Re: [dita-adoption] DITA User Forums web site

Thanks, Greg -- That gives a lot more context, and I appreciate
      it.

    

    
Best,

      Kris

      

      Kristen James Eberlein

      Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee

      Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting

      www.eberleinconsulting.com

      +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)

      

    

    
On 3/22/2018 5:01 PM, Greg Emil wrote:

    

    
      
I'm the only one who has written anything on the
        site. There's nothing official about it -- it's a starting place
        somewhere north of lorem ipsum. I invited limited
        participation to get the ball rolling on refinements.
        

        

        
I'll let folks with more experience and wisdom sort out
          when/whether this goes public. For my beans, it's a whole lot
          better way to host a community than Yahoo Groups, and that's
          all I'm after.

        

        

        
Cheers,

        
Greg

        

        

      

      

        
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:18 PM,
          Kristen James Eberlein <>
          wrote:

          
            

              
Um -- I am concerned here, to say the least.

                

                To my best knowledge, the DITA Adoption TC has not
                communicated at all with the DITA TC about this site.
                Any site that labels itself as the "official forums for
                users of the DITA OASIS Standard" really needs to have
                some affiliation with the TC that owns the DITA
                standard. It also seems to me that there is significant
                overlap with the plan for an updated dita.xml.org, as well as
                the existing dita-users list.

                

                The wording on the Web site is quite problematic: "These
                are the official forums for users of the DITA
                OASIS Standard, an XML architecture for designing,
                writing, managing, and publishing information."

              

              
Chet, any
                thoughts here?

                

                Best,

                Kris

                    

                    Kristen James Eberlein

                    Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee

                    Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting

                    www.eberleinconsulting.com

                    +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)

                    

                  

              

                

                  
On
                    3/16/2018 12:29 PM, Greg Emil wrote:

                  

                  
                    
Hello,
                      

                      

                      
I sent each of you an email inviting you to
                        join the new DITA
                          User Forums site. The site is a Discourse
                        site that could use some branding and will soon
                        move to ditaforums.xml.org.
                        When the new subdomain is live, we'll open it up
                        for public use.

                      

                      

                      
Although this plan has been under way for a
                        while now, this is the first some of you have
                        heard of it. The original plan A was to host it
                        ourselves and save a few bucks. Plan B, having
                        the folks who make Discourse host it for us, is
                        now plan A. Either way, the site is here to
                        stay. I will be soliciting support from vendors
                        at the Denver conference, and Keith is working
                        on setting up a Patreon account that will be
                        linked to the site.

                      

                      

                      
In the short term, I would welcome advice
                        setting up categories and would likewise welcome
                        anyone who is interested in the role of
                        moderator. For now, I'm the administrator; we'll
                        get one more from the Adoption TC but that will
                        probably be it.

                      

                      

                      
Please share this email with others who would
                        be interested in getting involved before the
                        public launch.

                      

                      

                      
Cheers,

                      
Greg 

                      

                        

                        

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Greg Emil

                                          Staff
                                          Technical Writer, Zenoss 
                                   

                                      

                                  

                              
                              

                            

                          

                        

                      

                    

                  
                  

                

              

            

          
        

        

        
        

        

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