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OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee Meeting Minutes - February 23, 2010

Scott Johnsen | 4:36:03 PM Monday, March 8, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

OpenNTF Steering Committee Meeting February 23rd, 2010

In attendance:
John Head ,Justin Hill, Ludwig Nastansky, Bruce Elgort, Niklas Heidloff, Mike Wetherbee (for Scott Johnsen), Corey Davis

Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine

Not in attendance:

Nathan Freeman, Brent Peters

IP Working Committee

Committers - Project got committed to Apache catalog without IP Manager approval. Discussions ensued - Niklas is now clear on the IP rules and will not commit code to catalogs until a new and/or temporary IP Manager is sourced.

IP Manager is required for all submissions to the catalog

Niklas asked about projects that were deemed "simple" in nature which wouldn't require much IP review.

Need an update from Nathan on status of funds for acquiring Peter Tanners services.

Motion - To allow a legal resource to act as a temporary IP manager GPL and IP APL to approve scanning of code in projects.  John would be the IP OpenNTF Manager working via proxy with the legal resource. The motion was passed with all in favor.

John will follow up with Nathan. Check on publicity of this.

Remember there is an IP working group call on Friday morning.  John asked the committee for feedback on how to get more people.

Strategy Working Committee Niklas liked the meeting held by Nathan and found it to be informative. Nathan will report on the meeting on at the March 9th meeting.

Technical Working Committee

Videos posted which showed various OpenNTF projects Mobile controls added to allow development of mobile applications Samples from IBM coming soon.

Marketing Committee Efforts

Open Items

2010 OpenNTF Agenda - What and where is it.

Some thoughts: Consider OpenLotus Branding - more broad based awareness Concept of AppStore

11 ET - This is the time of the SC meetings. Best times of week to work. Bruce to reach out to SC members to determine best way to handle.

Steve Castledinee mentioned the election results for the new OpenNTF Chairman whereby Bruce Elgort was elected Chairman.

Meeting adjourned.

New List of OpenNTF Members from Bruce Lill

Niklas Heidloff | 12:38:23 AM Monday, March 8, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

Bruce Lill has implemented a new page on OpenNTF with a list of the OpenNTF members - see here.

This page has been live for several weeks. We keep adding logos and descriptions. There is also room for more members :). See here for more information about membership.

OpenNTF at Entwicklercamp

Niklas Heidloff | 12:33:54 AM Friday, March 5, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

I will attend Entwicklercamp in Germany next week and will have two sessions:

1. Introduction of OpenNTF projects: Discussion next gen, XPages framework and some Dojo projects
2. Closing session: More than 20 short demos of new OpenNTF projects

Looking forward to meeting many Notes/Domino developers there.

Featured OpenNTF Project of the Month: xTalk

Bruce Elgort | 12:11:01 AM Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

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The xTalk discussion forum application is a 100% XPages application written for IBM Lotus Notes And Domino 8.5.1 utilizing XPages in the Notes Client and was developed by Declan Lynch.

Styled after many of the popular PHP web forums, xTalk brings the power of web forums to your Domino environment is an easy to deploy and configure application. Using XPages in the Notes client users will experience the same interface no mater how they view it.

Build your first iPhone App in five Minutes via XPages and iUI

Niklas Heidloff | 11:21:25 PM Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

We've published a mini framework to build your first webkit based app for smartphones via XPages and iUI in five minutes.

You can download the release from here and report defects and feature requests here.

In this video I show how to build an iPhone app for the OpenNTF XPages Wiki project in less than five minutes. The wiki is not the best sample (since it converts wiki markup to HTML) but it shows the base concepts.

New Version of OpenNTF Mobile and iUI Teaser

Niklas Heidloff | 12:06:22 AM Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

We've updated the mobile web site with the ability to navigate to more blog entries than just the last 10 via a 'more' button.

You can download the code here and go to the project to post defects and requests. For both view paging and to open documents Ajax is used so that no browser refresh/flickering occurs. The view paging has been implemented via HTTP requests (http://.../All?ReadViewEntries&Start=5&Count=5&OutputFormat=JSON).

3D History Thumbnail Viewer for Lotus Notes

Niklas Heidloff | 3:03:17 AM Monday, March 1, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

Hiroyuki Okamoto has contributed a 3d history viewer for IBM Lotus Notes. You can download this plugin from here.

You can start 3D History Thumbnail Viewer by pressing History toolbar button or by selecting menu Tools -> History.

Left key: move left.
Right key: move right.
Up key: switch display mode. (currently supports “slide” and “stack” display mode.
ESC key: switch between normal screen mode and full screen mode.
Enter key: Switch to the selected application tab.

XPages dynamic View Control from John Mackey

Niklas Heidloff | 12:20:50 AM Friday, February 26, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

John Mackey has contributed his XPages dynamic view control - see here.

This control builds dynamically a view in the user interface allowing to pass in parameters like view name, columns, link column etc. John describes this control in his blog in more detail.

OpenNTF announces new Chairperson

Steve Castledine | 6:22:13 AM Thursday, February 25, 2010 | Full Story and Comments
OpenNTF is pleased to announce Bruce Elgort as its new Chairperson as a result of the recent rotational vote.

Bruce obviously comes with high experience of working with OpenNTF and the Lotus community at large of which we wish to further expand involvement with, in addition to partners and customers alike. We are delighted he has decided to take on this challenging position.

The steering committee would also like to thank Vince Schuurman, who remains on the committee, for his work and efforts during his tenure in this role.

XPages API Inspector Control from Tommy Valand

Niklas Heidloff | 1:02:41 AM Thursday, February 25, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

Tommy Valand has contributed his XPages API inspector control to OpenNTF - see here.

The control can be embedded in any XPage. You can then select a component in the web user interface and get the methods and properties of the corresponding class in the XPages API. Tommy describes this tool in his blog entry.


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