Diff for Central Texas DITA User Group

--- Mon, 2010-02-08 14:23 by annegentle
+++ Thu, 2010-02-25 14:55 by annegentle
 <h2>Membership / More Info</h2>
 <p>
 It is free! Simply visit the <a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ctdug/" target="_blank">CTDUG Yahoo Group</a> site and <a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ctdug/join" target="_blank">click join</a>.
 </p>
 <h2>February 2010 Meeting</h2>
-<h3>DITA for Publishers<br />
+<h3>Agile Everywhere: For DITA Migration and Software Development<br />
 </h3>
 <p>
-Eliot Kimber will talk about the DITA for Publishers plug-in developed for creating ebooks and additional publisher-centric deliverables using DITA.
+Marilyn Rogers, former Principal Information Developer at Borland Software, will provide an introduction to agile software methodologies, and describe how to apply agile methodologies to implement an enterprise wide conversion of documentation to DITA. She will discuss how the Cross Documentation Architecture Team collaborated with the Information Services team, product teams, management, and Information Developers located in several locations in the United States and Austria. In addition, she will discuss how to use a top-down approach to create an agile release plan to complete a successful conversion to DITA from documentation sourced in several formats.
 </p>
 <h4><strong>Presenter</strong></h4>
 <p>
-Eliot Kimber is a Senior Content Engineer at Really [] Strategies. Eliot has worked with essentially every <span class="caps">SGML</span>- and <span class="caps">XML</span>-related
+Marilyn Rogers is a Senior Information Developer with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Journalism from The University of Kansas. Marilyn is employed at Dovetail Software where she develops and writes online help for Dovetail's Customer Service and Support software. She previously held positions in Austin, TX and in the Silicon Valley at Borland Software, Remedy Software, Sybase Incorporated, and Informix Software. As a Principal Information Developer and Team Lead at Borland Software, Marilyn acted as chairperson for the Cross-Documentation Architecture Team. With the help of the Information Services team, the architecture team led a successful conversion to DITA for multiple teams across Borland by using agile methodologies. Marilyn has extensive experience with agile SCRUM methodology, lean documentation, software development lifecycle, DITA, XML, HTML, wiki, GUI design, usability, and single-sourcing.
-tool relevant to document authoring, management, and production that
-has been produced in the past 15 years. He is a founding member of the <span class="caps">W3C XML</span> Working Group and Co-editor, with Charles Goldfarb and Steve Newcomb, of <span class="caps">ISO</span>/IEC 10744:1996, HyTime 2nd Edition.
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-<p>
-As
-Senior Content Engineer at Really Strategies, Eliot leads publishers
-through various content management initiatives, including RSuite <span class="caps">CMS</span> implementations,  <span class="caps">XML</span> and desktop publishing applications, <span class="caps">DITA</span> requirements and standardization, and information and process analyses. He is fluent in <span class="caps">XML</span>, XSLT, <span class="caps">XSL</span>-FO, <span class="caps">DTD</span> development, <span class="caps">XSD</span> Schema, XPath, XQuery, XInclude, Xlink, and other standards that relate to information management and publishing.
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 <h3>Meeting Details</h3>
 <h4>When</h4>
 <ul>
-	<li>
+	<li>Wednesday March 24, 2010, 7:00 networking, program at 7:30 pm Central  </li>
-	Wednesday February 24, 2010, 7:00 networking, program at 7:30 pm Central
-	</li>
 </ul>
 <h4>Where</h4>
 <ul>
-	<li>
+	<li><span style="color: red">Freescale's Parmer campus</span></li>
-	<span style="color: red">Freescale's Parmer campus</span></li>
+	<li><span style="color: red">Classroom 110, Bldg A </span></li>
-	<li><span style="color: red">Classroom 110</span></li>
 </ul>
 <h4>Agenda</h4>
 <h4>Directions</h4>
 <ul>
-	<li>http://tinyurl.com/fsl-austin-parmer
+	<li>http://tinyurl.com/fsl-austin-parmer </li>
-	</li>
 	<li>Enter building A and proceed to classroom 110 (ask the guard for directions if needed) </li>
 </ul>
 <h2><a href="/ctdug-archive">Previous CTDUG Meeting Notes</a></h2>
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Central Texas DITA User Group

Charter

The Central Texas DITA Users Group (CTDUG) exists to share and advance knowledge and adoption of DITA in the central Texas region.

Membership / More Info

It is free! Simply visit the CTDUG Yahoo Group site and click join.

February 2010 Meeting

Agile Everywhere: For DITA Migration and Software Development

Marilyn Rogers, former Principal Information Developer at Borland Software, will provide an introduction to agile software methodologies, and describe how to apply agile methodologies to implement an enterprise wide conversion of documentation to DITA. She will discuss how the Cross Documentation Architecture Team collaborated with the Information Services team, product teams, management, and Information Developers located in several locations in the United States and Austria. In addition, she will discuss how to use a top-down approach to create an agile release plan to complete a successful conversion to DITA from documentation sourced in several formats.

Presenter

Marilyn Rogers is a Senior Information Developer with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Journalism from The University of Kansas. Marilyn is employed at Dovetail Software where she develops and writes online help for Dovetail's Customer Service and Support software. She previously held positions in Austin, TX and in the Silicon Valley at Borland Software, Remedy Software, Sybase Incorporated, and Informix Software. As a Principal Information Developer and Team Lead at Borland Software, Marilyn acted as chairperson for the Cross-Documentation Architecture Team. With the help of the Information Services team, the architecture team led a successful conversion to DITA for multiple teams across Borland by using agile methodologies. Marilyn has extensive experience with agile SCRUM methodology, lean documentation, software development lifecycle, DITA, XML, HTML, wiki, GUI design, usability, and single-sourcing.

Meeting Details

When

Wednesday March 24, 2010, 7:00 networking, program at 7:30 pm Central

Where

Freescale's Parmer campus
Classroom 110, Bldg A

Agenda

7:00-7:30 - Networking
7:30-8:30 - Presentation
8:30-9:00 - Question and answer session, discussion

Directions

http://tinyurl.com/fsl-austin-parmer
Enter building A and proceed to classroom 110 (ask the guard for directions if needed)