Minutes: 8 Feb DITA XML.org Editorial Board Call

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Attending: Don, Scott, JoAnn, Carol, Deb
Chair: JoAnn
Minutes: Carol

1) <soapbox>
"Content Repurposing" by France Baril is confirmed for the next <soapbox>,
which will be published around March.
Following that (hopefully) will be Amber's "If you use DITA, do you need an
information architect?" in June.

2) Promoting Forums 
Board decided to remove "Blog headlines" on homepage (since "Blogs" are covered
in the right nav").
Board decided to replace "News headlines" with "Recent posts" and include links
to the 10 most recent News and Forum posts. Board will re-evaluate this change
in a few months, to see if it increases use of the Forums.

3) Speakers Bureau
Board discussed new wiki page at http://dita.xml.org/speakers. We agreed more
functionality (searchable fields for region, availability, etc.) would be
advantageous, but we don't want to invest the time in implementing this until
we have a better idea of whether or not it will be used.

AI: Carol will add three subheads to the page: Users, Vendor Representatives,
Consultants, and provide more guidance for listing. (done)
AI: Editorial Board members who serve as speakers will seed this page by adding
their own profiles.
AI: Carol will see if Drupal offers any kind of speakers bureau module.


4) Deployments page
Board acknowledged that while many are asking for this kind of information,
people are often hesitant about publicly declaring their use of DITA
(competitive sensibilities and other reasons). Scott asked DITA users groups to
add content here, but so far, we've had no takers. 

AI: Editorial Board members will try to seed the page as they are able (Comtech
and IBM already did).
AI: Carol and JoAnn will investigate possibility of featuring a computer in the
OASIS booth at CMS/DITA NA and trying to get attendees to post on the spot,
"Find out who else is using DITA, add your name to the list" 

5) DitaStorm
Board members may want to provide feedback to Bob on the ditausers site
individually.
We still want to explore integrating DitaStorm with Drupal, but it will take
effort. 
AI: Carol will invite a DitaStorm rep to join the Editorial Board or simply to
attend our March Edboard call.

6) DITA at OASIS Symposium in April
Bob Beims, Chip Gettinger, and JoAnn Hackos will present. There will be a F2F
TC meeting on Wednesday morning.

7) Edboard chair
This topic was tabled until next month.


Next Editorial Board call:

8 March 2007
2:00-3:00 pm ET
+1-402-756-9000 access code: 162307#


_________________________________
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS
+1.978.667.5115 x209 


OASIS Symposium:
"eBusiness and Open Standards: 
Understanding the Facts, Fiction, and Future"
15-18 April 2007 San Diego, CA USA
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/