Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 41490
Changing "sponsor" boilerplate
Last modified: 2005-04-04 19:11:41 UTC
Stefan suggested we change the boilerplate referencing Sun in marketing materials, as well as the splashscreen competition. Evidently, people are unaware of Sun's code contributions. Instead of, "sponsor" I suggest: "sponsor and primary contributor Sun Microsystems". So: I can change this in the About etc., pages. Jacqueline, would you change it for the Marketing boilerplate? thanks Louis
changed in About (added, actually), added in Introduction. Louis
I found "sponsor" in http://www.openoffice.org/about.html But I wasn't aware that the marketing boilerplate was published anywhere. The boilerplate was recently revamped for the OOoRegiCon/DLS PR and does not specifically mention Sun, see: " About OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org is a world-class, fully featured open-source office productivity suite available as a free download for major computing platforms in over 40 languages. Data is stored in an XML file format which has been adopted by OASIS as a draft standard for office documents. OpenOffice.org is developed, supported, and promoted by an international community of volunteers and sponsored employees operating from the http://www.openoffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org/> web site. " Currently, this is hanging out in mail list messages and recent PR, but it does need to go in the press kit.
Replacing "sponsor" with "sponsor and primar contributor Sun Microsystems": About OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org is a world-class, fully featured open-source office productivity suite available as a free download for major computing platforms in over 40 languages. Data is stored in an XML file format which has been adopted by OASIS as a draft standard for office documents. OpenOffice.org is developed, supported, and promoted by an international community of volunteers, and sponsor and primary contributor Sun Microsystems operating from the http://www.openoffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org/> web site. We are working on finalising the PR for 2.0 Beta. While this boilerplate is really geared towards for use by others we may wish to include it in our PR.
uhm, let's replace "world-class" with something else. It's *so* 90s. :-) OLD OpenOffice.org is a world-class, fully featured open-source office productivity suite available as a free download for major computing platforms in over 40 languages. Data is stored in an XML file format which has been adopted by OASIS as a draft standard for office documents. OpenOffice.org is developed, supported, and promoted by an international community of volunteers, and sponsor and primary contributor Sun Microsystems operating from the http://www.openoffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org/> web site. NEW OpenOffice.org is a fully featured open-source productivity suite available as a free download for major computing platforms in over 45 languages. Data is stored in an XML file format standardized for office documents by the international body OASIS. OpenOffice.org is developed, supported, and promoted by an international community of volunteers, and sponsor and primary contributor Sun Microsystems, operating from the http://www.openoffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org/> web site. -lsp
Can we close this? best Louis
closing.
closing