Today was the first meeting on the new UK Lotus Notes User Group (LNUG). Ben Rose did a cracking job of organising the morning’s session hosted at the IBM Bedfont Lakes office near Heathrow. There was a pretty good turnout of about 20 people to see a “Hannover and Beyond” presentation by an IBM-er and a best practices session given by TeamStudio. Neither were new stuff but were still interesting and sparked a good bit of discussion.
Hopefully this will be the first of many sessions that Ben would like to have happening all around the country. So if you missed this first session get over to the website, get registered and come along to the next one.
A few of the guys who went along today had been to the Lotusphere Comes To You event in London. Apparently this was not so successful with several people leaving at lunchtime. One thing which seemed particularly insensitive on a cold, grey and wet London day was to show a video of Lotusphere “proper” attendees having a great time in sunny Florida. That’s just nasty!
Matt White 
Hi, interested in your relayed comments on Lotusphere comes to you. I and soem colleagues are going to the one in manchester – it is a big committment for a small company although we are really interested to see Hannover etc..How did anyone else rate it ?
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Sean,
I’d head over to the discussion forums at the LNUG site where there is a general discussion going on about the LSC2U event in London yesterday. I am not really the best person to ask as I wasn’t there!
Matt
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If you are going to see Hannover then I wouldn’t bother. All we got in London was re-cycled screenshots from Lotusphere. No live demonstrations of working code. Same with Sametime 7.5.<img src="http://www.11tmr.com/11tmr.nsf/emoticons/DLYH-5N3GHR/$FILE/angry.gif“> Only working code I saw was for the Workplace designer and the Bowstreet Portlet Factory.
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You should see live Sametime code at the forthcoming events because 7.5 has entered Alpha testing internally and and external Beta program is starting soon. I’m running it and it is fantastic – and not just for the emoticons <img src="http://www.11tmr.com/11tmr.nsf/emoticons/DLYH-5MZVLY/$FILE/smile.gif“>
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