Serdar Basegmez
I just read Ed's post, "GBS and IBM hosting Application Development Workshops" which reminds me our latest project within Turkish Lotus User Group...
As you may know, we recently created a little team inside LUGTR and we are planning some activities targeting university students with coordination of IBM Academic Initiative. Our primary aim is te raise brand awareness within these students.
Today was a spare day between project engagements...
So I decided to deal with the LUGTR web site, especially Quickr issues of the site. There were a problem with notifications. There wasn't notifications in fact! Empty bodies... Later, I figured out that in qpconfig.xml file, the template location has been defined with "\" instead of "/". Since it is working on SUSE Linux, the engine could not find the templates.
That was easy. I tested some notifications and saw that these will not be useful at all. There are some deficiencies in notification engine of Lotus Quickr for Domino.
Last week, Ed Brill announced the expected shift in Express licensing. IBM lifted all major limitations (except the user count) from Express Licensing.
In fact, this is a major discount for some companies under 1000 seats.
In his LUGTR 2011 speech, Ed also informed us that license agreement will be simplified as the next release... That was an ongoing issue for sometime as I posted before.
IBM announced that Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 FP2 packages are ready to be downloaded. The fix pack contains several critical fixes and is recommended for all 8.5.2 users.
I have just finished uploading opening track videos, including myself, Ed Brill and Ozgur Uckan \& Denis Sener...
A second suggestion to IBM. They should acquire Snapps. At least, Rob Novak should be included in a payroll :)
I think that this fantastic team has leveraged the market value of Lotus Quickr up to another level...
Today, I am starting a new topic...
IBM has an 'excellent' strategy based on acquisitions. This strategy provides a fast growing product portfolio. If you have enough financial power and ability to govern different companies under a large umbrella, 'Growth by Acquisition' would be a great strategy in this market...
I am collecting photos and videos taken in the conference. Julian and Manfred provided some and here they are :)
About videos, I used a Sony HD camera for recording sessions. In a limited time, we failed to test light conditions. Video quality is extremely low. There were also problems with the sound. For example Uffe's speech has been soundless :(
After a long journey, we finally passed the conference... We recorded everything but I didn't have any chance to view videos yet. I will put them online if they are good enough...