Content FeedLotus Connections "redwiki" residency announced
I really do wish that IBM had published a schedule of these residencies so we knew that they were in plan, however that doesn't mean that I'm not really pleased that this one is taking place! Thanks to Paul Smith for passing this on:Residency Announcement: LO-C804-R01 Lotus Connections: How to Customize and Extend It
Benefits to Resident: Do you have experience with customizing and extending Lotus Connections or other social networking software? Do you have tips and techniques that you want to share for integrating other applications with Connections? Would you like to contribute your knowledge to a new wiki deliverable project? Or would you like to learn about these skills? If so, we want you to join our virtual team. As a participant in this remote residency, you will gain proficiency with developing a best practices guide for developing Lotus Connections applications.
Lotus and the IBM ITSO are conducting this remote residency to create a new deliverable that uses wiki technology. Wikis are a Web browser-based technology that allows remote collaboration to create a new form of online document. You can be a part of this new way to deliver quality technical documentation. Getting involved in this project will give you an opportunity to learn new collaboration tools and techniques, to learn more about customizing and extending Connections, and to pass on your knowledge to other IBM and Lotus employees, business partners, and customers. As you exchange knowledge with other highly skilled residents and work with some of the top experts in the Lotus community, you will develop a competitive edge for this product that will serve you well in deploying and extending Connections and integrating it with other applications. In addition, you will get recognition for being an author of this wiki.
This residency begins 28 Jul 2008, ends 12 Sep 2008 (6 weeks), and requires 8 residents. The residency is a Remote residency - no travel is required.
Nominations should be submitted online on the Web by 18 Jul 2008.
The residency leader is Mike Ebbers whose email address is mikeebb@us.ibm.com.
Note: ITSO pays authorized travel and living expenses for all residents, but does not compensate for the time or services of its residents. For IBMers, ITSO residency travel is pre-approved.More details below the fold.
Benefits to Resident: Do you have experience with customizing and extending Lotus Connections or other social networking software? Do you have tips and techniques that you want to share for integrating other applications with Connections? Would you like to contribute your knowledge to a new wiki deliverable project? Or would you like to learn about these skills? If so, we want you to join our virtual team. As a participant in this remote residency, you will gain proficiency with developing a best practices guide for developing Lotus Connections applications.
Lotus and the IBM ITSO are conducting this remote residency to create a new deliverable that uses wiki technology. Wikis are a Web browser-based technology that allows remote collaboration to create a new form of online document. You can be a part of this new way to deliver quality technical documentation. Getting involved in this project will give you an opportunity to learn new collaboration tools and techniques, to learn more about customizing and extending Connections, and to pass on your knowledge to other IBM and Lotus employees, business partners, and customers. As you exchange knowledge with other highly skilled residents and work with some of the top experts in the Lotus community, you will develop a competitive edge for this product that will serve you well in deploying and extending Connections and integrating it with other applications. In addition, you will get recognition for being an author of this wiki.
This residency begins 28 Jul 2008, ends 12 Sep 2008 (6 weeks), and requires 8 residents. The residency is a Remote residency - no travel is required.
Nominations should be submitted online on the Web by 18 Jul 2008.
The residency leader is Mike Ebbers whose email address is mikeebb@us.ibm.com.
Note: ITSO pays authorized travel and living expenses for all residents, but does not compensate for the time or services of its residents. For IBMers, ITSO residency travel is pre-approved.More details below the fold.
Description: The focus of this residency is on customizing and extending Lotus Connections, as well as creating applications that allow Connections to interface with other software. The goal is to provide tips and techniques to help users create attractive and easy to use applications and interfaces. Interfacing through Homepage, Profiles, Dogear, Activities, Communities, and Blogs will be covered. Widgets, TDI and the REST API will also be looked at, as well as interfacing to Sametime and Notes 8.Looks to be an interesting project...
Objectives: This residency will create a new deliverable, called "Customizing & Extending Lotus Connections", by using a Web-based wiki tool, hosted by Lotus on developerWorks. There are three major topic areas: Customizing Lotus Connections, integrating 3rd party solutions into Connections, and integration connections into 3rd party solutions. Possible activities within these three topics could include:
Rebrand and Customize Lotus Connections & Integrate 3rd Party Solutions into Lotus Connections
Lotus Connections
-Rebranding
-Customizing Banner/Footer
-Adding tab to navigator
Homepage
-Adding widgets
-Developing widgets
-Adding tab
TDI
-Describing included assembly
-Multiple sources for data (Domino, etc)
Profiles
-Sametime integration
-Adding custom fields
-TDI custom fields
-Profiles page - display custom fields
-Adding widgets
Person card
-Displaying custom fields
-Adding links
-Adding additional actions
-Integrating into existing Web/rich-client apps
Dogear
-How to add a "dogear this" button
-How to add a dynamic list of links to existing pages
Blog
Activities
-Creating Activities entry type
-Creating templates
-Leveraging the activities Quickr Linkr
-File management
Communities
-Wiki integration
-LDAP group: group or community membership as ACLs
Integrate Lotus Connections into 3rd Party Solutions and Platforms
Other Platforms
-Person Card (alone or with the other five services)
-LC Service integration
- MS SharePoint
- WebSphere Portal Server
- WebSphere portlet factory
- Lotus mashups (GA by early July)
- Lotus Widget factory
- Notes R8 Sidebar
- Notes R8 component
- Sametime
To submit a nomination, you must use the online web nomination form:
Business partners can go directly to this announcement and its online nomination form using this link:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Residents.nsf/GetResidency?OpenAgent&ID=LO-C804-R01
IBMers with access to the IBM Intranet can go directly to this announcement and its online nomination form using this link:
http://w3.itso.ibm.com/itsoapps/Residents.nsf/GetResidency?OpenAgent&ID=LO-C804-R01
All residency information is available by clicking Residencies on the IBM Redbooks Internet site at http://ibm.com/redbooks. Employees of IBM will prefer using the IBM Intranet site http://w3.itso.ibm.com. The websites fully describe the residency process and offer online nomination forms.