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Dustin Clark (dpclark@ditanauts.org) is a technical writer in an enterprise DITA publishing environment. He has degrees in journalism and writing and is happy to consider himself a writer in any capacity. Along with a passion for language, he focuses on the development of scripting tools—typically in Perl, Python, XSLT, or the ilk.

Ben Colborn (bcolborn@ditanauts.org) is one half of a training and documentation team at a Silicon Valley startup. In addition to writing documentation and training material to meet business needs, he is responsible for developing authoring processes, the content management practice, and publishing tools.

Patrick Quinlan (paqdn@ditanauts.org) leads the implementation of DITA and a CMS to enable multi-channel publishing of training content, as well as managing an eLearning development team. He has spoken at conferences on a variety of topics, including DITA-OT customization, training new authors, automated quality assurance, and business cases and cost savings. Recently, he has focused on implementing a DITA specialization for eLearning development and collaborating on a home-grown SCORM framework.

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