Minutes: DITA XML.org EdBoard Meeting March 2008

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

Attending: Bob, Scott, JoAnn, Carol

Regrets: Su-Laine, Kay

Agenda:

1. OASIS DITA Adoption Subcommittee

Team discussed the benefits of transitioning Editorial Board to a DITA Adoption
SC within OASIS. The SC could also take on other projects to promote DITA
adoption, such as organizing webinars and interoperability demos, editing
Wikipedia references to DITA, etc. The OASIS XLIFF TC has expressed interest in
collaborating on a DITA XLIFF webinar this spring and an interop this fall. A
DITA Adoption SC could organize those activities.

AI: JoAnn to pursue the SC set-up with Mary McRae.


2. Fixing outdated Wiki Knowledgebase pages

We haven't been able to make much progress on this, perhaps owing to the fact
that the task is so large and people's time is so limited. We agreed that each
EdBoard member should choose *one page* to review and edit each month, commit
to it via our email list (so that we aren't duplicating efforts), and report
completion back to the group (so we can track our progress). 

AI: Each EdBoard member to choose a Wiki KB page to work on this month;
	JoAnn-"Writing DITA Topics"
	Scott-"Working with maps"
	Bob-"About Authoring Tools" 


3. Polls

Our current poll has been up there too long and has only received 21 votes. We
noted that previous polls also suffered from low voter turnout. We decided to
commit to changing the poll out every month, choosing a poll question based on
topics raised on the dita-users yahoo list, and promoting the poll question to
the yahoo list.

AI: JoAnn to write new poll question based on stem sentence discussion on yahoo
list.


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