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title: Where's my Flare with Dr. Carlos Evia
date: 2015-10-27
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> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://edmar.sh/llms.txt).

Carlos is the Director of Professional and Technical Writing at Virginia Tech, is on the Lightweight DITA Technical Committee, and is an advocate for using multimedia with DITA.


## Mentioned during this episode

- [Carlos Evia](http://carlosevia.com)

- [Carlos Evia on Twitter](http://twitter.com/carlosevia)

- [Taking the DITA troubleshooting topic for a spin](http://www.scriptorium.com/2015/02/taking-dita-troubleshooting-topic-spin/)

- [The academician and the practitioner should be friends](http://techcommgeekmom.com/2015/07/20/oh-the-academian-and-the-practitioner-should-be-friends-engaging-techcomm-professionals/)

- [Tom Johnson podcast with Lisa Meloncon](http://idratherbewriting.com/2015/08/10/lisa-meloncon-academic-practitioner-divide-podcast/)

- [Outsourcing Technical Communication](http://www.amazon.com/Outsourcing-Technical-Communication-Practices-Communications/dp/0895033348), edited by Carlos

- [Developing Quality Technical Information](http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Quality-Technical-Information-Handbook/dp/0131477498)

- [Information Development World](http://informationdevelopmentworld.com/)

- [Unsung heroes of DITA presentation by Gretyl Kinsey](http://t.co/FLkoPMsnZz)

- [Madcap Flare](http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/)

- [oXygen XML Editor](http://oxygenxml.com)

- [DITA Glass](http://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2015/webinar_perceive_everything_as_dita.html)

- [ExpeDITA](https://github.com/donrday/expeDITA)

- [Lightweight DITA](http://dita.xml.org/blog/lightweight-dita)

- [Virginia Tech Center for Human-Computer Interaction](http://www.hci.vt.edu/)