New Community Server: OpenNTF.net

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.