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 <p class="date"><a name="20061220"></a>20 December 2006</p>
 <p>OpenOffice.org 2.1 for the Mac using the X windowing environment is now available to download.
 There has been a delay in this release due to lack of resources.
 With this release we have more locales passed QA (Quality Assurance) than ever before on the Mac platform.
 There will be more locales being Quality Assured in the future. <br/>
 The Mac download pages have also been updated to make it easier for you to find the download you are
 looking for.
 </p>
 <p>We have found an issue with the export of PowerPoint Presentations. This is currently being tracked under
 <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72571">issue 72571</a>.</p>
 <p>OpenOffice.org 2.1 is recommended for all users, as it represents a significant improvement over all previous versions. Among other things:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Multiple monitor support for Impress</li>
 <li>Improved Calc HTML export</li>
 <li>Enhanced Access support for Base</li>
 <li>Even more languages</li>
 <li>Automatic notification of updates</li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 We also have more extensions. Developers everywhere are invited to write extensions. To learn more, visit our <a href="http://extensions.openoffice.org/">Extensions Project</a>. </p>
 <p><a href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.1.0.html">Full release notes for OpenOffice.org 2.1</a></p>
 <p><a href="../download/index.html">Download the latest version of OpenOffice.org</a></p>
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 <div class="news">
 <p class="date"><a name="20061203"></a>03 December 2006 (link to photos added 13 December 2006)</p>
 <p>
 Today concludes the 2nd Mac Porters Meeting in Hamburg. The meeting had a variety
 of developers involved with the Mac Port come together at the Google office's in Hamburg.
 This meeting has been documented, with the minutes available on Eric Bachard's Blog.
 Commentary on the 2nd Mac Port Meeting:
 </p>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/martin.kretzschmar/MacPortersMeeting">Photos from the event (Thanks to Martin Kretzschmar)</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2006/11/openofficeorg-mac-porters-meeting.html">The OpenOffice.org Newsletter - Anouncement</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2006/12/2nd-mac-porters-meeting-saturday.html">Eric Bachard - Minutes Saturday</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2006/12/2nd-mac-porters-meeting-sunday.html">Eric Bachard - Minutes Sunday</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2006/12/2nd-mac-porters-meeting-thanks.html">Eric Bachard - Thanks</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2006/12/01/T18_12_13/">Pavel Janik - Intro</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2006/12/04/T06_54_32/">Pavel Janik - Saturday</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2006/12/04/T15_11_09/">Pavel Janik - Sunday</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2006/12/2nd-mac-porters-meeting.html">Shaun McDonald - Overview of the weekend</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/406">SolidOffice Comment</a></li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="news">
 <p class = "date"><a name="20061114"></a>14 November 2006</p>
 <p>
 On november 4th, Apple delivered an X11 update that
 improved many things. But, due an issue with the fonts, it also
 broke the OpenOffice.org suite, the full featured open source
 office suite and one of the most used X11 software on mac.
 <br/>
 On november 14th, Apple published a new update. OpenOffice.org
 mac porting team has tested it and confirmed the issue is
 solved. All the users are encouraged to update to the latest X11
 version of 1.1.3. This can be done through the Apple software update or by downloading it
 from <a href="http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11update2006113.html">http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11update2006113.html</a>.
 No more action is needed.
 <br/>
 OpenOffce.org, in the name of its users, thanks Apple for the fast update.
 </p>
 </div>

 <div class="news">
 <p class="date"><a name="20061105"></a>05 November 2006</p>
 <p>
 It has come to our attention that there is a problem in the latest stable release
 of OpenOffice.org on the Mac and the X11 Update that Apple released on
 1 November 2006. The problem is related to the Vera fonts that are related
 to the X11 update. We have found the following solution that will require
 an administrator user account for each machine concerned. Please follow
 the following steps which will allow OpenOffice.org to run again.
 </p>
 <ol><li>Log in as an Administrator (if you haven't already), an Administrator
 account is created by default when you install Mac OS X or setup your computer
 for the first time.</li>
 <li>Start the program called <code>Terminal</code>, it is located in the <code>Utilities</code>
 folder.</li>
 <li>Copy and paste the following command into the Terminal window: <code>sudo mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.bad</code></li>
 <li>You will be asked for your password for the account that you are logged
 in under. Type it in, don't worry, your password won't be shown to the world.</li>
 <li>Copy and paste the following command into the same Terminal window as above (all on one line): <code>sudo mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/Vera*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.bad</code></li>
 <li>You should now be able to start OpenOffice.org normally.</li>
 </ol>
 <p>When OpenOffice.org 2.1 is released, please upgrade as it will not have an issue with this.
 Apple should also be releasing an updated X11 update soon with the corrected Fonts.<br/>
 Please take a look at the following issues for more information: <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=71096">71096</a>.</p>
 </div>

 <div class="news">
 <a name="2006-10-13"></a>
 <p class="date">13 August 2006</p>

 <p>Today the Mac Porting Team are releasing OpenOffice.org for
 Mac OS X (with X windowing) 2.0.4 in <a href="../download/index.html">English</a> and <a href="../download/index.fr.html">French</a>.
 Unfortunately the volunteers who were testing the previous German
 versions have been unable to do the same for 2.0.4. This means that
 users of the German build of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X, will have to
 either use the English or French versions, or use the untested German
 build that is still <a href="../download/OtherDownload.html">available</a>.</p>

 </div>

 <div class="news">
 <a name="2006-09-22"></a>
 <p class="date">22 August 2006</p>

 <p>Thanks to Alexis Pigeon, the OpenOffice.org Mac OS X download
 pages have been localised in French. They are available from <a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.fr.html">http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.fr.html</a>.</p>

 <p> If anyone wishes to localise any other pages on the Mac
 Porting Site, please grab the English files from the CVS, and enter the
 appropriate translations. The naming convention that you will use is <i>&lt;filename&gt;.&lt;language
 code&gt;.html</i>. You will then need to contact <a href="mailto:smsm1@openoffice.org">Shaun McDonald</a>
 to get them added to the web site.</p>

 </div>

 <div class="news">
 <a name="2006-08--2"></a>
 <p class="date">Late August 2006</p>

 <p>With great progress in the Mac OS X Aqua port and regular
 builds of the X11 version for both PPC and Intel Macs, the <a href="timeline.html">Roadmap</a> has been updated.
 </p>

 </div>

 <div class="news">
 <a name="2006-08--1"></a>
 <p class="date">August 2006</p>

 <p> With the release of the en-US version of OpenOffice.org 2.0.3
 OpenOffice.org now officially supports the Intel based Macs such as
 MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro. <br />

 Go and <a href="ooo-osx_downloads.html">download</a>
 your 2.0.3 today. </p>

 </div>

 <div class="news">
 <a name="2006-05--1"></a>
 <p class="date">May 2006</p>

 <p>The growing number of questions on mac porting mailinglist
 shows us that it's time to help the growing number of OpenOffice.org
 Newbies getting OpenOffice.org installed and not frustrated. <a href="#howto">Here</a> are the links to our
 "OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X How-To" on top of this site. Our thank goes
 to Eric Bachard for providing the French How-to, to Loic Geslin for the
 english translation, Uwe Altmann for the german translation and
 everybody else involved.</p>

 <p>If you want to help us please translate the How-to to your
 native language. Contact us on this on <span style="font-weight: bold;">mac at porting dot openoffice dot
 org</span>.</p>

 </div>

 <div class="news">
 <a name="2006-04--2"></a>
 <p class="date">April 2006</p>

 <p>There has been some confusion about the relationship between
 OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice and we would like to clear things up.</p>

 <p>Our focus is and must be porting OpenOffice.org to the Mac. In
 the last year, we have been very successful in getting 2.0 to the Mac
 OS (X11) and our team now includes many. We are further taking the port
 to Mac Intel, and beta builds are running of this. These are real and
 important accomplishments, and they could not have been done without
 the support of the community. Our ultimate goal is to fully port
 OpenOffice.org to Mac OS X on Aqua. For that, we need all the help the
 Mac community can provide.</p>

 <p>Direct links to NeoOffice were removed because our focus is on
 OpenOffice.org, not NeoOffice, which is a derivation based
 substantially (more than 98 percent) on OpenOffice.org code. If the
 OpenOffice.org coding effort is to be successful, we need for users to
 work directly with us.</p>

 <p>We have no argument with NeOffice and wish them the best in
 their efforts. Their approach differs from ours but satisfies many
 users. We invite them to work with us in building OpenOffice.org 2.0.3
 and beyond and in fully porting OpenOffice.org to the Mac. We are also
 open to the idea of collaborating: exchanging ideas and code (when
 possible) in a useful, friendly, and productive way.</p>

 <p>We hope this clears up some of the misunderstandings. Again,
 we invite friendly collaboration and cooperation and would like for the
 Mac community to help us port OpenOffice.org to Aqua.</p>

 <p>If you want to join the fun, go to Mac Porting site Our list
 is mac@porting.openoffice.org.</p>

 </div>

 <div class="news">
 <a name="2006-04--1"></a>
 <p class="date">April 2006</p>

 <p>There was a donation of two iMac Intel 20" to OpenOffice.org.
 One for Tino Rachui and one for Stephan Schaefer. These very fast
 machines will replace old G3's, which were good but slow machines.</p>

 </div>

 <div class="news"> <a name="2006-02--2"></a>
 <p class="date">February 2006</p>

 <p>First <a href="http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/aquavcl/screenshots/test_svdem_ericb_10_mars2006.jpg">
 screenshot</a> of svdem. Stephan Schaefer, Florian Heckl and Tino
 Rachui have made svdem work. Svdem is the toy dedicated to
 experimentations in vcl. The objectvies is to progressively implement
 everything for Carbon/Cocoa port.</p>

 </div>

 <div class="news"> <a name="2006-02--1"></a>
 <p class="date">February 2006</p>

 <p>Beginning with 2.0.2rc1 OpenOffice.org X11 regular builds for
 Intel based Macs are avaialable. In order to get them follow the link
 to non-qa'ed builds on our <a href="ooo-osx_downloads.html">download
 site</a></p>

 </div>

 <div class="news"> <a name="2006-01--4"></a>
 <p class="date">Late January, 2006</p>

 <p>OpenOffice.org announced the first build of OpenOffice.org
 2.0.1 for Mac OS X (X11) that can run natively on the newly released
 Macintosh Intel desktops. No other fully equipped office suite can
 claim as much, and ours gives users not just standards compliance but
 real interoperability. Led by &Eacute;ric Bachard, the team
 includes Eric Hoch, NAKATA Maho, Tino Rachui, Sophie Gautier, Pavel
 Jan&iacute;k, David Nedrow, James Mckenzie, Filip Molčan, "Mox",
 and many, many others. The group, which created this version in very
 little time indeed, is now eager to move even faster--with your help.
 Download the build, test it, participate. We are way ahead of the
 Redmond folks, let's keep it that way!</p>

 <p>The builds provided for Intel based Macs are alpha and thus
 risky. They only run on Mac-Intel boxes.</p>

 </div>

 <div class="news"> <a name="2006-01-22"></a>
 <p class="date">January 22nd, 2006</p>

 <p>Created a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/FAQ_Openoffice.org_and_NeoOffice">FAQ</a>
 about NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org</p>

 </div>

 <div class="news"> <a name="2006-01-20"></a>
 <p class="date">January 20th, 2006</p>

 <p>Starting April 2005, there were several donations made to the
 MacOSX Porting Team of OpenOffice.org. We would like to extend our
 thanks to those who made these donations to the MacOSX Porting Team on <a href="donations.html">this web page.</a>Porting
 OpenOffice.org to MacOSX X11, MacTel (MacOSX for the Intel processor
 base) and MacOSX Aqua is easier with these donations.</p>

 </div>

 <div class="news"> <a name="2006-01-17"></a>
 <p class="date">January 17th, 2006</p>

 <p>New <a href="../timeline.html"> timeline</a></p>

 </div>

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 <a href="../links.html">Developer's Blogs</a>

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	<p class="date"><a name="20061220"></a>20 December 2006</p>
	<p>OpenOffice.org 2.1 for the Mac using the X windowing environment is now available to download.
	There has been a delay in this release due to lack of resources.
	With this release we have more locales passed QA (Quality Assurance) than ever before on the Mac platform.
	There will be more locales being Quality Assured in the future. <br/>
	The Mac download pages have also been updated to make it easier for you to find the download you are
	looking for.
	</p>
	<p>We have found an issue with the export of PowerPoint Presentations. This is currently being tracked under
	<a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72571">issue 72571</a>.</p>
	<p>OpenOffice.org 2.1 is recommended for all users, as it represents a significant improvement over all previous versions. Among other things:</p>
	<ul>
	<li>Multiple monitor support for Impress</li>
	<li>Improved Calc HTML export</li>
	<li>Enhanced Access support for Base</li>
	<li>Even more languages</li>
	<li>Automatic notification of updates</li>
	</ul>
	<p>
	We also have more extensions. Developers everywhere are invited to write extensions. To learn more, visit our <a href="http://extensions.openoffice.org/">Extensions Project</a>. </p>
	<p><a href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.1.0.html">Full release notes for OpenOffice.org 2.1</a></p>
	<p><a href="../download/index.html">Download the latest version of OpenOffice.org</a></p>
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	<p class="date"><a name="20061203"></a>03 December 2006 (link to photos added 13 December 2006)</p>
	<p>
	Today concludes the 2nd Mac Porters Meeting in Hamburg. The meeting had a variety
	of developers involved with the Mac Port come together at the Google office's in Hamburg.
	This meeting has been documented, with the minutes available on Eric Bachard's Blog.
	Commentary on the 2nd Mac Port Meeting:
	</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/martin.kretzschmar/MacPortersMeeting">Photos from the event (Thanks to Martin Kretzschmar)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2006/11/openofficeorg-mac-porters-meeting.html">The OpenOffice.org Newsletter - Anouncement</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2006/12/2nd-mac-porters-meeting-saturday.html">Eric Bachard - Minutes Saturday</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2006/12/2nd-mac-porters-meeting-sunday.html">Eric Bachard - Minutes Sunday</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2006/12/2nd-mac-porters-meeting-thanks.html">Eric Bachard - Thanks</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2006/12/01/T18_12_13/">Pavel Janik - Intro</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2006/12/04/T06_54_32/">Pavel Janik - Saturday</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2006/12/04/T15_11_09/">Pavel Janik - Sunday</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2006/12/2nd-mac-porters-meeting.html">Shaun McDonald - Overview of the weekend</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/406">SolidOffice Comment</a></li>
	</ul>
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	<div class="news">
	<p class = "date"><a name="20061114"></a>14 November 2006</p>
	<p>
	On november 4th, Apple delivered an X11 update that
	improved many things. But, due an issue with the fonts, it also
	broke the OpenOffice.org suite, the full featured open source
	office suite and one of the most used X11 software on mac.
	<br/>
	On november 14th, Apple published a new update. OpenOffice.org
	mac porting team has tested it and confirmed the issue is
	solved. All the users are encouraged to update to the latest X11
	version of 1.1.3. This can be done through the Apple software update or by downloading it
	from <a href="http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11update2006113.html">http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11update2006113.html</a>.
	No more action is needed.
	<br/>
	OpenOffce.org, in the name of its users, thanks Apple for the fast update.
	</p>
	</div>

	<div class="news">
	<p class="date"><a name="20061105"></a>05 November 2006</p>
	<p>
	It has come to our attention that there is a problem in the latest stable release
	of OpenOffice.org on the Mac and the X11 Update that Apple released on
	1 November 2006. The problem is related to the Vera fonts that are related
	to the X11 update. We have found the following solution that will require
	an administrator user account for each machine concerned. Please follow
	the following steps which will allow OpenOffice.org to run again.
	</p>
	<ol><li>Log in as an Administrator (if you haven't already), an Administrator
	account is created by default when you install Mac OS X or setup your computer
	for the first time.</li>
	<li>Start the program called <code>Terminal</code>, it is located in the <code>Utilities</code>
	folder.</li>
	<li>Copy and paste the following command into the Terminal window: <code>sudo mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.bad</code></li>
	<li>You will be asked for your password for the account that you are logged
	in under. Type it in, don't worry, your password won't be shown to the world.</li>
	<li>Copy and paste the following command into the same Terminal window as above (all on one line): <code>sudo mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/Vera*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.bad</code></li>
	<li>You should now be able to start OpenOffice.org normally.</li>
	</ol>
	<p>When OpenOffice.org 2.1 is released, please upgrade as it will not have an issue with this.
	Apple should also be releasing an updated X11 update soon with the corrected Fonts.<br/>
	Please take a look at the following issues for more information: <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=71096">71096</a>.</p>
	</div>

	<div class="news">
	<a name="2006-10-13"></a>
	<p class="date">13 August 2006</p>

	<p>Today the Mac Porting Team are releasing OpenOffice.org for
	Mac OS X (with X windowing) 2.0.4 in <a href="../download/index.html">English</a> and <a href="../download/index.fr.html">French</a>.
	Unfortunately the volunteers who were testing the previous German
	versions have been unable to do the same for 2.0.4. This means that
	users of the German build of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X, will have to
	either use the English or French versions, or use the untested German
	build that is still <a href="../download/OtherDownload.html">available</a>.</p>

	</div>

	<div class="news">
	<a name="2006-09-22"></a>
	<p class="date">22 August 2006</p>

	<p>Thanks to Alexis Pigeon, the OpenOffice.org Mac OS X download
	pages have been localised in French. They are available from <a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.fr.html">http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.fr.html</a>.</p>

	<p> If anyone wishes to localise any other pages on the Mac
	Porting Site, please grab the English files from the CVS, and enter the
	appropriate translations. The naming convention that you will use is <i><filename>.<language
	code>.html</i>. You will then need to contact <a href="mailto:smsm1@openoffice.org">Shaun McDonald</a>
	to get them added to the web site.</p>

	</div>

	<div class="news">
	<a name="2006-08--2"></a>
	<p class="date">Late August 2006</p>

	<p>With great progress in the Mac OS X Aqua port and regular
	builds of the X11 version for both PPC and Intel Macs, the <a href="timeline.html">Roadmap</a> has been updated.
	</p>

	</div>

	<div class="news">
	<a name="2006-08--1"></a>
	<p class="date">August 2006</p>

	<p> With the release of the en-US version of OpenOffice.org 2.0.3
	OpenOffice.org now officially supports the Intel based Macs such as
	MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro. <br />

	Go and <a href="ooo-osx_downloads.html">download</a>
	your 2.0.3 today. </p>

	</div>

	<div class="news">
	<a name="2006-05--1"></a>
	<p class="date">May 2006</p>

	<p>The growing number of questions on mac porting mailinglist
	shows us that it's time to help the growing number of OpenOffice.org
	Newbies getting OpenOffice.org installed and not frustrated. <a href="#howto">Here</a> are the links to our
	"OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X How-To" on top of this site. Our thank goes
	to Eric Bachard for providing the French How-to, to Loic Geslin for the
	english translation, Uwe Altmann for the german translation and
	everybody else involved.</p>

	<p>If you want to help us please translate the How-to to your
	native language. Contact us on this on <span style="font-weight: bold;">mac at porting dot openoffice dot
	org</span>.</p>

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	<a name="2006-04--2"></a>
	<p class="date">April 2006</p>

	<p>There has been some confusion about the relationship between
	OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice and we would like to clear things up.</p>

	<p>Our focus is and must be porting OpenOffice.org to the Mac. In
	the last year, we have been very successful in getting 2.0 to the Mac
	OS (X11) and our team now includes many. We are further taking the port
	to Mac Intel, and beta builds are running of this. These are real and
	important accomplishments, and they could not have been done without
	the support of the community. Our ultimate goal is to fully port
	OpenOffice.org to Mac OS X on Aqua. For that, we need all the help the
	Mac community can provide.</p>

	<p>Direct links to NeoOffice were removed because our focus is on
	OpenOffice.org, not NeoOffice, which is a derivation based
	substantially (more than 98 percent) on OpenOffice.org code. If the
	OpenOffice.org coding effort is to be successful, we need for users to
	work directly with us.</p>

	<p>We have no argument with NeOffice and wish them the best in
	their efforts. Their approach differs from ours but satisfies many
	users. We invite them to work with us in building OpenOffice.org 2.0.3
	and beyond and in fully porting OpenOffice.org to the Mac. We are also
	open to the idea of collaborating: exchanging ideas and code (when
	possible) in a useful, friendly, and productive way.</p>

	<p>We hope this clears up some of the misunderstandings. Again,
	we invite friendly collaboration and cooperation and would like for the
	Mac community to help us port OpenOffice.org to Aqua.</p>

	<p>If you want to join the fun, go to Mac Porting site Our list
	is mac@porting.openoffice.org.</p>

	</div>

	<div class="news">
	<a name="2006-04--1"></a>
	<p class="date">April 2006</p>

	<p>There was a donation of two iMac Intel 20" to OpenOffice.org.
	One for Tino Rachui and one for Stephan Schaefer. These very fast
	machines will replace old G3's, which were good but slow machines.</p>

	</div>

	<div class="news"> <a name="2006-02--2"></a>
	<p class="date">February 2006</p>

	<p>First <a href="http://eric.bachard.free.fr/mac/aquavcl/screenshots/test_svdem_ericb_10_mars2006.jpg">
	screenshot</a> of svdem. Stephan Schaefer, Florian Heckl and Tino
	Rachui have made svdem work. Svdem is the toy dedicated to
	experimentations in vcl. The objectvies is to progressively implement
	everything for Carbon/Cocoa port.</p>

	</div>

	<div class="news"> <a name="2006-02--1"></a>
	<p class="date">February 2006</p>

	<p>Beginning with 2.0.2rc1 OpenOffice.org X11 regular builds for
	Intel based Macs are avaialable. In order to get them follow the link
	to non-qa'ed builds on our <a href="ooo-osx_downloads.html">download
	site</a></p>

	</div>

	<div class="news"> <a name="2006-01--4"></a>
	<p class="date">Late January, 2006</p>

	<p>OpenOffice.org announced the first build of OpenOffice.org
	2.0.1 for Mac OS X (X11) that can run natively on the newly released
	Macintosh Intel desktops. No other fully equipped office suite can
	claim as much, and ours gives users not just standards compliance but
	real interoperability. Led by Éric Bachard, the team
	includes Eric Hoch, NAKATA Maho, Tino Rachui, Sophie Gautier, Pavel
	Janík, David Nedrow, James Mckenzie, Filip Molčan, "Mox",
	and many, many others. The group, which created this version in very
	little time indeed, is now eager to move even faster--with your help.
	Download the build, test it, participate. We are way ahead of the
	Redmond folks, let's keep it that way!</p>

	<p>The builds provided for Intel based Macs are alpha and thus
	risky. They only run on Mac-Intel boxes.</p>

	</div>

	<div class="news"> <a name="2006-01-22"></a>
	<p class="date">January 22nd, 2006</p>

	<p>Created a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/FAQ_Openoffice.org_and_NeoOffice">FAQ</a>
	about NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org</p>

	</div>

	<div class="news"> <a name="2006-01-20"></a>
	<p class="date">January 20th, 2006</p>

	<p>Starting April 2005, there were several donations made to the
	MacOSX Porting Team of OpenOffice.org. We would like to extend our
	thanks to those who made these donations to the MacOSX Porting Team on <a href="donations.html">this web page.</a>Porting
	OpenOffice.org to MacOSX X11, MacTel (MacOSX for the Intel processor
	base) and MacOSX Aqua is easier with these donations.</p>

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	<p class="date">January 17th, 2006</p>

	<p>New <a href="../timeline.html"> timeline</a></p>

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