TechComm Agenda - 11-24-2014

["Dr. Stanley Doherty" <stan@modularwriting.com>]

Hi --

Probably a brief, status-catch-up sort of meeting today.  

:-)

/stan 

A. Adoption White Paper updates

   1. MathML/Equations - Autumn Cellar 
      Status: outline in circulation 

   2. XML / SVG - Nancy Harrison
      Status: In progress November/December

   3. Release Management - Tom Cihak et al.
      Status: see below

   4. Learning and Training -- Mark Myers (SAP) and Jennifer Gemmell (SAP) are
      co-authors. John Hunt and Amber Swope to support.
      Status: In progress.

B. Release Management White Paper action items . . . 

   1. Tom Cihak:
      - Review shell script changes for Linux and Mac

   2. Keith Roberts:
      - Develop a more complete example with equivalent output.

   3. Stan:
      - Contact Chet Ensign re: discussing proprietary products
        or technologies in OASIS whitepapers

   4. JoAnn:
      - Continue edits and introduction

   5. Jacquie Samuels:
      - Perform a copy-edit.

   6. Dave: 
      - Investigate the Apache Java tools for generating an 
        Excel spreadsheet with release information
      - POI (http://poi.apache.org/index.html)

C. Information Modeling
   1. Regulatory / Policy writing -- Bob -- working on a straw-person implementation
   2. Semiconductor industry -- time to drop?
   3. Agile / scrum - Stan Doherty and Bill Gearhart
      - Complete the inventory review (stan)
   4. Flowchart specialization(s)
      - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dita-users/conversations/topics/36218?reverse=1
      - Collect and categorize the topics/documents referenced in this 
        email thread. (stan)