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<span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial; color: #000080"><span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold">October Meeting</span></strong><br />
 
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We will meet Thursday, October 18 at the <a href="http://www.doctrain.com">DocTrain East 2007</a> Conference in Lowell, Mass, at the DoubleTree Inn.<br />
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<a href="http://na.justsystems.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">na.justsystems.com</a>
 
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana; color: blue"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue">Bookmap Tutorial: designing, creating and using DITA 1.1 bookmaps</span></span></strong>
 
<strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana; color: blue"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue">Bookmap Tutorial: designing, creating and using DITA 1.1 bookmaps</span></span></strong>
 
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<span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana; color: blue"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue">If you are publishing DITA content to pdf, the bookmap specialization in DITA 1.1 may be a good choice for you. Come learn about what the specialization supports, see a demo on how to design and create a bookmap, and discuss best practices for using bookmaps to generate output. </span></span>
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<a href="http://www.ditausers.org/tutorials/ditamaps/bookmaps_swope" target="_blank">http://www.ditausers.org/tutorials/ditamaps/bookmaps_swope</a>
 
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Revision of Thu, 2007-10-25 15:18:

Boston DITA User Group

We are planning something different for this year's meetings, for several reasons.
  • We hope to attract a larger number of attendees. Last year's meetings had dwindled to only a dozen people at times.
  • We want the meetings to be more valuable - more emphasis on developing particular DITA skills than general DITA pep talks that preach to the choir.
  • We hope to open the meetings to virtual attendees anywhere on the web.
  • We will record the meetings and archive them for others to study.
  • We will meet at different vendor locations - IBM, Information Mapping, PTC, Sun Microsystems, and XyEnterprise, among others.

Please RSVP to me (bobdoyle@skybuilders.com) so we can inform our hosts. Some require that names are registered at their door before you arrive, and they need to estimate the refreshments needed. If you would like to test attending our meetings virtually, I will send you details on how to log in as we get closer to the meetings.

October Meeting

We met Thursday, October 18 at the DocTrain East 2007 Conference in Lowell, Mass.

Speaker: Amber Swope

Principal Consultant Justsystems na.justsystems.com

Topic: Bookmap Tutorial: designing, creating and using DITA 1.1 bookmaps

You can find a one-hour Flash movie of Amber's presentation at

http://www.ditausers.org/tutorials/ditamaps/bookmaps_swope

We had some technical difficulty and Amber had to speak for the first several minutes without her slides.

The presentation has a table of contents - click on the little page icon - and can be expanded to full screen from your browser.

Future topics

At our May 2007 planning meeting, we developed a list of possible meeting topics. We created an online survey to collect opinions on the most important topics.

Survey results are online at http://www.ditausers.org/topics.html

We will approach potential speakers on the most popular presentation ideas. The most popular topic was Stylesheets. Next were Conditional Processing, Reuse, Relation Tables, DITA CMS, DITA Maps, Publishing, and Help Authoring.

Past meetings

September 10, 2007 Jay Dupont and Paula Ploetz described a pilot project at PTC to create user manuals with DITA. Tom Kenslea introduced them. Here are screen recordings with audio. Introduction (6 min.) Jay DuPont Presentation (15 min.) Paula Ploetz Presentation (15 min.)

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June 12, 2007 Neil Perlin discussed DITA for non-technical authors. David Pearson described development of a technology planning tool. And Susan Czerepak showed her Eclipse Help project - a DITA Manager User Guide on DITA Users.

May 14, 2007 John Hunt described the work of his Learning Content subcommittee, which is defining a new topic-level information type to facilitate training and eLearning with DITA

April 10, 2007: Anna van Raaphorst and Dick Johnson, of VR Communications and authors of the DITA Open Toolkit User Guide and Reference, presented "Setting the Stage: Creating DITA Projects That Will Scale Up."

March 27, 2007 : Amber Swope – Working with Bookmaps. David Pearson arranged a DITA Users Birds of a Feather dinner meeting during JoAnn Hackos' CM Strategies conference.

March 12, 2007: Bob Doyle (with David Pearson) demonstrated the new DITA Users website ("DITA from A to B"). http://www.ditausers.org. The site lets absolute beginners edit DITA files and process them with the DITA Open Toolkit online. The results can then be seen on the web and downloaded.

February 2007: Judy Kessler of Sybase presented "Making the Business Case for DITA." Her slides are attached below. Notes on her talk are at http://dita.xml.org/node/1566

January 2007: Nancy Harrison of IBM spoke on content migration. Notes on her talk are at http://dita.xml.org/node/1553

November 2006: Deb Boczulak, product manager at XyEnterprise, spoke about reuse. A video recording of her talk is being edited.

October 2006: Doug Gorman, CEO of Information Mapping, Inc., spoke about "Making DITA Ubiquitous." Slides are attached below.

September 2006: Dave Schell of IBM spoke about the business case for DITA. His presentation slides are attached below.


Bob Doyle

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DASchell DITA Boston 2006.ppt4.32 MB
DGorman DITA Boston 2006.ppt4.56 MB
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bookmap.pdf116.83 KB
BoczulakOnReuse.ppt3.17 MB
Hunt_Learning.ppt2.68 MB
DITA_for_the_Non-Technical.ppt428.5 KB
PeasonBDUG.ppt188 KB
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