Domino Designer is free - but how do you take advantage of it?
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I mentioned this to a few people at UKLUG, but I reckon it's also blog-worthy. Domino Designer is free, which is very cool, but the best way to take advantage of all this would be to get people would really like free software to get involved in using it. Who am I talking about? Students. So, here's a free business idea.
IBM setup a session at MIT/Cambridge/UCL/Name your favourite tech university. 2 or 3 days long, maybe over a weekend in term time
The session is open invite to any software developer
At the start of the two days there is a general session on what Notes is, why it's cool, what the development model is etc
The next few days are a TechJam, supported by developers and admins who really know their stuff. ie, Matt White, Tim Clark, Steve Castledine etc
At the end of the few days, IBM stumps up a big prize (prehaps a Lotusphere ticket AND travel or a Thinkpad) to the best developed app
All the apps developed must go onto OpenNTF.org at the end.
So, we have a bunch of new Domino Developers brought on board, who can now take home the development environment for free and can see a route into business. On the side, IBM might even find the next generation of developers. The cost? Well, you'd probably get the University facilities for free. There would be beer to buy and accomodation too, but not much. The main cost here would be to get GOOD people to run and organise it, as it's NOT a traditional IBM event. All of IBM's rules about dress code, alcohol etc would have to go out the window as it's not an IBM event. Think UKLUG compared to LCTY.
I'll tell you what, if a UK university is interested and someone wants to cough up the cash, I'll even arrange it!
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I mentioned this to a few people at UKLUG, but I reckon it's also blog-worthy. Domino Designer is free, which is very cool, but the best way to take advantage of all this would be to get people would really like free software to get involved in using it. Who am I talking about? Students. So, here's a free business idea.
IBM setup a session at MIT/Cambridge/UCL/Name your favourite tech university. 2 or 3 days long, maybe over a weekend in term time
The session is open invite to any software developer
At the start of the two days there is a general session on what Notes is, why it's cool, what the development model is etc
The next few days are a TechJam, supported by developers and admins who really know their stuff. ie, Matt White, Tim Clark, Steve Castledine etc
At the end of the few days, IBM stumps up a big prize (prehaps a Lotusphere ticket AND travel or a Thinkpad) to the best developed app
All the apps developed must go onto OpenNTF.org at the end.
So, we have a bunch of new Domino Developers brought on board, who can now take home the development environment for free and can see a route into business. On the side, IBM might even find the next generation of developers. The cost? Well, you'd probably get the University facilities for free. There would be beer to buy and accomodation too, but not much. The main cost here would be to get GOOD people to run and organise it, as it's NOT a traditional IBM event. All of IBM's rules about dress code, alcohol etc would have to go out the window as it's not an IBM event. Think UKLUG compared to LCTY.
I'll tell you what, if a UK university is interested and someone wants to cough up the cash, I'll even arrange it!
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