The IBM Collab Services Technical Tweetup
Try saying that with a few pints in you :).
Consider this a social experiment. Over the past few weeks, we have noticed a number of tweetups. These are all well and good and some of them even promoted products. So it got me thinking, which got me talking to members of the community, which lead to Teamstudio coming up with an idea.
How about a technical tweetup? Like other tweetups, but .. em.. with content. So I harassed Gab, Duffbert, Matt White and many others to put together a list of skilled experts (and me) to engage in the first IBM Collaboration Services Technical Tweetup challenge. (#icstt ?).
At 6pm (BST) on the 18th July, the following list of geeks will be available to answer any correctly hastagged questions on twitter. We will do this for 2 hours. For free. There will be some rules on the day, which I will blog at the time. But basically ask any question you like, we will try to answer. At the moment, we have the following people signed up to help answer questions (links are to their twitter feeds).
Paul Mooney (Traveler, Traveler HA, Ethical Hacking, Domino, IBM Connections, Mobile application deployment)
Gab Davis (Traveler, Traveler HA, Domino, IBM Connections, IBM Sametime)
Tom Duff (Domino Development, Sharepoint Integration)
Kerr Rainey (Domino Development, xPages development)
Matt White (Domino Development, xPages development, mobile development)
Tim Davis (Domino Development, xPages development, mobile development)
Steve McDonagh (Domino on iSeries, Domino development)
Marie Scott (Sametime, TDI, Domino Admin)
Like with User Groups, these guys are giving their time for free. So Teamstudio agreed to sponsor by donating to MacMillan Cancer Support on our behalf. On the evening, I will put up a page on my site with a Donate button. If someone answers a question for you, maybe you will donate too?
Please spread the word. Giving 2 weeks (or so) notice. For over 10 years this community has given technical content online that easily outpaces every other community I know. This is an experiment to see if a new way works. Also, if you are interested in donating your time as a “question answererererer” just chuck a comment on this post and I will add you to the skype moderator chat.
Update: More details here.
Nigel Cheshire Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:01 pm
Small, but possibly important detail: 6pm UK time, I presume!
pmooneynet Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:03 pm
Good point Nigel. Updated.
John Head Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:10 pm
Paul. wonderful idea. please feel free to include me as an answererererer as well. I can also encourage the PSC crew (Kathy, Troy, Mark, etc.) if that would help.
One question on the method. Is this a tweetchat? there is tweetchat software out there, with a hashtag, that works more like a threaded chat client than twitter. just can’t tell if that is what your doing here.
Gabriella Davis Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:12 pm
A great idea that I hope people take advantage of. Thanks to Teamstudio for sponsoring the effort, let’s hope we get lots of good questions and manage to cram answers into 140 chars. It’s going to be a challenge and hopefully fun.
Mary Beth Raven Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:14 pm
This is a Fabulous idea, Paul Put my name down next the Notes client — I still know a few things about it :)
Bob Balaban Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:15 pm
Sign me up. Topics:
-Using Domino COM classes from C-sharp/.net
-Converting Notes documents to MIME format
-Anything about Java in N/D other than xpages (JNI, debugging agents in Eclipse…)
francie Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:15 pm
Great idea, am in if you need me, would be glad to answer stuff about client management!
pmooneynet Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:16 pm
@John – plan is to manage using tweetchat once I have that all figured out (My first time -be gentle!). Bob, Francie, MBR. Shall add you all into the skype chat.
Bill Buchan Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:17 pm
Count me in to talk about user lifecycle management, lotuscript.
Cheers,
—* Bill
Femke Goedhart Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:33 pm
Great initiative guys!
“Love it when a community comes together!”
Andrew Pollack Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 9:38 pm
Per our discussion….
[5:22:44 PM] Paul Mooney: Andrew… you can be added as the person that tells people with silly questions to f*** off away from their computer
— Type casting, but I suppose I was born for that role. I’m in.
Julian Robichaux Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 10:12 pm
Added to my calendar for 1pm EST on the 18th. I will attempt to act as a sweeper where possible.
Stuart McIntyre Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 10:13 pm
Fantastic idea Paul. Count me in for anything Connections related!
Bill Malchisky Jr. Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 10:57 pm
Great idea, Paul. Add me to the list for LMC, eDiscovery/compliance (US), ICS/Lotus on Linux
Tony Holder Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 10:58 pm
Count me in to kick Bill Buchan under the table when he says something inappropriate! ;-) #justkidding #sonotjustkidding :-)
And a great charity choice! :-)
Steve Pitcher Said,
July 2, 2012 @ 11:52 pm
I’ll gladly donate time for admin questions on Lotus Notes and any Lotus product that runs on IBM i (Domino server, Sametime, Quickr).
Jonathan Griep Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 2:19 am
What a cool idea! Put me down for Search, iNotes Customization, Notes C API, .Net Integration
Greg Walrath Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 3:54 am
Count me in, as well. I can answer questions on WebSphere administration, and administering Domino as a web server.
Juan Carlos Trigo Díaz Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 6:03 am
great idea,
Sign me up. Topics:
-IBM Sametime
-Lotus Quickr for Domino
-Domino Development
-Domino Administration
-Traveler
Kind Regards
Dennis van Remortel Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 6:31 am
Count me in under “Generic” ;-)
Serdar Basegmez Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 6:53 am
Great idea Paul!
I’d be delighted to be an answerer but answering tweets in my birthday celebration would be awkward :)
I will spread the word and help you next time!
Wannes Rams Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 9:27 am
Great Idea, You can count me in.
Connections, Sametime, Quickr
Abigail Roberts Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 10:06 am
Thank you to everyone who has agreed to take part! Paul – We may have to schedule a ’round 2′ already!
…we’ll be there all night at this rate! ;-)
René Winkelmeyer Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 10:54 am
Count me in.
Topics: Traveler, Traveler HA, Plug-In development, Java development, mobile development, mobile security
Tim Clark Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 10:59 am
Hi Paul, Count me in. Happy to answer questions on;
XPages
Domino
GSX Monitor and Analyzer
How to pack light for motorbike trips ;o)
Tim Clark
Niklas Heidloff Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 12:09 pm
Great effort. I could help with OpenNTF and XPages.
Paul T. Calhoun Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 1:36 pm
Count me in as well. I can field questions on XML, XPages, JDBC Integration with Domino, Web Services and anything Java.
Kathy Brown Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 1:40 pm
Seems like you’ve got plenty of people, but I’m happy to help however I can. You had me at “twitter”. :-D
Potential subjects:
Running
Twitter
How BlackBerry Isn’t As Awful As You All Say It Is
Twitter
Gadgets
Twitter
Keith Brooks Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 2:12 pm
Paul, Add me for Quickr, iNotes, DDM Migrations, LotusLive ne SmartCloud.
pmooneynet Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 2:37 pm
@ Keith – what the hell is a DDM migration.
Folks, I will be posting an update to this plan later today. Just to keep everyone in the loop
P
Andy Donaldson Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 3:10 pm
You can count me in as well! (As much as I can in the office)
Domino Admin
Notes client
Karaoke
Awesomeness
Mobile Gadgets
Photography
Going on and on about my family (Yes, I’m referring to your comment yesterday Mr. Mooney LOL.)
Chris Miller Said,
July 3, 2012 @ 6:27 pm
Let me know, I am around as well
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Vitor Pereira Said,
July 4, 2012 @ 2:44 pm
Great idea guys!
The day after my 40th birthday. I can take questions on Guinness, whiskey and berocca :)
Joyce Davis Said,
July 4, 2012 @ 3:59 pm
Awesome! And I can instruct people how to configure a Lotus Notes mail rule to send an electrical shock to anyone who sends a large file attachment! ;-) Seriously, great idea. I’ll help get the word out when I’m back in the office on Monday.
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David Leedy Said,
July 4, 2012 @ 8:50 pm
If you need any help from me just let me know. I know somethings about xpages and screen casting.
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