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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.


June OpenNTF Webinar and HCL Open Mic

Jesse Gallagher | 4:07:29 PM Thursday, June 12, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
Throughout 2025, OpenNTF and HCL will host "Open Mic" sessions alongside our regular webinars. For a full introduction and announcement video, see our blog post at https://openntf.org/main.nsf/blog.xsp?permaLink=GACS-DCQL2A

Engage Super-Pro-Code Mode: Web Apps without Frameworks

Angular, React, EmberJS, Webpack, Axios, Rollup, Svelte... there isn't a week where a latest, hottest framework gets released.

You might pick one, only to find out a short while later that it was rewritten, deprecated or abandoned. It doesn't have to be that way. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and tooling have come a long way in the last decade. We're here to help you catch up. You will be surprised what's possible...and maybe easier than you believed.

This webinar will take place on June 19th from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2197516272887230556

HCL Open Mic

Domino 14.5 is scheduled for release in June, and the Open Mic this month will include development leads to talk about the new features in the latest version.

This Open Mic will take place on June 26th from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this Open Mic, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7711966209066958176

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

New Community Server: OpenNTF.net

Graham Acres | 9:32:59 AM Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
Announcing a new community Domino server: OpenNTF.net

OpenNTF has launched a new Domino server that is available for community use via Notes client only, for collaboration, reference material and co-authoring community projects. We have a launch video here.

Long-time members of the community will remember that Lotus hosted a Domino server at notes.net that held reference materials that you could access directly from your Notes client.  While our new server doesn't contain the same depth of resources that server did, our goal is to offer a similar resource that can grow and become something similar.

You can access the server from your Notes client at home.openntf.net/openntf-net

What is on the Server?

Start with the Welcome database, OpenNTF Welcome! [welcome.nsf] to learn about the server contents and how you can use the server.  Then there are a couple of useful reference databases: Notes.ini [projects\notes-ini.nsf] which contains over 3,000 notes.ini settings, and xsp.properties [public\xspprops.nsf] which contains a reference of xsp properties for XPages developers.  The notes.ini settings database has been curated by Daniel Nashed from a previous version that was maintained for years by Rudi Knegt and Bruce Lill.  The xsp.properties database was contributed by Heiko Voigt and his team.  

There is also a test database for people wanting to work with Domino IQ [dominoiq.nsf], contributed by Daniel Nashed.

These are all available without the need to cross certify.  

Cross Certification

To be able to contribute to the reference databases, or to join a community development project on the server you must be cross certified.  The Welcome database contains information and a form you can fill out to get your ID cross certified.

What Else?

From this humble beginning the server is ready to grow with the community.  Being an open source community, we are interested in ideas from everyone, and have the connections and resources to be able to organize people to work on those ideas, so let us know what you think.  If you haven't yet, join the Discord community and jump into the chat.  Obviously we have to be careful about copyrighted material, so a lot of the old Lotus material such as the Knowledge Base cannot be stored on the server, but we want to fill it with new ideas and material.

Community Project: Verify the Notes.ini Settings

Our first community effort is around verifying that the notes.ini settings we have are still valid.  If you are able to check one or more, or you know that one or more still work, or don't work, we'd love to have your input.  You need to be cross certified to participate of course, so make that your first step.  Then hop onto Discord and let us know you'd like to join and we will connect you with the project team.

As always, your feedback is welcome!

A big Thank You to Daniele Vistalli, Daniel Nashed, Roberto Boccadoro and Kim Greene for their efforts to make this server available for the community.

May Webinar: Domino for Newbies - Administration

Jesse Gallagher | 2:28:13 PM Thursday, May 8, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
Throughout 2025, OpenNTF and HCL will host "Open Mic" sessions alongside our regular webinars. For a full introduction and announcement video, see our blog post at https://openntf.org/main.nsf/blog.xsp?permaLink=GACS-DCQL2A

Domino for Newbies - Administration

This webinar is the second in our series of OpenNTF’s “Domino for Newbies” sessions.

In this “Domino Administration for Newbies” session we will cover the components that make up a Domino server, mail routing functions of Domino, how to monitor your servers, security fundamentals, handling of IDs, Domino replication and high availability, and how to perform critical server maintenance.
Whether you’re new to Domino or are responsible for Domino but don’t feel you have a good understanding of the environment, this session is for you. Even experienced administrators may pick up a helpful tip or two.

If you want to learn more about Domino Development for Newbies, you can find the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeaMc2z8crA

This webinar will take place on May 15th from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1160856027607811168

Engage

This month, many of both HCL and OpenNTF personnel will be at Engage 2025, taking place in The Hague from May 19 - 21. If you are able to make it, we encourage you to talk to those you meet there and attend as many sessions as you can. OpenNTF board and community members will be involved in many sessions, in particular De06 on Tuesday, May 20 at 14:30 local time: "OpenNTF.net - a new initiative for the Community".

In addition, there will be the following presentations from our current directors:

Serdar Basegmez:
Wednesday, May 21 | 08:00 - 08:45 | 1.5 Breakout 3
How to Master data integration from HCL Notes and LotusScript with MS365 using the MS Graph APIs
Wednesday, May 21 | 11:30 - 12:30 | 1.9 Breakout 4
Transforming Domino Applications with LLMs: DominoIQ and Beyond

Heiko Voigt:
Wednesday, May 21 | 08:00 - 08:45 | 1.5 Breakout 3
How to Master data integration from HCL Notes and LotusScript with MS365 using the MS Graph APIs
Wednesday, May 21 | 15:30 - 16:15 | 1.3 Breakout 1
The HCL Domino AppDev State of the Nation - 2025 Edition

Keith Brooks:
Wednesday, May 21 | 13:30 - 14:15 | 1.10 Breakout 5
Saving Your Domino Infrastructure from Myths With Legends

Roberto Boccadoro:
Wednesday, May 21 | 13:30 - 14:15 | 1.5 Breakout 3
Customize Verse without being a Developer

We hope to see you there!

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

April Webinar: Domino for Newbies - Development

Jesse Gallagher | 9:57:43 AM Thursday, April 3, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
The April webinar will be the first in a series of "Domino for Newbies", this one focusing on the basics of development. 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 classic design elements and the general structure of a Notes database.

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

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1933223362992026975

Pseudo-Webinar: Structure of the New OpenNTF Web Site

Jesse Gallagher | 1:29:28 PM Saturday, March 22, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
For a while now, there's been a new OpenNTF web site in the works, but it's always been back-burnered in favor of normal work. Since several people have expressed interest in pitching in or at least seeing how it's shaping up, I (Jesse Gallagher) will be running a pseudo-webinar next week to go over the structure of the app:

Structure of the New OpenNTF Web Site
Thursday, March 27, 2025
11 AM US Eastern
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3634398748270714716

Due to the nature of it, this will be very developer-fiddly, and will probably consist primarily of me clicking around in Designer. The site is being developed using the XPages Jakarta EE project, so expect to see a lot of Java for the business logic and thin JSP with CSS for the front-end.

Regardless, all are welcome, whether you have time to contribute or not. I expect it will be useful just to see how a JEE app like that is structured, and participating in the chat will be helpful for me to guide the main development of the site.

March Webinar: Welcome to the HCL Digital Solutions Developer Community

Jesse Gallagher | 3:35:11 PM Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
The HCL Digital Solutions Developer Community has been a long-awaited initiative requested by our customers and partners, and we’re excited to finally reveal a dedicated space for developers and administrators to hang out, learn, and grow their networks. With web and mobile access to aggregated blogs, videos, tips, forums, and a variety of links, the site is intended to be a hub for HCL, customers and partners to come together. Join this webinar to get a deep dive into what's available to help you get the most out of the environment.

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

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3455006828775480918

February Open Mic: Nomad Web & Nomad Mobile

Graham Acres | 11:44:52 AM Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | Full Story and Comments

February's Open Mic topic is Nomad Web & Nomad Mobile


The development team is led by Doug Conmy, the Nomad Architect, and includes people responsible for the Nomad server on Domino, Nomad for iOS, Nomad for Android and Nomad for web browsers.


The session will take place on Thursday, February 27 at 11:00 AM EST / 17:00 CET


Send us your questions in advance

You may now use the openmic@openntf.org e-mail address to send in your questions in advance of the session. Sending questions in advance is very helpful as it gives the dev team a chance to dig into the more challenging questions and come to the session with a detailed answer. You may indicate that you wish to ask your question live during the session if you wish.


Use this link to register for the session: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3199226338567335765


February Webinar: Do Crazy Innovative Things in the Notes Client

Graham Acres | 10:20:51 AM Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | Full Story and Comments

In our February webinar, longtime community member Bernd Gewehr will present how his company has built sidebar experiences for the Notes client. Bernd 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.


"When we changed from Sametime to Zoom for all our employees, we always wanted to have something like a buddylist with personal presence information as part of the Notes UX just like we had previously with the Sametime sidebar. It took a long journey to find a way but now, we have a Zoom presence sidebar in Notes that people adopted quickly. We want to show this and also two ways for developing Notes sidebar experiences: 1) using legacy web apps in Notes XULrunner and 2) by building eclipse plugins with edge webview2 or with equo chromium."


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


HCL Open Mic and January OpenNTF Webinar

Jesse Gallagher | 9:06:32 AM Thursday, January 9, 2025 | Full Story and Comments
Throughout 2025, OpenNTF and HCL will host "Open Mic" sessions alongside our regular webinars. For a full introduction and announcement video, see our previous blog post.

Domino 14.5 AutoInstall Feature Overview and Deep Dive

Domino 14.5 brings a new AutoInstall feature to extend update notifications from previous versions. Join us in this webinar to see it in action on Windows and Linux. Learn from the development team, get all your questions answered, and provide feedback about the latest feature details in Domino 14.5 EA2

This session will be presented by team members Gary Rheaume, Daniel Nashed, and Dick Annichiarico.

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

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4884186125784079453

HCL Open Mic: Domino Authentication Protocols

Our first Open Mic session will be on Domino Authentication Protocols led by HCL team member David Kern and will take place on January 23rd from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this Open Mic, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6731853844033127519

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

Announcing Open Mic with the HCL Developers - A New Monthly Series

Graham Acres | 9:21:58 AM Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | Full Story and Comments

Throughout 2025, OpenNTF and HCL will host "Open Mic" sessions alongside our regular webinars.




OpenNTF and HCL announce a new initiative aimed at improving the collaboration between our community and HCL and at giving feedback on their products. Each month, we will host an “Open Mic” session with experts, developers, and PMs from HCL, and everyone will be invited to ask questions on a specific topic for that month. This is an occasion to get in touch directly with the people who build the product and provide answers to your most challenging questions.


Long-standing members of the community will remember the “Ask the Developers” sessions at Lotusphere , and the goal of this initiative will be the same.


The content will be highly technical, depending on your questions. All are welcome to ask questions, participate in the chat, or just listen in.


Our first session will be on Domino Authentication Protocols led by HCL team member David Kern. This Open Mic will take place on January 23rd from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.


To register for this Open Mic, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6731853844033127519


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




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