Agenda: 11-09-2015 Adoption/TechComm Meeting

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DITA Adoption/TechComm SC Meeting Agenda
11-09-2015
12:00PM/EST

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CONNECTION INFORMATION
Meeting Number: 201240602
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Action Items

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Stan - Distribute the "Strengths" write-up to the list. Don - Draft a "Strengths" paragraph on the power of
DITA as a framework that is independent of
topic typing or minimalism. All - Continue to review and write up paragraphs for the
SWOT "weaknesses" items on our wiki.
>  https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_SWOT_Analysis  Stan - Complete the SWOT "Weaknesses" write-up re: tooling. Stan - Ping ChrisG about CSH whitepaper status Stan - Ping Mark and Jennifer about L&T whitepaper status  All - Audit whitepapers actively in development so we can give
the DITA TC a heads-up for volunteer reviewers.  All - Chase down references (URLs) to:
> Marcus Kessler's "Five Reasons Not to mOve to DITA"
> Russell Ward - article (same focus?)
> Function Design messaging on the same

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A. Whitepapers and Plug-Ins

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1. Release Management Excel Plug-in (Dave)
2. Release management XQuery DITA-OT plug-in - test status? (Stan)  3. DITA 1.3 A-Z Whitepaper - entering TC comments (Keith)  4. Scoped keys whitepaper - posted and done!
5. DITA 1.3 CSH whitepaper - status? (Chris)  6. Short description whitepaper - Joe able to help (Joe, Keith)  7. DITA 1.3 Learning and Training - status? (Mark Myers,
Jennifer Gemmell)  8. Content Referencing Practices (Dawn Stevens;
November/December)  9. XML mention - plan to make progress (Israel Gale)  10. XML mention - November/December? (Keith)

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B. Discussions

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1. DITA SWOT ? ?Strengths? feedback roll-up  2. DITA SWOT ? ?Weaknesses? request for feedback
> Processing feedback on SWOT items
> Processing feedback on how to organize/categorize
the final information
3. Discussion: DITA worst practices:
>  https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Worst_Practices

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C. dita.xml.org

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1. dita.xml.org Focus Area SC
> SC charter development in progress
2. Content triage (ongoing) the existing dita.xml.org content to determine
whether articles there should be:
3. Submission and review policies:
> Brainstorm?
> Draft offline?  4. History of DITA:
> Bob Doyle's article
> D. Schell, M. Priestly, and D.Day ("Making IT Easy")
-  http://xml.coverpages.org/DITA-Openhouse2004Intro.ppt
>  http://xml.coverpages.org/IBM-Easy2001-dita-1819.pdf

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D. Calendar

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E. Administration

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