This document contains the agenda and notes from a meeting to plan for an upcoming Lotusphere-style conference. The agenda includes overviews of application development sessions from Barry, administration sessions from Scott, and a session from Mat on getting users to love Notes. Notes provide more details on sessions covering topics like Domino Designer 8.5.2 features, XPages, extensibility libraries, mobile development, and tips for attending Lotusphere in 2012.

1. Blugsphere2011 Lotusphere for the rest of us Barry SandersScott BeattieMat Newman | ISW

2. Agenda for meeting Barry - Application development sessions overview Scott – Admin sessions overview Mat - Getting your users to fall in love with Notes

3. Development Sessions Agenda Domino Designer 8.5.2 & beyond Zooming in on XPages sessions Tips for attending Lotusphere 2012

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6. AD101: Domino Designer 8.5.2 and BeyondMaureen Leland & Peter Janzen 8.5.2 Designer: working set and framework enhancements, new XPage controls 8.5.2 XPages: performance & scalability enhancements, new back-end class capabilities, CKEditor & extensibility APIs Beyond: perspectives, enhanced javascript editor, new java design element, built-in support for SCMNo date announced for 8.5.3 Well beyond: (INV107) Social Business Toolkit - APIs for Activity Streams, embedded experiences, share box – will see these first on Greenhouse

7. What’s new in Domino Designer 8.5.2Working sets and Open Application Dialog AD101

8. What’s new in Domino Designer 8.5.2Designer framework Edit passthru HTML on a form/page with the Eclipse HTML navigator Sign application LotusScript editor for database script High res image for database icon AD101

9. What’s new in Domino Designer 8.5.2XPages Data palette – reordering, better data type recognition Drag and drop from palettes in source mode Check Box Group and Radio Button Groupcontrols Dojo panel for Dojo enabled controls Control XPagewindowing behaviour in Notes client documentContext for in memory XPage CKEditor as default editor rather than Dojo editor Extensibility library can be added to control panel through a server install Create one’s own controls using Extensibility API AD101

10. What’s coming in Domino Designer 8.5.xPerspectives, Views & Control panel customisation AD101

11. What’s coming in Domino Designer 8.5.xUsability tune-ups AD101

12. What’s coming in Domino Designer 8.5.xUpdated javascript editor AD101

13. What’s coming in Domino Designer 8.5.xmore... New Java design element Source control enablement Creates an on disk store of design (either DXL or binary) which synchronises with source control product Available in beta now on openntf.org for 8.5.2 AD101

14. No Domino Designer for the Mac yet “If you don’t port Designer to the Mac, and rather keep it on Windows, then the only people who will use it are old people like you and me.” – Bill Buchan in question time in INV107 [via Bill Malchisky]

15. Who was the guest OGS speaker at LS11?

16. How many eggs were served over the course of LS11?

17. XPages is taking off

18. XPages session path

19. SHOW106: Creating a simple XPages applicationTim Clark & Matt White 2 hour session where Matt & Tim built a simple XPages application called Loanr. Features of XPages demonstrated in application: OneUI theme Validation – client side & server side Views & Repeat controls Using dblookups in a view to combine 2 data sources How to install the extension library Use of a few of the extension library controls Also presented BP211: XPages Blast – 30 tips in 60 mins

20. AD116: XPages extensibility libraryMaire Kehoe & Paul Hannan (IBM XPages Development Team) Open Source extensibility library on openntf; available at http://extlib.openntf.org It’s a toolbox of 88 (so far) advanced, optimised controls for use in 8.5.2+ You don’t have to learn anything new to use it Easy install on server (may need to bribe reward your friendly admin in beer currency for installing it for you) Demo’d many of the controls For further examples of the use of extensibility controls, see AD112 on the new Teamroom

21. AD113: Styling XPagesHunter Medney & Steve Castledine Out of the box, XPages are un-styled OneUI enables a common look & feel Can create themes that extend OneUI Tip: There’s an XPages Layout Framework Template Showed how to create a layout xpage for an app Also how to style forms, and to use dojo controls to improve usability of forms

22. BP210: Enter the DojoPaul Withers & David Leedy Took the audience through 5 levels of Dojo skills: White Belt: What is Dojo? Orange Belt Getting started & Accordian, Dates, Ratings & Tab controls Brown Belt Tooltips, Themes, Rich Text Black Belt Dialogs, Extending Dojo Modules, Charts Beyond Black Belt: Extension Library

23. AD111: Developing mobile XPage applications for webkit browsersNiklasHeidloff & Steve Castledine Covered using the extensibility library mobile controls to create mobile browser applications with a native look. http://mobilecontrols.openntf.org http://mobiledocuments.openntf.org Live version of example at http://i.openntf.org Use PhoneGap for access to mobile hardware e.g. GPS, camera AD504: Best practices for mobile user experience is a good complementing session – 9 things to consider when building a mobile application

24. Where can I get the sessions slides? Ask your BP or IBM contact – there’s a customer db floating around with all the available slides decks in it Many available on slideshare.net Ask a friend who’s been to Lotusphere For example dbs look on the BP’s or speaker’s blog XPages blast – tinyurl.com/ls11xpagesblast Great code give away & JSON egs – downloads.snapps.com

25. XPages resources xpages.info xpagesblog.com xpages.tv, notesin9.com www.ibm.com/software/lotus/info/r/ldd/ddwiki.nsfwww-10.lotus.com/ldd/xpagesforum.nsf/ IBM, TLCC, xpages101, The View for formal courses xpagescheatsheet – xpag.es/cheatsheet

26. Mastering XPages – the book Informit.com for online ordering $9.99 eBook Deal of the Day – informit.com/deals onecheekgeek.com community around book – skype study groups

27. Who is Watson?

28. What’s wrong with this picture?

29. Tips if you’re going in 2012

30. You can sleep after Lotusphere Average daily time-use during Lotusphere

31. Stay @ the Dolphin/Swan Book early – no deposit required

32. Eat when you can

33. Turn off data roaming Optus data roaming 0.02c/kb = $20,000/gb!! Get an AT&T GoPhone prepaid in the US

34. Be prepared for illness 1500 attendess caught a cold

35. Go to the parties

36. Meet your heroes

37. At the BloggerOpen mini-golf comp, be the best water boy you can be.

38. Thank you Questions ?

39. Agenda for meeting Barry - Application development sessions overview Scott - Admin sessions overview Mat - Getting your users to fall in love with Notes

40. If we build it, will you come?