Minutes of the OASIS DITA TC Tuesday, 30 Novemeber 2010 Recorded by Kristen James Eberlein Present: Seth Parks, Robert Anderson, John Hunt, Michael Priestley, Don Day, Kris Eberlein, Su-Laine Yeo, Deb Bissantz, Paul Grosso, David Helfinstine. Mark Lewis, Eliot Kimber, Thilo Buchholz Regrets: 1. Minutes ---------- DOn Day moved that the minutes of the previous meeting be approve. Thilo Bucholz seconded; approved by accclamation. 2. SC report ------------ We received a report on the DITA for the Web SC from Mark Lewis and John Hunt. See the following URL for information about their work on microformats: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/WebSubcommittee/Microformats_Use_Cases The SC expects to finish this work in one or two weeks; they then will send it to the DITA TC for review as an idea document that contains use cases and "What if ..." scenarios. Action: Don Day will contact a rep from the Pharma SC about giving an update at the next TC meeting. 3. Press release about DITA 1.2 approval ---------------------------------------- Quotations due to Carol Geyer by Friday, 3 December 2010. We expect statements from IBM, Comtech, PTC, SAP, and maybe Cisco. 4. Progress of DITA 1.2 ballot ------------------------------ We reviewed who had voted, and several people took assignments to contact specific companies that have not yet voted. 5. Survey --------- Thilo Buchholz has provided feedback to JoAnn. 6. Eliot's trip to Japan ------------------------ Eliot Kimber provided a report about his recent trip to Japan. Interesting pattern of adoption in Japan, adoption seen more in industry-specific verticals than by tech writing profession. 7. DITA Europe -------------- Kris Eberlein and Su-Laine Yeo mentioned user feedback from the recent conference: * People who are members or observers of the TC cannot wade through the e-mail traffic to get a good sense of what the TC is up to; how can we provide summary information in a more accessible way? * People perceive DITA as getting too big and too complicated as it expands past the realm of technical communication * People want DITA 1.3 to be a small release, focusing on bugs and usability fixes * People are concerned that specialized work of subcommittees will be incorporated into the DITA specification rather than being plugins that can be downloaded from Sourceforge.