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I like Bruce's idea. At first I thought that a single "non-tech pubs"
forum would be better than having a number of different forums targeting
different applications, since initially I would expect activity to be
light (notwithstanding efforts by ourselves and others to market DITA
outside of tech pubs). But dividing the world of content creation into
tech pubs and non-tech pubs is an artificial distinction, and certainly
the non-tech pubs people wouldn't identify with such a broad category.
Bruce's suggestion to orient the forum around use-cases, rather than
vertical or functional areas, is useful because it reflects how DITA can
grow virally beyond tech pubs. Tech pubs departments will involve SMEs
and others in the information development process, and vendors will
start offering tools for those users to efficiently contribute and
review content. Once those groups start seeing some of the benefits of
DITA, they will start to apply those ideas to their own content and
processes.
Jerry
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JERRY SILVER
Director, Product Management
XMetaL
www.xmetal.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Esrig, Bruce (Bruce) [mailto:esrig@lucent.com]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 7:06 AM
To: 'Carol Geyer'
Cc: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: [SPAM] RE: [dita-fa-edboard] DITA Focus Area Forums
Importance: Low
> "DITA at Work", with Forums for "DITA for Marketing" "DITA for
Training" "DITA for Development".
This overlaps a little bit with specialization. How about a Forum
container
"Applications of DITA" with forums on
"DITA for documentation"
"DITA for training"
"DITA for subject matter experts"
"DITA for sales and marketing"
"DITA and electronic delivery"
I don't know how to separate user-level discussion (subjects and
content) from language-level discussion (specialization), but it might
be better if we allow both kinds of discussion in each individual forum.
There might not be that much high-tech discussion of specializations,
and people would know to look at the threads that make sense to them.
Allowing both types of discussion in each forum would keep people with
similar issues together, and permit cross-fertilization across levels of
expertise with language and application issues.
Best wishes,
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:27 AM
To: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [dita-fa-edboard] DITA Focus Area Forums
I've added an "Other DITA Tools" forum. Please take a look and see if
this makes sense.
Is the forum container "Using DITA" too broad? If there's a logical way
to break up and re-categorize all the forums under "Using DITA", please
let me know.
Using the FA to market to other groups is a great idea. We could create
a Forum container, "DITA at Work", with Forums for "DITA for Marketing"
"DITA for Training" "DITA for Development". Would that make sense?
We could try to add categories to our Case Studies page.
We could use our User Groups page to try to encourage the formation of
Special Interest Groups around specific industries--but we'd need
volunteers to spearhead those kinds of activities.
We could run a poll along the lines of "What is/may be your primary use
for DITA? -documentation, -marketing, -training, -development..."
Other ideas?
--carol
-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Linton [mailto:jennifer.linton@comtech-serv.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 11:08 PM
To: Carol Geyer; dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [dita-fa-edboard] DITA Focus Area Forums
I would also add a container for discussion on other tools such as CMS
and commercial publishing tools.
Don and I were talking this week also about how we can market to other
groups/departments/domains. Is there some way we can leverage the DITA
focus area to provide some possible solutions/scenarios to groups other
than technical writing or at least on how to integrate different groups
with technical writing through DITA (i.e., marketing, training,
development, etc.) or is this jumping the gun?
Jen
Jen Linton
Comtech Services, Inc.
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Denver, CO 80215
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F: 303-232-0659
skype: jenlinton
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:10 PM
To: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] DITA Focus Area Forums
DITA FA Editorial Board:
I'm happy to report we have the dita-users Yahoo! Group feed posted on
the staging site (http://dita-staging.xml.org/forum). Links to the most
recent five posts are displayed in the right nav.
As Don says, we don't want to confuse or detract from the dita-users
group, but I do think we need to encourage the use of the Focus Area's
Forums as a reference for common issues. To that end, I've drafted the
following topics that might serve as useful Forum containers. Please
review and send me your comments.
As someone mentioned on this week's call, when we see a particularly
useful post on dita-users list, we could ask that person to repost on
the applicable FA Forum.
Proposed Forum containers:
Specializations
For support and collaboration on creating DITA Specializations
Editor Implementations
For discussing experiences using DITA editors
Toolkit Issues
For help in using the DITA Toolkit
Installation Issues
For questions related to installing DITA
Post Installation Support
DITA is up and running, now how do I...?
Paid DITA Support
Job postings, consulting contracts, RFPs...
Translations
For volunteers interested in translating the DITA spec into other
languages
Feedback on this Site
For questions on how to use this web site, bug reports, requests for
support from OASIS technical staff
Note: Please send your feedback to me via email and don't post anything
directly to the staging site at this point. We don't want it to be
out-of-sync with the public site.
Thanks,
Carol
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