Posted by Niklas Heidloff | October 19, 2009
For Lotusphere in January 2010 there will
be two new Open Source Lotus Awards:
1. Best Open Source Contribution by
an Individual(s) (up to 2)
2. Best Open Source Contribution by
a Business Partner
These new awards are described in a
high level on the 2010 Lotus
Awards web page.
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 judging will favor offerings that 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) and Lotus Symphony.
Entries will be judged based on wow factor and innovation, potential business
value and possible reuse and documentation.
Awards and recognition:
The two winners of the two categories
will be listed on the Lotus Awards web page as this was done in 2009 (see
here). Additionally the winner
of the category "Best Open Source Contribution by an Individual"
will receive one free Lotusphere ticket for 2011. Winners will be invited
to present their contributions in the OpenNTF Steering Committee session
at Lotusphere 2010.
Eligibility:
Everyone can participate and submit
nominations. The only exceptions are all IBM employees and participants
of the OpenNTF Steering Committee. The sitting members of the Steering
Committee are not permitted to personally submit for the Individual award,
however their respective companies may submit for the Business Partner
award if they are an IBM Business Partner.
In the category 'contribution by an
individual' submissions are also accepted that have been created by two
individuals. Since this is the first time that the Lotus Awards program
accepts nominations by individuals there are some things you need to understand
when filling out the forms. You can ignore all fields that are related
to business partners/companies. If there is a second individual fill out
the name in the fields for the executive.
Prerequisites for valid submissions:
All open source projects can be nominated
that have been submitted to either the Apache or GPL catalog on OpenNTF.
The following points describe in details these prerequisites. The
contributions don't necessarily have to be published in the catalog by
the submission deadline, but they must have a major project release and
receive IP clearance before the deadline. Committers will then work
to publish those submissions to the Catalog.
1. Authors need to be approved OpenNTF
contributors (e.g. they need to have a signed ICLA or CCLA on file - see
here).
2. Submissions have to be posted under
one of the four accepted OpenNTF licences. For example for Apache submissions
the Apache license has to be applied correctly (see
here).
3. Submissions must have been cleared
by the ip-manager@openntf.org so that they can be added to either the Apache
or GPL catalog. Contact the IP manager if you need to use third party code.
4. Submissions will be evaluated on
Notes 8.5.1 and/or Domino 8.5.1. Non-working submissions or submissions
that judges cannot get to work do not count. No other product versions
will be used for evaluation.
5. Submissions need at least to provide
two or three paragraphs of documentation, some screenshots and in the optimal
case a short demo video (all in English).
6. Projects or new releases of existing
projects need to be created on OpenNTF with the submission as release in
it.
Nominations:
You need to have the code on OpenNTF
and the second important information is to register your entry at the Lotus
Awards site using the Nomination
process and form.
Schedule:
10/19/09: Announcement of open source
categories for the 2010 Lotus Awards
01/06/10: Deadline for submissions
01/17/10 - 01/21/10: Announcement of
winners at Lotusphere
For any questions please send a mail
to support@openntf.org
with the word 'award' in the subject.
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