Briefly describes the DITA Community GitHub project (github.com/dita-community). Presented at DITA OT Day 2015 in Munich, Germany.

1. DITA Community Open Source Project
A place to put DITA stuff for all to use
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Eliot Kimber
Contrext, LLC
DITA OT Day 2015 Munich, Germany

2. GitHub Organization
• github.com/dita-community
• dita-community.org
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3. Purpose and Scope
• Intended as a loosely-managed central repository of
general-purpose DITA stuff
• Materials of general interest to the DITA community
– Open Toolkit plugins
– Transformations
– Editor frameworks, extensions, etc.
– Sample data sets
– Etc.
• Anyone may contribute
– Can set up new projects
– Normal pull requests
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4. What You'll Find There Today
• OT plugins:
– Map-driven
processing
– Copy-to adjustment
– PDF page break
– DITA 1.3 support for
OT 1.85.
– Ruby markup
– DITA Q/A reporter
• DITA demo content
– Realistic DITA content
• DITA utilities
– Random XSLT and
XQuery
• Doxygen2dita
• DITA RNG converter
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5. How to Contribute
• New project:
– Request a new git repo from organization admins
(e.g., Eliot Kimber)
– Add your stuff
• Existing projects:
– Pull requests
– Join project-specific team in GitHub
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6. Please Use and Contribute
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