OASIS DITA TC Meeting

When:  Oct 20, 2009 from 08:00 to 09:00 (PT)
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Agenda: DITA TC Wiki: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/FrontPage To join the online meeting (WebEx hosted by Cisco) 1. Go to https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/e.php?AT=WMI&EventID=116261262&PW=22ee1a12575d4f0d 2. Enter your name and email address. 3. Enter the meeting password: dita 4. Click "Join Now". 8:00-8:05 Roll call Approve minutes from previous business meetings: * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00074.html (13 October 2009, Frankland) Subcommittee/liaison reports (as needed) * OASIS DITA Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee Business: 1. ITEM: DITA 1.2 specification * Spreadsheet and DITA topics located in the Subversion repository * Information about contributors, deadlines, editorial guidelines, Subversion clients, and more * Business: 1. Progress report on spec review o [Eberlein] All reviews are completed as of 12 October except for the following o DITA markup: Kimber o Specialization, Customization: Joseph o Technical content (arch spec): Day o L & T (both arch spec and lang ref): L & T subcommittee (expected completion 10/13), Nevin 80% o Common attributes: Kimber, Eberlein 75% completed 2. Update spec author/review schedule (need to push out 1-2 weeks) 3. Authors meeting this week to ensure all topics are brought into sync o Implementing "referencing element" and "referenced element" terminology o Implementing cascade vs. inherit terminology o Moving content of some elements -> XML comments; for the next review, we should be using elements only for comments to reviewers. o Ensuring conformance statements are valid, correct and correctly marked up ("must", "should" etc. correctly used and marked up) o Can we agree to a time to meet this Thursday? * Follow up: o Order for lang ref files + http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200909/msg00364.html (Eberlein) + http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200909/msg00367.html (Nevin) + http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200909/msg00369.html (Ogden) o conref terminology (now split out as an editorial discussion) o Seth Park questions: + processor requirments w.r.t. metadata elements + dtds are normative? + conflicting input: what props begot 1. ITEM: Resumption of: task vs. general task, constraints, conref, and other related issues * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00368.html (Ogden summary) * for reference: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/ConstraintsFaq (Anderson) * wiki summary: Summary of task vs. general task, constraints, conref, and other related issues * Updated UPDATED SUMMARY o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00087.html (Ogden, and following thread) * Despite the title of this item, we covered weak/strong constraints and single ditabase last week. * Start by withdrawing previous motion (Don Day--converge items 3 and 4) * items below are continued from previous week: 2. ITEM: 1.2 Issue: Glossary Group Topic Type Not Included in ditabase * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200909/msg00238.html (Kimber) * Resume this week with Eliot present 3. ITEM: Audience of Arch Spec * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00002.html (Hackos) 4. New ITEM 6 Oct: Standard DITA processing instructions * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00022.html (Park) 5. New ITEM 13 Oct: documentation of conref restrictions * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00050.html (Nevin) 6. New ITEM 13 Oct: strong/weak constraint proposal * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00051.html (Priestley) 7. New ITEM 13 Oct: Element-by-element recommendations for translators * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00065.html (Hackos) 8. New ITEM: 20 Oct: Proposal to the OASIS DITA TC to form a "DITA for the Web" Sub-Committee * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200910/msg00102.html (Hunt) Ongoing checks: 8:50-8:55 Announcements/Opens 8:55 Adjourn

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Attendance:
Meeting Statistics
Quorum rule 51% of voting members
Achieved quorum true
Counts toward voter eligibility true
Individual Attendance Members: 15 of 188 (7%)
Voting Members: 14 of 18 (77%) (used for quorum calculation)
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Voting Companies: 10 of 11 (90%)