NeoOffice Advocacy

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Join the "Neo Advocacy" effort — Spreading the Word about NeoOffice/J

There are still millions of Mac users unaware of the joy that is NeoOffice/J.

Frankly, we think that's tragic.

Many open source projects do not have the benefit of a massively-funded advertising campaign, and NeoOffice/J is no exception. Our software does not rely on clever mass-marketing or hyperbolic slogans. Rather, it stands or falls on its own merit.

Word-of-mouth is the primary way Macintosh users will discover NeoOffice/J. To that end, we in the NeoOffice/J community invite you to help us spread-the-word! A favorable remark here, a word of praise there, whether in your daily conversations, on the Web, on an (appropriate) mailing list, in a blog entry, etc., will all help NeoOffice/J gain exposure, mindshare, and users—thus making the world better and safer for freedom. If you need some goodies to convince people, take a look at what's in the press kit. And for your blog or website, we're developing and collecting you can use.

Also, please consider joining our Community Relations team (see the related forum topic on Trinity) — Respond to uninformed news stories/postings on other forums, celebrate new NeoOffice/J releases, and so forth! It's no Spread Firefox.com...yet, but we're working on it.

If you are also a user of OpenOffice.org, consider helping improve relations between the larger OpenOffice.org community and the Mac OOo and NeoOffice communities.

Activities of the NeoOffice/J Community Relations Team

The following is an in-progress guide to what the Community Relations team does. More info will be added as needed.

If you want to join the team and help us out, leave a message in our forum topic on Trinity!

If you just want to suggest a site where we should maintain a product listing, know of a current listing not included below, or if you know of a site to which we should send an announcement of new NeoOffice/J releases, please add the site(s) to the appropriate section(s) below.

Maintaining NeoOffice/J Software Listings

Online Listings We Maintain

Sites Where We Should Be Listed

  • ZDNet/CNet/download.com — $9/mo. fee
  • TUCOWS — overly complex and restrictive listing agreement
  • Macintosh Products Guide (resubmit when 1.1 Final released)
  • Regional-specific software sites — de, fr, it, etc. — NeoOffice/J is localized into 40 languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu!
Members of the Community Relations team should consult the for more information on adding or updating a listing.

Listings or Endorsements from Others

These are software listings not maintained by the Community Relations team or sites which actively encourage their users to try or adopt NeoOffice/J (ongoing moreso than "mentioned once in this blog").


Press and Other Activities of the "NeoOffice/J Community Relations" Team

  • Submit stories to Slashdot and MacSlash for major NeoOffice/J releases (Beta and Final/GM, not Alpha or RC)
  • Help Ed with "corrections" to Slashdot stories/FUD about Mac OOo and Neo
  • Submit announcements to MacInTouch for major NeoOffice/J releases (Beta and Final/GM, not Alpha or RC)
  • Submit announcements to regional news sites for major NeoOffice/J releases (Beta and Final/GM, not Alpha or RC)
  • Follow-up on other reports/reviews of NeoOffice/J (e.g. lga on MacBidioulle's wrong screenshots)
  • Keep Neo/J on the radar by announcing on some sites more frequently (patch releases, etc.)
    • Which sites are appropriate for this type of higher-frequency releases? (Which won't get "mad" about frequent release notices for smaller updates and which won't bring too many new users who are more well-adapted to more stable releases?)
  • Et cetera
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