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Subject: my upcoming retirement
I wanted to let the members of the TC know that I am
retiring from my position at PTC/Arbortext at the end of March. I’ll be
using up accumulated vacation time from around March 13th through
the end of the month. This makes my effective last day likely to be March
12th. My last DITA TC call is likely to be March 9th
and I may miss the DITA TC all on March 2nd due to a conflict. Chris Nitchie is taking over my job as DITA Development Lead
at PTC/Arbortext. Chris has been a voting member of the DITA TC for
several weeks now. He has been pretty quiet on calls so far, but I expect that
that will change as DITA 1.2 gets finished up and the TC pushes on to new work
for DITA 1.3 and 2.0. Paul Grosso was of course on the TC long before I joined and
he will continue. Dave Helfinstine’s work with the TC has been somewhat
indirect. He is on the TC’s e-mail list, but doesn’t usually participate
on calls. He’ll still be here at PTC/Arbortext and is a good resource to
call on since he knows a lot about DITA and implemented many of the changes to
bring the Arbortext DITA implementation in line with the DITA spec. as we gained
a better understanding of what that required. In particular can involve him in questions
about his “favorite” topic of cascading of attributes and metadata
within and between documents. DITA was a good project for me to work on. It was new
and different enough to give me something to learn and in its own way it was
and remains ground breaking, which I like. Over the next two weeks I’m likely to send the TC two
or three “parting shot” messages with some thoughts about its
future activities. Take them for what they are worth. -Jeff |
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