Re: [dita-fa-edboard] EdBoard meeting minutes: 8 Nov 2007

On 11/8/07, Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org> wrote:

It's on our IT to-do list, but we've been busy with adding functionality to the
site.

Bob, I know you did some work on this. Do you have a feel for how much IT time
would be involved?

Thanks,
Carol

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Priestley [mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:48 PM
To: Carol Geyer
Cc: 'DITA Editorial Board'
Subject: Re: [dita-fa-edboard] EdBoard meeting minutes: 8 Nov 2007

Hi,

What happened to the idea of having the spec in the wiki? I see dead links in
there now.

Michael Priestley
Lead IBM DITA Architect
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

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

11/08/2007 03:39 PM To
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Subject
[dita-fa-edboard] EdBoard meeting minutes: 8 Nov 2007

Attended: Bruce, Don, Bob, Scott, Carol, Deb, Su-Laine
Acting chair: Don
Minutes: Carol

1) Categories
Bruce led team in a discussion on Categories/Taxonomy function. We agreed to
use Sentence case for tags. We agreed to wait until we have more tagged pages
to evaluate the ease of use and possible ideas that would affect the theme
design.

2) Open Toolkit Users Guide
We agreed we'd like to request using this content on DITA XML.org, but were
undecided about the best way to implement it. If we wiki-ify the content, then
the authors would lose some control, and the text couldn't be automatically
folded back into DITA. We could allow users to append comments, but not
directly edit it. DITA XML.org has the capabilities to easily let us implement
either approach. Team discussed pros and cons of each.

Action items:
- Bruce to write tutorial page on how tagging works
- Bruce to experiment with hierarchical tagging
- Carol and Su-Laine to review wiki instructions
- Carol to ask Neil to check on editors seeing two "Categories" links in
lefthand block
- Carol to ask Neil to decrease space between multi-word tags
- Don to send a reminder to the TC list to encourage use of DITA XML.org for
announcements
- Don to invite Subcommittee chairs to blog regularly about their SC work
- Don to talk to Ann/Dick about allowing us to post the Open Toolkit UG and
request their attendance at next month's meeting where we can discuss
implementation options

Add to future theme changes:
- Move "More" at the end of the "Body" text instead of in the teaser footers
- Change body text to black instead of gray, increase font size to 10 point

Issues to revisit:
- Main page design
- Interface between DITA Storm and DITA XML.org wiki

Next call:
Thursday, 13 Dec 2007
+1-712-451-6000, access code: 380278
_________________________________
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS
+1.978.667.5115 x209

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