<div>Hi Scott,</div>
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<div>We have made a lot of progress recently with the objectives set for the CM Pros DITA Community a couple of years ago.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.cmprofessionals.org/communities/topical/dita">http://www.cmprofessionals.org/communities/topical/dita</a></div>
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<div>Our statement of purpose was:</div>
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<div>To encourage structured authoring in the wider CM Pros community in general and on the CM Pros website in particular. This community will provide a technical resource for members who want to learn XML authoring and editing, specifically using the new DITA XML initiative from OASIS.
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<div>I think we have accomplished that and now want to tell CM Pros about a discounted membership in DITA Users - where we help members get started with topic-based structured writing using a web-based editor, the Open Toolkit on the server, and a personal workspace folder on the web.
<a href="http://www.ditausers.org">http://www.ditausers.org</a>.</div>
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<div>We thought we would start by updating our DITA Community page. Have the tools been put in place to allow members to edit pages as we used to do?</div>
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<div>I am copying the other steering committee members.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Bob.</div>
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<div>FYI, there are five other websites in our network of DITA support sites, each one optimized for a specific community collaboration function:</div>
<p><b>DITA Infocenter</b> - the DITA architectural and language specifications, and the OT User Guide, in an Eclipse Help format. <br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ditainfocenter.com/" target="_blank">
<font color="#810081">ditainfocenter.com </font></a></p>
<p><b>DITA News</b> - a blog aggregator, a mailing list, and a newsletter on DITA. <br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ditanews.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#810081">ditanews.com
</font></a></p>
<p><b>DITA Blog</b> - a group blog for DITA information developers (based on WordPress).<span></span> <br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ditablog.com/" target="_blank"><span></span>
<font color="#810081">ditablog.com</font></a> </p>
<p><b>DITA Wiki</b> - resources in a format that encourages comments and discussions (based on MediaWiki). <br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ditawiki.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#810081">
ditawiki.org</font></a> </p>
<p><span></span>and a couple of other sites to come soon, including<span></span> </p>
<p><b>DITA Tutor</b> - a set of self-paced and instructor-led DITA Tutorials (based on a Moodle LMS)<span></span> <br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ditatutor.com/" target="_blank">
<font color="#810081">ditatutor.com</font> </a> </p>
<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Bob.<br>-- <br>Bob Doyle<br>Editor In Chief, CMS Review - <a href="http://www.cmsreview.com">http://www.cmsreview.com</a><br>Founder, DITA Users - <a href="http://www.ditausers.org">http://www.ditausers.org</a><br>Former Technology Advisor, CM Pros -
<a href="http://www.cmprofessionals.org/membership/cm-profiles/bob-doyle">http://www.cmprofessionals.org/membership/cm-profiles/bob-doyle</a><br>Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine - <br><a href="http://www.econtentmag.com/About/AboutAuthor.aspx?AuthorID=155">
http://www.econtentmag.com/About/AboutAuthor.aspx?AuthorID=155</a><br>President and CEO, skyBuilders - <a href="http://www.skybuilders.com">http://www.skybuilders.com</a><br>77 Huron Avenue<br>Cambridge, MA 02138<br>Tel:
+1 617-876-5676 Skype:bobdoyle </div>