OpenNTF is happy to announce the third development
contest on OpenNTF.Org
sponsored by IBM Business Partner We4IT.
Contribute your open source project between now and June 3th and have a
chance to win $800 for controls and $1600 for full applications.
With this contest OpenNTF and We4IT want
to further increase the number of XPages open source projects to help with
the adoption of XPages.
Stefan Sucker, CEO of We4IT, calls for the third entries to the third
XPages Development Contest saying:
"For a quite a while now I have felt
that the future of Notes applications has lain in the browser. And
over recent months this view has been supported by the amount of XPages
development work that We4IT has been commissioned to deliver. The
majority of this work has been in transforming existing applications into
modern web apps.
I know it can be difficult to learn new
technologies; we have been down this road ourselves. Now we would
like to help encourage other developers in their own journey.
In the last OpenNTF competition, both
the number and quality of the entries was impressive. Ultimately
it was these outstanding and innovative results that have led us to again,
to exclusively sponsor the OpenNTF XPages Development Contest"
Bruce Elgort, OpenNTF chairman, said:
"The developers who have entered
the first two development contests have given the XPages development community
an incredible wealth of controls, library controls, mobile, social and
full blown apps. With the 3rd contest I see this trend continuing and expect
to see a significant increase in the number of developers and entires that
are submitted to the contest. Good luck to all who participate and a big
thank you in advance from the IBM XPages community."
We ask participants to contribute XPages source code for 1. controls and
2. applications.
1) Re-usable controls can be custom controls or library/Java controls.
Reusable controls have typically parameters to configure and use them in
different contexts. The controls need to be documented to make them consumable
by other OpenNTF developers. Especially for custom controls it needs to
be documented which design elements to copy to use the controls in other
NSFs. There are many good examples on http://xpages.info/contest.
2) Applications contain or integrate all necessary functionality for users
to fulfill certain tasks. Examples are the IBM templates, e.g. teamroom,
or other examples listed on http://xpages.info/downloads.
Applications also need to be reusable, e.g. by externalizing all custom
specific configuration, providing customizability options, documentation,
etc.
Implementation: Participants can choose how to implement their applications.
There are no prerequisites to use certain technologies other than that
the solutions need to work in XPages. All contributions need to work on
Lotus Domino 8.5.3. They can also require Upgrade Pack 1 or the latest
XPages Extension Library from OpenNTF.
Awards and Recognition
There will be different prizes for the two categories. All prizes will
be cash prizes this time. Winners can decide whether they want to receive
Amazon vouchers or whether they want to get paid via PayPal.
1) Controls
The two winners of this category will receive $800 each.
2) Applications
The two winners of this category will receive $1600 each.
OpenNTF will also create videos and screenshots (if not done by contributors),
blog about these controls and have them put on XPages.info
as done for the first and second contest.
Criteria
We'll use the following criteria when judging the contributions:
1) Reusability, consumability and documentation
2) "Wow" factor and completeness of solution
3) Overall business value
4) Amount of work to build the submission(s)
5) New this time: Special consideration will be given to submissions of
social and/or mobile applications
The judging will be done by OpenNTF again but we invite people from the
community to participate in the judging. In that case they obviously cannot
participate themselves and cannot judge submissions from colleagues in
the same company.
Eligibility
Everyone can participate and submit nominations, with the exception of
the OpenNTF Board of Directors. While members of the Board may not personally
submit a nomination, other employees of their respective companies may
submit. A contribution can be submitted by more than one person but the
award would have to be shared between the submitters. Winners should also
be aware of any rules that their employer, state or local company has regarding
participating in contests and winning prizes. A nomination can be done
by more than one person but the award would have to be splitted.
Prerequisites for valid Submissions
Any open source project may be submitted for consideration for this contest
that has been accepted for either the Apache or GPL catalog on OpenNTF.
All snippets need to be posted under the Apache license in XSnippets. The
following points describe in details these prerequisites.
1. Authors need to be approved OpenNTF contributors, e.g. they need to
be covered by an ICLA or CCLA (details).
2. Submissions have to be posted under one of the four accepted OpenNTF
licences. For example for Apache submissions the Apache license has to
be applied correctly (details).
3. Submissions must have been cleared by the ip-manager at openntf dot
org so that they can be added to either the Apache or GPL catalog. Contact
the IP manager if you need to use third party code.
4. Submissions will be evaluated on Domino 8.5.3 with or without extension
library. Non-working submissions or submissions that judges cannot get
to work will not be considered. No other product versions will be used
for evaluation.
5. Submissions will be evaluated on the most common browsers Firefox, IE,
Chrome and Safari (latest releases). If you're aware of issues of your
submission in certain browsers please let us know.
6. Submissions need at least to provide two or three paragraphs of documentation,
some screenshots and in the optimal case a short demo video (all in English).
7. All new project releases are eligible that have been created after the
second contest ended (12/02/2011).
Submissions
You need to have the code on OpenNTF and send a mail to support at openntf
dot org and ip-manager at openntf dot org (for IP clearance).
Schedule
June 3th 2012: Deadline for submissions
One or two weeks later: Announcement of winners
Promotion
OpenNTF would appreciate if you could
help us to promote this contest.
Thank you to all XPages StackOverflow Contributors
Wed, May 23rd 2012 12:29a Niklas Heidloff At the beginning of this year there
were some discussions
in the XPages community how to reach out to new developers and how to leverage
other communities and web sites. As a result the community suggested to
use StackOverflow for questions and answers.
After 3.5 months 378 questions have
been created under the xpages
tag. Even better, the answer
rates are really good.
Personally I think this demonstrates
well the power and strength of our community. StackOverflow has [read] Keywords: xpages community
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On OpenNTF: CKEditor Plugin to view and edit inline Attachments
Tue, May 22nd 2012 12:32a Niklas Heidloff Weihang Chen has submitted a new project called Inline Attachment CKEditor to the XPages development contest sponsored by the IBM business partner We4IT.
The project contains a plugin to CKEditor which allows viewing and editing attachments inline like in the Notes rich text editor. For this plugin to work against existing Notes documents with rich text fields the project comes with a migration tool which extracts the attachments and puts them in separate documents. [read] Keywords: ibm
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On OpenNTF: Generic Tree Navigator
Mon, May 21st 2012 12:49a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages Development Contest
sponsored by IBM business partner We4IT,
Weihang Chen has contributed a new project - Generic
Tree navigator based on ITreeNode.
Note that you need FP1
to run it. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Two more Weeks left to submit your XPages Code to win $4800
Fri, May 18th 2012 12:41a Niklas Heidloff The OpenNTF
XPages development contest sponsored
by the IBM business partner We4IT
is still going on.
Contribute your open source project
between now and June 3th and have a chance to win $800 for controls and
$1600 for full applications.
So far we've received 16
submissions. While there are already
quite a lot of controls, there are relative few applications. Applications
contain all functionality end users need to fulfill certain tasks. Applications
can/should provide [read] Keywords: connections
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On OpenNTF: New Controls - Personal Favorites and anonymous Ratings
Wed, May 16th 2012 12:46a Niklas Heidloff Serdar Basegmez has developed a new
version of his project xInvolve
Custom Control. The new version
contains several new functionality, most importantly personal favorites
and anonymous ratings. You can try these functions in the XSnippets
application.
Watch the mini
video to see the controls in action. [read] Keywords: application
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Improvements to XSnippets: Search and Favorites
Mon, May 14th 2012 12:26a Serdar Basegmez After a long time (3 months I guess)
a new set of features has been implemented on OpenNTF
XSnippets site.
In addition to a couple of bug fixes, we have implemented an extended search
functionality, OpenSearch support and 'My Favorites' feature...
Search Improvements
We have added some usability enhancement to search. See the video.
First of all, if you click a letter or number key on the XSnippets site,
search bar will be automatically activated now. This is probably [read] Keywords: bug
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Some important changes to Project Releases
Tue, May 8th 2012 10:12p Peter Tanner Until recently, the “In Catalog” field
in the Project and Release pages normally displayed “No”. This has now
been fixed – at least for the individual project releases. So now you
can tell, on a release by release basis, if it has gone through the IP
verification process, and has had its documentation and functionality checked.
The "In Catalog" field for
projects is still bogus - and will eventually be removed - as the verification
process is base [read] Keywords: community
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New OpenNTF Project: Export to XLS, RTF, PDF and HTML
Tue, May 8th 2012 1:44a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages Development Contest
sponsored by IBM business partner We4IT,
Stephan Schramm and Christian Annawald have contributed a new project ITWU
Exporter on XPages. The project
comes with a set of APIs to export data from Notes databases to XLS, RTF,
PDF and HTML. These APIs are Java APIs that can be invoked from SSJS in
XPages.
The project uses various other open
source projects for the core export functionality:
Watch the mini
video to see the exporter in [read] Keywords: ibm
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New OpenNTF Project: XPage Standby Dialog Custom Control
Mon, May 7th 2012 1:07a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages Development Contest
sponsored by We4IT,
Fredrik Norling has contributed an XPage Standby
Dialog Custom Control. The control
brings up a busy indicator when partial refreshs are done from an XPage.
It's the same code as previously submitted
as XSnippet but the new project allows now importing the control via the
new Designer
import tool.
Here is a mini
video and a screenshot: [read] Keywords: xpages development
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