New Community Server: OpenNTF.net

Graham Acres | 8 hours ago | Comments
Announcing a new community Domino server: OpenNTF.net

OpenNTF has launched a new Domino server that is available for community use via Notes client only, for collaboration, reference material and co-authoring community projects. We have a launch video here.

Long-time members of the community will remember that Lotus hosted a Domino server at notes.net that held reference materials that you could access directly from your Notes client.  While our new server doesn't contain the same depth of resources that server did, our goal is to offer a similar resource that can grow and become something similar.

You can access the server from your Notes client at home.openntf.net/openntf-net

What is on the Server?

Start with the Welcome database, OpenNTF Welcome! [welcome.nsf] to learn about the server contents and how you can use the server.  Then there are a couple of useful reference databases: Notes.ini [projects\notes-ini.nsf] which contains over 3,000 notes.ini settings, and xsp.properties [public\xspprops.nsf] which contains a reference of xsp properties for XPages developers.  The notes.ini settings database has been curated by Daniel Nashed from a previous version that was maintained for years by Rudi Knegt and Bruce Lill.  The xsp.properties database was contributed by Heiko Voigt and his team.  

There is also a test database for people wanting to work with Domino IQ [dominoiq.nsf], contributed by Daniel Nashed.

These are all available without the need to cross certify.  

Cross Certification

To be able to contribute to the reference databases, or to join a community development project on the server you must be cross certified.  The Welcome database contains information and a form you can fill out to get your ID cross certified.

What Else?

From this humble beginning the server is ready to grow with the community.  Being an open source community, we are interested in ideas from everyone, and have the connections and resources to be able to organize people to work on those ideas, so let us know what you think.  If you haven't yet, join the Discord community and jump into the chat.  Obviously we have to be careful about copyrighted material, so a lot of the old Lotus material such as the Knowledge Base cannot be stored on the server, but we want to fill it with new ideas and material.

Community Project: Verify the Notes.ini Settings

Our first community effort is around verifying that the notes.ini settings we have are still valid.  If you are able to check one or more, or you know that one or more still work, or don't work, we'd love to have your input.  You need to be cross certified to participate of course, so make that your first step.  Then hop onto Discord and let us know you'd like to join and we will connect you with the project team.

As always, your feedback is welcome!

A big Thank You to Daniele Vistalli, Daniel Nashed, Roberto Boccadoro and Kim Greene for their efforts to make this server available for the community.

May Webinar: Domino for Newbies - Administration

Jesse Gallagher | 2 weeks ago | Comments
Throughout 2025, OpenNTF and HCL will host "Open Mic" sessions alongside our regular webinars. For a full introduction and announcement video, see our blog post at https://openntf.org/main.nsf/blog.xsp?permaLink=GACS-DCQL2A

Domino for Newbies - Administration

This webinar is the second in our series of OpenNTF’s “Domino for Newbies” sessions.

In this “Domino Administration for Newbies” session we will cover the components that make up a Domino server, mail routing functions of Domino, how to monitor your servers, security fundamentals, handling of IDs, Domino replication and high availability, and how to perform critical server maintenance.
Whether you’re new to Domino or are responsible for Domino but don’t feel you have a good understanding of the environment, this session is for you. Even experienced administrators may pick up a helpful tip or two.

If you want to learn more about Domino Development for Newbies, you can find the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeaMc2z8crA

This webinar will take place on May 15th from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1160856027607811168

Engage

This month, many of both HCL and OpenNTF personnel will be at Engage 2025, taking place in The Hague from May 19 - 21. If you are able to make it, we encourage you to talk to those you meet there and attend as many sessions as you can. OpenNTF board and community members will be involved in many sessions, in particular De06 on Tuesday, May 20 at 14:30 local time: "OpenNTF.net - a new initiative for the Community".

In addition, there will be the following presentations from our current directors:

Serdar Basegmez:
Wednesday, May 21 | 08:00 - 08:45 | 1.5 Breakout 3
How to Master data integration from HCL Notes and LotusScript with MS365 using the MS Graph APIs
Wednesday, May 21 | 11:30 - 12:30 | 1.9 Breakout 4
Transforming Domino Applications with LLMs: DominoIQ and Beyond

Heiko Voigt:
Wednesday, May 21 | 08:00 - 08:45 | 1.5 Breakout 3
How to Master data integration from HCL Notes and LotusScript with MS365 using the MS Graph APIs
Wednesday, May 21 | 15:30 - 16:15 | 1.3 Breakout 1
The HCL Domino AppDev State of the Nation - 2025 Edition

Keith Brooks:
Wednesday, May 21 | 13:30 - 14:15 | 1.10 Breakout 5
Saving Your Domino Infrastructure from Myths With Legends

Roberto Boccadoro:
Wednesday, May 21 | 13:30 - 14:15 | 1.5 Breakout 3
Customize Verse without being a Developer

We hope to see you there!

Find information about past and upcoming webinars, hangouts, and Open Mics at https://openntf.org/webinars

April Webinar: Domino for Newbies - Development

Jesse Gallagher | 2 months ago | Comments
The April webinar will be the first in a series of "Domino for Newbies", this one focusing on the basics of development. The intent is to provide useful tips for dev newcomers, whether they're administrators dipping their toes or new hires looking at an existing Domino codebase. This will cover classic design elements and the general structure of a Notes database.

This webinar will take place on April 17th from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1933223362992026975