The
Lotus Notes & Domino Open Source Organisation
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Welcome - Presenters
Vince Schuurman
Chairman OpenNTF
Independent consultant
Lotus Notes/Domino, Xpages, jQuery
Married With Children, books, bikes
Steve Castledine
Advisory Software Engineer IBM
XPages/PIM/Notes/Domino Developer
Worked on Blog, Wiki, Mail, Notebook, Discussion
Husband, Dad, Slave, Footballer, Runner
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Welcome - Agenda
About
What is OpenNTF
History
OpenNTF Today
Current Members
Structure
Users
Steering Committee
Members
Technical Committee
Contributors
Committers
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Using OpenNTF
The new website
Consuming applications/code
Contributing applications/code
Becoming more involved
Examples of how free OpenNTF code and templates can help you
Summary and the Road ahead
Questions and Answers
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About OpenNTF
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OpenNTF mission statement:
Providing a framework for the community so that open source
applications may be freely distributed, using widely accepted
licensing terms.
About OpenNTF
OpenNTF is an Open Source website for IBM Lotus Notes and
Domino
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OpenNTF is devoted to:
Enabling groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate
on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open
source.
Increasing the quality and quantity of templates, applications
and samples that are shared by the community.
The History of OpenNTF
OpenNTF was launched in 2002 by people from the Lotus
Notes/Domino community.
Since then 65,000 users have registered on OpenNTF to download
code (and currently being added to by 750 a month).
There are more than 250 open source projects and an additional
800 snippets of code.
In January 2009 IBM announced at Lotusphere that IBM has agreed
to sponsor a new collaboration with OpenNTF. IBM intends to offer
resources to invigorate the community, donate templates and
samples, and make code available under widely accepted open source
community license terms.
Since this announcement IBM has worked with 'the old OpenNTF'
and community to define a new governance model and IP model to
accomplish these goals which has resulted in the OpenNTF
Alliance.
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OpenNTF Today
Is now the OpenNTF Alliance
Has a membership and a steering committee made up of that
membership
A new governance model in place to provide increased legal
protection for consumers of code (including two licensing models to
satisfy all legal requirements Apache, GPL)
Website being overhauled, phase 1 is in place today
Technical committee who meet every other week to discuss and
carry out work to take the Alliance forwards (any registered user
can join)
Alliance members (especially IBM) committing a lot of resource
management, legal, development and significant code contributions
as part of an overall plan to energise Lotus Notes and Domino
application development
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Current OpenNTF Alliance Members
Assono
Conxsys
Czarnowski
IBM
Lotus 911
Snapps
Pavone
Prominic
PSC
Sherpa Software
Team Studio
The Turtle Partnership
VinceSchuurman.com
Kalechi Designs
Ytria
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OpenNTF structure
Since Lotusphere January 2009, the structure of OpenNTF has been
formalised with the formation of committees, member agreements and
contribution agreements
All these changes are designed to protect the end consumer and
so opening the opportunities for all to use OpenNTF assets for even
the most stringent legal departments
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Users
Users are obviously the most important part of this process,
whether you are consuming or contributing code
Consuming is done freely and from the code bin, projects
database or the final repositories/catalogs that have had legal
process applied to
Submitting new code (as a contributor) requires a developer to
have an Individual Contributor License agreement in place (ICLA) or
work for a member company who list you on their Corporate
Contributor License Agreement (CCLA) basically says you have the
right to submit the code and doesn't belong to someone else.
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Steering Committee
Sets the direction of the OpenNTF Alliance
Made up of member organisations
Rotating memberships for 1 or 2 year periods
One member is voted as the Chair (currently Vince Schuurman)
Members
Any organisation can join OpenNTF as a member
No commitment required, however obviously participation is
appreciated
Just need to complete a membership agreement form
Full details and the form is on www.openntf.org get involved
tab
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Technical Committee
Delivers technical solutions for OpenNTF from server monitoring
to replacing software infrastructure and website upkeep
Made up of IBM'ers, member employees and registered users
Meets every 2 weeks to discuss progress, issues
Using OpenNTF
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Website is being updated
New look and feel
Using OpenNTF
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Website is being updated
New downloads area for the consumer
Apache Catalog
GPL Catalog
Projects Area
Code Bin
Using OpenNTF
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Website is being updated
Idea Jam for general OpenNTF ideas and projects
Using OpenNTF
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Website is being updated
New Forums
Main
IP and Governance
Strategy
Technical
Steering Committe
Using OpenNTF
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Website is being updated
About and get involved pages contain clear information on how to
take part
Using OpenNTF
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Website is being updated still to come
Revamp of project management system
New profile management
New Catalogs
Member Directory
New test and development servers
Want to help?
Consuming Code/Applications
Code samples are located in the Code Bin
Active development takes place in the Project Management
System
Cleared Code can be downloaded from the
catalogs/repositories
Apache Licensed
GPL Licensed
You don't even need to be registered for most downloads
Consuming Code
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Contributing Code
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Contributing
You do need to be registered
You do need an ICLA or to be listed on your employers CCLA
New projects are created in the Project Management System you
will need Contributor status to do this (automatic after ICLA).
Projects can then go through a checking process and added to the
catalogs by a Committer (anyone can apply to be a Committer however
they must already qualify to be a Contributor and then be voted
in).
Remember contributing is not just about code. Feedback via the
forums, and IdeaJam, downloading, testing, documenting is all
contributing (no ICLA required).
Examples of how OpenNTF can help you
Notes widget Catalog Drag and Drop into your Notes Client
Projects area complete or nearly complete fully functional free
applications (with code to learn from)
Code bin lots of code examples for reuse
Apache Catalog completed, IP checked and licensed under Apache
for your free reuse (with code to learn from)
GPL Catalog completed, IP checked and licensed under GPL for
your free reuse (with code to learn from)
Development Community
Add your own projects and get access to like minded developers
to accelerate development, testing etc
Notes Client Widgets
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Download from Apache Catalog
http://www.openntf.org/catalogs/a2cat.nsf
Drag and Drop into your Notes Client from the Catalog
Examples
Driving Directions for Google Maps
Recent Contacts for IBM Lotus Sametime
TripAdvisor Business Travel Center Plugin
Bookmark Viewer for Delicious
Widgets for Facebook, Twitter, Google Mail
Designer Wiki Search
Bookmark Viewer for IBM Lotus Connections Dogear
Project - DominoWiki
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DominoWiki
Developed/Managed by Ben Poole (www.benpoole.net)
Runs on Domino Server v7/v8/v8.5/v8.51
Web and Notes Client
http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/DominoWiki
DominoWiki
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DominoWiki
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Project Xpages Wiki
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XPages Wiki
Developed/Managed by Steve Castledine
Runs on Domino Server v8.5/v8.51 only
Web and Notes Client
http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/XPages%20Wiki
Live Demo: http://openntf.org/xpageswiki.nsf
XPages Wiki
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XPages Wiki
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Project: New Discussion Template
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The 8.5.1 Discussion Template will shortly be available under
open source terms on OpenNTF
Niklas Heidloff and Steve Castledine are also preparing a new
version to be developed via OpenNTF and then added back to the
build at 8.5.2 (not yet guaranteed)
Iteration 1 will have the Notes Client updated
Iteration 2 will have the XPages interface upgraded
Iteration 3 will have new features as voted for via IdeaJam
This version will also be available shortly (at 8.5.1 ga)
New Discussion Template
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From:
To:
New Discussion Template
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Web:
Admin tools: !!HELP!!
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A small and easy to use Trouble Ticket / Helpdesk for Lotus
Notes / Domino ( multi-language enabled )
!!HELP!! - Notes
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Example 2 Screenshot etc
!!HELP!! - Reporting
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!!HELP!! - Web
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Admin Tools: Conaex
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Reports/modification of about 100 different database settings
visible and hidden
Storage consumption and distribution of replica's
Agents and other design elements
ACL templates
Tracking of database modifications
Execution of change requests only after their explicit
release
Easy, persistent parameterization of all Conaex activity by
means of task documents (no console hacking)
High performing, OS specific server task program based on the
Lotus Domino C API
Conaex: Properties
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Conaex: ACL
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Conaex: Design Elements
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Conaex: Tasks & KB
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Some other projects
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OpenNTF Mail Experience
Real Workflow
Vacation Request
Bulletin Board Application
Data Moving Application
Domino Defrag
Notes Reconn (Reporting Tool)
Various Administrator help tools
Many Others
Summary and Road ahead
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OpenNTF Alliance is a work in progress but great progress so
far
New Discussion Template is a landmark project that will be
enhanced at OpenNTF.org first and will come back into the Lotus
Domino build*
Lotus Domino Designer is now Freely Available
Lotus Notes and Domino default templates are now Open Sourced on
OpenNTF
* Disclaimer: Whilst intended, there are no guarantees from IBM
that the functionality will be in the final shipping product.
Resources
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http://www.openntf.org (see about and getting involved tabs)
http://www.vinceschuurman.com
http://www.stevecastledine.com ([email protected])
http://www.twitter.com/openntf
http://www.twitter.com/scastledine
Questions and Answers
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