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[Mark Giffin]

I've been working with DITA since about 2006, and before that I was doing XML-based documentation systems. I plan and implement all kinds of documentation systems and tools on many platforms and CCMSes. I started as a cartoonist and tech writer in the early days of the PC era (and that era is close to over now, isn't it?). I'm working with Eliot Kimber on the DITA for Small Teams project where we are going to use the eXist XML database and GitHub to put together something like a free DITA CMS. Right now I'm working on Git commit hooks and playing with eXist. I'm really interested in lightweight authoring of structured content. I have one client where I had trained a bright non-tech writer to use Oxygen to edit DITA files, and bring in content from engineers who were using Word. Bright as she is, this person struggled with it and it resulted in the client asking me to downgrade the DITA system to MadCap Flare, which I did. I believe Lightweight DITA could probably have saved this DITA system. I can think of several other uses for Lightweight DITA in projects I am working on. Mark Giffin Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc. http://markgiffin.com/