Saturday, January 03, 2009

Open source and Lotus : Which templates do you want?

I like the idea of Ian Tree but like many said, i think that there is not much interest from the outside world. In counter parts, I like the proposition made by Philip Storry about the use of templates.

We need more apps in the box with Notes/Domino. Many more. They only need to be basic, but they do need to be there. Expenses, Holiday Booking, a decent Group Calendar, and so forth. We should probably write a long list, wrap it round a brick, and lob it through IBM's window to get their attention. (Metaphorically speaking, of course.)

And all templates shipped with Notes/Domino need to be EXPLICITLY open source.

It's similar to those previous posts,

Rocky Oliver:
Community Question: What templates do you want today?

Kevin Pettitt
What New Templates Would I Like to See Shipped With Domino

Steve Castledine
Lotus Notes Domino templates and open source


I think it's a way to get Notes\Domino recognized by the outside world....Notes can do that too!!

Which template do you want?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You have tied together an interesting topic in a way that makes it a great discussion.

Hopefully, plenty of people will see this and get the bigger point.

Anonymous said...

@1: meh...this has been discussed countless times, and we don't seem to get any reaction from IBM. On Ed's page, we've even asked for their new ALREADY MADE Wiki template that they use internally (example: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf), but we get no satisfaction. I could be mistaken, and maybe it's been released since that thread, but I've yet to see it.