Re: [docbook-tc] Fw: [members] OASIS Symposium - Call for Participation

Hi Nancy,

I'm definitely interested as well, but am at Cape Canaveral all week. I 
may have some time Friday afternoon, as I have an early flight in the 
morning.

Thanks and best regards,

--Scott

Nancy P Harrison wrote:

>Hi,
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>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.
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>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?
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>Nancy
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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.
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>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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