OpenNTF is a global community that collaborates on open source IBM Notes/Domino applications. It provides a website to distribute applications under open source licenses. Members contribute code, provide feedback, help govern the organization, use projects, and more. The organization aims to increase quality applications through this collaboration.

1. September 2010
Bruce Elgort, Steering Committee Chair
Niklas Heidloff, Technical Committee Chair
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2. Agenda
 Mission
 Value provided by OpenNTF
 Web Site
 Applications
 Five Ways to participate
 Organization
 IP Model
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3. OpenNTF is devoted to ...
 Enabling groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate on IBM
Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open source
 Providing a web site for the community so that open source applications
may be freely distributed, using widely accepted licensing terms
 Increasing the quality and quantity of templates, applications and samples
that can be shared by the community
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4. Value provided by OpenNTF
 Access to a global community of like minded Lotus developers
 Code samples for education purposes for new and old technologies
 Base projects and templates to reuse/harvest/enhance for custom
applications
 Access to base Notes/Domino templates with some of them enhanced
from shipping versions
 A community of 'testers' for your projects
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5. OpenNTF Home Page
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6. Project Management
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7. Catalogs of 'cleared' Project Releases
* Cleared project releases have been scanned by the IP manager and committers
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8. Drag and Drop Components for Lotus Notes
 These projects can be installed by end users by drag and drop into Notes
 Examples
 Recent Contacts
 Widget for Twitter
 Inking for IBM Lotus Sametime
 Attachment Manager
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9. Reusable Controls for Application Developers
 Reusable controls can be easily reused by application developers
 Examples
 XPages Mobile Controls
 XPages Tree Control
 XPages Voting Control
 XPages Business Card Controls
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10. Project: File Navigator
 Access to the file system from the Notes
sidebar
 Favorite folders and network shares
 Features are policy driven
 Available in several languages
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11. Project: Wildfire
 Access to various social networks from the
Notes sidebar
 Commit your status across a variety of clients
and services
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12. Project: XPages Mobile Controls
 Several controls to easily 'assemble' mobile
apps that look and feel like native apps
 Works for webkit based browsers
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13. Project: XTalk
 Forums for web users
and Notes client users
 Allows easy ad hoc
creation of new forums
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14. Project: Source Sniffer
 Domino Designer plugin
to search source code
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15. Project: DominoDefrag
 Defragmentation
tool for Lotus Domino
databases
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16. 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
1) Comments in blog
2) Defects
3) Requests
4) Reviews and ratings
5) Discussions
6) Send feedback via email
3) Help the Technical Committee
4) Use code from OpenNTF
5) Become a member
[Note that all types of participation require an OpenNTF user account]
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17. Contribute Code
 Two ways to contribute code
 Create new project
– Simply enter your project name and click the 'create' button
 Join existing project
– Navigate to the project and contact the project leads via the 'email' link
 Steps to add a release to the catalogs of cleared project releases
 Become an approved OpenNTF contributor by signing and sending an ICLA (individual
contributor license agreements) or CCLA (corporate contributor license agreements)
 Apply the necessary license information
 Send email to ip-manager@openntf.org with a request to add release to catalog
 Wait until an OpenNTF committer has checked the release and added it
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18. Follow OpenNTF
 Blog
 Web: http://www.openntf.org/blog
 Feed: http://blog.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/stories.xml
 Mobile: http://i.openntf.org
 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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19. OpenNTF Organization
 The OpenNTF Alliance is a loose cooperation of equal members with the
common goal to provide open source applications based on Notes/Domino
 Similar to the OpenAjax.Org model - as little bureaucracy as possible, but
as much structure and as many rules as necessary to make code re-usable
and the organization efficient
 Members are expected to contribute something (e.g. code, in kind
donations, financial contributions, etc.)
 Steering Committee defines strategy and direction
 Technical Committee implements new services and web site features
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20. OpenNTF Members
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21. Intellectual Property 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
 Rights for perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, patent license to
make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the work
 IP is owned by contributor
 Contributors sign ICLAs (individual contributor license agreements) or CCLAs (corporate
contributor license agreements)
 The OpenNTF IP manager helps with licence questions and clears project
releases for the catalogs
 OpenNTF committers are a small subset of all contributors who verify
project releases before they are added to the catalogs
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22. OpenNTF in Numbers
 > 3.000.000 page visits per year
 > 68.000 registered users
 > 10.000 downloads per month
 > 300 contributors
 > 400 projects
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