Could you imagine building a tower only
with news paper and some duck tape? Or are you fast enough to build a puzzle
of 100 pieces in under 5 minutes. You can prove this and more at the unofficial
25 anniversary of IBM Notes party, organized by the IBM Champions, SocialBizUG
and OpenNTF.
But there is more! You can not only
attend the party, you can be part of the party.
We are looking for volunteers to help
us run the party! There are a lot of small jobs around the activities open.
All you have to do is:
- Come to IBM ConnectED 2015
- Ping me (@guedewebgate) or OpenNTF
on Twitter with #IBMNotes25 - I volunteer
- Come to the reception area (Swan Crescent
Terrace) Monday 7.00 pm
All instructions will be given then!
With less than a week to go until IBM ConnectED,
it's a good time to announce what OpenNTF and its board members will be
doing at the conference. Because of the smaller conference, OpenNTF have
not been able to secure a booth in the sponsor area this year. But OpenNTF
and its board members will be very active around the conference.
IBM Champions / OpenNTF / SocialBizUG
Reception, Monday 7.30 - 8.30pm, Swan Crescent Terrace OpenNTF will join with the IBM Champions
program and SocialBizUG to host a reception on Monday evening, after the
Showcase Reception. The reception will have the theme of 25 years of Notes
and will be hosted by Mat Newman. There will be various activities organised,
so come along.
Various OpenNTF board members will be
involved in sessions during the week. In session order, here they are:
XPages Performance and Scalability
(MAS103), Sunday 2.15 - 3.15pm, Swan 7-10 OpenNTF board member Paul Withers co-presents
with Tony McGuckin with advice for all XPages developers on optimising
performance and scalaibility in XPages applications.
IBM Domino Applications on Cloud
(MAS104), Sunday 3.45 - 4.45pm, Swan 7-10 OpenNTF Chairman Christian Guedemann
co-presents with Pete Janzen to give technical, architectural and licensing
recommendations when moving to the cloud. XPages and cloud development
will be a big theme for this conference, so it's worth attending.
IBM Domino Applications on Bluemix
(AD201), Monday 2.15 - 3.15pm, Dolphin S Hemisphere 2 OpenNTF board member Martin Donnelly
will talk about how to use buildpacks like XPages and node.js to leverage
Domino on Bluemix.
Bring Your Application to the Next Level
with Open Source Software from OpenNTF (CHALK101), Tuesday 7.00 - 7.45am,
Swan 1-2 Join OpenNTF Chairman Christian Guedemann
and board members for a discussion about all things OpenNTF.
OpenNTF Domino API: The Community API
(CHALK102), Tuesday 6.15 - 7.00pm, Swan 1-2 Join OpenNTF board members Paul Withers,
Nathan T Freeman and Jesse Gallagher with other contributors and consumers
of OpenNTF Domino API to find out why it's a game-changer for XPages. And
hear about the latest big OpenNTF project, CrossWorlds, which uses the
API to help developers build Websphere Liberty Profile applications that
use Domino as a back-end database.
IBM Domino Application Development (CHALK201),
Wednesday 7.00 - 7.45am, Swan 1-2 Join the IBM XPages development team, including
OpenNTF board member Martin Donnelly, for a lively discussion about all
things XPages.
From XPages Hero To OSGi Guru: Taking
The Scary Out Of Building Extension Libraries (BP106), Wednesday 8.30 -
9.30am, Swan 3-4 OpenNTF Chairman Christian Guedemann and
fellow board member Paul Withers give a deep dive introduction to debugging
and building OSGi plugins to enhance reusability within your XPages applications.
GURUpalooza (GURU101), Wednesday 10.30
- 11.30am, Swan 5-6 All the speakers from the Best Practices
track, including OpenNTF board members, will be on stage to answer your
questions in what is arguably the most exciting session of the conference.
Ask the Developers and Product Managers,
Wednesday 11.45 - 12.45, Swan 5-6 OpenNTF board member Martin Donnelly will
join his fellow IBMers to answer the audience's questions.
In addition to the sessions, OpenNTF board
members and committers will be active throughout the conference. So come
and meet us. The current board members can be found on the People
behind OpenNTF page.