Events / People 

Announcing the HCL Ambassador Class of 2023  

By HCLSoftware | 2/8/23 1:21 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Wannes Rams

HCL Digital Solutions is proud to highlight recipients of the much-anticipated HCL Ambassador Class of 2023 award! Congratulations!

Submit a session proposal for Engage - time is running out!  

By Heiko Voigt | 1/20/23 4:53 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I already did but for those of you out there still thinking about it - Theo asked for more proposals so don't wait too long - you can submit speaking propsosals until January 31st with this link.

2022 in review and what's to come in 2023  

By Heiko Voigt | 1/4/23 4:36 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

In resemblance to the song "sixteen tons", this altered first line of the chorus is not what my 2022 looked like at all. Sure enough it was a busy year - more busy than the most previous ones, and my daily struggle between family time, work and off-time projects got into a new dimension.

Announcing the OpenNTF Repair Café  

By OpenNTF | 12/28/22 5:22 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

For years people have come to chat rooms hosted by OpenNTF to ask questions, share their knowledge and learn. OpenNTF is now extending that idea into a live, face-to-face meeting place every month to join and help each other: The OpenNTF Repair Café. It’s all about repairing things together.

HCL Domino Christmas Calendar App stimulates festive mood at the office  

By Soehnke Grams | 12/5/22 11:21 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

It is that time of the year again. December has arrived and, with it, the Christmas countdown has started. Much has changed in the world in the last years but some things stay the same. For the CEIR team at the University of Koblenz, the Domino Christmas Calendar App makes sure that the festive season is not forgotten.

HCL Domino 12.0.2, Engage 2022 and HCL Factory tour Milan  

By Martin Pradny | 11/20/22 7:38 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I haven't published my recap after Engage this year and the recent HCL Factory tour in Milan is a great opportunity to write a summary about what's happening in HCL (mostly Domino) space. It's a mix of news about 12.0.2, future directions, and my impressions, so it can be a bit chaotic, but I got the impression that many people see it similarly.

Do you have any suggestions for OpenNTF ?   

By Roberto Boccadoro | 10/28/22 12:23 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

AS probably you know OpenNTF has a Discord server, that everyone can join, where there are several “channels” (I know that the term is not correct) in which people can talk about specific topics. We have just added one, “#suggestion-box” where everyone is encouraged to go if they have any idea on what OpenNTF should do.

Call for abstracts is open, speak at Let’sConnect 2022 in Cologne – Let's Connect  

By Let's Connect user group | 8/23/22 12:03 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Martin Pradny

We have opened our call for abstracts for Let’sConnect 2022 in Cologne, Germany on October 25 – 26.

Let’sConnect is back, join us on October 25 – 26 in Cologne – Let's Connect  

By Let's Connect user group | 8/23/22 11:33 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Martin Pradny

After a couple of virtual events, we are very excited to be back with a face to face live event in Cologne on October 26. Join us for a day to hear all the news on Connections from HCL, partners and customers! On October 26, our agenda will be loaded with sessions. Listen to customers using the products on how they use, adopt, measure, … Listen to HCL updating you on what is coming right now and in later versions. Meet with the Product Management team. Listen to partners and HCL developers talking in depth technical about installation, configuration, maintenance … Last but not least, we will host 2 workshops on the afternoon of October 25.

Let’s Connect interviews at SUTOL  

By Jan Valdman | 6/16/22 2:33 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Matteo Bisi

Our series of interviews with HCL executives continued a week later during Czech Lotus user group gathering in Prague. This time I had an opportunity to talk with Richard Jefts regarding HCL Digital Solutions strategy and innovation and with Luis Guirigay regarding the upcoming product education and certifications. You can watch here:

The OpenNTF Discord Server  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 6/16/22 8:16 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Matteo Bisi

A few months ago, OpenNTF started testing the waters of moving our Slack community over to Discord. The immediate impetus for this was the message-history limitation of our Slack account: on the free tier, we were losing old messages, but upgrading a community of our size to a paid tier would be cost-prohibitive. Once we started looking into using Discord, we found that it offered much more for us than just avoiding history loss. Discord quickly proved itself a much-better match for our community, with better community controls, better voice/video chat with screen sharing, and just generally a more community-focused approach. Joining Since it’s gone so smoothly in a “soft launch”, we think it’s ready to invite everyone more openly. To join our Discord community, visit: https://discord.gg/jmRHpDRnH4

HCL Updates from Engage  

By Oliver Busse | 5/31/22 11:00 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Though not physically present, I captured some news from Engage which takes places these days, thanks to my fellow peeps who post infos on Twitter. My personal highlights from the OGS and other sessions during the day are:

Let’sConnect interviews at Engage  

By Wannes Rams | 5/31/22 9:59 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Let’sConnect’s Jan Valdman and Wannes Rams visited the Engage user group event in Bruges last week, our face to face conference in over 2 years. It was a great event with over 300 attendees. You can find the interviews on our Youtube channel

UI Contest 2022 winners  

By Tom Van Aken | 5/31/22 12:25 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

The jury has reached a verdict. The winners for the UI Contest 2022 are known. In this article you will read the key points in the jury’s decision and of course we present this year’s winners.

Engage 2022 Recap  

By Ales Lichtenberg | 5/31/22 12:22 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

After two years again of face-to-face conferences. A great venue in Bruges (Belgium), 3 days of filled program with a great sessions, over 300 participants, 24km at my feet during the conference including transfers to the hotel (according to Apple Watch), two amazing evenings with fellow HCL Ambassadors and other speakers. Great food and especially beer, the number of types and the amount I drank I prefer not to count. Just a great event again.

Engage Recap  

By Keith Brooks | 5/31/22 12:20 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

I can't even begin to tell you all the things we saw and learned, and that was before Engage even started,

My thoughts about Engage 2022  

By Christoph Stoettner | 5/31/22 12:19 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

The last days I attended Engage 2022 in the Bruges Meeting & Convention Centre (BMCC) . The first in person event for HCL Software for two years. Engage 2020 was the last event before the big lockdowns. Meeting so many friends again after so long time felt really awesome, and I enjoyed these days very much. We had good conversations and some Belgium beer to celebrate the reunion.

Observations from the 2022 Engage User Group HCL Technologies conference  

By Sean Cull | 5/31/22 12:17 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

The whole FoCul team attended the Engage HCL Technology User Group Conference conference in Bruges this week. It was a fantastic event in lots of ways. Many thanks to Theo and Hilde Heselmans for organising such a professional event for over 300 attendees.

26 points of interest from Engage in Bruges  

By Cormac McCarthy | 5/30/22 1:10 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

All I can see is Wow what I few days in Bruges. I’ve been trying to break my thoughts out into something coherent and really I can do is set out a set of bullet bullet points.

Personal Recap of engage.2022  

By Rainer Brandl | 5/30/22 1:09 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

First of all I want to thank Theo Heselmans and his whole team for making this great event in Bruges possible !! It was very cool to see all the guys from the “Yellow Bubble” again in person. During this conference HCL delivered great news around the HCL Collaboration Solutions and also the corresponding roadmaps ( which cannot be seen from other competitors! It’s almost impossible to name all upcoming features or releases but I’ll try to name the most important ones for me

Restyling With the Young at Engage  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 5/30/22 1:08 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Once again Theo Heselmans and his lovely wife Hilde pulled off a spectacular event. There was food, there was beer, there was a guided tour of the beautiful City Hall in Bruges, there was beer, there was the opportunity to learn, there was beer, there was the opportunity to teach, there was the opportunity to connect with more people and… oh yeah… there was beer

Upcoming Sessions With OpenNTF and at Engage  

By Jesse Gallagher | 5/12/22 12:50 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

This month contains a few presentations and sessions of note for me, and I realized I should compile a list. While I won't personally be attending Engage this year, it's shaping up to be a good conference and OpenNTF and Jakarta EE will be well represented (in chronological order):

OpenNTF - May OpenNTF Webinar: Using The New Domino One-Touch Setup  

By OpenNTF | 5/12/22 12:49 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Previous versions of HCL Domino required multiple steps to set up a Domino server. Now with Domino 12 you can use the new One Touch Domino Setup to set up a server in a single click. Roberto Boccadoro will demonstrate how to use this feature to set up a Domino server on Windows.

To Doc or not to Doc… Global ambassadors call   

By Femke Goedhart | 3/25/22 4:28 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

This months edition of the global super users / ambassadors call we will be kicking off with the theme of To Doc or not to Doc… Do you use Docs with your HCL Connections or not? And why? What options are there and what are the needs for collaborative (and simultaneous) document editing?

The OpenNTF Presentation Project - here we go!  

By OpenNTF | 3/23/22 5:09 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Back in 2021 there was a question in the community about where to find old Lotusphere presentations, and one of the comments at the time was that it would be cool if OpenNTF hosted those presentations. We made note of it at the time, and have done some research specific to copyrights. We’ve also expanded our thinking beyond Lotusphere! We would like to call on the community to join us and build an app that will host presentations on OpenNTF. They may be file attachments, or links to presentations that have been posted elsewhere, including your own blog if you like.

Ralf Petter’s blog about Notes, Eclipse and Expeditor back online  

By Karsten Lehmann | 12/21/21 2:37 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Yesterday I noticed that Ralf Petter's blog "Everything about IT" is not online anymore. Ralf died years ago from cancer and his blog contains invaluable tips around Notes, Eclipse and Expeditor development. In June 2017 when I heard about his death, I downloaded all blog articles and kept them on my local disk. Now that the official blog is gone, I uploaded them to our server, added them to the Google index and made them available here

HCL Domino V12.0.1 Gives You Free Choice and Security - NCUG - Nordic Collaboration User Group  

By NCUG | 12/15/21 4:16 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Today saw the release of HCL Domino and Notes V12.0.1. The world’s safest and best application platform keeps on giving. Read on! HCL keeps on releasing new versions of Domino with new functionality. Today saw the release of 12.0.1, six months after 12.0 came out.

OpenNTF 20th Anniversary Celebration - Dec 14  

By OpenNTF | 11/16/21 12:01 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

In December of 2001, Nathan Freeman and Bruce Elgort came together to create an open source community for Lotus Notes. 20 years later we are still serving the open source community around the HCL Digital Solutions portfolio of products.

Technical Documentation? Here you go!  

By Oliver Busse | 11/16/21 6:05 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

I admit: I love to write technical documentations. It's an unusual habit of a developer to do so, but somehow I adore having something to look at after a while and still be able to understand what's going on. In the past I used several tools for that. What I can say is that word processors like MS Word are NOT suitable to write a decent documentation for software. Just do not use them. I recently discovered MkDocs as the tool of my choice. This allows you to create neat online documentation as well as printable PDFs using the right plugins.

November OpenNTF Webinar - Gurupalooza!  

By OpenNTF | 10/29/21 9:48 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

OpenNTF is reviving a very popular session from Lotuspheres of the past: Gurupalooza! Got a question about Domino, Notes, Sametime or Connections? Come ask the gurus! We have gathered the brightest minds to take your questions about development and administration. You can ask your questions ahead of time if you like, using this page or ask live during the webinar.