DITA Users Road Map

Known problems as of June 25, 2007

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
Launch August 31, 2007  
Known problems