1. OpenNTF Updates
Serdar Basegmez, developi
Niklas Heidloff, IBM
03/05/13

2. Agenda
 Survey Results
 Appathon – Social App Dev Contests
 Collaboration Today

3. Question 1
 How many OpenNTF Projects (full projects, controls, tools, snippets) have
you used in Production Applications?

4. Question 2
 How much Time has Open Source from OpenNTF saved you?

5. Question 4
 What is your Job Role?

6. Question 5
 How many Employees work in your Company?

7. Feedback Highlights
 Amazing Site / Community. It was lucky that you grew in the right ways
over the years. You have facilitated a real community, which I think is
unique. Thanks for all the work.
 Great Site! Thanks for the ideas, code fragments and of course projects! It
saves the day again and again.
 OpenNTF.org is a golden place, and its value is priceless.
 We mainly concentrate on using XPages to develop Intranet applications
and OpenNTF.org is one of the best place to provide quality open source
projects
 Love the community, Love all that people give to the community. THANK
YOU
 The projects on OpenNTF.org have allowed me to show that
Notes/Domino is alive and well and continues to provide value to the
company.

8. Appathon

9. Appathon
 Two social app dev contests
 IBM Connections
 XPages
 Sponsored by
 TIMETOACT GROUP
 WebGate
 IBM developerWorks
 Prizes
 IBM Connections: 5 x $1000
 XPages: 5 x $1000
 Plus: Promotions through blog entries, screenshots and videos
 Submissions need to be open sourced on OpenNTF
 Deadline: June 23th 2013
 Criteria
 Reusability, consumability and documentation
 "Wow" factor and completeness of solution
 Overall business value
 Amount of work to build the submission(s)

10. IBM Connections App Dev Contest
 All types of OpenNTF projects can be nominated that utilize IBM
Connections. This includes the following areas:
 Accessing IBM Connections via the Social Business Toolkit SDK
 Accessing IBM Connections via the Connections REST APIs
 OpenSocial Gadgets for IBM Connections
 iWidgets for IBM Connections
 Customization solutions for IBM Connections
 All contributions need to work on IBM Connections 4.0 and can use the
latest fix packs
 Planned to provide a shared development environment in the cloud

11. XPages App Dev Contest
 All types of OpenNTF projects can be nominated that use XPages or OSGi.
This includes the following areas:
 XPages applications (NSFs)
 XPages custom controls (in NSFs)
 Custom XPages extension libraries
 Custom OSGi bundles for IBM Domino
 DOTS tasklets
 All contributions need to work on IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 and/or IBM
Domino 9.0

12. CollaborationToday.info

13. Collaboration Today
 A curated news site for IBM Collaboration Solutions professionals
 Developed by...
 Bruce Elgort, IBM Business Partner, Elguji
 Per Henrik Lausten, IBM Business Partner, PHL Consult
 Serdar Basegmez, IBM Business Partner, Developi
 Frank van der Linden, IBM Business Partner, e-office
 Jesse Gallagher, IBM Business Partner, I Know Some Guys
 Niklas Heidloff, IBM
 Timeline...
 We had the idea in June
 We assembled our virtual team in July
 We started development in August
 We launched September 10, 2012
 Current version: 1.3 and still improving...

14. Motivations behind Collaboration Today
 Having a curated news aggregator that targets every professionals
working at this space
 English articles
 Articles related the business itself
 No repetition, no gaming
 Doing it with our own technology
 XPages is capable to do it
 Showing both what we did and how we did
 Blogs, sessions and videos on details
 Opening the source code so we can help others

15. Challenges of Collaboration Today
 Six developers
 3 Continents, 5 Countries, 4 Time Zones
 5 call-meetings
 Skype Group chat for continuous updates
 Github for sharing code and issue management
 XPages for a public-access site?
 OpenNTF servers are the busiest Domino servers ever
 Used some techniques to speed up (2.5 secs average page load)
 Scalable (over 5K pageviews/month)
 Need a great looking site with mobile access
 Twitter Bootstrap
 Used Responsive Design
 Accessible from any device/browser
 Consumability
 Feeds for each categories and auto-tweeting stories with TwitterFeed
 Widgets and API to be accessible from other sites

16. Collaboration Today
 Future enhancements
 Archiving and Searching
 Improving mobile interface with touch gestures
 Improving Curator management
 More regional sites
 More Curators
 More Curators, really...
 If you are following news on ICS, you can help us.
 Contact us...