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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
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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)
- 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
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New text on front page- ?
- Um, the date is wrong. It should be the 22nd, not today.
trinity.neooffice.org
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Need a 1.1 release story- ?
neowiki.sixthcrusade.com
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- 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)
OpenOffice.org
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Update at least the downloads page -
Send announcementto Louis???
Listings
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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
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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
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MacAddict:Submissions for inclusion on CD here and editorial and release announcements go here -
MacHomeWrite to Executive Editor -
Macintouch:http://www.macintouch.com/email.html [form] -
MacCentral/Macworld:Jim Dalrymple -
MacNN:http://www.macnn.com/?guidelines=true [form] -
MacReviewZoneWrite 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
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MacTechSubmit copy to Editorial -
MacMinute[mailto: news@macminute.com] -
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)
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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
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- 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:
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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 Registeris 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):
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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.
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- DE
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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...
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- FR
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MacBidouille-> will be translated and published on HardMac if published -
MacGeneration -
Mac4ever -
MacPlus.org -
MacTouch.com
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- NL
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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.
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- NO
- 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
We also got a little sketch from MacGeneration :
http://www.macgeneration.com/mgnews/categories/une/upload/une_250605.gif
http://www.macgeneration.com/mgnews/categories/une/upload/une_250605.gif
- EN
- dev@porting (interesting thread!)
- 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) [en]
- Slashdot (Round 2) [en]
- the two slashdottings took out the wiki for a couple of weeks
- MacFixIt [en] (archives accessible to subscribers only)
- Insanely Great Mac
- Broadband Reports » All Things Macintosh(!)
- Slashdot (Round 2) [en]
- FI
- JP
- NL
- TR
- Unsorted
- MyLinux.cz [cs] (NeoLight)
- за българи (Linux-BG) [bg]
- macnyt [dk]
- Page-Online [de]
- mac1.no [no]
- golem.de [de]
- DIGIT [pl]
- Slashdot.jp [jp]
- softonic [de]
- Tevac Community [it]
- Macuarium.net [es]
- PCM [nl]
- Mac.zicos.net [en] (aggregator)
- Applelinks "Shareware Beat" [en]
- heise online [en]
- [http://ionmac.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1119425195&archive=1120164948&start_from=&ucat=&
iOnMac]
- OpenOffice.org Newsletter [en] (both the release announcement and the eweek article)