OpenNTF November Webinar: Who Says HCL Notes Can't Be Agentic? Let Hermes Be Your Notes-Butler!

Jesse Gallagher | 9 hours ago | Comments
In the next big wave of personal assistants, systems like OpenClaw, Hermes or Odysseus are taking over your desktop, promising the 24/7 available personal assistant that works while we sleep or do other stuff. We have been curious - would we be able to get Hermes to work with the Notes Client and work on our email and calendar and even with business apps? And guess what - with a little bit of OSGi-Love and some Java glue, we can have our own personal HCL Notes Butler - let us show you how this can be done.

This webinar will take place on November 26 from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9079440925964669525

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

Why OpenNTF Has a Patreon

Keith Brooks | 6 days ago | Comments
For more than two decades, OpenNTF has been built around a simple idea: the Notes/Domino community can make the ecosystem better by sharing what we build and by helping each other.

Developers contribute code and projects. Administrators share tools and solutions to problems others are likely to encounter. Volunteers spend their time maintaining OpenNTF, organising activities, helping contributors, and keeping things running behind the scenes.

Much of that work is voluntary, but running OpenNTF itself is not free.

There are costs for hosting, infrastructure, software and services, events, and other activities. There is also work involved in maintaining and modernising the infrastructure, managing projects, dealing with licensing and legal matters, and supporting contributors.

Over the years, OpenNTF has been fortunate to receive support from IBM and, more recently, HCL. That support has made many of our activities possible, and continues to be important to us.

Earlier this year, we added another way for the wider community to support OpenNTF directly: Patreon.

Patreon allows individuals and organisations to make regular contributions at a level that works for them. Even relatively small recurring contributions can help us plan ahead, rather than depending entirely on occasional sponsorship or funding for individual activities.

The money can help us:

- cover infrastructure and operational costs;
- maintain and modernise OpenNTF services;
- support events and other community activities;
- experiment with new projects and initiatives; and
- keep OpenNTF sustainable as an independent, community-run organisation.

Having a Patreon presence does not mean putting OpenNTF behind a paywall. Our purpose remains the same: supporting open source development and collaboration around the Notes and Domino ecosystem.

Projects, resources, and the work of the community continue to be available to everyone.

We are also looking at perks for Patreon supporters. These may include recognition, discussions with the OpenNTF team, event-related benefits, swag, and other ways to participate more closely. The intention is to give supporters something useful or enjoyable in return, without taking things away from people who cannot or do not want to contribute financially.

OpenNTF has never been just a website or a collection of downloads. It exists because developers, administrators, business partners, volunteers, and others have contributed code, time, knowledge, infrastructure, and funding over many years.

Patreon is simply another way to contribute.

We already have a growing group of patrons supporting OpenNTF, and we are very grateful to them.

If OpenNTF has been useful to you or your organisation, and you would also like to support our work, you can join them on Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/cw/OpenNTF

OpenNTF October Webinar: Modern Observability for HCL Domino with Open Source and OpenTelemetry

Jesse Gallagher | 1 month ago | Comments
Modern Domino environments need more than traditional server monitoring. In this session, Daniel Nashed explains how Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, VictoriaLogs, Blackbox Exporter, and OpenTelemetry can be combined into a modern observability platform for HCL Domino.

We will explore how metrics, logs, events, and service checks flow through the architecture, including Domino-specific open-source tools such as domprom, domfwd, and otelfwd.

Rather than just demonstrating the tools, we will explain how and why they work together, based on real-world development, integration, and testing. Some of these components are also used by HCL in the Domino Container project.

This webinar will take place on October 22 from 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6162462965431239766

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