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Agenda for next DITA Adoption TC meeting

Committee meeting -- Monday, 9 April 2012, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET

Adoption TC Wiki page -- http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/FrontPage

Roll call
- Regrets: Chris Nitchie, JoAnn Hackos
Accept minutes from previous business meeting (27 February 2012)
- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/members/upload.php
Next meeting: Monday, 7 May 2012, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Jordan Jones, Cisco, is the new co-chair and will chair today's meeting.
Need a new secretary for the Adoption TC. Please consider volunteering.
Review open action items
- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/members/action_items.php See potential additions from new participants
Business
1. NEW ITEM: Take responsibility for updating the Wikipedia page on DITA, which is very out of date. Need a volunteer(s).
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture
2. ITEM: Continue discussion of an adoption webinar. Suggestion from the OASIS staff in response to our meeting with Chet Ensign.
3. ITEM: Review changes to the XLIFF article, Rodolfo's addition of illustrations.
4. ITEM: OASIS specs for HTML output for committee notes (Frank)
  - Review new output example
5. ITEM: Continue discussion of a potential article on the shell model or other methods of simplifying DITA for authors (shell model, Schematron, constraints, templates, and so on)

Other Business --

ITEM: General discussion of the benefits of DITA Adoption (JoAnn)
- Gershon created new wiki page to log benefits: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/benefits
- ACTION: all member to populate page with ideas.
ITEM: DITA tools evaluation checklists and test suite (review the material during this session)
- http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/factSheet
- List DITA 1.2 features we expect vendors to support
- Gershon plans to move vendor-centric content to a separate page and making this page user-centric
- Gershon intends to make a new page for the test suite
- Consider leveraging the DITA Help SC world time clock examples
- Agree on what to do about DITA-compliance and the enforcement thereof (if anything)
- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201008/msg00003.html (JoAnn and following)
- Gershon developing an article for users and will publish draft for TC review as soon as the DITA-OT plug-in of the new OASIS formats is ready
ITEM: Review feature article: Generic text
- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201107/msg00002.html
ITEM: Review and prioritize Feature Article assignments.
- DITA Feature Articles
- For articles where one or more publications cover the issue/topic well, reference the publication and scrap the article.
RECURRING ITEM: Subcommittee reports
1. Focus Area Subcommittee
2. Asian Adoption Subcommittee (Matt)
3. Help Adoption Subcommittee (Stan D)
  - Help Technologies Guide:
    - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Help_Technologies_Guide_Allocation
NEW ITEM: Consider an article on the various types of tables available in DITA. Referred from a discussion at the DITA TC meeting 7/26/11.
ITEM: Review feature article on machinery task (Jang)
- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201106/msg00018.html
- http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201107/msg00009.html (Comments: JoAnn)

Following ITEMS are deferred for future consideration:
1. DITA Case Studies
  - Action: ask others to contribute small case study statements
2. DEFERRED ITEM: Finding descriptions of DITA attributes
  - http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201010/msg00011.html (need a sponsor for this activity_
  - Some complexities e.g. attributes that have different meanings depending on the elements they apply to.
3. ITEM: DITA 1.2 elements that need additional usage information (was, Su-Laine)
  - http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/201008/msg00016.html
  - Seek new owner to drive this item
4. ITEM: DITA expertize
  - What are the knowledge requirements for people to be considered DITA experts?
5. ITEM: SWOT analysis and plans for follow-on white papers (reassign this task)
  - SWOT analysis:
    - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_SWOT_Analysis
  - SWOT analysis with business focus:
    - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Business_SWOT_Analysis
  - SWOT analysis with author focus:
    - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Author_SWOT_Analysis
  - SWOT analysis with IT focus:
    - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_IT_Dev_SWOT_Analysis
  - Review the SWOT analysis with business focus.
  - Add comments to the Author and IT pages.
  - Add to the SWOT analysis wiki, which we will turn into a best practice document
Open floor for comments, questions, etc.
Review action items from this meeting
Adjourn

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