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Join the DITA Adoption TC Listening Sessions in Littleton, MA on June 8, 2016. Discuss DITA status, concerns, tools, and resources with industry experts from companies like IBM, Oracle, and VMware.
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DITA Adoption TC: Listening Sessions Littleton MA IBM June 8, 2016
Agenda • 03:30PM Meet and greet . . . • 04:00PM Opening remarks . . . • 04:15PM Participating company report-outs • 05:00PM Questions to session participants from OASIS • 05:30PM Session participant questions to OASIS • 06:00PM Adjourn • 06:15PM (Optional) Local dinner / socialization
Opening remarks . . . welcome! • Host Zoe Lawson – IBM • Moderators Stan Doherty - OASIS Adoption TC member Keith Shengili-Roberts - OASIS Adoption TC member • Adoption TC JoAnn Hackos (Chair) Bob Thomas(video) Don Day
Participating company report-outs (Stan) A rep from participating companies has a few minutes to share information about their DITA status and concerns. • Your organization – writers, publications, translation? • Current DITA status – where are you? • DITA release – DITA 1.0, DITA 1.1, DITA 1.2, or DITA 1.3 • DITA tools – authoring, processing, content management • What has worked well? • What has proven to be expensive? difficult? stupid? • How could the OASIS DITA Technical Committees help? • What would you like to see by way of local DITA resources or engagements?
Participating company report-outs (Stan) AutoDesk (Patty Gale) EBSCO (Scott Farrar) HP (Shubhangi Vajpayee) IBM (Zoe Lawson, Jennifer Latour) NxStage Medical (Robert Johnson) Oracle (Steve Jong, Mary Martyak) Progress Software (Rhonda Fitzgerald, Daniel Rose, Adrian Garbacz) Schneider-Electric (Jacqueline Lehr) SimpliVity (Marni Nispel) VCE (Colin Ferguson, Noel McDonagh) VMware (Richard Curtis)
Questions to participants from OASIS (Keith) OASIS DITA attendees pose some general questions to local attendees. Informal. • DITA feature usage – show-of-hands survey questions • DITA information sources and usage: • DITA 1.2/1.3 specification • dita.xml.org • where do you get the information you need about DITA? • conferences (national, local) • what do you think about the process of DITA releases/updates? • People issues – training, recruiting, retention, roles • Collaboration opportunities within your organization: • Content development and sharing • Content management
FYI -- OASIS DITA Adoption Resources OASIS DITA Adoption TC public home page- Whitepapers on: new DITA 1.3 features, 1.3 release management domain, 1.3 scoped keys, 1.3 math domain, 1.3 troubleshooting, DITA roles and responsibilities OASIS DITA Adoption TC wiki page
Participant questions to OASIS attendees Local participants share questions and comments. Informal. • Questions/comments (submitted beforehand) • Question • Comment • Questions/comments – open mic
Wrap-Up • Suggestions for follow-up • OASIS • Local • Logistics – adjourn to local refreshments (Zoe)