request to the 
Adoption TC. 

New tool -- domain integrator: 
http://www.elovirta.com/dita-generator/

ITEM: 
DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec update (Kristen or Gershon) 

ITEM: Create 
review assignments for DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec if possible.

CRITICAL 
ITEM: Review the second glossary and acronym articles; we will publish both 
separately 
Tony Self’s version. We would like to vote on this at the 
meeting.
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/31666/glossary_and_term_management.zip 

NEW ITEM: Review list (from Bruce Nevin) of DITA 1.2 features and ensure 
articles are being 
prepared.
    keyref

reltable:  <title> and <topicref> in 
  <relcolspec>
conref  range
conref push
generic text 
  anywhere
delayed conref resolution  (incremental update of published 
  content)
conveniences for map  composition
image 
  @scalefit
section subdivisions
machine industry 
   specializations
glossary specialization
learning & training 
   specializations
controlled values (picklist 
  support)
constraints
general task 
 type

ITEM: Review the revised draft of the Generic Task 
Model feature description (on hold until TC decisions are final)
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/200906/msg00014.html 

ITEM: Review list of DITA compliance requirements 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/factSheet 

RECURRING ITEMS: Continue the discussion of the SWOT analysis and plans 
for the white paper. 
SWOT analysis: 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_SWOT_Analysis 

SWOT analysis with business focus: 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Business_SWOT_Analysis 

SWOT analysis with author focus: 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Author_SWOT_Analysis 

SWOT analysis with IT focus: 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_IT_Dev_SWOT_Analysis 

Review the SWOT analysis with business focus. 
Add comments to the 
Author and IT pages. 

ITEM: Discuss UNESCO and International Atomic 
Energy Agency liaison efforts 
From Tony Self: For some time, I have been 
trying to get Swinburne University involved in OASIS, and have finally made some 
progress. They might be able to add something to the UNESCO venture, so I wanted 
to keep tabs on whats happening in that area. I will keep you informed of 
developments at my end. 

RECURRING ITEM: Articles about DITA 1.2 features 

Improvements to linking (Kris Eberlein) (on hold) 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/document.php?document_id=30211 

RECURRING ITEM: Subcommittee reports 
Focus Area Subcommittee 

RECURRING ITEM: Call for users of DITA 1.2 
OASIS needs a list of 
organizations that intend to use one or more DITA 1.2 features 

RECURRING 
ITEM: Continue defining the TC activities and roadmap for 2009. 
Add to the 
SWOT analysis wiki, which we will turn into a best practice document 
Work 
with the Matthew Varghese on use cases for DITA. Add to the wiki on this subject 

Review JoAnn's article on the 1.2 specification and Kristen's page (moved 
from the DITA TC to the Adoption TC) 

Review the proposed changes for the 
dita.xml.org on the wiki. 
Discuss plans for assisting the DITA TC with the 
documentation for the multiple packages for DITA 1.2. 
We now have multiple 
wiki pages for the issues that we are discussing. Several of these should lead 
to best practice documents. 

Reminders: 
 
Add to the various 
subpages on the Wiki: everyone add to the meaning of DITA adoption 
Consider 
the formation of informal subcommittees to work on specific tasks. The only 
formal SC being formed is the editorial board for dita.xml.org 
Reminder: 
Please explore the dita.xml.org site and add comments, suggestions, concerns, 
etc. to this Wiki page: 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/Comments_about_focus_area 

Minutes: This event is one in a list of recurring events. 

Other event dates in this series: Monday, 26 October 2009, 04:00pm to 
05:00pm GMT 

View event details: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/event.php?event_id=24810 

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