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N.B. This press kit covers NeoOffice/J 1.1, released in June 2005 (a press kit for NeoOffice 2.1 can be found at NeoOffice 2.1 Press Kit); the latest NeoOffice Press Kit can always be found here. We appreciate your interest in NeoOffice!

Writing a story about NeoOfficeÂ®/J?

This Online Press Kit offers press materials and additional background information relating to the release of NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 (see NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 Announcement). While the Press Kit gathers the most pertinent details and summaries, you will find useful related information elsewhere on this "wiki" web site.

Key Features

The NeoOfficeÂ®/J office suite is a powerful bundle of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing applications for Mac OS X. Based on the latest stable OpenOffice.org codebase, NeoOfficeÂ®/J offers a full feature set that individual and business users alike expect from a complete office solution (see feature listing here).

NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 extensively integrates OpenOffice.org with the Mac OS X experience. Key Macintosh features added to NeoOfficeÂ®/J but missing from OpenOffice.org include a standard Mac OS X installer, a native Aqua menu bar, use of the Mac OS X printing system, full clipboard support, drag-and-drop, Mac "command" key shortcuts, mouse scrolling, integration with major Mac email clients and native support for Mac fonts. NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x, and 10.4.x.

Perhaps most significantly, NeoOfficeÂ®/J is free, open source software. By "free", we mean that unlike comparable office suites such as Microsoftâ„¢ Office, one may legally make and use as many copies of NeoOfficeÂ®/J as one likesâ€”without expense or costly licensing fees. But "free" has a second meaning. NeoOfficeÂ®/J is open-source, meaning the source-code (the written set of instructions in computer language) has been "freed" for anyone to use, modify, or redistribute in accordance with a license created just for this purpose, the GNU General Public License (GPL).

NeoOfficeÂ®/J vs. Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice.org

See our Feature Comparison page for a detailed comparison of three Mac office suites: NeoOfficeÂ®/J, Microsoft Office, and OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (X11).

Graphics & Images

These NeoOfficeÂ®/J logos, icons, and screenshots are in medium- and high-quality. Feel free to use them in print and or web coverage of the NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 release.

Medium- and High-Quality Logos, Headers, & Application Icons

Transparent PNG
(Logo/Application Icon)

256x256, 72 dpi, 83 KB

JPEG
(Logo/Application Icon)

128x128, 72 dpi, 9 KB

JPEG
(Header)

415x95, 72 dpi, 30 KB

Screenshots

The Official Screenshot at Planamesa Software.
Fifteen screenshots at this Wiki.

Background Information

History of NeoOfficeÂ®/J

NeoOfficeÂ®/J's story begins in 2000 when Sun Microsystems cancelled its Mac OS X port of StarOffice and donated the partially-completed project to the OpenOffice.org community. The former manager of the port, Patrick Luby, was on hand to help with the transition. Although he moved on to other jobs at Sun and ultimately to Planamesa Software, in his spare time Luby continued working to make OpenOffice.org run on Mac OS X without the X11 software used by other Unix variants to display Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications. Because the Java programming language was well-integrated with Mac OS X's "Aqua" interface, and because Luby had significant Java experience, he used Java to interface the core OpenOffice.org code with Mac OS X.

In 2002, two developers of the Mac OS X OpenOffice.org community porting effort, Edward Peterlin and Dan Williams, started an open source project at NeoOffice.org. They needed a stable, unchanging codebase in order to make sweeping changes to OpenOffice.org for Mac-specific work, which wasn't possible under the development system employed by OpenOffice.org. Peterlin and Williams worked on a new port, known today as NeoOfficeÂ®/C, using Mac OS X's native Carbon and Cocoa toolkits.

In June of 2003, Luby open-sourced his Java-based port, which was incorporated into Peterlin's NeoOffice.org project as NeoOfficeÂ®/J. The first NeoOfficeÂ®/J binaries and source code were made available on June 19, 2003. Throughout the summer of 2003, Luby and the NeoOffice.org community worked together to improve the application. By fall of that year, NeoOfficeÂ®/J 0.7 (based on the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x codebase) appeared with support for printing. The 0.7.x and 0.8.x releases that followed added full support for copy-and-paste, support for many languages, and other features and bug fixes. The final release of the NeoOfficeÂ®/J 0.x series, NeoOfficeÂ®/J 0.8.4, appeared on June 23, 2004, giving users a relatively stable version of the old OpenOffice.org 1.0.x codebase that offered a partially "native" Mac OS X experience.

Over the past year, Luby and Peterlin, with help from Williams and the NeoOffice.org community, moved NeoOfficeÂ®/J to the current OpenOffice.org 1.1.x codebase and added significant "native" Mac features, including drag-and-drop, use of the Mac OS X menubar and "Aqua menus," enhanced multilingual support, and dozens of smaller features and GUI improvements that make the application more at home in Mac OS X.

The June 22, 2005, release of NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 (based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, the latest stable codebase) marks not only the culmination of a year-long version 1.1 development effort, but also several years of early "behind-the-scenes" trial and error by the developers, the testers, and the entire NeoOffice.org community.

As a result of this massive effort, today Mac OS X users finally have access to a stable version of the latest OpenOffice.org release that behavesâ€”not completely, but to a very large extentâ€”like a regular Macintosh application.

Work has already begun on the next release, which seeks to achieve more extensive "Aquafication". Future versions will also be ready for Apple's transition to the new Intel processor architecture.

For a more extensive history of NeoOfficeÂ®/J, the NeoOffice.org projects, and OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X, please see the "NeoHistory" article in this wiki.

Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is NeoOfficeÂ®/J?
NeoOfficeÂ®/J is a Mac OS X-native version of OpenOffice.org that runs on Mac OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x, and 10.4.x. It looks (partially) like a "normal" Aqua Mac OS X application and does not require X11 software to run.
Is NeoOfficeÂ®/J a Java application?
No, NeoOfficeÂ®/J is 99% C and C++ code, just like OpenOffice.org. NeoOfficeÂ®/J uses small amounts of Java code for graphics drawing and configuration.
What is OpenOffice.org?
OpenOffice.org is both an open source project and a suite of office applications available for many operating systems and in many languages. The OpenOffice.org suite is largely feature-compatible with Microsoft Office. Sun Microsystems is the primary corporate sponsor of OpenOffice.org.
What is the relationship between NeoOfficeÂ®/J and OpenOffice.org?
NeoOfficeÂ®/J is part of the NeoOffice.org project, which is loosely affiliated with the OpenOffice.org project. NeoOfficeÂ®/J's primary developers were both main contributors to the port of OpenOffice.org to the X11 environment on Mac OS X, Patrick Luby as the manager of Sun's cancelled port of StarOffice to Mac OS X, and Edward Peterlin as lead developer of the Mac port of OpenOffice.org 1.0.x.
NeoOfficeÂ®/J uses OpenOffice.org code (both core cross-platform code and Mac-specific non-X11 code produced by the Mac X11 porting team) under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), and the NeoOffice.org developers contribute bug-fixes in code shared by both applications back to the OpenOffice.org project. In addition to contributing bug-fixes, the NeoOfficeÂ®/J developers provide advice and assistance to the Mac X11 porting team from time to time.
Why is NeoOfficeÂ®/J separate from OpenOffice.org?
OpenOffice.org's SISSL license allows companies to create proprietary products using OpenOffice.org. While the creators of NeoOfficeÂ®/J have no problem with people making money selling software, they felt that the SISSL license would result in several proprietary Mac OS X versions of OpenOffice.org. So, instead, the developers created a separate open source project that releases code under the GNU General Public License (GPL) to ensure that any improvements to NeoOfficeÂ®/J made by commercial organizations can be added back to NeoOfficeÂ®/J where it can benefit everyone and not just the commercial organization that made the improvement.
Why is NeoOfficeÂ®/J released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)?
NeoOfficeÂ®/J development is done entirely by volunteers. The developers of NeoOfficeÂ®/J believe that users of Mac OS X benefit from a free (both in cost and in usage rights) office suite, and they want to ensure that any improvements that are made to the NeoOfficeÂ®/J codebase are freely available so that everyone may benefit.

For more FAQs about the design and development of NeoOfficeÂ®/J, visit the NeoOfficeÂ®/J and Aqua page.

User Testimonials and Migration Stories

Migration to NeoOffice/J

When the World Scout Bureau's central office in Geneva, Switzerland, took delivery of 10 new Apple iMac G5 computers at the beginning of 2005, it was the ideal opportunity to assess whether migration to a free, open source office suite was a viable option for the 30-strong team working there.

"This release of NeoOffice/J 1.1 is a very welcome development," explains Ray Saunders, Director of Information Technology. "Minimising total cost of ownership is obviously important to an international voluntary organization, such as ours; however, the real benefits lie elsewhere. With NeoOffice/J now integrating OpenOffice.org seamlessly onto our Macs, our users here have joined the growing numbers worldwide who are very happy to work with the only truly multi-platform, multi-lingual office suite around. We can now build on this real-world experience by demonstrating in a very practical way to our 28 million Scouts worldwide that switching to open-standards based software is a genuine commitment to breaking down barriers between peoples and, ultimately, to building a better world.

"Migrating our users and their documents to NeoOffice/J has been straightforward. In fact, generally easier than I expected it to be! Visually, NeoOffice/J is very similar to what we had before - just a few items in different menus and some functions in Calc have different names from their Excel equivalents. On the whole, we've found what we needed to know either in the Help menu or in the manuals available from the OOoAuthors.org documentation project. Of the hundreds of legacy word-processing documents we've opened, only a very few have required any attention to formatting discrepancies.

"We're now beginning to play to the strengths of NeoOffice/J, including its logical use of paragraph and page styles. For example, basic newsletters for which we would previously have only considered using desktop publishing software are now being prepared completely in NeoOffice/J. Once a styled template is ready, using NeoOffice/J greatly simplifies and shortens the production cycle while maintaining realistic standards and enabling more users to see their projects through from conception to realisation.

"With NeoOffice/J, we are easily able to produce multi-lingual presentations - for example, a mix of French, English and Arabic - with this free software and exchange them with our regional office colleagues working with Microsoft Office on their Windows computers in Cairo. That has felt incredibly liberating!

"I have no regrets about the decision we took back in January 2005. Realistically, the issues we've faced by migrating to NeoOffice/J have not been so very different from similar issues which we would have faced anyway by following the more conservative and costly upgrade path for our previous office suite. The results speak for themselves. They give us the confidence to proceed to the next phase which will be to migrate our other 11 offices around the world to NeoOffice/J and OpenOffice.org. I hope our positive experience can serve as an encouragement to others."

Ray Saunders
Director, Information Technology
World Scout Bureau

Examples of documents migrated from Adobe PageMaker to NeoOffice/J

During the past three years, the World Organization of the Scout Movement has published a series of Promising Practices giving diverse examples of the many ways in which Scouts around the world are responding to the strategic priorities of the movement.

First, an example of an earlier edition, produced using Adobe PageMaker, featuring a project to improve the living and working conditions of working children through improving their talents, health, education and vocational skills undertaken by the Egyptian Scout Federation: The Child Labour Project in Egypt

Second, the most recent addition to the series, created using NeoOffice, featuring a large-scale environmental project undertaken by Scouts Australia. Scouts have been active in planting 700,000 trees over a four year period to help save two of Australiaâ€™s largest river systems: Rescuing the River Murray and Darling River in Australia

SCOPE is a new project of the World Organization of the Scout Movement promoting international support partnerships. The project newsletter has been created in NeoOffice: SCOPE

The World Scout Bureau offices are located in Belgrade, Brussels, Cairo, Cape Town, Dakar, Geneva, Manilla, Moscow, Nairobi, Santiago and Yalta.

Just to let you know - I've been using Neo[Office/J] with patch 6 as my routine office working app since the patch was released. I can't find a bug so far using native and M$ [Microsoft Office] format files in the word processor and the spreadsheet. Everything that's been switched to Apple behaviour behaves as Apple Apps should, and everything else is OOo [OpenOffice.org] 1.1.x, indistinguishable from my W32 [Windows] box at work.

Cheers, Phil

in a post on the trinity forums, June 2005 [1]

[A]s far as [I]'m concerned [NeoOffice/J] now does everything I want it to do. Just for the record, I'm a writer, I did English at university: I have no use for spreadsheets &c, I want something that can handle large text documents and not crash and not slow down inexplicably after a few hours: this is usually when I'm writing fastest. This is why I gave up on MS Word.

user edwardfox in a post on the trinity forums, June 2005 [2]

For other testimonials and user reviews, visit the NeoOfficeÂ®/J listing on the popular Mac software download sites VersionTracker and MacUpdate.

Community

Over the years, a vibrant NeoOfficeÂ®/J community has emerged at trinity.neooffice.org ("trinity"), where users and developers offer support, bug reporting, beta-testing, artwork, documentation, etc.

The community is a ever-expanding group of active users from all over the world who aid in the development, support and advocacy processes:

writing NeoWiki articles that answer common requests for user assistance and support.
answering questions and providing user support on the trinity forums.
testing patches and filing bugs.
translating the www.planamesa.com/neojava website and the wiki articles into several languages.
working on new GUI (toolbar) icons.
promoting NeoOfficeÂ®/J on the web, among friends and anywhere else.
providing download mirrors and BitTorrent seeding.
donating financially to help offset the costs of bandwidth and development.

Profiles

While the combined efforts of dozens of people have made possible the development of NeoOfficeÂ®/J and the 1.1 release, certain individuals have made sustained or key contributions to the code, infrastructure, and other areas of the NeoOfficeÂ®/J project. These individuals and their roles or contributions are briefly profiled below.

Patrick Luby

Patrick Luby (AKA pluby) is the creator and primary developer of NeoOfficeÂ®/J. He resides in Sunnyvale, California with his wife. He was the lead engineer for Sun's effort to port StarOffice to Mac OS X as well as the lead engineer for the Tomcat Servlet Container within Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development group.

Patrick now owns and runs his own software consultancy firm called Planamesa Software, specializing in short-term software development and debugging services in the San Francisco Bay area.

Edward Peterlin

Edward Peterlin (AKA OPENSTEP) is a graduate of Princeton University with an engineering degree in Computer Science and a certificate in Engineering Physics. He is the founding developer of the community OpenOffice.org Mac OS X (X11) porting effort and a co-founder of NeoOffice.org and main developer of NeoOfficeÂ®/J. He also provides much of the development and community infrastructure: the CVS server, the trinity forums, and the neooffice.org website. Ed also wrote NeoLight, the plugin for Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight search engine, that ships with NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1. He resides in Santa Barbara, California. As a lead developer on the Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org 1.0.x, Ed has been using Writer, Impress, and Calc on his Macs since 2000. He has presented at many conferences including Apple's WWDC, O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference, and Linspire's Desktop Linux Summit.

Ed is the lead Macintosh developer at BIOPAC Systems, Inc. and has many other interests, as demonstrated on his personal website.

Dan Williams

Dan William (AKA fa) is a co-founder of NeoOffice.org and a developer of NeoOfficeÂ®/J. He also provides and maintains the NeoOffice Bugzilla bug-tracking system. While Dan is not actively coding on NeoOfficeÂ®/J at the moment, he still helps out with bug triage, supplies an occasional patch, and keeps us appraised of many developments within OpenOffice.org. Dan was a main developer on the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x Mac port.

Dan works on OpenOffice.org with Red Hat.

Jacob Haddon

Jacob Haddon (AKA jakeOSX) is a long-time member of the NeoOffice.org community. He hosts and administers the NeoWiki and is working on setting up infrastructure to allow multilingual interlinked versions for our global audience. Back before the demand for NeoOfficeÂ®/J required 50 GB/day of bandwidth, Jacob also mirrored the NeoOfficeÂ®/J binaries; now he just moonlights as the NeoOffice.org webmaster. Jacob also put together the launch shortcuts for quick launching into the NeoOfficeÂ®/J application of your choice. In real life, he's a rocket scientist and author.

Fridrich Å trba and the `libwpd` development team

Fridrich Å trba is one of the main authors of the libwpd and writerperfect libraries used by NeoOfficeÂ®/J for import of WordPerfectâ„¢ documents; he integrated code written by the entire libwpd development team into NeoOfficeÂ®/J. Fridrich is a founder of the project to port Ximian/Novell Evolution to Windows and is a contributor to several other open source projects.

Outside of his open source endeavours, Fridrich works as a system engineer/network administrator of a research organization, admininstering a mix of Windows clients and Linux servers.

Max Barel

Max Barel (AKA Max_Barel) wrote the original AppleScript help installer for NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1, greatly simplifying the process of installing the localized help files available for several languages. He also takes the lead in answering French-language user support questions. Max spent over a decade as a developer and professor in programming and systems administration, and he currently works as a freelance system engineer and programmer [fr] for Mac OS X, Linux and PHP/MySQL.

Dan Bennett

Dan Bennett (AKA foxcorner) designed the new splash screen for NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 just to see if he could, and he did the Aqua application icon simply because he wanted to know how it's done. Looked cool, and got adopted (the artwork, that is, not Dan). But he should probably keep his day-job in Hewlett-Packard's workstation division, working with high-end graphics solutions for automotive styling.

Smokey Ardisson

Smokey Ardisson (AKA sardisson) is the NeoOfficeÂ® champion of end-user support. He is responsible for bringing a large part of this information into the NeoWiki and also leads the NeoOfficeÂ® advocacy effort. The NeoOfficeÂ®/J document icons displayed by the Finder are also his work. By day he is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern and African history in Washington, D.C.

Aelitis.com

Aelitis of France has graciously offered to provide BitTorrent tracking and seeding for NeoOfficeÂ®/J, helping to alleviate the crushing bandwidth demands on the download mirrors.

NeoOfficeÂ® is a registered trademark of Edward H. Peterlin. Other product and company names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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History of NeoOfficeÂ®/J

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+'''N.B.'''  ''This press kit covers NeoOffice/J 1.1, released in June 2005 (a press kit for NeoOffice 2.1 can be found at [[NeoOffice 2.1 Press Kit]]); <!--  If you need information on changes between NeoOffice/J 1.1 and NeoOffice 1.2.2 or NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua Beta, please check the [[NeoOffice Release Notes]] or post a query on the [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums Trinity forums].-->the latest NeoOffice Press Kit can always be found [[NeoOffice Press Kit|here]].  We appreciate your interest in NeoOffice!''
 == Writing a story about NeoOfficeÂ®/J? ==
-This '''Online Press Kit''' offers press materials relating to NeoOfficeÂ®/J.  You will find other useful information elsewhere on this "wiki" web site.
+This '''Online Press Kit''' offers press materials and additional background information relating to the release of NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 (see [[NeoOffice/J 1.1 Announcement|NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 Announcement]]).  While the Press Kit gathers the most pertinent details and summaries, you will find useful related information elsewhere on this "wiki" [[Main_Page|web site]].
-In case you missed it, the [[NeoOffice/J 1.1 Announcement]] officially introduces NeoOfficeÂ®/J version 1.1.
 == Key Features ==
-By bundling together word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing applications, NeoOfficeÂ®/J offers literally hundreds of features for Mac users.  Based on the latest stable [http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice.org] codebase (see feature listing [http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/ here]), NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 adds extensive integration with Mac OS X. Key Macintosh features include a standard Mac OS X installer, a native Aqua menu bar, use of the Mac OS X printing system, full clipboard support, drag-and-drop, Mac "command" key shortcuts, mouse scrolling, integration with major Mac email clients and native support for Mac fonts. NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x, and 10.4.x.
+The NeoOfficeÂ®/J office suite is a powerful bundle of '''word processing''', '''spreadsheet''', '''presentation''', and '''drawing''' applications for Mac OS X.  Based on the latest stable [http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice.org] codebase, NeoOfficeÂ®/J offers a full feature set that individual and business users alike expect from a complete office solution ('''see feature listing [http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/ here]''').
-{{dashedbox|--[[User:Sardisson|sardisson]] 09:11, 25 May 2005 (CDT) Can we not say the same things in the same way every place we say them? :-)  And we had "feature features features" in there, too :-)}}
-Perhaps most significantly, NeoOfficeÂ®/J is '''free''', open source software.  By "free", we mean that unlike comparable office suites such as Microsoftâ„¢ Office, '''one may legally make and use as many copies of NeoOfficeÂ®/J as one likes'''â€”without expense or costly licensing fees.  But "free" has a second meaning.  NeoOfficeÂ®/J is open-source, meaning the source-code (i.e., the written set of instructions in computer language) has been "freed" for anyone to use, modify, or redistribute in accordance with a license created just for this purpose, the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU Public License (GPL)].
+NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 extensively integrates OpenOffice.org with the Mac OS X experience.  Key Macintosh features added to NeoOfficeÂ®/J but missing from OpenOffice.org include a standard Mac OS X installer, a native Aqua menu bar, use of the Mac OS X printing system, full clipboard support, drag-and-drop, Mac "command" key shortcuts, mouse scrolling, integration with major Mac email clients and native support for Mac fonts. NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x, and 10.4.x.
-Although it is a free product, NeoOfficeÂ®/J offers a full feature set that individual and business users alike expect from a complete office solution.
+Perhaps most significantly, NeoOfficeÂ®/J is '''free''', open source software.  By "free", we mean that unlike comparable office suites such as Microsoftâ„¢ Office, '''one may legally make and use as many copies of NeoOfficeÂ®/J as one likes'''â€”without expense or costly licensing fees.  But "free" has a second meaning.  NeoOfficeÂ®/J is open-source, meaning the source-code (the written set of instructions in computer language) has been "freed" for anyone to use, modify, or redistribute in accordance with a license created just for this purpose, the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License (GPL)].
-=== NeoOfficeÂ®/J vs. Microsoftâ„¢ Office vs. OpenOffice.org ===
+=== NeoOfficeÂ®/J vs. Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice.org ===
-A detailed comparison of NeoOfficeÂ®/J, Microsoftâ„¢ Office, and [[OpenOffice.org_Mac_OS_X_(X11)|OpenOffice.org/X11]] are on our [[NeoOffice/J_Feature_Comparison|Feature Comparison]] page.
+See our [[NeoOffice/J_Feature_Comparison|Feature Comparison]] page for a detailed comparison of three Mac office suites: NeoOfficeÂ®/J, Microsoft Office, and OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (X11).
 == Graphics &amp; Images ==
-Several medium- and high-quality graphics (logos and icons) are available for use in press coverage.  Links to screenshots illustrating features of NeoOfficeÂ®/J are also provided below.
+These NeoOfficeÂ®/J logos, icons, and screenshots are in medium- and high-quality.  Feel free to use them in print and or web coverage of the NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 release.
 === Medium- and High-Quality Logos, Headers, &amp; Application Icons ===
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-{{imagebox|[http://homepage.mac.com/sardisson/neoj/neoofficej_header.jpg Click "Save Link As..." for full-sized image]|[http://homepage.mac.com/sardisson/neoj/neoofficej_header.jpg 415x95, 72 dpi, 30 KB]|JPEG<br>(Header)}}
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+=== Screenshots ===
-==== JPEG (Header) ====
+* The Official Screenshot at [http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/ Planamesa Software].
+* [[NeoOffice Screenshots|Fifteen screenshots]] at this Wiki.
-x95, 72 dpi, 30 KB: <nowiki>http://homepage.mac.com/sardisson/neoj/neoofficej_header.jpg</nowiki>
+== Background Information ==
--->
-{{dashedbox|
-*'' '''The wiki and websites use smaller, lo-res versions''' to keep pageloads quick for dialup users. ''
-* [[User:Sardisson|sardisson]] has some of these higher-quality images (presented above), but we may need to contact foxcorner for others.''
-*'''What else do we need?  Should we display the images''' or just use the text links?
-}}
---[[User:Waldo|Waldo]] 04:20, 25 May 2005 (CDT) I say throw the pictures (at various sizes) right on the page.
+=== History of NeoOfficeÂ®/J ===
-=== Screenshots ===
+NeoOfficeÂ®/J's story begins in 2000 when Sun Microsystems cancelled its Mac OS X port of [[StarOffice]] and donated the partially-completed project to the OpenOffice.org community.  The former manager of the port, Patrick Luby, was on hand to help with the transition.  Although he moved on to other jobs at Sun and ultimately to Planamesa Software, in his spare time Luby continued working to make OpenOffice.org run on Mac OS X without the [[Wikipedia:X11|X11]] software used by other Unix variants to display Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications.  Because the Java programming language was well-integrated with Mac OS X's "Aqua" interface, and because Luby had significant Java experience, he used Java to interface the core OpenOffice.org code with Mac OS X.
-Several screenshots of NeoOffice/J are available:
-* The Official Screenshot at [http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/ Planamesa Software].
-* [[NeoOffice/J Screenshots|Seven screenshots]] at this Wiki.
-* A [http://geocities.com/ovvldc/NeoOffice_screenshot.pdf screenshot of NeoOffice/J with an alternative icon set] <nowiki>[pdf, 128 KB]</nowiki>.
-== Background Information ==
+In 2002, two developers of the Mac OS X OpenOffice.org community porting effort, Edward Peterlin and Dan Williams, started an open source project at [http://www.neooffice.org NeoOffice.org].  They needed a stable, unchanging codebase in order to make sweeping changes to OpenOffice.org for Mac-specific work, which wasn't possible under the development system employed by OpenOffice.org.  Peterlin and Williams worked on a new port, known today as [[NeoOffice/C|NeoOfficeÂ®/C]], using Mac OS X's native Carbon and Cocoa toolkits.
-=== History of NeoOffice/J ===
+In June of 2003, Luby open-sourced his Java-based port, which was incorporated into Peterlin's NeoOffice.org project as [[NeoOffice/J|NeoOfficeÂ®/J]].  The first NeoOfficeÂ®/J binaries and source code were made available on June 19, 2003.  Throughout the summer of 2003, Luby and the NeoOffice.org community worked together to improve the application.  By fall of that year, NeoOfficeÂ®/J 0.7 (based on the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x codebase) appeared with support for printing.  The 0.7.x and 0.8.x releases that followed added full support for copy-and-paste, support for many languages, and other features and bug fixes.  The final release of the NeoOfficeÂ®/J 0.x series, NeoOfficeÂ®/J 0.8.4, appeared on June 23, 2004, giving users a relatively stable version of the old OpenOffice.org 1.0.x codebase that offered a partially "native" Mac OS X experience.
-*[[History_of_NeoOffice_and_OpenOffice.org:_Introduction|NeoHistory]]/relationship with OOo summary, link to the full version (1 pgh?)
+Over the past year, Luby and Peterlin, with help from Williams and the NeoOffice.org community, moved NeoOfficeÂ®/J to the current OpenOffice.org 1.1.x codebase and added significant "native" Mac features, including drag-and-drop, use of the Mac OS X menubar and "Aqua menus," enhanced multilingual support, and dozens of smaller features and GUI improvements that make the application more at home in Mac OS X.
-=== Relevant Articles ===
+The June 22, 2005, release of NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 (based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, the latest stable codebase) marks not only the culmination of a year-long version 1.1 development effort, but also several years of early "behind-the-scenes" trial and error by the developers, the testers, and the entire NeoOffice.org community.
-*Links to other relevant articles '''[what do we want?]'''
+As a result of this massive effort, today Mac OS X users finally have access to a stable version of the latest OpenOffice.org release that behavesâ€”not completely, but to a very large extentâ€”like a regular Macintosh application.
-{{dashedbox|
+Work has already begun on the next release, which seeks to achieve more extensive "Aquafication".  Future versions will also be ready for Apple's transition to the new Intel processor architecture.
-([[User:sardisson|sardisson]] has a number of things bookmarked for future additions to the links in the NeoHistory article which may be useful, depending on what sort of articles we want)
-}}
+''For a more extensive history of NeoOfficeÂ®/J, the NeoOffice.org projects, and OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X, please see the [[History_of_NeoOffice_and_OpenOffice.org:_Introduction|"NeoHistory"]] article in this wiki.''
 === Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs) ===
-*Links to [[NeoOffice/J_FAQ|Neo/J and Aqua]] design/development FAQ and/or some '''key''' FAQs reposted (not Java, but C++ (99%) and Carbon and Java (1%), "NeoOffice/J is a Mac OS X native version of OpenOffice.org that uses small amounts of Java code for graphics drawing and configuration." etc.)
+# What is NeoOfficeÂ®/J?
+#: NeoOfficeÂ®/J is a Mac OS X-native version of [[OpenOffice.org]] that runs on Mac OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x, and 10.4.x.  It looks (partially) like a "normal" Aqua Mac OS X application and does not require [[Wikipedia:X11|X11]] software to run.
+# Is NeoOfficeÂ®/J a Java application?
+#: No, NeoOfficeÂ®/J is 99% C and C++ code, just like OpenOffice.org.  NeoOfficeÂ®/J uses small amounts of Java code for graphics drawing and configuration.
+# What is OpenOffice.org?
+#: OpenOffice.org is both an [http://www.openoffice.org open source project] and a suite of office applications available for many operating systems and in many languages.  The OpenOffice.org suite is largely feature-compatible with Microsoft Office.  [http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems] is the primary corporate sponsor of OpenOffice.org.
+# What is the relationship between NeoOfficeÂ®/J and OpenOffice.org?
+#: NeoOfficeÂ®/J is part of the NeoOffice.org project, which is loosely affiliated with the OpenOffice.org project.  NeoOfficeÂ®/J's primary developers were both main contributors to the port of OpenOffice.org to the X11 environment on Mac OS X, Patrick Luby as the manager of Sun's cancelled port of [[StarOffice]] to Mac OS X, and Edward Peterlin as lead developer of the Mac port of OpenOffice.org 1.0.x.
+#: NeoOfficeÂ®/J uses OpenOffice.org code (both core cross-platform code and Mac-specific non-X11 code produced by the Mac X11 porting team) under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License] (LGPL), and the NeoOffice.org developers contribute bug-fixes in code shared by both applications back to the OpenOffice.org project.  In addition to contributing bug-fixes, the NeoOfficeÂ®/J developers provide advice and assistance to the Mac X11 porting team from time to time.
+# Why is NeoOfficeÂ®/J separate from OpenOffice.org?
+#: OpenOffice.org's [http://www.openoffice.org/license.html SISSL license] allows companies to create proprietary products using OpenOffice.org. While the creators of NeoOfficeÂ®/J have no problem with people making money selling software, they felt that the SISSL license would result in several proprietary Mac OS X versions of OpenOffice.org. So, instead, the developers created a separate open source project that releases code under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GNU General Public License] (GPL) to ensure that any improvements to NeoOfficeÂ®/J made by commercial organizations can be added back to NeoOfficeÂ®/J where it can benefit everyone and not just the commercial organization that made the improvement.
+# Why is NeoOfficeÂ®/J released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)?
+#: NeoOfficeÂ®/J development is done entirely by volunteers.  The developers of NeoOfficeÂ®/J believe that users of Mac OS X benefit from a free (both in cost and in usage rights) office suite, and they want to ensure that any improvements that are made to the NeoOfficeÂ®/J codebase are freely available so that everyone may benefit.
+For more FAQs about the design and development of NeoOfficeÂ®/J, visit the [[NeoOffice and Aqua|NeoOfficeÂ®/J and Aqua]] page. <!-- no link to planamesa FAQ because it has some "negative" toned items, obsolete descriptions, and is geared towards a different audience than the Press Kit -->
-=== Testimonials ===
+== User Testimonials and Migration Stories ==
-{{dashedbox|
-* Can we get [[User:Rays|Ray S]] to write up a brief bit about his migration of the World Scout Bureau from Microsoft Office to Neo/J?
+{{testimonialbox|
+<h3>Migration to NeoOffice/J</h3>
+''When the World Scout Bureau's central office in Geneva, Switzerland, took delivery of 10 new Apple iMac G5 computers at the beginning of 2005, it was the ideal opportunity to assess whether migration to a free, open source office suite was a viable option for the 30-strong team working there.''
+"This release of NeoOffice/J 1.1 is a very welcome development," explains Ray Saunders, Director of Information Technology. "Minimising total cost of ownership is obviously important to an international voluntary organization, such as ours; however, the real benefits lie elsewhere. With NeoOffice/J now integrating OpenOffice.org seamlessly onto our Macs, our users here have joined the growing numbers worldwide who are very happy to work with the only truly multi-platform, multi-lingual office suite around. We can now build on this real-world experience by demonstrating in a very practical way to our 28 million Scouts worldwide that switching to open-standards based software is a genuine commitment to breaking down barriers between peoples and, ultimately, to building a better world.
+"Migrating our users and their documents to NeoOffice/J has been straightforward. In fact, generally easier than I expected it to be! Visually, NeoOffice/J is very similar to what we had before - just a few items in different menus and some functions in Calc have different names from their Excel equivalents. On the whole, we've found what we needed to know either in the Help menu or in the manuals available from the OOoAuthors.org documentation project. Of the hundreds of legacy word-processing documents we've opened, only a very few have required any attention to formatting discrepancies.
+"We're now beginning to play to the strengths of NeoOffice/J, including its logical use of paragraph and page styles. For example, basic newsletters for which we would previously have only considered using desktop publishing software are now being prepared completely in NeoOffice/J. Once a styled template is ready, using NeoOffice/J greatly simplifies and shortens the production cycle while maintaining realistic standards and enabling more users to see their projects through from conception to realisation.
+"With NeoOffice/J, we are easily able to produce multi-lingual presentations - for example, a mix of French, English and Arabic - with this free software and exchange them  with our regional office colleagues working with Microsoft Office on their Windows computers in Cairo. That has felt incredibly liberating!
+"I have no regrets about the decision we took back in January 2005. Realistically, the issues we've faced by migrating to NeoOffice/J have not been so very different from similar issues which we would have faced anyway by following the more conservative and costly upgrade path for our previous office suite. The results speak for themselves. They give us the confidence to proceed to the next phase which will be to migrate our other 11 offices around the world to NeoOffice/J and OpenOffice.org. I hope our positive experience can serve as an encouragement to others."
+Ray Saunders<br>
+Director, Information Technology<br>
+[http://www.scout.org/front/impressum.shtml World Scout Bureau]<br>
+<h4>Examples of documents migrated from Adobe PageMaker to NeoOffice/J</h4>
+During the past three years, the [http://www.scout.org/ World Organization of the Scout Movement] has published a series of [http://scout.org/en/about_scouting/strategy/promising_practises Promising Practices] giving diverse examples of the many ways in which Scouts around the world are responding to the strategic priorities of the movement.
+* First, an example of an earlier edition, produced using Adobe PageMaker, featuring a project to improve the living and working conditions of working children through improving their talents, health, education and vocational skills undertaken by the Egyptian Scout Federation: [http://scout.org/en/content/download/2590/26277/file/SP4Egypt_e.pdf The Child Labour Project in Egypt]
+* Second, the most recent addition to the series, created using NeoOffice, featuring a large-scale environmental project undertaken by [http://www.scouts.com.au/ Scouts Australia]. Scouts have been active in planting 700,000 trees over a four year period to help save two of Australiaâ€™s largest river systems: [http://scout.org/en/content/download/3270/30805/file/pp7austral_e.pdf Rescuing the River Murray and Darling River in Australia]
+* SCOPE is a new project of the [http://www.scout.org/ World Organization of the Scout Movement] promoting international support [http://www.scout.org/front/partners.shtml partnerships]. The project newsletter has been created in NeoOffice: [http://worldnet.scout.org/SCOPE0500_e.pdf SCOPE]
+''The World Scout Bureau offices are located in Belgrade, Brussels, Cairo, Cape Town, Dakar, Geneva, Manilla, Moscow, Nairobi, Santiago and Yalta.''
-* Others?
 }}
---[[User:Ovvldc|Ovvldc]] 17:10, 21 Apr 2005 (CDT) Links to migration stories:<br>
+{{testimonialbox|
-http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1041 <br>
+Just to let you know - I've been using Neo[Office/J] with patch 6 as my routine office working app since the patch was released. I can't find a bug so far using native and M$ [Microsoft Office] format files in the word processor and the spreadsheet. Everything that's been switched to Apple behaviour behaves as Apple Apps should, and everything else is OOo [OpenOffice.org] 1.1.x, indistinguishable from my W32 [Windows] box at work.
-http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1223 <br>
-http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1035 <br>
-http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=6153#6153 <br>
-http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=529&pos=24 (see last comment) <br>
-http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=9137#9137 (a lite, general post from [[User:Rays|Ray S]])
-Also try the [http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22021&amp;mode=feedback Versiontracker feedback pages] for upbeat stories.
+Cheers, Phil
+''in a post on the trinity forums, June 2005''  [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name%3dForums&file%3dviewtopic&p%3d9314#9314]
+}}
---[[User:Sardisson|sardisson]] 10:40, 22 Apr 2005 (CDT)  For [http://www.macupdate.com/rss/examples.php MU we need PHP or Perl]â€”[[User:Jake|Jake]], can you do this on NeoOffice.org?  VT is just HTML+CSS+JS and we can do overall ratings plus pull latest 4+ star reviews, but we can't do that within the wiki.
---[[User:Sardisson|sardisson]] 07:06, 23 Apr 2005 (CDT) I've put up a page pulling our VT rating (it can only pull the overall one) and the last 4+-star reviews at http://homepage.mac.com/sardisson/neoj/vt_ratings.html
+{{testimonialbox|
+[A]s far as [I]'m concerned [NeoOffice/J] now does everything I want it to do. Just for the record, I'm a writer, I did English at university: I have no use for spreadsheets &c, I want something that can handle large text documents and not crash and not slow down inexplicably after a few hours: this is usually when I'm writing fastest. This is why I gave up on MS Word.
+''user '''edwardfox''' in a post on the trinity forums, June 2005'' [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name%3dForums&file%3dviewtopic&p%3d9727#9727]
+}}
+''For other testimonials and user reviews, visit the NeoOfficeÂ®/J listing on the popular Mac software download sites [http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22021&amp;mode=feedback VersionTracker] and [http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=15797 MacUpdate].''
 == Community ==
-Over the years, a vibrant NeoOfficeÂ®/J community has emerged at http://www.trinity.org/, where users and developers offer support, bug reporting, beta-testing, artwork, documentation, etc.
+Over the years, a vibrant NeoOfficeÂ®/J community has emerged at [http://trinity.neooffice.org/ trinity.neooffice.org ("trinity")], where users and developers offer support, bug reporting, beta-testing, artwork, documentation, etc.
 The community is a ever-expanding group of active users from all over the world who aid in the development, support and advocacy processes:
-* writing [[Main_Page|NeoWiki]] articles that answer common requests for user assistance and support.
+* writing [[Main Page|NeoWiki]] articles that answer common requests for user assistance and support.
-* answering questions and providing user support on [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums trinity forums].
+* answering questions and providing user support on the [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums trinity forums].
 * testing patches and filing bugs.
 * translating the [http://www.planamesa.com/neojava www.planamesa.com/neojava] website and the wiki articles into several languages.
 * working on new GUI (toolbar) icons.
-* promoting NeoOffice/J on the web, among friends and anywhere else.
+* promoting NeoOfficeÂ®/J on the web, among friends and anywhere else.
 * providing download mirrors and BitTorrent seeding.
 * donating financially to help offset the costs of bandwidth and development.
 ==== Patrick Luby ====
-Patrick Luby (AKA pluby) is the creator and primary developer of NeoOffice/J. He resides in Sunnyvale, California with his wife and children. He is a former lead engineer for Sun's Mac OS X port of StarOffice as well as a former lead engineer on the team for the Java 2 Enterprise platform.
+Patrick Luby (AKA pluby) is the creator and primary developer of NeoOfficeÂ®/J. He resides in Sunnyvale, California with his wife.  He was the lead engineer for Sun's effort to port StarOffice to Mac OS X as well as the lead engineer for the Tomcat Servlet Container within Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development group.
 Patrick now owns and runs his own software consultancy firm called [http://www.planamesa.com/ Planamesa Software], specializing in short-term software development and debugging services in the San Francisco Bay area.
 ==== Edward Peterlin ====
-Edward Peterlin (AKA OPENSTEP) is a co-founder of NeoOffice.org and main developer of NeoOffice/J. He also provides much of the development and community infrastructure: the CVS server, the [http://trinity.neooffice.org/ trinity forums], and the [http://www.neooffice.org/ neooffice.org] website. Ed also wrote [[NeoLight]], the plugin for Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight search engine, that ships with NeoOffice/J 1.1. He resides in Santa Barbara, California. As a lead developer on the Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org 1.0.x, Ed has been using Writer, Impress, and Calc on his Macs since 2000.
+Edward Peterlin (AKA OPENSTEP) is a graduate of Princeton University with an engineering degree in Computer Science and a certificate in Engineering Physics.  He is the founding developer of the community OpenOffice.org Mac OS X (X11) porting effort and a co-founder of NeoOffice.org and main developer of NeoOfficeÂ®/J. He also provides much of the development and community infrastructure: the CVS server, the [http://trinity.neooffice.org/ trinity forums], and the [http://www.neooffice.org/ neooffice.org] website. Ed also wrote [[NeoLight]], the plugin for Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight search engine, that ships with NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1. He resides in Santa Barbara, California. As a lead developer on the Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org 1.0.x, Ed has been using Writer, Impress, and Calc on his Macs since 2000.  He has presented at many conferences including Apple's WWDC, O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference, and Linspire's Desktop Linux Summit.
 Ed is the lead Macintosh developer at BIOPAC Systems, Inc. and has many other interests, as demonstrated on his [http://www.dashboardbuddha.com/ personal website].
 ==== Dan Williams ====
-Dan William (AKA fa) is a co-founder of NeoOffice.org and a developer of NeoOffice/J. He also provides and maintains the [http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice Bugzilla] bug-tracking system.  While Dan is not actively coding on NeoOffice/J at the moment, he still helps out with bug triage, supplies an occasional patch, and keeps us appraised of many developments within OpenOffice.org. Dan was a main developer on the OOo 1.0.x Mac port.
+Dan William (AKA fa) is a co-founder of NeoOffice.org and a developer of NeoOfficeÂ®/J. He also provides and maintains the [http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice Bugzilla] bug-tracking system.  While Dan is not actively coding on NeoOfficeÂ®/J at the moment, he still helps out with bug triage, supplies an occasional patch, and keeps us appraised of many developments within OpenOffice.org. Dan was a main developer on the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x Mac port.
-Dan works on [http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice.org] with [http://www.redhat.com/ RedHat].
+Dan works on [http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice.org] with [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat].
-==== [[User:Jake|jakeOSX]] ====
+==== Jacob Haddon ====
-{{dashedbox|
-* '''administers and hosts the wiki'''
-* '''Neo/J launch shortcuts'''
-}}
-Here breaks the dashedbox template on this page :-(
+Jacob Haddon (AKA jakeOSX) is a long-time member of the NeoOffice.org community.  He hosts and administers the [[Main Page|NeoWiki]] and is working on setting up infrastructure to allow multilingual interlinked versions for our global audience.  Back before the demand for NeoOfficeÂ®/J required 50 GB/day of bandwidth, Jacob also mirrored the NeoOfficeÂ®/J binaries; now he just moonlights as the [http://www.neooffice.org NeoOffice.org] webmaster.  Jacob also put together the [[NeoOffice Launch Shortcuts|launch shortcuts]] for quick launching into the NeoOfficeÂ®/J application of your choice.  In real life, he's a rocket scientist and author.
 ==== Fridrich Å trba and the <tt>libwpd</tt> development team ====
-Fridrich Å trba is one of the main authors of the <tt>libwpd</tt> and <tt>writerperfect</tt> libraries used by NeoOffice/J for import of WordPerfectâ„¢ documents; he integrated code written by the entire [http://libwpd.sf.net <tt>libwpd</tt> development team] into NeoOffice/J.
+Fridrich Å trba is one of the main authors of the <tt>libwpd</tt> and <tt>writerperfect</tt> libraries used by NeoOfficeÂ®/J for import of WordPerfectâ„¢ documents; he integrated code written by the entire [http://libwpd.sf.net <tt>libwpd</tt> development team] into NeoOfficeÂ®/J.  Fridrich is a founder of the  [http://evolution-win32.sf.net project to port Ximian/Novell Evolution to Windows] and is a contributor to several other open source projects.
-''A bit more "bio" coming from Fridrich''
+Outside of his open source endeavours, Fridrich works as a system engineer/network administrator of a research organization, admininstering a mix of Windows clients and Linux servers.
-==== [[User:Max_Barel|Max_Barel]] ====
+==== Max Barel ====
- * '''wrote the help installer'''
-==== Dan (foxcorner) ====
+Max Barel (AKA [[User:Max_Barel|Max_Barel]]) wrote the original AppleScript help installer for NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1, greatly simplifying the process of installing the localized help files available for several languages.  He also takes the lead in answering French-language user support questions.  Max spent over a decade as a developer and professor in programming and systems administration, and he currently works as a [http://a-sur-x.ac-mb.info freelance system engineer and programmer] [fr] for Mac OS X, Linux and PHP/MySQL.
- * '''designed new logo/splashscreen/ship graphics in 1.1 Beta'''
-==== Aelitis.com ====
+==== Dan Bennett ====
-[http://www.aelitis.com/ Aelitis] of France has graciously offered to provide BitTorrent tracking and seeding for NeoOffice/J, helping to alleviate the crushing bandwidth demands on the download mirrors.
+Dan Bennett (AKA foxcorner) designed the new splash screen for NeoOfficeÂ®/J 1.1 just to see if
+he could, and he did the Aqua application icon simply because he wanted to know how it's done. Looked cool, and got adopted (the artwork, that is, not Dan). But he should probably keep his day-job in Hewlett-Packard's workstation division, working with high-end graphics solutions for automotive styling.
+==== Smokey Ardisson ====
-== What Else? ==
+Smokey Ardisson (AKA [[User:Sardisson|sardisson]]) is the NeoOfficeÂ® champion of end-user support. He is responsible for bringing a large part of this information into the [[Main Page|NeoWiki]] and also leads the [[NeoOffice_Advocacy|NeoOfficeÂ® advocacy]] effort. The NeoOfficeÂ®/J document icons displayed by the Finder are also his work.  By day he is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern and African history in Washington, D.C.
-* Other things we should have here?
-* '''Final Review''': make sure we don't say anything disparaging about the OOo Mac porting team/need for X11 development work
+==== Aelitis.com ====
-* Insert <tt><nowiki>__NOEDITSECTION__</nowiki></tt> tag at end of page before it goes live to remove all the distracting '''[edit]''' buttons.
-* We have some Neo/J and some NeoÂ®/J scattered all over this page.  Let's be consistent on this page just like in the Announcement :-)
+[http://www.aelitis.com/ Aelitis] of France has graciously offered to provide BitTorrent tracking and seeding for NeoOfficeÂ®/J, helping to alleviate the crushing bandwidth demands on the download mirrors.
-== Discussion ==
+''NeoOfficeÂ® is a registered trademark of Edward H. Peterlin. Other product and company names may be trademarks of their respective owners.''
-[http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1296 This trinity thread] is for further discussion of the development of the Press Kit, as needed.
+{{botlangbarEN|[[Fr:Dossier de Presse de NeoOffice/J|FranÃ§ais]]}}
-As we add items to the kit, we wipe out the "comments" or "place-holders" for them.
+[[Category:NeoOffice/J]][[Category:Press]]
+__NOEDITSECTION__

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