This Week in Lotus Stuart McIntyre & Darren Duke

Episode 115, recorded on Tuesday 30th August 2016.  We discuss the MWLUG 2016 conference, the future of IBM Domino and xPages development, what Project Toscana means for all of us, and the IDC announcement that IBM leads the Social Business marketplace for the 7th consecutive year. Oh and on our final TWiL ever, we share an exciting announcement – WTF?

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests









Jesse Gallagher (blog | twitter) is CTO at I Know Some Guys and a second-generation Domino developer. He is on the board at OpenNTF and blogs semi-regularly at frostillic.us.







Topics

We’re Back!



Just a one off, as we were all at MWLUG

TWiL archives coming back online on a brand new site… Relive the glory days at thisweekinlotus.com! Up to episode 74 now, remainder to come very soon



Introducing Jesse (0:02:17)



* Frostillicus – a Simpsons reference

* Asimov – Second Foundation

* ‘Gidgerby’ – loosely related to World of Warcraft



MWLUG (0:05:15)



Details:



Austin, August 17-19, 2016

Held at the Four Seasons, Austin

Previous locations





Overall feel and vibe of the conference



Kudos to Richard Moy, family and team…

Music plays a strong part

Amanda Bauman was the Austin liaison

Next event is pencilled in for Washington D.C. (not Washington state!)

Evolution of the event – is this now the primary North American event?



Icon US online-only in 2016









General discussion of event organisation



San Antonio trip – the Alamo



The River Walk





Stuart’s Fender Bender



Yes, North Pole, Alaska really is a place!





IBM Design Studio tour



Good intro video on YouTube – it’s a lot messier now!

IBM Design Thinking initiative



Session at Social Connections 10









Structure of event schedule





* Special cause



* Swan Songs – “Swan Songs fulfills musical wishes at the end of life by organizing private concerts for individuals with a terminal illness.”

Recorded on Wednesday 4th April 2012.  Mat Newman joins us to review AusLUG 2012, and to discuss how we can reach those Lotus and ICS advocates and users that are not part of the community today.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests















Mat Newman (blog | twitter | company) is the Director of Education for ISW, an IBM Premier business partner in Australia, who recently won both IBM ICS and IBM Websphere ANZ Business partner of the year awards.  ISW are also the folks behind WildFire! and Kudos Badges.  An IBM Notes user since 1992, Mat is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions, owner of the coolest YELLOW suit around, who by day educates Users, Administrators and Developers on IBM Software and spends his spare time keeping a bunch of people amused while they organise AusLUG.









Topics

AUSLUG is done



Was it easier or harder 2nd time around?

Biggest LUG in the world? (350 registrations)



So why do you do it?



the team behind AusLUG: Adrian Randall, Barry Sanders, John Stockbridge, Karen Hooper, Michael Little, Scott Beattie, Steve Hooper, Terry Boyd and Tony McPhail are all very single minded in this: We want to reach out to as many people as possible and provide an excellent opportunity for them to improve their skills and gain a better understanding of the technology they work with.

What’s this about the ‘bubble’?

Is our world really as small as 300 bloggers and maybe 1000 readers?

So how do we reach those outside the bubble?

Are LUGs the primary route, or are online activities like LinkedIn groups, Connections communities, Greenhouse, Facebook, Twitter etc as important?

Is the community still Notes/Domino focused, or are products like Connections and Quickr becoming more key?

How do we get more ‘outsiders’to have and use their voices?



Where do you go for AusLUG 2013?

Tips

Darren:



* Right double click in iNotes closes the current tab. At least in 8.5.3…..



Mat:



* Sametime clients for mobile devices – check out QuipIM?



Stuart:



* Shock horror, an IBM tip! IBM Sametime Video Chat Plug-in for IBM Connections Technology Preview

* And new release of Kudos Badges, 1.3. It rocks.

Recorded on Friday 23rd March 2012.  Simon Vaughan, Mac Guidera and Baan Slavens join Darren and I to talk Connections – roll out of a new release at Cardiff University, futures for the mobile apps, fix pack one for 3.0.1 and even Windows Explorer access to your Connections files.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests















Mac Guidera (blog | twitter) is a Project Manager on IBM’s Social Software Team.















Simon Vaughan (twitter) is Deputy IT Director at Cardiff University and an IBM champion















Baan Slavens (twitter) is a Project Manager on the IBM Social Software Team and is responsible for social mobile solutions.









Topics

Cardiff just upgraded to Connections 3.0.1



What’s Connections being used for?

Will it be rolled out to students as well as staff?

Is mobile access in demand?  Are Cardiff allowing users to access from mobile?

Connections mobile clients



What has the take up been like so far?



What’s coming next?

Multiple server access

Profiles integration with address books

Customisation of apps to fit organisation changes

Native files access



Connections as a platform for development



As Social Business develops, do we see Connections as becoming more of a development platform?

Developers need to understand OpenSocial

Will we see Connections competing with Portal as an integration point for multiple applications



Connections 3.0.1.1 released



What’s included?



Fixes

New features

MS IE 9 and Firefox 9 support

Redhat Linux 6.1 support

Sametime 8.5.2 Proxy support

Issue with Chrome duplicate headers also fixed 🙂





Forums/Posts configuration etc

Was the ‘Super Community admin view’feature incorporated in this release?

How is it installed?

New Update Installer required

Should all customers upgrade?



Connections plugin for Windows Explorer released



What does it do?

How is it installed/deployed?

How does it compare with the Notes plugin for Files?

Can you upload multiple files?

Does it obey quotas etc?

Can you have multiple Connections servers configured?

drag and drop of files into Connections files

Video by Luis Benitez



Connections 4 was previewed at Lotusphere 2012



What are the highlights?

When will it be available?

Which features are you most excited about?



Tips

Darren:



Veeam. Best virtual backup and replication solution on the market. And sold by STS 🙂



Baan:



Open documents in Connections app on the iOS platform by pressing and holding attachments.



Mac:



Mac users, use the files plug-in for Notes to drag and share files from your machine to Connections.

Recorded on Friday 30th March 2012. Darren joins Mat Newman and the crew at AusLUG 2012 for live This Week in Lotus review of the conference. Darren and I discuss RIMs demise, Connections101.net and the rise of the LUG.  Lastly we have some excellent interviews made by Sean Cull at BLUG.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Topics

RIM takes a tumble

Connections101.net

AUSLUG 2012 (Sorry for the poor sound quality)

BLUG 2012



No tips this week, back next time!

Episode 92 recorded on Friday 9th March 2012.  Mike McGarel joins Darren and Stuart to discuss the XWork Server offering  6 months on, the new OpenNTF XPages development contest, a new and improved xpages.info site and community efforts to improve IBM Connections documentation.

[The XXX Episode – That’s XWork, XPages contest and xpages.info, hope that still proves arousing ?]

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests















Mike McGarel (blog | Twitter) , As a Collaborative Solutions Developer for Czarnowski Display Services, “XPages marks the spot”in my career right now. All of our new development efforts have been XPages-focused for over a year.  I am Vice President of GRANITE, the Chicago-based ICS user group. I also help out with various community get-togethers such as the Blogger Open at Lotusphere and the annual Midwest Lotus User Group conference.









Topics

XWork Server Update – TNG



Ed asks what next for the newest member of the Domino family

“Social Business Databases”?

ISV chicken and the egg issues?

“. . . awareness is lower than we expected at this point in time.”Proof that it needs its own marketing campaign?



Third OpenNTF Development Content



Sponsored by We4IT

Deadline: June 3rd, 2012

Two categories (Controls and Applications). Each category will have 2 winners. The Control category winners will receive $800.00 each, the Application category winners will receive $1600.00 each. The winners can choose between Amazon vouchers or payment via Paypal.



“New look”of http://xpages.info



Fantastic work by Bruce and the team



Connections Community Documentation



Paul Mooney and Gab Davis are about to undertake a mammoth task

Will it help?

Why is it needed?

IBM Connections Quickstart for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino – 3 week engagement



iPad Fever



Stresses the need to get up to speed on mobile development. If you’re company is still thinking about mobilizing your apps, it time to stop thinking and start doing.

So how many iPad 3’s will Stuart be buying? 😉



MWLUG 2012



Dates: August 15th – 17th

Location: Pittsburgh, PA at the Omni William Penn Hotel.

5 Tracks: Administration, Application Development, Business Cases and Strategy, New Technology and Integration, and Social Business

YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/mwlug (videos from 2009-2011)

Website: new XPages-based site plans to debut at the end of March

Call for abstracts:  Planned for mid-April 2012



Tips

Darren:



Notepad++. Notepad they way it should have been.

Episode 93 recorded on Thursday 15th March 2012.  Sharon Bellamy and Femke Goedhart join Darren and Stuart to discuss the upcoming user groups in Belgium and the Netherlands, how to recover from Connections database failure and why Yammer’s business model is so persuasive.

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests















Femke Goedhart (twitter | blog | company) is a Business Consultant at Silverside, The Netherlands. She specialises in Collaboration, Social Business, Document Management and Workflow solutions.

IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions and enthusiast on all things Social.















Sharon Bellamy (blog | twitter | company) is a Business Consultant at Applicable, working with IBM Connections implementations and anything WebSphere or Lotus related IBM Champion, iSeries fan girl and friend of Mat Newman.









Topics

BLUG 2012



March 22-23, Antwerp

Fantastic lineup

Listen to TWiL 91 for all the details

What are you looking forward to?

Social Panel



Social Business Event NL / NLLUG 201



http://socbiz.nl/

May 15 & 16, Feyenoord stadium Rotterdam

4 tracks: Admin/Development/Best Practises/Business  both Dutch as well as international speakers

Double conference: Social Business aimed both at new and existing customers – NLLUG aimed at existing user group

focus in business tracks on Line of Business: HR, Marketing, Communications and Management.



Lotusphere 2013 site already up, and looking good!

Connections issues dealt with this week:



Recovering Connections from database failure



Learnt a lot this week

Lose your recovery logs and next time your system restarts, the DB2 DB will not come back up

Crash Recovery fails

DB2 goes down when Connections connects

Speak to IBM support fast!





Media Widget timeout

Connections custom theme issue



Silverside become a Kudos partner

Yammer – 500.000 users in NL makes it second biggest market for Yammer after US.

Product Wiki design



UXLab are looking for help on this – they need volunteers

If you want to improve the product wikis please volunteer – lotusdoc@us.ibm.com



Tips

Femke:



www.yoono.com great social stream tool to have as a desktop app but for me most particular to have in the sidebar of my bro...