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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
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Wiki things
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Finish the Press Kit -
Multilingual screenshot -
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:
- Sunday night PDT? (if people start sending out releases on Mon?) (sardisson)
- Take CD distribution page live at some point; get Ed to approve...
NeoOffice.org
- New text on front page
- ?
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
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: 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
- MacTech Submit copy to Editorial
- MacObserver: pr@macobserver.com
- Slashdot/MacSlash
- dev@porting
- 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?
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- 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)
- 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
- FR
- MacBidouille -> will be translated and published on HardMac if published
- 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.
- NO
- Etc.
