Posted by Niklas Heidloff | October 13, 2009
Ed Brill blogged
yesterday about the 2010 Lotus
awards. There will be two new categories for open source contributions:
- Best open source contribution by an
individual
- Best open source contribution by a business
partner
For both categories, Lotus awards will
be presented to the individual/business partner that provides the best
template, solution or sample, made available via open source through OpenNTF.org.
The offering must leverage new technology innovations introduced into the
IBM Lotus Notes and/or IBM Lotus Domino 8.X such as XPages, widgets, Eclipse
plugins (e.g. for sidebar), etc. Entries will be judged based on wow factor
and innovation, potential business value and possible reuse and documentation.
Ed wrote ...
<<
These are brand new, evidence of IBM's
commitment to OpenNTF.org. I don't think the awards form says this,
but as a special bonus, the winner of the individual contribution award
will receive a Lotusphere 2010 pass. And oh, the OpenNTF.org awards
are not open to members of the OpenNTF steering committee -- the whole
point here is to bring additional contributors into OpenNTF.org.
>>
The Lotus
Awards web page contains some
more information. However we're working on fine tuning the guidelines and
judging criteria specifically for these two categories. For example an
extra guideline will describe the prerequisite for submissions in these
categories that the authors need to be approved OpenNTF contributors, e.g.
they have to have an ICLA
or CCLA.
Furthermore we are evaluating whether
the OpenNTF community can actually do the (final) judging for these two
categories, e.g. via IdeaJam voting.
I hope we can post the more detailed
instructions later this week.
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