NeoOffice/J Press Kit

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This is the page where we will collect additional resources for the use of the press/media.

Welcome to the NeoOffice®/J Press Kit. This page aims to provide those interested in writing a story about NeoOffice®/J with some background materials. The initial press release is available at the NeoOffice/J 1.1 Announcement page.

Contents

Features

NeoOffice/J offers unique benefits over other office suites, particularly Microsoft's, for OS X users. Perhaps most significantly, NeoOffice/J is free, open source software relieving you of costly licensing fees. And unlike MS Office, you may make and use as many copies of Neooffice/J as you like.

There is a strong community support forum that is frequented by the developers and users at http://www.trinity.org/

There is an extensive comparison of the features and limitations of NeoOffice®/J, Microsoft™ Office, and OpenOffice.org/X11 on the Feature Comparison page.

Graphics

Several medium- and high-quality graphics (logos and icons) are available for use in any press coverage. Links to several screenshots illustrating features of NeoOffice®/J are also provided below.

Medium- and High-Res Logos, Headers, Application Icons

  • sardisson has some of these (the wiki and websites have smaller, lo-res versions to keep pageloads quick for dialup), but we may need to contact foxcorner for others.

Transparent PNG (Logo/Application Icon)

256x256, 72 dpi, 83 KB: http://homepage.mac.com/sardisson/neoj/neoofficej_icon_256.png

JPEG (Logo/Application Icon)

128x128, 72 dpi, 9 KB: http://homepage.mac.com/sardisson/neoj/neoofficej_icon_128_80.jpg

JPEG (Header)

415x95, 72 dpi, 30 KB: http://homepage.mac.com/sardisson/neoj/neoofficej_header.jpg

Screenshots

Several screenshots of NeoOffice/J are available:

Background Info

"Executive Summary" of other info

  • NeoHistory/relationship with OOo summary, link to the full version
  • Links to other relevant articles [what? sardisson has a number of things bookmarked for future additions to the NeoHistory article]
  • Links to and/or some key FAQs reposted (not Java, but C++ (99%) and Carbon and Java (1%), etc.)

Real-world stories

  • Can we get to write up a brief bit about his migration of the World Scout Bureau from Microsoft Office to Neo/J?
  • Others?

--Ovvldc 17:10, 21 Apr 2005 (CDT) Links to migration stories:
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1041 http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1223 http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1035 http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=6153#6153 http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=529&pos=24 (see last comment)

Also try the Versiontracker feedback pages for upbeat stories.

--sardisson 10:40, 22 Apr 2005 (CDT) For MU we need PHP or Perl--, 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.

--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

Profiles

Short bio on the people who dedicate themselves to Neo/J - Patrick and Ed (and probably several others with sustained contribution to the project. I'm new here, and really don't know who... but let all have the credit, they deserve it!)

--knutkja 16:19, 22 Apr 2005 (CDT)

There's a decent bit of "bio" on Patrick and Ed in the NeoHistory article (i.e., their roles in the OOo and Neo projects); Patrick's CV is on planamesa.com and there's a short bio of Ed that went along with the O'Reilly presentation for more "standard" background. Ed's recent post in the wiki thread reminded me of some of the other unsung heros of multiple hats, so I'll outline some things here (bold = Neo/J-specific), but I really don't want to (re)write the profiles myself :).... --sardisson 04:51, 26 Apr 2005 (CDT)

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 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 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 trinity forums, and the neooffice.org website. He resides in Ed, where do you live? (where it rains in southern California) . Ed was a lead developer on the OOo 1.0.x Mac port.

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 NeoOffice/J. He also provides and maintains the NeoOffice Bugzilla bug-tracking system. Dan was a main developer on the OOo 1.0.x Mac port.

Dan works on OpenOffice.org with RedHat Dan, is this true?.

  • administers and hosts the wiki
  • Neo/J launch shortcuts

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 NeoOffice/J for import of WordPerfect documents; he integrated code written by the entire libwpd development team into NeoOffice/J.

A bit more "bio" coming from Fridrich

Max_Barel

  • wrote the help installer

Dan (foxcorner)

  • designed new logo/splashscreen/ship graphics in 1.1 Beta

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.

NeoOffice.org community

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 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 NeoOffice/J on the web, among friends and anywhere else.
  • providing download mirrors and BitTorrent seeding.

What Else?

  • 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



Discussion

This trinity thread is for further discussion of the development of the Press Kit, as needed.

As we add items to the kit, we wipe out the "comments" or "place-holders" for them.

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