Please join the Central Texas DITA Users Group (CTDUG) at their regular monthly meeting this Wednesday evening, January 24, 2007.

TOPIC: Stories from the Trenches

This month's informative presentation comes to us from France Baril, Documentation Architect with IXIASOFT.  This discussion is based on true DITA implementation stories. It offers remedies and suggestions against monsters (i.e. vanishing topics and related links spider nets) that might be haunting writers and sheds some light around scary dark shadows that are lurking to get in your technical departments.

France Baril has a B.A. in Communication and a B.Sc. in Computer Science. She is currently working as a Documentation Architect at IXIASOFT, and serves as Project Manager for a number of technical documentation projects. She is an active member of OASIS's DITA Technical Committee and President of STC's Montreal Chapter.

France has worked as a multimedia developer, a trainer, and a technical documentation specialist. She is particularly focused on applying XML to technical content development and publishing. France has been invited to speak at multiple events including the XML Conference and various STC events.

Meeting Details

What: Central Texas DITA Users (CTDUG) Group meeting

When: Wednesday January 24, 2007 7:00 - 9:00 pm Central

Where: Freescale Parmer facility (North Austin), C building (directions below)

            7700 West Parmer Lane Austin TX 78729 (Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.)

Agenda:

7:00-7:30 General announcements and networking

7:30-8:30 Speaker: France Baril, IXIASoft

8:30-9:00 Q&A

Directions:

According to Bob Beims ("Beims Bob-RWBC70" bob.beims@freescale.com ):

 We have a room set up for 28 people in C building, which has security guards on duty until 9:00.

 * Google Maps link to the campus: http://tinyurl.com/ymts97

* Jpeg satellite photo of the campus: http://tinyurl.com/yeecnx

 The photo has a marker showing the Building C entrance at the north side of the campus. If you turn off of Parmer at the main entrance, you'll need to skirt around the west side of the buildings to get to the C entrance. If you head east/southeast on Anderson Mill from Parmer, you'll find the "back entrance" that feeds directly to the Building C entrance.

Wendy Shepperd
BMC Software
Information Development, Manager