IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Meeting 11/11 - OpenNTF

1. ICS Community Meeting
November 15, 2011
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2. Bruce Elgort Niklas Heidloff
OpenNTF Senior Software Engineer
Elguji Software IBM
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3. It’s all about the apps...
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4. Client Apps Tools and Controls
Web and Mobile
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5. What is OpenNTF?
• Global community
• Enabling groups of developers to collaborate
• Increasing the number and quality of
templates and custom controls
• Increasing the number and quality of
templates and custom controls
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6. A bit of history...
• Started in December 2001
• Nathan T. Freeman (NTF) made a post on
Notes.net floating the idea of an an open
source community
• Notes.net (LDD) members responded and
developers from around the world help put
together a server and a simple web site.
• NotesOSS.org was born…
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8. A bit of history...
• We started out as NotesoSS.org and a few
months later we changed our name to
OpenNTF.org for various reasons
• For the first 9 months the site remained pretty
quiet
• “Build it and they shall come” - NOT!
• This gave us time to build the support
infrastructure
• A few early endeavors
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9. A bit of history...
• A few early endeavors...
• Lookout Express - Microsoft Outlook Express
template for Notes
• Project Crimson – Remember Garnet?
• OpenNTF needed a “killer application” to help put
OpenNTF on the radar screens of the Notes/Domino
community.
• What is the one application that almost all Notes/
Domino developers used that could benefit from some
enhancements and some new features….
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10. OpenNTF Mail Template
• Eleven Developers from around the world added a
dozen new features to the Notes Mail Template two
weeks after Notes 6.0 was launched.
• Added Reply and Forward indicators
• Added a Follow-Up feature
• Added “Quick Stuff”
• Resend Memo action
• Show message headers
• Find Memo action
• Send/Receive action
• OpenNTF Preference Pane
• And many more…
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11. The feedback was great
• The community loved it
• The press loved it
• Thousands of downloads in the first few weeks after it’s
release
• This application put OpenNTF on the map and was one
the sites most popular applications.
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12. Slow and steady
• From 2002-2009 the site was ran by various groups of
people
• Vince Schuurman
• Bruce Elgort
• Anil Vartak
• and others
• Typical app downloads ranged from 2-4k/month
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13. A new beginning
• In 2009 the OpenNTF Alliance was formed
• Elguji
• IBM
• Lotus911
• Pavone
• Prominic
• PSC
• SNAPPS
• Teamstudio
• VinceSchuurman.com
• Governance and IP model established
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14. A new beginning
• July 2011 OpenNTF, Inc. was formed
• A Nonprofit 501(c)6 corporation
• 28 Business Partners are now members
• 6 Elected Member Directors
• 3 Elected from Contributor Community
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15. OpenNTF by the numbers
678 Projects
262 Contributors
9 Committers
17,000 Downloads/month
3,000,000+ page view/year
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16. Development contest
• First Ever Development Contest
• Sponsored by We4IT
• Ran for 3 months
• 64 XPages Controls
• 22 Contributors
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17. New contest
• Second Contest Started Back in September
• Sponsored by We4IT
• Submissions due by December 2, 2011
• Focus on Social and Mobile
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18. Contest prizes
• Awards and Recognition
• The winner will receive a pass to
Lotusphere 2012
• The winner and two finalists can choose
between one of these three prizes:
• Apple iPad 2, 64 GB Wifi or 32 GB 3G
• Apple iPhone 4S, 32 GB
• Amazon voucher for $800 (US)
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19. Social Enabler
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20. PDF Exporter
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21. Multi DB Search
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22. mAddress Book
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23. Java Charts
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24. ZK Spreadsheet
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25. XSnippets
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26. XPages.info
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27. Getting involved
• Submit your own code
• Sign an Individual Contributor License
Agreement (ICLA)
• Technical Working Group / Niklas Heidloff
• Work on maintaining the technical
infrastructure of OpenNTF sites
• Marketing Working Group / John Head
• IP Working Group / Peter Tanner
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28. Lotusphere 2012
• Come visit OpenNTF at pedestal no. 516 on
the Product Showcase
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29. Follow
http://www.openntf.org/blog
RSS: http://blog.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/stories.xml
http://twitter.com/openntf http://facebook.com/openntf
http://m.openntf.org http://www.youtube.com/openntf
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