Who We Are

DITA Open Toolkit is developed and maintained by a small group of volunteers who work on the project in their spare time.

The toolkit was originally developed within IBM and was open-sourced in 2005. Since that time, DITA-OT has been updated significantly by various companies and individuals.

Core Committers

Robert D Anderson

Robert is the project lead and a core developer of DITA-OT, representing Oracle. He's also the co-editor of the OASIS DITA specification and occasionally writes about DITA & DITA-OT at metadita.org.

Jarno Elovirta

Jarno is the lead developer of DITA-OT, working on the project as an individual contributor in his spare time. He occasionally writes development-related posts at elovirta.com and is available for commercial projects via Wunderdog.

Sponsor work on DITA-OT

Documentation Lead

Roger Sheen

Roger is an information architect, UXย writer, and content design ops consultant at infotexture. He helps to maintain the DITA-OT documentation and project website in his spare time.

Community Manager

Justyna Hietala

Justyna is a Documentation Engineer at Beamex and the DITA-OT Community Manager. She focuses on strengthening connections within the DITA-OT community, gathering user feedback, and encouraging knowledge sharing and participation.

Additional Contributors

Previous Contributors

  • Eero Helenius, independent contributor
  • Eric Sirois, IBM โ€” Core developer
  • ๆฒˆๅ‰‘ไน (Jian Le Shen, “Jason”), IBM โ€” Primary developer within IBM
  • Reuven Weiser, Suite Solutions โ€” PDF2 plug-in developer
  • Don Day, IBM โ€” Original project lead
  • Stephen Zhang, IBM โ€” Primary developer through the first several years of the toolkit
  • Chris Wong โ€” Original contributor of the PDF2 plugin
  • Deborah Pickett, Moldflow โ€” Frequent developer and contributor
  • Dick Johnson and Anna van Raaphorst, VR Communications, Inc โ€” Original contributors of the DITA User Guide
  • Rob Justice, individual contributor โ€” DITA-OT documentation
  • Aryeh Sanders, Suite Solutions โ€” PDF2 plug-in developer