Re: NetBeans Contribution: Form-Enabled JCA

Jack/Robert,

I want to thank you folks for the info/support relative to potential
NetBeans contributions.  I will certainly consider the ideas put forth, and
get back to you folks early next week.

As for the JCA, it has been my pleasure to help.  Once again, if there any
further changes/tweaks you folks need, do not hesitate to let me know.  And
finally, a logistical note: the updated JCA is completely open (unsecured),
such that anyone can modify it in the future without a password etc.

Talk to you soon,
-Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Catchpoole" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 5:18 AM
Subject: Re: [nbmarketing] NetBeans Contribution: Form-Enabled JCA


> Chris Nielsen wrote:
> > Based on some digging I did, the form-based JCA should work with Acrobat
> > Reader 5.x and later, across all platforms.  (Acrobat reports that both
the
> > original PDF, as well as my modified version, conform to PDF version
1.4.
> > Apparently the latter corresponds to Acrobat 5.x and later.)
>
> Sounds fine, thanks for checking up.
>
> > So we can either provide both JCA versions, or require the form-based
> > version to be electronically filled in (with the caveat that Acrobat
Reader
> > is required).  Whatever the decision, you folks have my full support.
>
> Well non-form capable readers can still view the PDF, so no
> reason they can't just print it out and hand-fill, as they
> currently do ...
>
> I've got approval to go ahead with this, so I just put it up,
> and added some notes about the forms aspect to the site
> (changes will propagate in ~1hr).  All seems to be workign
> fine - thank you Chris!
>
> > On a final note, if you folks are aware of any NetBeans areas that could
use
> > additional resources, let me know.  I volunteered my time on the 'nbdev'
> > mailing list a few weeks ago (see attached), but have gotten no
responses
> > yet.  Perhaps folks a) think I'm crazy, b) are too engrossed in
development
> > to consider the offer, or a combination.  Nonetheless, the offer stands.
>
> :-( :-(  I am very sorry to hear this.  There are real
> barriers to contributing development-wise.  I've forwarded
> on your msg to management and will (again!) try and push
> for some action.  I proposed some time ago that develpers
> try to identify quick-fix issues in the bug DB, those that
> newcomers could tackle and solve ... there was no real
> response to that but I'll try to re-open it.
>
> In the meantime, Rob suggested a few ways you could
> contribute marketing and web-wise.  If you are interested
> in that, any of the things Rob suggested would be very
> welcome.
>
> Being a webmaster, I'm particularly keen on fresh content -
> articles, HOWTOs, tutorials, that kind of thing.  I learned
> everything I know about PHP, MySQL, perl etc from reading
> 2-3 page articles about building some small, specific, but
> functioning application, so I've always thought those kind
> of docs about NetBeans would be great.  If you can think of
> some small-ish project that a newcomer could build in NB,
> and fancy writing notes about how you did it, I could put
> it up on the site ... if you'd rather not mess about with
> HTML etc, just send in your notes and a few screenshots, we
> can html-ise it on this end.
>
> Anyway, just a suggestion.  As Rob says, you probably have
> your own ideas of things you might like to do, feel free to
> ignore these ideas if they don't appeal :-)
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Jack Catchpoole
> NetBeans/Sun Microsystems
> http://www.netbeans.org/
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