7. Feedback Highlights
ξ Amazing Site / Community. It was lucky that you grew in the right ways
over the years. You have facilitated a real community, which I think is
unique. Thanks for all the work.
ξ Great Site! Thanks for the ideas, code fragments and of course projects! It
saves the day again and again.
ξ OpenNTF.org is a golden place, and its value is priceless.
ξ We mainly concentrate on using XPages to develop Intranet applications
and OpenNTF.org is one of the best place to provide quality open source
projects
ξ Love the community, Love all that people give to the community. THANK
YOU
ξ The projects on OpenNTF.org have allowed me to show that
Notes/Domino is alive and well and continues to provide value to the
company.
9. Appathon
ξ Two social app dev contests
ο΄ IBM Connections
ο΄ XPages
ξ Sponsored by
ο΄ TIMETOACT GROUP
ο΄ WebGate
ο΄ IBM developerWorks
ξ Prizes
ο΄ IBM Connections: 5 x $1000
ο΄ XPages: 5 x $1000
ο΄ Plus: Promotions through blog entries, screenshots and videos
ξ Submissions need to be open sourced on OpenNTF
ο΄ Deadline: June 23th 2013
ξ Criteria
ο΄ Reusability, consumability and documentation
ο΄ "Wow" factor and completeness of solution
ο΄ Overall business value
ο΄ Amount of work to build the submission(s)
10. IBM Connections App Dev Contest
ξ All types of OpenNTF projects can be nominated that utilize IBM
Connections. This includes the following areas:
ξ Accessing IBM Connections via the Social Business Toolkit SDK
ξ Accessing IBM Connections via the Connections REST APIs
ξ OpenSocial Gadgets for IBM Connections
ξ iWidgets for IBM Connections
ξ Customization solutions for IBM Connections
ξ All contributions need to work on IBM Connections 4.0 and can use the
latest fix packs
ξ Planned to provide a shared development environment in the cloud
11. XPages App Dev Contest
ξ All types of OpenNTF projects can be nominated that use XPages or OSGi.
This includes the following areas:
ξ XPages applications (NSFs)
ξ XPages custom controls (in NSFs)
ξ Custom XPages extension libraries
ξ Custom OSGi bundles for IBM Domino
ξ DOTS tasklets
ξ All contributions need to work on IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 and/or IBM
Domino 9.0
13. Collaboration Today
ξ A curated news site for IBM Collaboration Solutions professionals
ξ Developed by...
ο΄ Bruce Elgort, IBM Business Partner, Elguji
ο΄ Per Henrik Lausten, IBM Business Partner, PHL Consult
ο΄ Serdar Basegmez, IBM Business Partner, Developi
ο΄ Frank van der Linden, IBM Business Partner, e-office
ο΄ Jesse Gallagher, IBM Business Partner, I Know Some Guys
ο΄ Niklas Heidloff, IBM
ξ Timeline...
ο΄ We had the idea in June
ο΄ We assembled our virtual team in July
ο΄ We started development in August
ο΄ We launched September 10, 2012
ο΄ Current version: 1.3 and still improving...
14. Motivations behind Collaboration Today
ξ Having a curated news aggregator that targets every professionals
working at this space
ο΄ English articles
ο΄ Articles related the business itself
ο΄ No repetition, no gaming
ξ Doing it with our own technology
ο΄ XPages is capable to do it
ξ Showing both what we did and how we did
ο΄ Blogs, sessions and videos on details
ο΄ Opening the source code so we can help others
15. Challenges of Collaboration Today
ξ Six developers
ο΄ 3 Continents, 5 Countries, 4 Time Zones
ο΄ 5 call-meetings
ο΄ Skype Group chat for continuous updates
ο΄ Github for sharing code and issue management
ξ XPages for a public-access site?
ο΄ OpenNTF servers are the busiest Domino servers ever
ο΄ Used some techniques to speed up (2.5 secs average page load)
ο΄ Scalable (over 5K pageviews/month)
ξ Need a great looking site with mobile access
ο΄ Twitter Bootstrap
ο΄ Used Responsive Design
ο΄ Accessible from any device/browser
ξ Consumability
ο΄ Feeds for each categories and auto-tweeting stories with TwitterFeed
ο΄ Widgets and API to be accessible from other sites
16. Collaboration Today
ξ Future enhancements
ο΄ Archiving and Searching
ο΄ Improving mobile interface with touch gestures
ο΄ Improving Curator management
ο΄ More regional sites
ο΄ More Curators
ξ More Curators, really...
ο΄ If you are following news on ICS, you can help us.
ο΄ Contact us...