Minutes of 4 October DITA for Technical Communication SC

Minutes of DITA for Technical Communication SC

Monday, 4 October 2010

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Present:

 

JoAnn Hackos, ComTech

Gershon Joseph, Cisco

Paul Gross, PTC,

Kris Eberlein, SDL

Seraphim Larsen, Intel

 

Regrets:

 

Darryl Tewes, Individual member

Patricia Gee, Oracle

 

 

1. Meeting time and date

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We decided that we would meet alternate Mondays, 11 AM-12
noon ET.

 

 

2. Roster

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We went through the roster

 

Action: Kris Eberlein to contact Jana Jenkins and Mariana
Alupului, IBM

Action: JoAnn Hackos to contact Rob Hanna (Individual
member) and Valerie Lipow (Lockheed Martin)

 

 

3. Discussion of general purpose and role of this SC:

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Gershon: Need to further develop technical communication
specialization. Lots of people developing their own specializations to meet
tech comm needs.

 

JoAnn: Need for experts in technical communication to
critically evaluate proposals brought to the DITA TC from a tech comm
perspective.

 

Kris: Now that DITA is moving beyond technical
communication, we need a SC to look after tech comm interests. DITA started
with tech comm, needs to continue to meet needs of tech comm community.
Potential disconnect between DITA TC and larger community -- to the larger
community, DITA = technical communication. Yet DITA TC is moving on to focus on
publishing, pharmaceuticals, enterprise business documents, etc.

 

Paul: Need to ensure that the modules are maintained
coherently.

 

Seraphim: Many DITA subcommittees are getting increasingly
company-specific, drifting away from original DITA TC vision of open-source
content.

 

 

4. Possible items for this subcommittee to address

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We discussed command-line interface documentation and
troubleshooting information. Other possible items include:

 

* Quick Reference Guides

* Change control

* Multimedia solutions

 

Best regards,

Kris

Kristen
James Eberlein l DITA
Architect and Technical Specialist l SDL Structured
Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1
(919) 682-2290 l 

 

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