Charter

The purpose of the RTP DITA Users' Group is to facilitate communication and the sharing of knowledge between DITA users in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) area of North Carolina.

Meetings

We meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month from 5:30-6:30 PM. Currently our meetings are held at the following location:

Systems Documentation, Inc
1005 Slater Road, Suite 220
Durham, NC 27703.

Directions to Systems Documentation, Inc.

Communications

We have a Yahoo! Groups mailing list. To join, go to http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rtp-dita/
For more information about the group, you also can contact kjeberle@us.ibm.com.

Upcoming events

January 28: To be determined

Past events

October 22: Crossing Organizational Boundaries with DITA
Presenter: Colleen Smith, Teradata Corporation, Content Management Information Architect

September 24: DITA, Metada, and Taxonomy
Presenters: Robert Berry, Mike Harris, and Paul Arellanes (IBM). Jointly sponsored with the Central TX DITA User Group.

August 27: DITA 1.2: Understanding the upcoming release
Presenter: Robert D. Anderson, IBM. Chief Architect of the DITA Open Toolkit.

July 23: Managing Content and Producing Output with the Eclipse IDE
Presenter: Tom Ed White, Tekelec

June 25, 2008: The DITA Troubleshooting Specialization
Presenter: Carolyn Inkster, IBM

May 28, 2008: Brushing your teeth with DITA: Leveraging relationships to improve usability
Presenter: Shane Taylor, Computer Task Group

April 23, 2008: Using IBM Task Modeler to Create DITA-based Information Sets
Presenter: Kristen James Eberlein, Systems Documentation, Inc.

March 26, 2008: Round table discussion on DITA maps and relationship tables

February 27, 2008: Organizational meeting

January 23, 2008: Organizational meeting