The Boulder-Denver DITA User Group usually has presentations on the last Thursday of each month.  If you are interested in participating in this group, contact julie.baldwin@sybase.com. 

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Julie Baldwin is stepping down as faciliator and is looking for someone else to take this on starting in January 2008.  If you're interested, please e-mail Julie at julie.baldwin@sybase.com.
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October 2007 Boulder-Denver DITA User Group Meeting
When:  Thursday, October 25, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Where:  Sybase, 3665 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303 and Web/phone
Map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=3665+Discovery+Drive&city=Boulder&state=CO&zipcode=80303
Topic:  DITA Linking and Relationship Tables
Speaker:  Scott Stark, of IBM.  Scott Stark is an Associate Information Developer for IBM's software group, providing technical and strategic support for authoring tools and DITA.
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There will be no Boulder-Denver DITA User Group Meetings in November and December.  We will begin again in January, 2008.
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Past presentations:

- At our September meeting, Eliot Kimber talked about specialization and provided a live tutorial.  Unfortunately, the Live Meeting recording didn't take.  Fortunately, Eliot's tutorial is available here: http://www.xiruss.org/tutorials/dita-specialization/. 

- At our August meeting, Mark Ambrose of SDL International, spoke about Localization and DITA.  His presentation is not available.
- At our July meeting, Sue Blaisdell and Jack Thompson of Avaya presented  DITA: Don’t Intimidate Your Authorsand DITA: Deliver Information Targeted at the Audience.  For the slides, see DontIntimidateYourAuthorsSBlaisdell.ppt and CMDITAConferenceJuly24_JT.ppt below.
- At our June meeting, France Baril of IXIASOFT spoke about three issues related to DITA: topics that vanish (and ones you don't know about), broken links, and writers' concerns about using DITA.  You can view the recording at: https://www306.livemeeting.com/cc/sybase/view?id=72B9XX (use 6#`n^#Ghh to access).
- At our May meeting, Maria Brownstein and Dave Resch of Sybase, spoke about nerating Eclipse Help from DITA Source.  For the slides and tutorial, see EWorld-803_07.ppt and 3672_Eclipse_DITA_Tutorial_2007.ppt below.
- At our April meeting, Kevin Dorr of Flatirons Solutions, Inc. spoke about exchanging or providing XML DITA content to your customers or between companies.  See DITA Exchange - DUG 4-26-07.ppt below for his is PowerPoint slides.
- For our March meeting, Judy Kessler was scheduled to present: How Sybase made the business case for DITA.  For the presentation, see "Sybase_DITA_Bus_Case.pdf " below.
- At our February meeting, Anna van Raaphorst of VR Communications, Inc. spoke about Including and using metadata and reusing content.  For slides, see MetadataReuse.pdf (Acrobat) or MetadataReuse.ppt (PowerPoint) below.
- At our January meeting, Matthew McCool spoke about Internationalizing XML information with DITA.  Recording Details: Subject: Internationalizing XML information with DITA Recording URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/sybase/view Recording ID: JD4GNH Attendee Key: w;;9\%8.H
- At our November meeting, France Baril of IXIASOFT spoke about a case study of an implementation at Cedrom Sni.  See "XML_DitaGatineauRevised2006ForDenver.ppt" for her slide presentation.
- At our October meeting, Kevin Dorr of Flatirons Solutions spoke about Publishing Books in DITA Using Bookmap.  See "DUG Bookmap Preso.ppt" for his slide presentation (Scott Hudson also spoke) and "bookmap_v092a.html" for the Bookmap DTD "cruiser" file that he presented.
- At our September 28, 2006 meeting, Michael Priestley of IBM spoke about using task analysis with DITA.  Here are the links to his two presentations: http://www.stc.org/53rdConf/sessions/session.materials.asp (look for his name) and http://dita.xml.org/node/1253.
- At our August 31, 2006 meeting, Don Day of IBM spoke about the business benefits of using DITA and provided a brief introduction to DITA.  See the attachment list below for the PowerPoint slides he presented (DDayDITA2006.ppt).
- At our July 27, 2006 meeting, Jennifer Linton of ComTech Services spoke about DITA Maps.  Here is the link to her presentation: http://www.comtech-serv.com/pdfs/DevelopingDITAMaps.pdf.