Technology Chair

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Technology Chair

• Peter Kriens
• aQute.se

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Issues

• No standardized process for chairs to handle
  publication tasks
• Waterfall model
• Publications contain the same information but
  maintained separately
• Ad-hoc reuse of material/experience.
• Inconsistencies
• Indexes too few and wrong

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Publications
Palmguide PocketGuide
demonstrations
Signage
educators
panels
Advance Program
designfest
doctoral
educators
Final Program
posters
exhibits
Web site
tutorials
Companion
workshops
speakers
operations
Addendum
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Goals

• Minimize the overhead work a chair has to do
• More features in the publications
• Indexes
• No errors
• Make changes easy until very late in the process

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How?

• Derive all publications from chair maintained
  files (XML)
• Daily build for all publications
• Offer a committee web site

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Publication Process
Demonstrations ltgt ltgt lt/gt
Publication
Demonstrations information ltgt ltgt lt/gt
XSLT
Demonstrations information ltgt ltgt lt/gt
XSL style sheets
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Web site

• Generation of HTML pages
• Needs close work with Steve Watson

Demonstrations ltgt ltgt lt/gt
Publication
Demonstrations information ltgt ltgt lt/gt
XSLT
HTML
Demonstrations information ltgt ltgt lt/gt
HTTP
XSL style sheets
HTML
Static HTML and images
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PalmGuide/PocketGuide

• Will be based on HTML
• Will use Plucker in Palm

palm
Demonstrations ltgt ltgt lt/gt
Publication
Demonstrations information ltgt ltgt lt/gt
XSLT
HTML
Demonstrations information ltgt ltgt lt/gt
PLUCKER
XSL style sheets
HTML
Static HTML and images
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Advance Final Program

• Need formatting and indexing
• Choice for Framemaker or XSLFO

Program
Template file
Tutorials ltgt ltgt lt/gt
Posters information ltgt ltgt lt/gt
XSLT
MIF file
Demonstrations information ltgt ltgt lt/gt
MIF file
FM
XSL style sheets
MIF file
Static FM file
BOOK file
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What is in the XML file
Program
Author
Event
Location
Author
Item
Title
Abstract
Author
Title
Abstract
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How to maintain the XML

• We need versioning and document management
• CVS
• TortoiseCVS (www.wincvs.org) takes the pain out
  CVS
• Checking in data will trigger a build

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Issues

• Framemaker or FOP
• Technical Program 3 chairs? Or Panels, Technical
  Program and
• Scope?
• Can we work with CVS?