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We will meet Tuesday, February 12, at 6:30PM. <br />
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<strong>Speaker</strong>: Eliot Kimber
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Really Strategies<br />
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<strong>Location:</strong> We are pleased that <a href="http://www.endeca.com">Endeca</a> Corporation has invited us to meet at their new facility in Cambridge.<br />
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| - | <a href="http://endeca.com/corporate-info/locations/directions-cambridge.html">More detailed directions</a>.
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| - | <em>October 18, 2007</em> Amber Swope of Justsystems presented the latest story on Bookmaps in DITA 1.1. We held our meeting one evening at the DocTrain East 2007 conference, who kindly provided us with a meeting room.
| + | <em>October 18, 2007</em> Amber Swope of Justsystems presented the latest story on Bookmaps in DITA 1.1. We held our meeting one evening at the DocTrain East 2007 conference, who kindly provided us with a meeting room.
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Boston DITA User Group
We will meet Tuesday, February 12, at 6:30PM.
Speaker: Eliot Kimber
Senior Solutions Architect
Really Strategies
www.reallysi.com
Topic: Specialization in Real Time Tutorial.
Eliot will create a topic specialization. Come prepared with suggestions for unique elements.
Location: We are pleased that Endeca Corporation has invited us to meet at their new facility in Cambridge.
Endeca's US headquarters are located at 101 Main Street in Cambridge, MA -- walking distance from MIT, the Charles River, and downtown Boston.
Corporate Headquarters
101 Main Street
10th
Floor
Cambridge, MA 02142
View the map
Parking:
Kendall Square South Garage
350 Kendall
Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Please RSVP to me (bobdoyle@skybuilders.com) so we can inform our hosts. Endeca requires that names are registered at their door before you arrive, and they need to estimate the refreshments needed.
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.htmlWe 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
October 18, 2007 Amber Swope of Justsystems presented the latest story on Bookmaps in DITA 1.1. We held our meeting one evening at the DocTrain East 2007 conference, who kindly provided us with a meeting room.
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.
| Attachment | Size |
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| DASchell DITA Boston 2006.ppt | 4.32 MB |
| DGorman DITA Boston 2006.ppt | 4.56 MB |
| Sybase_DITA_Bus_Case.pdf | 953.67 KB |
| SettingTheStage.ppt | 1.17 MB |
| bookmap.pdf | 116.83 KB |
| BoczulakOnReuse.ppt | 3.17 MB |
| Hunt_Learning.ppt | 2.68 MB |
| DITA_for_the_Non-Technical.ppt | 428.5 KB |
| PeasonBDUG.ppt | 188 KB |
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