Yes, I'm available this week for a call. Let me know what time.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy P Harrison" <>
To: "Steven Cogorno" <>
Cc: "Bob Stayton" <>; "DocBook Technical Committee"
<>; "Scott Hudson" <>;
"Erik Hennum" <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] Fw: [members] OASIS Symposium - Call for
Participation
> Hi,
>
> The DITA TC is definitely interested in having a session on DocBook-DITA
> interoperability at the symposium. They've asked me and Erik Hennum (also
> of IBM and one of the original DITA architects) to work with whoever on
> our TC is interested in collaborating on a proposal. Given that the
> deadline for proposals is a week from today, can we set up a phone call to
> discuss it? We only need a bare bones proposal for next week, so if we
> think we can come up with something, a brief abstract will do.
>
> I'm available this week Weds., Thurs. and Fri. afternoon. Steve, Scott,
> and Bob, you all expressed interest. Are any or all of you available any
> of those times? And Erik, what times would work for you?
>
>
> Nancy
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> Steven Cogorno <>
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> To
> Nancy P Harrison/Lexington/IBM@IBMUS
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> Scott Hudson <>, Bob Stayton <>,
> DocBook Technical Committee <>
> Subject
> Re: [docbook-tc] Fw: [members] OASIS Symposium - Call for Participation
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> On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Nancy P Harrison wrote:
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> > I think that's a great idea, and one that we should implement with the
> > DITA TC, which is also very interested in the topic. Otherwise we
> > could
> > end up with 'competing' D&D interoperability sessions, which would
> > help no
> > one at all. And having both groups work together on it will keep
> > all of
> > us honest and focused on users.
>
>
> I agree that this is a good idea.
>
> I was surprised to see that Joanne Hackos sent out an email that I
> perceived as rather inflammatory about how DocBook was the "same-old
> same-old" and that it doesn't consider other information types. This
> DocBook vs. DITA debate is somewhat silly because content can be
> authored modularly in either system. The names of the tags aren't
> important: the delivery/production process and writing style are.
>
> There is a lot of misinformation floating around. We should help to
> correct that.
>
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