[DITA News] DITA Newsletter 1.7
Bob Doyle
editor at cmsreview.com
Wed Feb 6 10:16:42 EST 2008
*DITA Newsletter * *Volume 1, Issue 7, February, 2008 **
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* *Features in this issue * *(see the web version at **
www.ditanewsletter.com* <http://www.ditanewsletter.com/>*) *
- DITA User Group Meetings <http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#meetings>
- DITA Maturity Model <http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#maturity>
- Refresh Software SR2 CMS <http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#refresh>
- Another DITA SharePoint Solution<http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#ditashare>
- SiberSafe now has SaaS option<http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#sibersafe>
- DITA Users Growing Fast - now 475
members<http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#ditausers>
- Upcoming DITA Events <http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#upcoming>
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*DITA User Group Meetings*
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Boston DITA Users Group <http://dita.xml.org/boston>
*Monday February 10 6:30 (networking), 7:00 (presentation)*:.
Eliot Kimber will present his "DITA Quick Start"
Eliot has given his real-time specialization tutorial to DITA user groups in
Austin, TX and Boulder, CO. Don't miss this extraordinary learning
opportunity. Check out Eliot's presentation style at
www.ditausers.org/tutorials/basics/kimber/
Place: Endeca Technologies
101 Main Street, 10th floor
Cambridge, MA
Visit the DITA.XML.org User Group page to RSVP
<http://www.ditanews.com/>before Monday Feb. 11.
Central Texas DITA Users Group <http://dita.xml.org/ctdug>
*Wednesday February 27, 2007 7:00 - 9:00 pm Central CST*:.
Ann Gentle of BMC will speak on "What does DITA have to do with Wiki? — Part
2"
Presenters:
Lisa Dyer - Lombardi Software
Alan Porter - Quadralay WebWorks
During the September 2007 meeting, an ultra-condensed overview of topics
discussed during the 2007 Best Practices Conference revealed an area of
strong interest in the CTDUG community: is there a way to use Wikis to
capture DITA content? Anne Gentle of www.justwriteclick.com fame put
together a two-session deep-dive into this exciting area of expertise.
Research Triangle Park DITA Users Group<http://dita.xml.org/ug-boulder-denver>
*Wednesday, February 27 at 5:30-6:30 PM*
The RTP DUG is being revived. They will meet at
Place: Systems Documentation, Inc.
1005 Slater Road, Suite 220
Durham, NC, 27703
Contact Kris Eberlein (keberlein at sdicorp.com) for more information.
Silicon Valley DITA Interest Group <http://svdig.ditamap.com/>
*Wednesday, February 13 at 7:00pm PST*:
Presenter: Nenad Furtula of Bluestream <http://www.bluestream.com/>.
Topic: Using DITA with XDocs XML CMS
Location: NetAppliance. 495 E. Java Drive Bldg 3, Santa Cruz conference room
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 (Google
Map<http://local.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&q=495+E+Java+Drive,+Sunnyvale,+CA+94089&ll=37.457963,-121.996307&spn=0.166242,0.545883&om=1>)
Toronto DITA User Group <http://dita.xml.org/ug-toronto>
*Thursday, February 7 at 7:00pm EST*:
Presenter: Michael Priestley, DITA Architect at IBM.
Topic: 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)
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*DITA Maturity Model*
Amber Swope of JustSystems, Inc. and Michael Priestley of IBM Corporate User
Technologies have authored a whitepaper that answers these DITA questions:
How do you know where to begin? How do you plan for and manage the required
investment and associated ROI? How do you move the enterprise content
strategy from the back room to the board room and develop a framework for
success?
See the events section below for a webcast on this topic.
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*Refresh Software SR2 Content Management Solution*
Refresh Software <http://www.refreshsoftware.com/> SR2 is a lightweight web
content management solution that offers the simplicity of Web
2.0architecture and supports industry standards such as XML and DITA.
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*DITA Share*
DitaShare by Content Technologies GmbH
<http://www.content-technologies.eu/>is a DITA-based solution based on
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
It offers collaborative Single-Sourcing and re-use of DITA topics and DITA
maps, as well as publishing of conditional variants. DitaShare includes an
integrated version of Altova Authentic 2008, a free web-based XML content
editor, allowing authors and editors to work productively from any location
using only MS Internet Explorer. Optional web-based editors include
JustSystems XMAX, Xopus, and DITA Storm. DitaShare supports any stand-alone
text editor in upload and download mode. Dedicated, standalone, XML editors,
including MS Word 2007, Adobe FrameMaker 8 and JustSystems XMetaL, can be
integrated seamlessly with DitaShare
Other SharePoint solutions are DITA Exchange
<http://www.ditaexchange.com/>and In.vision
DITA Enterprise Suite <http://www.invisionresearch.com/>
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*SiberSafe now available as a hosted service*
SiberLogic <http://www.siberlogic.com/> announced SiberSafe On-Demand, a
hosted service delivering online XML content management functionality at a
low monthly cost, with no risk.
SiberSafe On-Demand delivers SiberSafe XML CMS as an ASP service via high
speed internet access to a hosted server in a fully secure data center. DTD
choices include DITA, DocBook, or MIL-STD 2361, complete with sample
templates and stylesheets.
Other on-demand SaaS (Software as a Service) DITA solutions include Astoria
On Demand <http://www.astoriasoftware.com/>, Bluestream
XDocs<http://www.bluestream.com/>,
DocZone <http://www.doczone.com/>, and Trisoft
Infoshare<http://www.trisoft.be/>.
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*Now 475 DITA Users Members from 31 countries*
The DITA Users <http://www.ditausers.org/> international membership
organization now provides basic online DITA editing and a personal workspace
folder for free. Since free memberships were restored on January 1, the
growth rate is back to 50-60 new members a month.
The full $100/year membership will include the choice of the leading book on
DITA or a desktop DITA Editor to complement the web-based DITA
Storm<http://www.ditastorm.com/>editor.
The book (a $50 value) is JoAnn Hackos' *Introduction to DITA* - either the
original edition by Kylene Bruski and Jennifer Linton or the new Arbortext
Edition.
The desktop editor is the $48 Academic Edition of the *<oXygen/> XML Editor
* <http://www.oxygenxml.com/>, now at version 9 with full DITA support.
Desktop editors communicate with web servers via FTP or WebDAV (distributed
authoring and versioning). DITA Users can now WebDAV enable individual
members' workspace folders.
Most DITA authoring tools offer WebDAV, some as a premium only available in
their Enterprise Editions (for example, Syntext Serna and XMLmind).
DITA Users still offers a $50 discount membership without the book or
desktop editor. Benefits include a WebDAV enabled folder and discounts on
major DITA conferences.
Anyone with a WebDAV-enabled DITA authoring tool can use it on their DITA
Users document sets. These include two docsets from IBM and the docset from
Comtech Services in the *Introduction to DITA* book. They can also create
their own projects.
Practically speaking, anyone already invested in an advanced DITA authoring
tool may be beyond the need for the *"DITA from A to B"* learning offered by
DITA Users. But the new access method may make online training valuable for
small tech pub groups who can now use their familiar tools (like Arbortext
Editor or XMetaL Author) on the DITA Users website, as well as use
innovative tools like the web-based DITA Storm, while their teams get
started with DITA.
In any case, DITA Users member fees underwrite our network of DITA support
websites, including this newsletter. So please consider joining
today<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>.
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*Upcoming DITA Events*
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*February 8, 2008, 2PM EST*
DITA Users on SecondLife
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PT
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm ET
0:00 am - 1:00 am CET (Saturday)
SIM Address at Secondlife:
DITA 163,148,27
Or send an IM to our Avatar: Seico Flanagan
Explore the new way of online meetings. This meeting is a regular chat
meeting in SecondLife <http://www.secondlife.com/>.
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*February 27-28, 2008*
JoAnn Hackos Workshop on DITA
Location: Horsham, PA
Instructor: Frank Miller
(bio<http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/instructors.shtml#frank>)
Registration <http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/register.shtml>
DITA Users members
<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>contact Lavonya at
303-232-7586 to receive a discount on Hackos Workshops.
See the DITA News Events Calendar
<http://www.ditanews.com/events/calendar/>for future events.
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About DITA Newsletter
DITA Newsletter is published by DITA News, one of a network of websites in
support of DITA. It is available online at www.ditanewsletter.com.
Each of our websites is optimized for some community-oriented function.
*DITA Users* - helping members get started with topic-based authoring using
a web-based editor (DITA Storm <http://www.ditastorm.com/>), the Open
Toolkit on the server, a personal workspace folder on the web with three
starter DITA docsets, and a private member directory to locate other DITA
Users.
ditausers.org <http://www.ditausers.org/>
*DITA Infocenter* - the DITA architectural and language specifications, and
the Open Toolkit User Guide, in an Eclipse Help format.
ditainfocenter.com <http://www.ditainfocenter.com/>
*DITA News* - a blog aggregator, a mailing list, and this newsletter on
DITA.
ditanews.com <http://www.ditanews.com/>
*DITA Blog* - a group blog for DITA information developers (based on
WordPress).
ditablog.com <http://www.ditablog.com/>
*DITA Wiki* - over 600 pages of resources in a format that encourages
comments and discussions (based on MediaWiki).
ditawiki.org <http://www.ditawiki.org/>
Please consider joining DITA
Users<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>today.
Membership is $100USD/year and includes your choice of either:
*Introduction to DITA* by JoAnn Hackos or an Academic License to the *<oXygen/>
XML Editor*, with WebDAV access to your workspace folder on DITA Users.
Your membership fee supports our network of websites, including this
newsletter. Discounts on DITA conferences and workshops more than offset
your annual membership fee
http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/
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Bob Doyle
Editor In Chief, CMS Review - http://www.cmsreview.com
Founder, DITA Users - http://www.ditausers.org
Former Technology Advisor, CM Pros -
http://www.cmprofessionals.org/membership/cm-profiles/bob-doyle
Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine -
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