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My intro for the list

From: John Hunt <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:57:00 -0000

Hello OASIS LW DITA! I've had the good fortune to have worked with Michael, Don, and the DITA team at IBM from the very start, including the initial content prototyping where we proved the fit for DITA with Lotus Notes help content. At OASIS, I led the sub-committee effort to develop the support in DITA 1.2 for learning and training content. I also co-chaired the DITA for Web subcommittee, which explored various use cases for expressing DITA content on the web, including HTML microformats, dynamic publishing, intelligent content, delivery to mobile devices, and the role of DITA content on blogs and wikis. From the outset, DITA has offered a direct and simple way to add meaning to content, and through that to enable collaboration and reuse of content at many levels. Lightweight DITA may finally let us build on that early promise, and open up DITA to the much wider world of content creators, in marketing, in technical development, in education, in publishing, in user experience design, and many more. I'm particularly interested in exploring these topics: - DITA and HTML5 for educational publishing and EPUB - simple DITA templates to allow educators to create curriculum plans, lessons, and learning modules - DITA and plain-text dialects such as Markdown (for things like developer-created API specs) - lightweight DITA templates for a much simpler set of learning and training content types I'm looking forward to many fruitful conversations with all of you going forward. Thanks. John ___________________________________ John Hunt Senior Technical Content Architect IBM Collaboration Solutions [email protected]