1. DITA Adoption TC:
Listening Sessions
Littleton MA
IBM
June 8, 2016

2. Agenda 03:30PM Meet and greet . . . 04:00PM Opening remarks . . .
04:15PM Participating company report-outs
05:00PM Questions to session participants from OASIS
05:30PM Session participant questions to OASIS
06:00PM Adjourn
06:15PM (Optional) Local dinner / socialization

3. Opening remarks . . . welcome!
Host Zoe Lawson – IBM
Moderators Stan Doherty - OASIS Adoption TC member Keith Shengili-Roberts - OASIS Adoption TC member
Adoption TC JoAnn Hackos (Chair) Bob Thomas (video)
Don Day

4. Participating company report-outs (Stan)
A rep from participating companies has a few minutes to share information about their DITA status and concerns.
Your organization – writers, publications, translation?
Current DITA status – where are you?
DITA release – DITA 1.0, DITA 1.1, DITA 1.2, or DITA 1.3
DITA tools – authoring, processing, content management
What has worked well?
What has proven to be expensive? difficult? stupid?
How could the OASIS DITA Technical Committees help?
What would you like to see by way of local DITA resources or engagements?

5. Participating company report-outs (Stan)
AutoDesk (Patty Gale)
EBSCO (Scott Farrar)
HP (Shubhangi Vajpayee)
IBM (Zoe Lawson, Jennifer Latour)
NxStage Medical (Robert Johnson)
Oracle (Steve Jong, Mary Martyak)
Progress Software (Rhonda Fitzgerald, Daniel Rose, Adrian Garbacz)
Schneider-Electric (Jacqueline Lehr)
SimpliVity (Marni Nispel)
VCE (Colin Ferguson, Noel McDonagh)
VMware (Richard Curtis)

6. Questions to participants from OASIS (Keith)
OASIS DITA attendees pose some general questions to local attendees. Informal.
DITA feature usage – show-of-hands survey questions
DITA information sources and usage:
DITA 1.2/1.3 specification
dita.xml.org
where do you get the information you need about DITA?
conferences (national, local)
what do you think about the process of DITA releases/updates?
People issues – training, recruiting, retention, roles
Collaboration opportunities within your organization:
Content development and sharing
Content management

7. FYI -- OASIS DITA Adoption Resources
OASIS DITA Adoption TC public home page Whitepapers on: new DITA 1.3 features, 1.3 release management domain, 1.3 scoped keys, 1.3 math domain, 1.3 troubleshooting, DITA roles and responsibilities
OASIS DITA Adoption TC wiki page

8. Participant questions to OASIS attendees
Local participants share questions and comments. Informal.
Questions/comments (submitted beforehand)
Question
Comment
Questions/comments – open mic

9. Wrap-Up Suggestions for follow-up
OASIS
Local
Logistics – adjourn to local refreshments (Zoe)