DITA Adoption TC Meeting Minutes -- 28 June 2010

Minutes for the
DITA Adoption TC meeting

Committee meeting – 28 June 2010, 11 am to 12 am ET

Roll call – Gershon Joseph, JoAnn Hackos, Marc Speyer, Frank Miller, Joe Gelb, Kris Eberlein, Troy
Klukewich, Chris Goolsby, Paul Grosso. 

 

Regrets from Donald Rohmer, Bryan Schnabel, Mathew Varghese.
Robin Sloan is no longer a member of the committee

Accept minutes from previous business meeting on 7 June 2010 – Gershon
proposed, JoAnn seconded

Next meeting: 19 July 2010

Reviewed Open action items with these changes:

Marc Speyer will look again at the Shell DTD Generator model
and work with Gerhson, JoAnn, and Frank on its possible updates.

Business

1. ITEM: DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec Update

The DITA TC has voted to approve the DITA 1.2 committee draft
specification. At present, the TC is working on changes required by OASIS.
These changes are expected to delay the scheduled OASIS voting process once
again. At this point, possible dates for the final DITA 1.2 specification
release will be October or November 2010.

 

However, there is considerable confusion among DITA adopters
about the status of the 1.2 specification. JoAnn will draft a “clarification
memo” to explain what a Committee Draft means, what the approval process
means, and the committee’s view of the current status of the adoption now
taking place. We will discuss this memo at the 19 July meeting.

 

2. ITEM: DITA Adoption Help Subcommittee

Chris Goolsby, on behalf of the DITA Help Subcommittee
members and chair, Tony Self, introduced the proposal for a new subcommittee.
After discussion Chris moved and Kris Eberlein seconded the proposal. Adopted
unanimously. 

Gershon took the action to notify OASIS of the new
subcommittee.

 

3. New ITEM: Formation of an Asian Adoption Subcommittee

Gershon brought to the committee’s attention the
desire of Asian participants to join the committee. However, the meeting time
is a detriment. Discussion centered on the possible formation of a subcommittee
to accommodate the Asian members. JoAnn mentioned that such a subcommittee
could focus on the particular challenges of Asian adoption, given the makeup of
the technical communication activities in companies. JoAnn and Gershon will
work on a potential charter for such a subcommittee. Gershon will contact
potential members about a suitable meeting time.

 

4. ITEM: Discussion of the Tools Awareness article begun by
Su-Laine. 

All committee members were asked to
review the new PDF version of the article and suggest additions or changes.

 

5. ITEM: Reviewed the list of feature articles. 

All committee members are asked to review the feature
article list and add dates by which they will commit to submitting a draft for
committee review.

 

With Robin Sloan’s retirement from the committee, we
need to replace her as author of two articles. Members are asked to consider
taking on one or both of her articles. Otherwise new members will be solicited.

 

Meeting adjourned at 9 am Pacific Standard Time.

 

JoAnn Hackos PhD

Co-chair

DITA Adoption TC