Lotus Rock Star :: ILUG Day One

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ILUG 2007 is a blast, and I have to say extremely well run and produced. The entire team here is doing a brilliant job of keeping the sessions rolling, on time (signs lead to waving leads to ridicule, the way it should be!). And having attended sessions all day, I can say that delegates are getting the deal of a lifetime. Alan Lepofsky gave a great strategy session to open the meeting, followed by Mary Beth Raven explaining the decisions and design process behind Notes 8. This was particularly interesting as Beta 3 was released early in the morning, and I had downloaded and installed it before the keynote (that's right - downloaded, installed, and working productively in the time required to shower and dress...).

Tom Duff gave a great intro to Ajax, setting the foundation for understanding some of the more complex implementations that will be discussed today. Bruce, Vince and Kevin introduced OpenNTF to a new crowd of people - 120 or so - then I learned more about Domino Domain Monitoring than I ever wanted to know from Kathleen McGivney. I'm only sad that I could not be in more than one room at a time...I do have photos to post though and will do that later.

The day's technical sessions ended with Speedgeeking (which for the uninitiated works like speed dating, 5 minutes at each speaker's table while they do a presentation, demo, or whatever they want to get across). I was happy to participate and used my table to explain and demonstrate some of the Lotus Quickr templates that are finished. I only had time for one demo even though eight of them are done, so I let the delegates choose each time. I put out water glasses with numbers, and everyone took a coin when they got to my table. After two minutes of slides, they dropped their coin into the glass with the number corresponding to the demo they wanted to see. Whichever had the most coins in 10 seconds won, and I went off and did the demo. It was great fun, and I saw what people were most interested in!

This morning I'm headed over to Kristin Keene's session introducing Lotusphere 2008 where she will be asking for feedback on ideas, suggestions, and possibly even making some decisions and announcements. Can't wait. After lunch, IBM has a session introducing Lotus Quickr, so I'm going to offer my services to discuss the templates and give them some demo code. Later on, I have a session on Domino integration with open source Javascript toolkits.

I should mention that the sponsors here are doing a great job as well, given the tight space. Collaboration University is a sponsor (logo on the bag!) and we are all wearing the new CU shirts today, but don't have a booth...so if you're here at ILUG and want to know about Collaboration University in London (July or August), come find me!

Comments

1 - Thanks for the update, Rob! How did the Lotus Quickr session go? And how is the feedback on the templates?

Posted by Satwik Seshasai At 09:30:00 PM On 05/25/2007 | - Website - |

2 - Thanks for the pint of the black stuff Rob! Man, it's going to take a few hard nights drinking to recoup that round

Posted by Kerr At 08:02:51 AM On 05/28/2007 | - Website - |

3 - Rob, I am so sad I missed your session, and not just because of the free pint I missed!

Great to finally meet you however, and cant wait to catch up with you again at CU later this year...

Stuart

Posted by Stuart McIntyre At 02:02:12 PM On 05/28/2007 | - Website - |