Drew, HTML is not so good as there is no consistency in presentation.
Hagar's graphic gives me a missing plug-in message. This is the weird html: <A HREF="http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg";><IMG SRC="cid:1325361222.3766.2.camel@sybil-gnome" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="Apache OpenOffice (uncubating) Logo " BORDER="0"></A> Apple Mail can't understand the IMG mime-type. The A tag links to another location ... I think plain text is best. I'm only commenting about form - I don't have time to comment about the content. Regards, Dave On Dec 31, 2011, at 11:56 AM, drew wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 15:19 -0800, kay.schenk wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:49 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 21:21 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> >> On 29/12/2011 drew wrote: >> >> > During this migration period community developers also made great >> >> > progress with the application code. Ariel Constenla-Haile, one of the >> >> > community developers, generated binary packages, suitable for early >> >> > testing purposes, from the current Apache OpenOffice code repository. >> >> > Available for download at http://people.apache.org/~arielch/packages >> >> >> >> I wouldn't send out public announcements about Ariel's builds. The >> >> interest is huge, and people might download them just out of curiosity >> >> and damage their existing OpenOffice.org installation and extensions. >> > >> > Well, good point. I think it is important to be clear that the code (the >> > application and therefore the 'thing' of real importance to users) is >> > moving forward also however..not sure how to do that without something >> > concrete to point to - as you say though it is something that can >> > backfire badly, if people just install those files.. >> > >> >> It's probably better to announce, at due time, development builds that >> >> won't interfere with the installed version (and ideally, not even with >> >> the user profile if the BerkeleyDB removal has implications on that). >> > >> > Then maybe the announcement should just chronicle the items of interest: >> > >> > - Developer snapshot's are becoming available - that's Ariel's page as >> > one >> > - Daily builds are happening and there is a real location for those >> > - others? >> > >> > and then point them to a page (website or wiki?) for those interested in >> > getting in on the bleeding edge of testing, maybe? >> > >> >> >> it is a good little snippet of info. But there is so much more to >> say, especially for an audience that we've haven't been >> (re-)introduced to yet. Where to start? >> >> I wonder whether it would be worth reviving the OpenOffice Newsletter? >> This was sent out to the old announce list. It was erratic toward >> the end, but at one point I think it was coming out every month. >> >> Some examples: >> >> March 2011: >> http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2011-03/message/0 >> >> December 2010: >> http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2010-12/message/0 >> >> September 2010: >> http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2010-09/message/0 >> >> A format like that allows us to bundle a few small posts, news >> clippings, announcements, etc., into a fuller package, maybe with >> greater impact. >> >> For example, we could a series of these over the next few months: >> >> Newsletter #1: Intro to OpenOffice @ Apache. Announcements on >> migration, copyleft-free build, start of test effort, links to blog, >> mailing lists, migration status, announcement of pending retirement of >> openoffice.org email addresses and lists, etc. >> >> Newsletter #2 (a month later): availability of test builds for 3.4 >> (hopefully on Windows by then), how to help with test effort, reminder >> on mailing list migration and mail forwarding shutdown. Gathering >> proposals for AOO 4.0. >> >> Newsletter #3 -- coverage of 3.4 release, press clippings, etc. >> >> A newsletter could be put together on the wiki and then the >> announcement can be a link to the online newsletter. >> > > > Alright - well, without worry about a schedule beyond this one... > > Another draft.. > > This is HTML and not sure what the list will do with it :-/ (is it a silly > question to ask if the new announce list accepts html? ) > > ****** > > Newsletter > > > < ꝏ January 2012 ꝏ > > > > > Infrastructure > > The Apache OpenOffice podling project management committee (PPMC) is > pleased to present a new home for the OpenOffice.org website. > > > > The migration of such a large web presence could not happen without the > thoughtful dedication and commitment from many members of the > OpenOffice.org community, none more so then Dave Fisher, Kay Schenk, Joe > Schaefer and Gavin McDonald. The PPMC thanks all the community members > for your continued support and offers a special thank you to these > individuals for a job well done. > > > Development > > During this migration period community developers also made great > progress with the application code. Ariel Constenla-Haile, one of the > community developers, generated binary packages, suitable for early > testing purposes, from the current Apache OpenOffice code repository. > > > Community > > Hagar Delest put together a summary of of EN forum activity from the launch > date to present. > > > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=46497. > A graph shows the number of posts, registered members, topics and > topics marked as solved. There is nothing very exciting, which is just > what one wants after changing hosts. > > F. C. Costero added this comment to the subject on the AOO development > mailing list: > "My own experience is that there is no noticeable change in the forum > since the migration to ASF except for the feather on every page. > Thanks to the ASF infra folks for keeping all that magic stuff > invisible." > > > Start the new year right > > - visit the new Apache OpenOffice home now! > http://openoffice.org > > > > ****** >
