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Use of term "DITA" outside OASIS?

From: Carlos Evia <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 21:06:00 -0000

Dear Alan and all, Oh wow, the many ways in which I find that blog post (and the promised sequels about lowercase "lightweight DITA") problematic. I second your concern/inquiry about the use of "Open DITA" outside the standard. Carlos -- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Director of Professional and Technical Writing Associate Professor of Technical Communication Department of English Center for Human-Computer Interaction Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201 On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Alan Houser < [email protected] > wrote: Colleagues, I'm curious about the rules and constraints around the use of the term "DITA" (referring to the architectural framework) outside OASIS activities and specifications. It's currently used in company and product names. But this blog post gave me some pause -- http://blog.ditaexchange.com/o pen-dita-lets-make-structured- writing-for-everyone While the ideas in the post are intriguing and worthy of pursuit, the name "Open DITA" may be problematic from the perspective of OASIS branding and potential adopter confusion. Again, curious... -Alan -- Alan Houser Group Wellesley, Inc. Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter 412-450-0532 ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/app s/org/workgroup/portal/my_work groups.php