NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Tasks

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Coordinating tasks and volunteers for NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release

Related trinity thread: Translating 1.1 Announcement & Release Coordination

Contents 1 Wiki things 2 NeoOffice.org 2.1 trinity.neooffice.org 3 neowiki.sixthcrusade.com 4 OpenOffice.org 5 Listings 6 Announcement 7 Actual Press 7.1 Български (Bulgarian) 7.2 Čeština 7.3 Dansk 7.4 Deutsch 7.5 English 7.6 Español 7.7 Français 7.8 עברית (Hebrew) 7.9 Italiano 7.10 日本語 (Japanese) 7.11 Nederlands 7.12 Norsk 7.13 Polski 7.14 Suomi 7.15 Svenska 7.16 Türkçe

Wiki things

• Finish the Press Kit
• Multilingual screenshot

  sardisson

• NOEDITSECTION, NOTOC on Press Kit and Announcement after complete
• Update Release Notes (esp new features) for 1.1, move 1.1 RC relnotes to their page (see Talk:NeoOffice/J Release Notes for plan)

  Distill "what's new since RC" for VT, MU, Apple, etc., from this

• Fix dates/versions in the following: NeoOffice/J ("even though its only in beta phase"),
• Version announcement on Main Page; link to NeoOffice/J 1.1 Announcement (and NeoOffice/J Press Kit) in that version line...
• Lock key pages:
  • Main Page
  • NeoOffice/J 1.1 Announcement
  • NeoOffice/J Press Kit
  • NeoOffice/J Release Notes??

  Sunday night PDT? (if people start sending out releases on Mon?) (sardisson)

  Turned out to be Sun night-Mon-Tues AM because of spam and scheduling

• Take CD distribution page live at some point; get Ed to approve...

NeoOffice.org

• New text on front page

  ?

Um, the date is wrong. It should be the 22nd, not today.

trinity.neooffice.org

• Need a 1.1 release story

  ?

neowiki.sixthcrusade.com

:

* Please replace the ship logo with one that has a transparent background. This one looks ugly over the mediawiki book background. Just select the PNG white area in Photoshop and press backspace (or something). -Ovvldc 07:35, 20 Jun 2005 (CDT)

• Xslf has also complained about that recently, as have I in the past (the current version is a JPG, not a PNG at all). I have uploaded a version of the ship logo that is only 26K (as opposed to the 40K it was in the past. Please use that one, Jake. --sardisson 15:34, 20 Jun 2005 (CDT)

  --Jake promised to do this tonight, when he gets back from birthdaying. Felix natailis tibi, Jake! (And thanks!) --sardisson 19:19, 21 Jun 2005 (CDT)

• Three cheers for Jake! We now have a transparent PNG as the NeoWiki logo!
  What's the position on favicons? Bad? Good? Who-cares? I have a nice little ship-in-globe favicon-sized PNG we can use as neowiki's favicon, if you want. See the NeoWiki "mirror" for a real-life test.
  --sardisson 01:49, 11 Jul 2005 (CDT)

OpenOffice.org

• Update at least the downloads page

• Send announcement to Louis???

Listings

• Freshmeat (also update from "beta" to "stable" in the categories)
• VT (also "Tiger Ready")
• MU
• Apple Downloads (need a "what's new since RC" list for this)
• Submit to Macintosh Products Guide

New screenshot for all

sardisson, Tues night PDT

VT & MU jumped the gun and announced when Patrick uploaded new versions of planamesa/neojava

Announcement

Submit the announcement to media outlets and man the Community Relations Gmail account for follow-up

sites with "form" or "email" after them have contact info already in emails in the Community Relations account

• Determine timing of announcement submission (Mon/Tues as able?)

• EN/EN_US
  • MacAddict: Submissions for inclusion on CD here and editorial and release announcements go here
  • MacHome Write to Executive Editor
  • Macintouch: http://www.macintouch.com/email.html [form]
  • MacCentral/Macworld: Jim Dalrymple
  • MacNN: http://www.macnn.com/?guidelines=true [form]
  • MacReviewZone Write to David Engstrom
  • MacSurfer: S. Siegling & D. Mahaffy - they just do headlines, so send link to trinity story on Weds AM; listed the MacNN story
  • MacTech Submit copy to Editorial
  • MacMinute [mailto: news@macminute.com]
  • MacObserver: pr@macobserver.com
  • Slashdot/MacSlash
  • dev@porting

    Ovvldc

  • c|net/news.com

    Which is the "appropriate department editor" for a Neo/J press release? --sardisson 01:47, 19 Jun 2005 (CDT)

  • how about some mainstream media?

    :

  • Er, what about Apple.com Hot News (presumably that gets dispensed to all international outlets at Apple as well)?? - seems to be mostly Apple aggregating the media's stories about Apple :-( --sardisson 01:47, 19 Jun 2005 (CDT)
  • XLR8YourMac.com
  • Ars Technica: if you could persuade John Siracusa to write a review that might be pretty cool (he could be interested in the nitty gritty of getting OOo to run natively in OS X given his other columns - might provide an interesting perspective on the "how" rather than the "why" of NeoJ). http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac.ars

• EN_UK

  , : can you add sites/publications to this section?

  : Most of the sites I visit are US ones (when it comes to Mac/Tech news) but here are some possibilities:

  • MacWorld (UK edition): http://www.macworld.co.uk/contact/ (not sure who to e-mail there but they should be sympathetic given the presence of NOJ on their cover CD) - Press Releases - News, Reviews
  • The Register is worth a shot: (again not sure who to e-mail, but Andrew Orlowski or Tony Smith tend to be the ones who report on Mac news) - Press Releases
  • MacUser/PC Pro: Magazine requests that press releases and news items should be submitted to Releases
  • MacFormat Magazine: Reviews: Mark Sparrow Editor: Graham Barlow
  • The National Broadsheets might be worth a go too but I suspect this would be a long shot (for their online versions in their Sci/Tech sections):
    • The Guardian: online@guardian.co.uk
    • The Times: online.editor@timesonline.co.uk
    • The Daily Telegraph: they don't seem to have any easy to find contact address so screw them ;-)
    • The Independent: ditto the Indy - no contact e-mail that I can find
      • Er, I can't remember others at the moment... The Guardian runs an online blog that may pick up the news from other sites anyway, fwiw.

• DE
  • contact info for lots of German Mac media, provided by apfelwiki.de

    Done, except for the ones that seemed very un-Mac/un-tech AFAICT. Sent the English text with an apology saying we wanted to make sure to include them anyway...

• FR
  • MacBidouille -> will be translated and published on HardMac if published
  • MacGeneration
  • Mac4ever
  • MacPlus.org
  • MacTouch.com

  val1984

  Max Barel?

• NL
  • http://www.macosx.nl/ - registered for the forum, will send announcement through http://www.macosx.nl/?p=newssubmit
  • http://macfreak.nl/ - I already registered for the forums, editors are at redactie@macfreak.nl
  • http://www.macfan.nl/ - Idem, but here press releases should go to redactie@macfan.nl

  Ovvldc. I will put the forum registrations to the name of NeoOffice and send these to my own e-mail address for now. After the release dies down, I will change the adresses to our community gmail account and forward the passwords. I'll do forum postings on wednesday as follow-up.

• NO

  knutkja

• DK
  • http://www.macnyt.dk/ (form)
  • http://www.mediamac.dk/ (form)
  • http://www.politiken.dk, [1] x

• SE
  • http://macworld.idg.se/, [2] x
  • http://macnytt.se/ (registration req.)
  • http://www.macfeber.se/ (form)
  • http://www.hardmaccafe.com/ (registration req.)
  • http://www.99mac.se/ (registration req.)
  • http://www.di.se (form) x
  • http://www.gp.se, [3] x

• NO
  • http://www.mac1.no (registration req.)
  • http://www.macforum.no/ (form)
  • http://www.ringerike.com/ringmac/, [4]
  • http://www.macinsand.no/, [5]
  • http://152.94.12.230:8000/, [6]
  • http://dn.no/, [7] x
  • http://www.aftenposten.no, [8] x
  • http://www.dagsavisen.no, [9] x
  • http://www.klassekampen.no, [10] x
  • http://www.computerworld.no x
  • http://www.itavisen.no (form) x
  • http://digi.no x

• Nordic
  • http://nordicos.org/, form

Actual Press

Български (Bulgarian)

• за българи (Linux-BG)

Čeština

• MyLinux.cz (NeoLight)
• firstNET

Dansk

• macnyt

Deutsch

• macnews.de
• MacTechNews.de
• Mac-TV
• MACup online
• Mac Life Online
• fscklog
• c't/Heise online
• softonic
• Page-Online
• golem.de
• compumac.de

English

• dev@porting
• MacNN
• MacSlash
• XLR8YourMac
• HardMac
• MacInTouch (accessible only by archive search)
• MacInTouch (accessible only by archive search)
• eweek.com
• Techworld.com

  The Techworld and eweek articles were republished widely and most republishings are not listed here, unless they appeared in a major Mac publication or website

• MacWorld UK
• Erwin's StarOffice Tango (syndicated on Planet OpenOffice.org)
• Ongoing
• Slashdot (Round 1)
• Slashdot (Round 2)

  the two slashdottings took out the wiki for a couple of weeks

• MacFixIt (archives accessible to subscribers only)
• Insanely Great Mac
• Broadband Reports » All Things Macintosh (!)
• OpenOffice.org Newsletter (both the release announcement and the eweek article)
• Applelinks "Shareware Beat"
• Mac.zicos.net (aggregator)
• heise online
• [http://ionmac.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1119425195&archive=1120164948&start_from=&ucat=&

iOnMac]

• NZMac.com

Español

• Macuarium.net
• www.faq-mac.com

Français

• MacGeneration
• Mac4Ever
• MacPlus
• MacTouch
• MacBidouille
• LogicielMac.com
• Apple-Linux.org

עברית (Hebrew)

• לינמגזין

Italiano

• Repubblica.it » scienza_e_tecnologia
• Tevac Community
• TaLUG!

日本語 (Japanese)

• MYCOM PCWEB
• Slashdot.jp

Nederlands

• MacFreak
• PCM

Norsk

• mac1.no

Polski

• DIGIT

Suomi

• macsanomat

Svenska

• Macfeber
• Hard Mac Cafe

Türkçe

• TurkMac.com