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Carol and Mary have apparently both been on the road during the past week
for the OASIS Adoption conference in London. I agree with Joann that it is
not advisable to create potential confusion in user's minds about where to
go for info--give Carol a chance to get back in the saddle and bring us up
to date on the programming and procedural setup that OASIS has been working
on while she's been out. There is always the dita-users forum as a means
to post event announcements and other ephemeral news.
Scott, perhaps you haven't seen the roadmap document yet that Joann and
Jennifer sent out prior to the start of this mailing list. Jennifer, if
you are reading this, would you mind sending any update of the roadmap to
the list?
Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
Phone: +1 512-838-8550
T/L: 678-8550
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
--T.S. Eliot
Scott Prentice
<sp@leximation.co
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JoAnn Hackos
10/20/2005 06:33 <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>
PM cc
dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject
Re: [dita-fa-edboard] Progress?
Hi JoAnn,
Thank you for the reply and info about the upcoming meeting. I look
forward being part of this as it moves forward, and helping out as I'm
able.
Thank you also for the comments regarding the ditamap.com website .. all
sensible points. I've added the IBM, OASIS, and Cover Pages links to the
"latest dita release information" section on the home page. I've also
added notes and revised some text to encourage people to contribute, and
point out that the site is not intended to be "all-inclusive." I would
hope that it is apparent that this is not officially endorsed by any
group and is intended to be a community-supported collection of dita
information. To that end, it seems that it can be a useful tool for the
dita community, at least until something better and more complete comes
along (dita.xml.org). (At which time, I'd remove any redundant
information and replace it with links to dita.xml.org.)
Unless the dita.xml.org site will be available in the next couple of
weeks, I think I'll send out an invitation to members of the dita-users
Yahoo list, asking people to visit the site and contribute. I'll be sure
to encourage developers/contributors to add links for their products. We
may even find that some of the content can be migrated to the
dita.xml.org site if appropriate.
I hope that I'm not stepping on anyone's toes by moving ahead with this
.. I don't intend for this to be in competition with the dita.xml.org
site in any way. But it seems that the sooner this type of site is
available, the better it will be for the dita community.
Regards,
Scott Prentice
JoAnn Hackos wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>Yes, we missed today's meeting only because the OASIS staff just
>returned from the UK. We are scheduling a meeting for early next week to
>review the progress of the implementation. Then, we want to develop a
>regular meeting time for the editorial board.
>
>I am concerned about urging people to visit your site only because it
>has limited content and does not clearly refer people to the XML cover
>pages, the OASIS official site, or the IBM Developer Site as containing
>"somewhat official" content. It also implies that only the tools listed
>support DITA or the only articles available are the one's you've listed.
>
>
>I know that you haven't had an opportunity to include more content on
>your site and want people to submit content but it could be misleading.
>It may look to new visitors as if you are promoting certain
>organizations or individuals with the references. We're trying on the
>dita.xml.org to be very careful and as inclusive as we can be. For that
>reason, we've already conducted an extensive content inventory and have
>a proposed initial set of content with which to populate the new site.
>
>I've haven't heard more from Mary about the status of the development at
>this point, but I'm assuming that work has already started at OASIS,
>based on her requirements, and we'll hear more next week.
>
>We're all anxious to get something online but at the same time, we want
>to be very fair to the entire community of contributors. Of course,
>you're free to advertise in any way you want, and I don't mean to
>suggest that you shouldn't. As I'm sure you know, there's a lot of
>misinformation already out there. I just want to be certain we don't add
>to it as we plan the content and approach for dita.xml.org
>
>JoAnn Hackos
>
>Director
>The Center for Information Development Management
>710 Kipling Street, Suite 400
>Denver, CO 80215
>303-232-7586
>joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com
>http://www.infomanagementcenter.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp@leximation.com]
>Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:04 PM
>To: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
>Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] Progress?
>
>Hi...
>
>I know I've come in to the middle of this project, and I'm sure that
>you're all working on assigned tasks and have a clear vision of where
>this is heading. I've read the requirements document sent out by Mary
>McRae, which looks quite complete, but I was wondering if any of this is
>
>under way and where things stand. Does this group have regular meetings?
>
>Are there other documents?
>
>Also, is there any objection to my announcing www.ditamap.com to a wider
>
>group to make that available for use until dita.xml.org is up and
>running? Once dita.xml.org is up, I'd point people from ditamap.com to
>the appropriate location.
>
>...scott
>
>Scott Prentice
>Leximation, Inc.
>www.leximation.com
>+1.415.485.1892
>
>
>
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