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The Mission of OpenNTF is to support the open source projects hosted at OpenNTF.Org. OpenNTF provides the framework to develop open source applications which may be freely distributed.

Browse the catalogs to find the latests releases you're looking for which have been made available under the Apache license or under the GPL license. Browse the project area to find the latest project updates before they have been cleared.


OpenNTF End-of-Year Festivities

Serdar Basegmez | 4:11:41 PM Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
As we do every year, we'd like to bring everyone together to celebrate our community as we wrap up the year. Our community is a welcoming mix of friends and colleagues, and everyone is invited-customers, partners, vendors, HCL staff and former members too.

Like last year, we'll run two holiday hangouts on Thursday, December 18, to make it easier for people in different time zones to join. These will take place in the OpenNTF Discord, which you can join at https://openntf.org/discord . Just bring your favourite drink and drop in for a chat.

First happy hour: Europe, Middle East and Africa (Download ICS)
 - 4:00 PM UK
 - 5:00 PM Europe
 - 6:00 PM Israel, Finland, South Africa
 - 7:00 PM Moscow

Second happy hour: the Americas (Download ICS)
 - 2:00 PM Pacific
 - 3:00 PM Mountain
 - 4:00 PM Central
 - 5:00 PM Eastern
 - 7:00 PM Rio, Chile, Argentina

We’ll share the links a few days before. Join whichever session suits you, or come to both if you like. Hope to see you there.

You can also find info and recordings of all our webinars at: https://openntf.org/webinars

November OpenNTF Webinar: Navigating HCL Notes 14.5 FP1 Upgrades

Jesse Gallagher | 7:50:15 AM Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
Join Christoph Adler for a focused and practical session dedicated entirely to the upgrade journey to HCL Notes 14.5 FP1. This session will walk you through the critical steps of transitioning from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture, including uninstallation routines, cleanup procedures, and data migration strategies.

Learn how to streamline your upgrade process using command-line installation techniques, log parsing, and automation best practices. Christoph will also cover the nuances of installation rituals, folder structure changes, and the impact of bitness on client behavior.

Whether you're upgrading a single endpoint or rolling out across an enterprise, you'll gain insights into common pitfalls, troubleshooting tips, and proven methods to ensure a reliable and efficient deployment. By the end of this session, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and tools to confidently plan and execute your HCL Notes 14.5 FP1 upgrade, tailored to your organization’s specific needs.

This webinar will take place on November 20th from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3110911371616630617

Find information about past and upcoming webinars, hangouts, and Open Mics at https://openntf.org/webinars

OpenNTF Board Announces 2025 Elected Positions

Serdar Basegmez | 8:26:45 AM Friday, October 10, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
The new OpenNTF Board filled its annual elected positions yesterday.

Keith Brooks continues as Treasurer.
Jesse Gallagher continues as Secretary.
Graham Acres has stepped down as Chairperson after four years in the role. Serdar Basegmez has been elected as Chairperson for the coming year. Graham will remain on the board.

We’d like to thank everyone for their continued support and contributions to the OpenNTF community. We look forward to another productive and collaborative year ahead.

Announcing the OpenNTF Board 2025-2026

Graham Acres | 9:44:14 AM Monday, October 6, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
We are pleased to announce the new OpenNTF board. Leaving the Board are Oliver Busse and Chris Bekas. Oliver leaves after 11 years as a volunteer on the Board. On behalf of the community we thank both Oliver and Chris for their time and contributions. In their place we welcome Heather Hottenstein and Christoph Adler.

We have five Member Directors who still have one year on their tenure:
- Jesse Gallagher
- Serdar Basegmez
- Heiko Voigt
- Kim Greene
- Doug Robinson

The following Member Directors have been elected to a two-year tenure starting this year:
- Dan Dumont
- Keith Brooks
- Roberto Boccadoro
- Heather Hottenstein

The following Contributor Directors have been elected for a year:
- Graham Acres
- David Hablewitz
- Christoph Adler

The new board will take up their positions for the first board meeting on October 9th, when we will elect the Chair Person, Treasurer and Secretary positions for the coming year.

October Webinar: Creating a Service Oriented Architecture Platform with Domino

Jesse Gallagher | 2:56:49 PM Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) uses software components called services to create business applications. In many cases, SOA platforms are distributed and utilize message queue or service bus to transfer data and requests between servers that handle different services. This approach allows one to scale up the platform when needed. The architecture of HCL Domino unfortunately was design before the concept of SOA and does not include message queue or service bus within its architecture. Or does it?  In this session, Richard Moy will present how you can utilize what Domino already has and create your own SOA architecture based on Domino. We will also discuss why Domino provides some key advantages over other technologies.

This webinar will take place on October 16th from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4158217087178039382

Find information about past and upcoming webinars, hangouts, and Open Mics at https://openntf.org/webinars

Call for Nominations to the OpenNTF Board for 2025-2026

Graham Acres | 6:36:15 PM Monday, September 8, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
It's the time of year when elections are opening for the OpenNTF board. We have four Member Director posts available this year. Those whose term is expiring are:

- Oliver Busse
- Graham Acres
- Dan Dumont
- Keith Brooks

Member director posts can be filled by anyone working for an OpenNTF member company (https://openntf.org/main.nsf/page.xsp?name=About_OpenNTF&subName=Members). Companies can still become a member company prior to elections. Any company wishing to become a member company should contact a board member on Discord.

The terms of the three Contributor Director posts are also expiring. Anyone with an ICLA or CCLA can apply for the post, which has a one-year term. The current incumbents are:

- Roberto Boccadoro
- Chris Bekas
- David Hablewitz

Current Board member Chris Bekas intends to step down at the end of his term, so there is an open spot to fill.

Anyone interested in standing submit their names and a candidate statement to ip-manager at openntf.org.

The election schedule will be:
- Nominations open until 5pm EDT Friday 19th September
- Voting from Monday 22nd September to 5pm EDT Friday 26th September, if there are more candidates than posts
- The new Board takes office on 2nd October

September Webinar: Domino for Newbies - Development, Part 2

Jesse Gallagher | 2:11:21 PM Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
This webinar will be the next in a series of "Domino for Newbies", this one following up on the first development-focused session from April. The intent is to provide useful tips for dev newcomers, whether they're administrators dipping their toes or new hires looking at an existing Domino codebase. This will cover some more specific topics and pitfalls that Domino developers will encounter.

This webinar will take place on September 18th from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6836449290980867421

Find information about past and upcoming webinars, hangouts, and Open Mics at https://openntf.org/webinars

August Webinar: Developer Variety Hour

Jesse Gallagher | 8:00:26 AM Thursday, August 14, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
Our August webinar will be a "Developer Variety Hour", where Jesse Gallagher and Serdar Basegmez will discuss various developer topics from OpenNTF and elsewhere, such as Domino JNX, integration with DRAPI, the XPages JEE project, and others.

Jesse is a board member at OpenNTF and traditionally runs OpenNTF's cozy developer-focused webinars in the dog days of northern-hemisphere summer. Serdar, a fellow OpenNTF board member, spends the dog days experimenting with Domino and Java and sharing what he learns with the community.

This webinar will take place on August 21 from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/833319212504791904

Find information about past and upcoming webinars, hangouts, and Open Mics at https://openntf.org/webinars

July OpenNTF Webinar

Jesse Gallagher | 9:41:03 AM Monday, July 7, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
Enabling AI in Every Notes Application

By combining several modern technologies, we managed to add AI to each of our Notes apps - without changing the code of any of them. See magic things happen you wouldn’t expect to see in Notes.

Bernd Gewehr is the Head of IT at Vössing, a German engginerring company. He has been a member of the HCL Ambassador program since its inception and before that was an IBM Champion.

This webinar will take place on July 17th from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2779994653038685278


Find information about past and upcoming webinars, hangouts, and Open Mics at https://openntf.org/webinars

2025 OpenNTF Annual General Meeting

Graham Acres | 10:44:12 AM Thursday, July 3, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
OpenNTF Annual General Meeting

This month the Board will be hosting the OpenNTF Annual General Meeting. You will hear updates on our activities over the past 12 months from our Chairperson, and our various working committees.  There will also be time for open discussion where you can bring your questions and ideas around open source initiatives in the HCL Digital Solutions community.

The AGM will take place on July 10, 2025 at 11:00AM (New York Time) to 12:00PM.

The AGM doesn't require registration. At the time of the event, visit https://meet.goto.com/827610725

To join OpenNTF's Discord, visit https://openntf.org/discord


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