The IBM Connect 2014 conference takes place next month. I am going once again and look forward to the atmosphere, the sessions, and most importantly the people.
I arrive Friday evening January 24th and leave again Friday January 31st. I will be staying at the Dolphin hotel.
See you there?
Thank you Bruce for all you have done for OpenNTF and the community since 2001.
I have worked with you as a director on the OpenNTF board since October 2011. We have spoken together at IBM Connect 2013 on our open source project Collaboration Today.
You are a great friend and mentor and I always enjoy our chats and talks on Skype.
Good luck with your new adventure at Clark College.
The IBM Connect 2013 (including Lotusphere 2013) conference takes place in January 2013. I am going once again and really look forward to the atmosphere and the sessions, and most importantly the people.
I arrive Friday evening January 25th and leave again Friday February 1st. I will be staying at the Disney’s Yacht Club Resort.
See you there?
One of the highlights from Lotusphere 2012 was the accouncement of the next feature release of Lotus Notes called Lotus Notes Social Edition.
Lotus Notes Social Edition features a new homepage with activity streams and embedded apps (embedded experiences) using open standards such as OpenSocial. From the Lotus Notes homepage a user can interact with an external application without leaving the home page (collaboratio in-context). Lotus iNotes (the web mail component for Lotus Notes) will also support activity streams and embedded apps. The new homepage looks similar to the activity streams in the upcoming IBM Connections 4.0 release.
XPages and the Extension Library Social Enabler toolkit can be used to implemenet applications that support activity streams and OpenSocial gadgets in order to create embedded apps. The Social Enabler Toolkit is currently only part of the OpenNTF release and will be part of Upgrade Pack 2.
Social Edition also features a brand-new and more simple UI for mail (for both the Lotus Notes client and for iNotes webmail):
In between now (8.5.3) and Social Edition we will see a 8.5.4 release with features required to be able to deploy the Social Edition upgrade on top of Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.4. In 2012 we will also see the release of Upgrade Pack 2 (IBM supported Extension Library with new features currently only available in the experimental part of the OpenNTF Extension Library).
Lotus Domino 8.5.4 is planned to support SAML and oAUTH for authentication. With Domino supporting oAUTH it will be possible to bring XPages applications into the context of other applications.
Finally, the Lotus Notes app browser plugin for Firefox/Windows was presented at Lotusphere. This plugin is a lightweight Lotus Notes client in the browser that can run Notes client applications. This enables organizations to focus on implementing new XPages web applications and have their existing/old Notes client applications use the plugin.
Ed Brill from IBM has blogged about Lotus Notes and Domino Social Edition and also posted his “Messaging and Collaboration Strategy” session from Lotusphere on Slideshare.
Chris Reckling from IBM has blogged about the Notes and iNotes announcements from the Lotusphere 2012 OGS.
At the Lotusphere 2012 Opening General Session (OGS) and throughout the conference IBM showed the next version of IBM Connections (to be called IBM Connections 4.0?). My first impression of the next release of IBM Connections is that it looks really, really great! Among many things it features exciting new elements such as activity streams, social mail and embedded apps (using open standards such as Activity Streams and OpenSocial gadgets).
Embedded apps for activity streams can be created using e.g. XPages. An embedded app makes it possible for the user to take action directly from the invidual post in the activity stream (without leaving IBM Connections).
The integrated mail and calendar of IBM Connections (social mail) will support Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange as backend mail servers. This is an interesting move that makes the underlying mail server in use irrelevant to the IBM Connections deployment.
IBM Connections 4 also includes community metrics (to track e.g. adoption rates), optional realtime group video chat using a plugin from Polycom, ECM library integration and realtime co-editing of documents, presentations and spreadsheets using IBM Docs (IBM Docs is currently in beta on IBM Greenhouse).
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I am going to Lotusphere 2012 in Orlando – and I look forward to it!
Here are some of the things I plan to do and attend:
Look for me and let’s see who says hi first 🙂 See you there!
Lotusphere 2012 takes place January 15 – January 19, 2012 in Orlando, Florida – and I am very happy to report that I will participate in the conference. This will be my first ever Lotusphere in the US (I participated in the Lotusphere conference in Berlin in 1999).
I arrive Friday evening (January 13) and leave again Thursday evening (January 19). I will be staying at the Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, if you need me 🙂
I look forward to meet a lot of interesting people from the Lotus community – most of whom I have only been in contact with through blogging, Twitter, Skype, mails etc. and never met before. See you soon!
Update: I have created a Lanyrd event for Lotusphere 2012.
Recently Chris Toohey held a contest/giveaway where the price was his review copy of the “Lotus Notes Domino 8: Upgrader’s Guide: What’s new in the latest Lotus Notes Domino Platform
Since I live in Denmark and John James lives in Canada the cost of sending the book equals the price of buying the eBook itself – so I thought that I would find alternative ways of sending the book to John James.
So, what better way to get the book to John James than by the help of the community? So the book will be transported to Lotusphere and then onwards to John James by the help of Bo Falkenberg and Marie Scott. I will give my review copy of the book to Bo who will bring it from Denmark to Orlando, Florida for the Lotusphere 2010 conference where Marie Scott will take over and bring the book home from Lotusphere in order to finally deliver it to John James!
Enjoy the book, John! 🙂
Update January 28: John has received my review copy thanks to Bo Falkenberg and Marie Scott.
The Lotusphere Comes to You program has been announced so if you did not attend Lotusphere 2009 then here is your chance to see and hear some of the highlights!
Ed Brill will be visiting Denmark on March 17 in Århus and on March 18 in Copenhagen. Furthermore Ed will participate in a user group event with the Danish notesnet.dk community on March 17.
Lotusphere 2009 kicks off in 2 weeks. The conference starts January 18 and ends on January 22. Ed Brill just shared in the LinkedIn Lotusphere group that the presentations are already online and available for all registered conference participants at Lotushpere 2009 Online.
Participants and speakers at the conference include many from the Lotus blogosphere. The Lotusphere blog has lots of interesting “Share your story” posts with some of these participants. So head over to the Lotusphere blog and read their stories.
As usual Ben Langhinrichs from Genii Software provides a Lotusphere agenda database with all the official sessions making it easy for you to plan your Lotusphere.
Unfortunately I am not going to Lotusphere 2009. Perhaps I wil see you at Lotusphere 2010! Enjoy the conference.
