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Michael Priestley

Looking at the future, focused on the present

This morning we discussed DITA feature design for DITA 1.1, and this afternoon I spent brushing up on my DITA authoring workshop, which I'm delivering tomorrow. It's a bit of a weird feeling: one eye on the future, as the Technical Committee expands DITA's capabilities for book publishing and conditional processing; and one eye on the present, making sure that DITA still fits into best practices and processes that can deliver improved quality, not just reduced cost.  DITA is good technology, but all it can do is reduce the pain of doing the right thing: it can't do the right thing for you.

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Great start :)

Nice effort guys. Great to see another Drupal site.

As a long time DITA lurker (but not quite user yet) and Drupal user, I've been entertaining occassional thoughts about possible ways of integrating the two for a while now. It's been a fairly low priority so far, but maybe with some other interested parties, I might be prodded into actual action ;)

Anyway, best of luck with the site and I hope the community really takes off from here.

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Cheers
Anton

Indy DITA


The Indianapolis DITA users group now being formed, spearheaded by Ruth Nickolich. The address is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndyDITA/.

Indy DITA Users Group


The Indianapolis DITA Users Group is now being formed, spearheaded by Ruth Nickolich.

Central Texas DITA Users Group (Austin)


In Austin, Texas, the Central Texas DITA Users Group (CTDUG) meets every third Wednesday--information available from locals Don Day and Wendy Shepperd.


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