DCLUG is very excited to co-host Louis Richardson who will be in Washington DC December 9th to speak about Social collaboration

I saw Louis speak at MWLUG 2012 and I can attest to what  great engaging speaker he is. He is able to distill a concept into a presentation and not make it sound like a sales pitch. The capability speaks for itself, what you need to understand is why you need to use the product, not primarily what the product will do for you.

For more on Louis, check out his site – http://about.me/louisrichardson
“I serve as an IBM Worldwide Storyteller & Enthusiast covering Social Business and Smarter Workforce topics”

Date: December 9, 2013
Time: 1:00PM – 3:00PM Eastern
Location: IEG Briefing Center
600 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 2000

Business at the Speed of Expertise: 
Social technologies are helping people connect, communicate and share information. Communication & Collaboration have become a commodity thus tactical – Coordination & Social Collaboration have the most value thus a more strategic direction. Once you have Embraced Social Collaboration, you can Extend your current solutions and finally Consolidate.

The Result: Single Strategic Platform of All Capabilities. Social Collaboration Capabilities can be INJECTED into Cloud, Mobile, Big Data to provide a secure personalized contextual multi-channel experience.

See the flyer

For more information please check out the DCLUG Meeting site –

http://www.meetup.com/DC-Lotus-Professionals/events/150295112/

YOU MUST REGISTER for this event – see the link below

Register for the event with IBM – seating is restricted to 50 people so you MUST REGISTER HERE

This month we are very pleased to welcome another new speaker, David Navarre of DAI. David has been a great supporter of DCLUG this year and I am personally thrilled that he has stepped up to share his experience with us.

DAI work all over the world and really push the boundaries of what is technologically possible in remote areas. This is a fascinating look into how Domino and specifically XPages has been used to help the company meet their mission.

The meeting will begin at 11:30am

http://www.meetup.com/DC-Lotus-Professionals/events/126927712/

Location

DAI Board Room 2nd Floor 7600 Wisconsin Ave Bethesda, MD 20814

Abstract 
In the Wild West that is Notes, there are no leisurely requirements gathering sessions, there are few clear requirements, and there is no time to waste. This was a quick turn around application. In Tanzania, our company is managing a grant fund from DFID (Dept for International Development, UK) for which companies need to apply online. We had about a month from high-level requirements to deployment. Users are in a few different groups – applicants, evaluators and grant managers, with a mix of internal and external. Our team is old Notes based, but the web-facing side would be XPages. Complicating matters, users are scattered around the world, multiple servers and clients are involved, and the members of the team have never been on the same continent, let alone in the same room.

In this session, we’ll lay out the requirements, discuss possible solutions, and explore the solution that was implemented, sharing our knowledge, ideas and problem-solving talents. This application shows some of the good, some of the bad and some of the downright ugly of learning XPages on a deadline.

My thanks to DAI for hosting this meeting in their offices – please come and support David and enjoy what I am sure is going to be an enthralling insight into a fascinating case study.

This month we are delighted to welcome Darren and Lisa Duke of STS Inc. in Atlanta who are travelling to DC to present at the meeting !

Not only is Darren one of the most recognized names in the IBM Notes Domino community he is also a really entertaining speaker.

Even if you are not into Traveler, you should definitely come, be entertained and learn something new.

For more information on Darren – check out his linkedin page and if you want to talk Traveler while him and Lisa are in town – please get in touch with them

http://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenduke

http://www.simplified-tech.com/
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Here is the abstract 
An iPhone or iPad was given to you, “Make this work with Lotus”, you were told. And so your Traveler server was born, much like BES before it, with nary a thought for “production use”.
Traveler is a virulent technology, users flinging iPhones, iPads and Android devices at you at an alarming rate. There is no one-to-one relation for devices to users here… some folks have 4 or more devices attached to your Traveler server. You look like a rock star! “About time” you say to yourself.
But is it secure? Am I letting my users send free text passwords OTA (even with HTTPS there are more secure options)? Do you even know the security options available to you? Come learn what you can do to secure these slippery endpoints, these public facing servers and keep looking like a rock star……
Darren, technical guru at STS, the once vocal “bad cop” on “This Week In Lotus” podcast, Lotusphere and Connect speaker, sporadic blogger, ranting tweeter, and all round snarky guy will endeavor to both entertain and educate you in this neglected but very important area.

Location

3150 Fairview Park Dr, Falls Church, VA 22042

For more information please check out the meetup site

http://www.meetup.com/DC-Lotus-Professionals/events/121594322/

Hosting Facility information

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The DCLUG event is open to all; but please not that Noblis is a Cleared Facility and security regulations require that all visitors are badged. A state or federal issued picture ID is required to obtain visitors badge (NOTE: drivers license works best as some ID badges do not scan well).

If you are not a US citizen, DoD security regulations require additional information be obtained in order to issue a visitors badge. Please contact alan.hurt@noblis.org directly for further information.

Parking @ Noblis: There is visitor parking in front of building as well as a free parking garage. Parking will generally be open on upper levels

This month we are delighted to have Jeff Byrd from MAXIMUS come and speak to us about Getting Started in XPages. Jeff has over 15 years experience in Notes technologies and over 2 years of XPages experience to share.

http://www.dominotricks.com/?p=205

In this presentation Jeff will have a “nice and easy go at xPages covering design principals, basic CRUD and Views.  So if you’ve been meaning to check out XPages, but haven’t had the chance, please join us.”

Come and see for yourself, share your experiences and help to promote the DC user’s group 🙂

http://www.meetup.com/DC-Lotus-Professionals/events/112044682/

Location

IEG Briefing Center

600 14th Street, NW , Washington, DC

Agenda

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11:30am-12:00pm
Networking (lunch provided by IBM)
12:00pm-12:15pm
Welcome
Community Updates
Meeting date/schedule Questionnaire results/discussion
Agreement for next meeting date/time

12:15pm – 1:00pm – Presentation

Jeff Byrd: Getting Started with xPages

1:00pm-1:30pm
Questions/Answers Networking

1:30pm
END

Please mark the date in your calendar.

I am happy to announce the first DCLUG event of 2013.

March 20th at the IBM offices on 14th St downtown DC.

11:30am – 1:30pm

IEG Briefing Center

600 14th Street, NW , Washington, DC

For more details please check out and sign up for the meeting at the “Meetup” page……

For more information please join the meetup group where the meetings will be announced

http://www.meetup.com/DC-Lotus-Professionals

and/or

We also have a community site on SocialBizUg.org which we will be updating with more information.

This will be the first of what we hope to be a full year’s of monthly meetings either at lunch or in the evenings in the DC area. The intention is to initially have short(ish) one person presentations (2hr meeting max) and we will see how that takes us through the year.

At this meeting I will be presenting my “jQuery: The world’s most popular JavaScript library comes to XPages” session which I gave at IBM Connect in January this year.

Please come and ask questions, share and broaden your knowledge/friends/peer group in the local area.

We have an list of local speakers looking to contribute to the group and also some well known IBM Domino community speakers from other parts of the USA interested in coming to speak and share their knowledge and experience with us.

This is going to be an exciting year and I encourage any/all of you in the DC area (and beyond) to come and join us.