Hold That Thought
by
dpearson
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On Wednesday September 27th the Massachusetts Community of CM Pros held its monthly meeting at Molecular in Watertown, MA. In attendance were Jon Garfunkel, Bryant Shea, Brian Shea, Scott Simmons, Anthony Wilson, Bob Doyle, Jeff Tarbox and David Pearson.
It was great to finally meet Brian Shea of Information Mapping (not to be confused with Bryant Shea of Molecular) and to learn about his organization's support of DITA and the next scheduled Boston DITA User Group meeting that will take place on October 10th. See the
DITA.xml.org site.
Scott Simmons offered this Agenda:
- Chapter updates
- Progress on assigned items from the last meeting
- Summit information
- Registration
- Call for Papers
- Open Source Booth (Gilbane)
- Other
- Vision for CM / CM Pros
- Topics for future meetings
- Administrative discussions if any
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- Topic of the month: “Selecting a CMS”
- Introduction of the topic and the format of this round table
- Round Table Discussion
David Pearson reviewed Summit registration - 25 attendees so far, twelve from Massachusetts members - five of those from Molecular. The Massachusetts chapter has done a lot so far. And the local marketing campaign is about to begin. Pearson described a short video promo in production now. He has prepared a long list of organizations to contact. Jon Garfunkel and Jeff Tarbox asked for a short blurb that they could circulate in their organizations.
Pearson described the Call For Papers process - over 20 proposals were received through an online form. A number of judges reviewed the proposals and graded them by five criteria. Final decisions on speakers were made by Scott Abel and Mary Laplante, to whom Pearson reports.
Pearson showed the
tentative schedule for the Fall Summit and described some of the presenters.
No progress was reported on an OSCOM Booth at the Gilbane Conference. Seth Gottlieb, Nate Aune, and Renaud Richardet are working on this and should give us a report before the next meeting.
The Vision for CM Pros was discussed. Some Massachusetts members might run for the new Board of Directors. It was suggested that they attend some of the open Board meetings soon to get a feeling for the organization governance. Board candidates will be asked for their own Vision for CM Pros, whether it should concentrate on practitioners and resources for members, or on more conferences and association business.
The main topic of our second meeting was "Selecting a CMS Vendor". We passed around a new CMS Tool Lifecycle Poster drafted by Bob Doyle. It has the same look as the
Content Management Lifecycle Poster now on the CM Pros site.
We will solicit feedback and continue the discussion of the CMS Lifecycle Poster at the next meeting in October.
The Poster should also have an accompanying narrative to describe the many steps in the selection process. Doyle pointed to an article in EContent Magazine some time ago called "
Select a CMS in 15 Steps. It needs updating.
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