Posted by Niklas Heidloff | March 22, 2012
So far we've received four controls
and one application for the OpenNTF
XPages Development contest sponsored
by IBM Business Partner We4IT.
Contribute your open source project between now and June 3th and have a
chance to win $800 for controls and $1600 for full applications. Here are
some ideas what types of controls and applications could be submitted (no
particular order).
For controls you can check out the long
list of controls developers submitted
for the first two contests. There are also many Dojo
widgets, jQuery
plugins and jQuery
Mobile controls that could nicely
be wrapped up in reusable XPages controls. Stephan Wissel blogged
about other ideas and some companies provide controls for other platforms,
e.g. telerik
and Devexpress.
One control which is not covered in
these references is a generic data synchronization control to replicate
data from server side NSFs to smartphones and make it available to WebKit
based apps.
Other possibilities are sets of controls
encapsulating functionality to access a social network, e.g. the LinkedIn
controls.
Here is a list of potential submissions
for the applications category:
- Stream of entries from various social
networks (in difference to Wildfire
web based)
- Notes chicklets for web as web based
navigator to apps
- Analysis tool to track how many certain
web pages have been visited
- Notification system if certain Notes
documents have changed
- Personal document library federating
docs from Dropbox, Connections, LotusLive etc.
- Personal bookmarks federating from
Twitter, Connections, etc.
- URL shortener app
- Extensions to the Information
Retrieval app, e.g. mobile interface
- Gamification system for XPages apps
- Simple project/team task management
app with mobile interface
If you have other ideas but cannot implement
them, please respond to this blog entry and I'll add them to this list
later.