UPDATE!

Michael Priestley, a popular presenter at DITA conferences, will be standing in tonight for our featured speaker, France Baril of Ixiasoft. France won't be able to present tonight due to illness, and we wish her a speedy recovery.

Michael will regale us with one of his presentations from a past STC conference on "DITA and task-based navigation."  His live demo will include a look at how he uses the IBM Task Modeler tool to model scenarios and produce DITA maps that express the necessary navigation and topics for scenarios.  This presentation will have practical information that you can use to develop task-based navigation for DITA maps.  And whether or not you plan to ever use the Task Modeler tool,  its pretty cool to see it in action in the hands of a master like Michael.


So, treat yourself to a sure cure for 11 days of yucky weather by coming on out for tonight's enlightening show!  The location and times are the same as below.  See you shortly!

Don Day, CTDUG moderator



--- In ctdug@yahoogroups.com, "Shepperd, Wendy" <wendy_shepperd@...> wrote:
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> My apologies if you received this twice. I see it on the list but not in
> my inbox, so I want to make sure everyone gets it.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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)
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> 7700 West Parmer Lane Austin TX 78729 (Freescale
> Semiconductor, Inc.)
>
> Agenda:
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> 7:00-7:30 General announcements and networking
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> 7:30-8:30 Speaker: France Baril, IXIASoft
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> 8:30-9:00 Q&A
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> Directions:
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> According to Bob Beims ("Beims Bob-RWBC70" bob.beims@...
> <mailto:bob.beims@... ):
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> We have a room set up for 28 people in C building, which has security
> guards on duty until 9:00.
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> * Google Maps link to the campus: http://tinyurl.com/ymts97
> <http://tinyurl.com/ymts97>
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> * Jpeg satellite photo of the campus: http://tinyurl.com/yeecnx
> <http://tinyurl.com/yeecnx>
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> 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.
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> Wendy Shepperd
> BMC Software
> Information Development, Manager
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> Wendy Shepperd
> BMC Software
> Information Development, Manager
> office 512-340-6549
> mobile 512-632-3288
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