DITA Users Road Map

Known problems as of January 1, 2008

Check our Progress Blog for details on milestones.

Milestone Estimated date Status
Prototype website (home page design, draft navigation, information architecture) January 1, 2007 Done
Show draft (passworded) website to Boston DITA Users Group January 8, 2007 Done
Integrate DITA Open Toolkit January 15, 2007 Done
Propose to OASIS DITA team (Don Day, JoAnn Hackos) January 29, 2007 Done
Integrate DITA Storm editor February 1, 2007 Working in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer
Mention in EContent column February 6, 2007 Done
User workspace folders - to include ant build templates, css, sample files (Comstar User Guide and Garage Concepts and Tasks) February 14, 2007 Done
Call for beta testers (on mailing lists), open site to the public February 15, 2007 Limited testers, site open, beta registrations
AJAX DITA Manager authoring and building interface February 19, 2007 Done
Add Free Online Demo to allow source editing, map building, and viewing the processed results. February 20, 2007  
Add Grocery Shopping Project to Examples February 22, 2007 Done
Install DITA Storm Release Candidate 2.0 with concepts, ditamap support February 23, 2007 Done
Personalize the Example pages, provide links to each member's DITA Manager page February 26, 2007 Done
Provide links for members to download zipped files from their workspace March 1, 2007 Both zip (Windows) and tar.gz (Linux)
Develop a syndicated DITA Glossary March 8, 2007 Started, with 40 glosses
Presentation to Boston DITA Users Group March 12, 2007 A great meeting, with lots of user feedback.
Publish our Progress Blog March 13, 2007 Done
Develop Help files March 19, 2007 started
Online screen-sharing support March 22, 2007 New collaboration page
Call for DITA Mentors March 23, 2007  
Eclipse Help integration April 11, 2007 Help is now an output target
Localization tools with machine translation (gists) May 18, 2007 Docsets in French, Italian, German, Spanish
Develop Tutorial Topics June 1, 2007  
Idiom WorldServer On-Demand Localization Support June 15, 2007 available now
Localization of navigation June 17, 2007  
What is DITA, Why DITA, Business Case, and History of DITA June 18, 2007 first drafts
Members-only content personalization June 20, 2007 proof of concept on some pages
New page on Webinars in Resources section. June 24, 2007
Develop companion website DITA News - a blog aggregator and a newsletter on DITA July 1, 2007 ditanews.com
Develop companion website DITA Blog - a group blog for DITA information developers July 15, 2007 ditablog.com
Develop companion website DITA Wiki - resources in a format that encourages comments and discussions August 8, 2007 ditawiki.org
Publish premiere issue of DITA Newsletter, monthly update on DITA August 14, 2007 ditanewsletter.com
Develop companion website DITA Tutor - a Moodle-based set of DITA Tutorials August 23, 2007 ditatutor.com
Launch - beta members have one month to convert to regular memberships August 31, 2007  
Tutorials - How to use DITA Users September 21, 2007 Draft version
Beta memberships expire. Full membershp $100, Discount for STC,etc. $50 September 30, 2007  
Include Hackos Introduction to DITA or <oXygen/> XML editor with full membership December 1, 2007 New benefits
New free membership policy, beta users restored to basic memberships January 1, 2008 How To Join
Known problems