My concern is for the process; I don't want this to be onerous for anyone taking the minutes. I had to copy the text file to a new machine in order to print it to PDF, and that operation was itself the kind of thing that can be easily interrupted. I could do without PDF for that reason alone. Also, I prefer for the minutes text to be searchable since we often need to use these files as collective memory. Are PDFs capably indexed for search on the OASIS archives?

Regards,

-- Don Day Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Architect, Lightweight DITA Publishing Solutions Email: do...@us.ibm.com 11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758 Phone: +1 512-244-2868 (home office)

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" --T.S. Eliot

From: Kristen James Eberlein <kr...@eberleinconsulting.com>

To: Mary McRae <mary...@oasis-open.org>

Cc: Don Day/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, DITA TC list <di...@lists.oasis-open.org>

Date: 01/26/2010 12:31 PM

Subject: Format for DITA TC minutes

I don't care whether minutes are TXT or PDF, but I think we only want *one* file uploaded to the document repository as the official minutes for the meeting.

With the exception of the minutes for the January 18th meeting, when I take minutes I upload a file to the document repository AND copy the contents of the files to the e-mail that it is automatically sent to TC members when a file is uploaded.

Using TXT files probably facilitates this process, especially for those TC members who use non-HTML-rendering e-mail clients.

Best,

Kris

Kristen James Eberlein Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Charter member, OASIS DITA Adoption Committee _ www.eberleinconsulting.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/kristeneberlein_ +1 919 682-2290; keberlein (skype)

Mary McRae wrote:

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