Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 7 pm

At the March meeting, Rhys Griffiths from AMD will present on Migrating to XML/DITA.

Presentation
CMS vendors evangelists frequently show the benefits of working in DITA. This presentation discusses methods and side effects for migrating your content from proprietary text file formats .fm, .doc, .pdf, and .odt to .xml content, specifically to the DITA 1.0 schema. There will be a practical demonstration of FrameMaker Conversion Tables.

Presenter
Rhys Griffiths is an information architect and team lead with AMD and has been working with XML- and CMS-based solutions for over 5 years.

Location: IBM Software Lab, 8200 Warden Ave Markham ON (nearest major intersection is Hwy 7 and Warden)

Please RSVP to hmstadel@ca.ibm.com by EOD Wednesday March 5, as security requires a list of visitors 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Upon arrival, please visit the security entrance (the middle entrance) and ask for Heidi Stadel, and I will escort you to the meeting room (Y2-021).

Map of 8200 Warden
If you are taking public transit to the lab, from Finch Station you can take the Viva pink route from Finch to Town Centre Blvd (rush hour only) or take the Viva blue route north to Richmond Hill Centre and transfer to the Viva purple route eastbound to Town Centre Blvd.From Town Centre Blvd it is a short walk south to the lab.

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web
site at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/
or contact Heidi Stadel at hmstadel@ca.ibm.com

Date: Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 7 pm

At the February meeting, Michael Priestley, DITA Architect at IBM, will give an overview of what's new in DITA 1.1, concentrating on reuse capabilities.

Location: IBM Software Lab, 8200 Warden Ave Markham ON (nearest major intersection is Hwy 7 and Warden)

Please RSVP to hmstadel@ca.ibm.com by EOD Wednesday February 6, as security requires a list of visitors 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Upon arrival, please visit the security entrance (the middle entrance) and ask for Heidi Stadel, and I will escort you to the meeting room (Y2-021).

Map of 8200 Warden
If you are taking public transit to the lab, from Finch Station you can take the Viva pink route from Finch to Town Centre Blvd (rush hour only) or take the Viva blue route north to Richmond Hill Centre and transfer to the Viva purple route eastbound to Town Centre Blvd.From Town Centre Blvd it is a short walk south to the lab.

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web
site at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/
or contact Heidi Stadel at hmstadel@ca.ibm.com

Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 7 pm

At the May meeting,  Brad Bjorndahl and Tim Grantham from Thermo Fisher Scientific will present on using DITA and Task Modeler for lean documentation development and transforming DITA maps and documents to FrameMaker MIF for presentation.

Location:  IBM Software Lab, 8200 Warden Ave Markham ON (nearest major intersection is Hwy 7 and Warden)
Note the date change to Wednesday for this month's meeting.

Please RSVP to hmstadel@ca.ibm.com by EOD Tuesday May 8, as security requires a list of visitors 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Upon arrival, please visit the security entrance and ask for Heidi Stadel, and I will escort you to the meeting room.

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web site at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/

Date: Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 7 pm

At the April meeting,  Steven Teasdale  from GE will present "Implementing DITA in a FrameMaker-based document system". This presentation will include information on single-sourcing with DITA and using the FrameMaker-DITA plugin.

Location:  IBM Software Lab, 8200 Warden Ave Markham ON (nearest major intersection is Hwy 7 and Warden)

Please RSVP to hmstadel@ca.ibm.com by EOD Wednesday April 11, as security requires a list of visitors 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Upon arrival, please visit the security entrance and ask for Heidi Stadel, and I will escort you to the meeting room.

Map of 8200 Warden
If you are taking public transit to the lab, from Finch Station you can take the Viva pink route from Finch to Town Centre Blvd (rush hour only) or take the Viva blue route north to Richmond Hill Centre and transfer to the Viva purple route eastbound to Town Centre Blvd.From Town Centre Blvd it is a short walk south to the lab.

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web
site at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/
or contact Heidi Stadel at hmstadel@ca.ibm.com

At the March meeting,  Heidi Stadel from IBM will present an introduction to map-based linking and managing links with relationship tables.

Location:  IBM Software Lab, 8200 Warden Ave Markham ON (nearest major intersection is Hwy 7 and Warden)

Please RSVP to hmstadel@ca.ibm.com by EOD Wednesday February 28,  as security requires a list of visitors 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Upon arrival, please visit the security entrance and ask for Heidi Stadel, and I will escort you to the meeting room.

Map:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=8200+warden+avenue,+markham+ON&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=43.854955,-79.332962&spn=0.025747,0.086517&om=1&iwloc=addr 

If you are taking public transit to the lab, from Finch Station you can take the Viva pink route from Finch to Town Centre Blvd  (rush hour only) or take the Viva blue route north to Richmond Hill Centre and transfer to the Viva purple route eastbound to Town Centre Blvd. From Town Centre Blvd it is a short walk south to the lab.

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web
site at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/
or contact Heidi Stadel at hmstadel@ca.ibm.com

Date: Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 7 pm

At the February meeting,  Heidi Stadel from IBM will present an introduction to linking and managing links with relationship tables.

Location:  IBM Software Lab, 8200 Warden Ave Markham ON (nearest major intersection is Hwy 7 and Warden)

Please RSVP to hmstadel@ca.ibm.com by EOD Wednesday January 31,  as security requires a list of visitors 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Upon arrival, please visit the security entrance and ask for Heidi Stadel, and I will escort you to the meeting room.

Map:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=8200+warden+avenue,+markham+ON&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=43.854955,-79.332962&spn=0.025747,0.086517&om=1&iwloc=addr 

If you are taking public transit to the lab, from Finch Station you can take the Viva pink route from Finch to Town Centre Blvd  (rush hour only) or take the Viva blue route north to Richmond Hill Centre and transfer to the Viva purple route eastbound to Town Centre Blvd. From Town Centre Blvd it is a short walk south to the lab.

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web
site at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/
or contact Heidi Stadel at hmstadel@ca.ibm.com

Welcome to the December monthly meeting of the Toronto DITA User Group.

Graydon Saunders from AMD and Michael Priestley from IBM will present
highlights from the recent DITA Europe 2006 conference.

Location: Room 7256 on the 7th floor of the Bahen Centre for IT, 40
St. George Street on the U of T campus

Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=40+St+George+St,+Toronto,+ON,+Canada&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=15&iwloc=A 

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web
site at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/
or contact Heidi Stadel at hmstadel@ca.ibm.com.

Date: Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 7 pm

Location: Room 7256 on the 7th floor of the Bahen Centre for IT, 40
St. George Street on the U of T campus

Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=40+St+George+St,+Toronto,+ON,+Canada&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=15&iwloc=A 

Welcome to the October monthly meeting of the Toronto DITA User Group.

Michael Priestley from IBM will give a presentation on DITA and task analysis using Task Modeler and DITA maps.

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web
site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/
or contact Heidi Stadel at hmstadel@ca.ibm.com

The next monthly meeting of the Toronto DITA User Group will be held on Thursday, September 7 at 7 pm in Room 7256 on the 7th floor of the Bahen Centre for IT, 40 St. George Street on the U of T campus.

This month's topic is content reuse using conref tags and conditional tagging. Jason Silzer from IBM will be the speaker.

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web
site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/ or contact Heidi Stadel at hmstadel@ca.ibm.com.

Date: Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 7 pm

Location: Room 7256 on the 7th floor of the Bahen Centre for IT, 40
St. George Street on the U of T campus

Welcome to the June monthly meeting of the Toronto DITA User Group.

Heidi Stadel from IBM will give a presentation on "An Introduction to
Topics and Maps."

Date: Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 7 pm

Location: Room 7256 on the 7th floor of the Bahen Centre for IT, 40
St. George Street on the U of T campus

Welcome to the first meeting of the Toronto DITA User Group.
This will be a working meeting with a focus on setting the agenda for
future meetings. Meet other DITA users and bring your ideas for
potential topics and presenters that you would like to see covered in
future meetings.

Michael Priestley from IBM will also present a brief introduction to DITA.

For more information about the Toronto DITA User Group, visit our Web
site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/torontodita/ 
or contact Heidi Stadel at hmstadel@ca.ibm.com.