OpenNTF Overview DanNotes 11/23/11 Niklas Heidloff

1. Niklas Heidloff, Architect and Community, IBM
DanNotes 23.11.11
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2. What is OpenNTF?
 Global open source community
 Enabling groups of developers to collaborate
 Increasing the number and quality of applications, controls and snippets
 Started in December 2001
 2009 – 2011: OpenNTF Alliance
 Since July 2011: OpenNTF, Inc (non profit organization)
 28 company members
 Board with 9 + 3 directors
 Technical committee, IP manager, marketing working group, etc.
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3. OpenNTF in Numbers
 17.000 downloads per month
 678 projects
 > 250 contributors
 > 3.5 million page views per year
 > 68.000 registered users
 XPages.info: > 800 news documents in first year
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4. Five Ways to participate
OpenNTF success depends on contributions from the community
1) Contribute code
2) Provide feedfack in the project area and the blog
3) Help the Technical Committee
4) Use code from OpenNTF
5) Become a member
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5. Contribute Code – IP Model
 Outbound: Two models
 Apache license (version 2)
– Maximizes the usefulness of the code to consumers
– No obligation to donate back to the community
 GPL licenses
 Inbound contribution process
 Contributor license agreements
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6. First Development Contest
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7. Second Development Contest
 Last day for submissions: 12/02
 Contribute social applications and/or mobile apps
 Winner gets a free Lotusphere ticket for 2012
 Winner and the two finalists can choose between an iPad, iPhone or $800
Amazon voucher
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8. Follow OpenNTF
 Blog
 Web: http://www.openntf.org/blog
 Feed: http://blog.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/stories.xml
 Mobile: http://i.openntf.org
 XPages.info: http://xpages.info
 Twitter: http://twitter.com/openntf
 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/openntf
 Widget: http://www.openntf.org/project/OpenNTF Widget
 Projects
 Web: http://www.openntf.org/project/[ProjectName]
– e.g. http://www.openntf.org/project/XPages Mobile Controls
 Feed: http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/rss.xml?
OpenView&restricttocategory=[ProjectName]&count=100
– e.g. http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/rss.xml?
OpenView&restricttocategory=XPages%20Mobile%20Controls&count=100
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9. References
 OpenNTF: http://openntf.org
 XPages.info: http://xpages.info
 XSnippets: http://openntf.org/xsnippets
 Contest: http://xpages.info/contest
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10. References - Projects
 Extension library (REST, JDBC, Mobile, Social): http://extlib.openntf.org
 Java charts: http://openntf.org/p/Java Charts
 PDF exporter: http://openntf.org/p/XPages PDF Exporter Custom Control
 ZK spreadsheet: http://openntf.org/p/ZK Spreadsheet for XPages
 Multi database search: http://openntf.org/p/Xpages Multi Database Search
Custom Control
 Select database: http://openntf.org/p/XPages Database Open Dialog
Custom Control
 Rating: http://openntf.org/p/xInvolve Custom Control
 Asynch multi file uploader: http://openntf.org/p/Xpages Async Multi File
Uploader Custom Control
 View pick list: http://openntf.org/p/View Picklist Custom Control
 Search and tag cloud: http://openntf.org/p/Xpage Search And Tagcloud
control
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