I'll be making a lot of noise about DITA in the next couple of months, hopefully coinciding at least somewhat with our upcoming DITA 1.1 release. In any case, I hope to catch up with lots of my fellow DITAphiles at the following events:

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At the April meeting of the Boston DITA Users Group, Anna van Raaphorst and her husband/partner Richard H. (Dick) Johnson, principals at VR Communications, Inc. (http://www.vrcommunications.com) presented remotely from California on the topic  "implementingDITA™ Setting the Stage: Creating DITA Projects That Will Scale Up."

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The Information Architecture Summit (http://www.iasummit.org) is a great place to learn from thought leaders in user experience design, interaction design, information architecture, and related areas.

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Still trying to catch my breath - a great conference, and as always a joy seeing familiar faces as well as welcoming lots of new people into the DITA way. As usual I tried to attend every case study I could, and it was great to see so many new projects coming on board. If there was a common theme for the case studies I saw, it was the importance of communication and engagement of the writing team to the success of the project: the business case and the technology won't matter if the people doing the work don't buy in to the value of topic-oriented writing.

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