Minutes: 14 June 2007 DITA XML.org Editorial Board Call

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

Attending: Sue-Laine (chair), Michael, Deb, Carol

1. Amber's <soapbox> article
Attendees had not read Amber's latest draft, so this item was tabled for
further Board discussion via email.

2. Sample documents
Sue-Laine discussed her idea for enabling people to post documents written in
DITA as examples for testing. The purpose would be to provide examples that
people could review, samples that could be run through the toolkit, ways to
test the toolkit. While we may want to offer a more specific user interface at
some point, the Board decided to test the concept by creating a new resource
type in the RESOURCES directory.

AI: Carol to create new resource type.
Board: To post sample documents and provide suggestions for customizing the UI.

3. Recent posts
Michael suggested we change "Recent blog" headlines in right nav to "Recent
posts" so that new entries throughout the site receive visibility.

AI: Carol to work with IT to change right nav to display the five most recent
posts of any kind. 

4. DITA-pedia
Sue-Laine discussed her idea to incorporate true wiki technology to create a
DITA-pedia site on the order of wikipedia. Others agreed that this would
enhance our current Knowledge base and Wiki portions of the site (which have
been less successful than the Today section). 

We identified several issues:
- How do we get the seed content? 
- Which wiki do we use--mediawiki, perhaps something new from Drupal, something
else?
- Integration with the existing site is critical.
- We'll need to clearly distinguish comments from the formal specification (and
not confuse the two); possibly locking down content.
- If we ask people to comment on the spec, we need to address IPR concerns.

AI: Sue-Laine to investigate an html-to-wiki text converter.
AI: Sue-Laine to develop technical requirements for the wiki software itself
that we can provide to OASIS IT.
AI: Carol to work with Mary and Robin on IPR issues around submitting comments.




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Carol Geyer
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OASIS
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