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this page and corresponding discussion is intended to be a sandbox to test things to put in the Wiki.
I'm putting this in here as I don't want to mess-up the press kit. Maybe Smokey could move the content, correct the Style/Formatting and and make the links exactly as you want them in the Press Kit? I'm a newbie to wikis!
Migration to NeoOffice/J
When the World Scout Bureau's central office in Geneva, Switzerland, took delivery of 10 new Apple iMac G5 computers at the beginning of 2005, it was the ideal opportunity to assess whether migration to a free, open source office suite was a viable option for the 30-strong team working there.
"This release of NeoOffice/J 1.1 is a very welcome development," explains Ray Saunders, Director of Information Technology. "Minimising total cost of ownership is obviously important to an international voluntary organization, such as ours; however, the real benefits lie elsewhere. With NeoOffice/J now integrating OpenOffice.org seamlessly onto our Macs, our users here have joined the growing numbers worldwide who are very happy to work with the only truly multi-platform, multi-lingual office suite around. We can now build on this real-world experience by demonstrating in a very practical way to our 28 million Scouts worldwide that switching to open-standards based software is a genuine commitment to breaking down barriers between peoples and, ultimately, to building a better world.
"Migrating our users and their documents to NeoOffice/J has been straightforward. In fact, generally easier than I expected it to be! Visually, NeoOffice/J is very similar to what we had before - just a few items in different menus and some functions in Calc have different names from their Excel equivalents. On the whole, we've found what we needed to know either in the Help menu or in the manuals available from the OOoAuthors.org documentation project. Of the hundreds of legacy word-processing documents we've opened, only a very few have required any attention to formatting discrepancies.
"We're now beginning to play to the strengths of NeoOffice/J, including its logical use of paragraph and page styles. For example, basic newsletters for which we would previously have only considered using desktop publishing software are now being prepared completely in NeoOffice/J. Once a styled template is ready, using NeoOffice/J greatly simplifies and shortens the production cycle while maintaining realistic standards and enabling more users to see their projects through from conception to realisation.
With NeoOffice/J, we are easily able to produce multi-lingual presentations - for example, a mix of French, English and Arabic - with this free software and exchange them with our regional office colleagues working with Microsoft Office on their Windows computers in Cairo. That has felt incredibly liberating!
"I have no regrets about the decision we took back in January 2005. Realistically, the issues we've faced by migrating to NeoOffice/J have not been so very different from similar issues which we would have faced anyway by following the more conservative and costly upgrade path for our previous office suite. The results speak for themselves. They give us the confidence to proceed to the next phase which will be to migrate our other 11 offices around the world to NeoOffice/J and OpenOffice.org. I hope our positive experience can serve as an encouragement to others."
Ray Saunders Director, Information Technology World Scout Bureau
Examples of documents migrated from Adobe PageMaker to NeoOffice/J
During the past three years, the World Organization of the Scout Movement has published a series of Promising Practices giving diverse examples of the many ways in which Scouts around the world are responding to the strategic priorites of the movement.
First, an example of an earlier edition, produced using Adobe Pagemaker, featuring a project to improve the living and working conditions of working children through improving their talents, health, education and vocational skills undertaken by the Egyptian Scout Federation: The Child Labour Project in Egypt
Second, the most recent addition to the series, created using NeoOffice/J, featuring a large-scale environmental project undertaken by Scouts Australia. Scouts have been active in planting 700,000 trees over a four year period to help save two of Australia’s largest river systems: Rescuing the River Murray and Darling River in Australia
SCOPE is a new project of the http://www.scout.org/ World Organization of the Scout Movement promoting international support http://www.scout.org/front/partners.shtml partnerships. The project newsletter has been created in NeoOffice/J: SCOPE
the editing help on media wiki has a TOC tool bar on the side... i want one.
and now i have one. =D
Nice feature - I didn't want to mess things up elsewhere...
Wanted to work on the product pages, but didnt' know where to put them yet...
Ditto something about trademark usage and CD Distribution
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but do things wrap in these sorts of boxes? It's cool to finally figure out how they work, really
cool....even creating new lines with >br< tags, but do they autowrap, or are <br>s necessary? Hmm.
Nope. You need a <br> to wrap. Too bad.
This is a new paragraph in the same box.
Starting a line with a space creates one of these boxes, as does a <pre> tag.
This lovely box is all inside of a <pre> tag. That means just hitting return starts a new line. Now how do you wrap, no auto-wrap, I'd bet, were I a betting man, but since I'm not, let's see... Nope, no auto-wrap here, either. Just inserted a return instead. A new pgh. Bye!
Template:dashedbox is the implementation of the above box. Use it thusly:
{{dashedbox|Bob was ''here'' and '''here'''!}}
Ship as local image
128x128, 72 dpi, 9 KB, JPEG
Boy it does a bad job of making thumbs from transparent PNGs and images that are smaller than thumbsize! →
