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Since thursday the gpn19 (Gulasch Programmiernacht) is taking place in Karlsruhe at ZKM. I’m happy that I got the chance to give two talks:

Today I attended Froscon 13 in St. Augustin. Froscon is one or the biggest event around Opensource in Germany. Thanks again to organizers sponsors of this awesome event, it was a pleisure to be here and have the chance to give a talk.

The slides for my session “Documentation with any editor” can be found at https://gitlab.com/stoeps/froscon18-presentation/blob/master/froscon13-documentationwithanyeditor.pdf .

Since the IBM Connect pages does not show all presentation, I uploaded mine to slideshare.

The next big IBM Connections Community event – Social Connections 9 – takes place November 05/06 in Ehningen / Germany. The theme of the event is “Working out loud” and it offers tons of sessions all around IBM Connections and Adoption in the social software world.

This will be my fifth Social Connections Event after Zurich, Prague, Stockholm and Boston, for me all of them were great experiences and personally very successful.

I have been working with ESS / ICS / Lotus products since 2000 and I followed many other community members through blogs, forums, web events and tweets, but I rarely had the chance to meet any of them in person. This changed with Social Connections V – I sent my first English session on the topic of scripting in IBM Connections and was accepted. I still can remember the warm welcome of Sharon , Klaus , Stuart , Simon , Femke , Sandra and Tim – it was phantastic!

The call for abstracts for Social Connections 9 in Ehningen will be closed on monday! So if you plan to attend and want to share your knowledge you have only few days left to submit your abstract!

The first keynote speakers are announced and i see forward to meet John Stepper – “Working Out Loud: How to make work more effective & fulfilling across your organization” and Silvia Cambie – “Convincing the C-Suite: Collaboration begins with Culture”

If you’re interested to attend the event you can register on Eventbrite , Social Connections 9 will be on 5th and 6th november in Ehningen, Germany.

Last week i was at ConnectED 2015 in Orlando. I enjoyed the event very much, mainly because i met great old and new friends. The Lotus community is one of the best i’ve ever met, or i ever was part of.

After coming home i found out that i have a flu and the headache and need of sleep is not age dependent. So the visits to kimonos and dolphin bar are a little bit shorter than last year, but i enjoyed them nevertheless.

I did a session during ConnectED 2015, see the last version of slides here:

Today i read in Anderl Artners Blog , that he provides some Assembly Lines for TDI/SDI , which can help you with SPNEGO and mailintegration. Thanks for that!

Today IBM announced the session agenda for IBM ConnectED 2015 .

I’m really interested in the new concept of more technical content and hope that all attendees will enjoy the format of the smaller designed event.

My session “BP203: Best And Worst Practices in Deploying IBM Connections” is accepted and i’m proud and happy to go to Orlando in january 2015 again.

If you haven’t already registered, follow this link .

Here some points of my planned agenda for this session:

Depending on deployment size, operating system and security considerations you have different options to configure IBM Connections.

So my vacation is finished, i enjoyed 13 lovely rainy days in bavaria and see forward to my next travels. Hope to get some sun at ICON UK in London next week.

I will speak with Sharon about Tips and Scripts for your daily business our session we made for Connect 2014 and which is updated for IBM Connections 5 now.

Admincamp will be at 29th september to 1st october in Gelsenkirchen. Admincamp is a great event with lots of technical content and no advertises, organized by Rudi Knegt and some more . I enjoy it very much to be again part of it, this year i will prepare three sessions with Klaus Bild .

This week i attended Engage in Breda . I had a session with famous Sharon Bellamy , we covered an update of our Connect 2014 session about BP307 – Practical Solutions for Connections Administrators – Tips and Scripts for Your Daily Busines .

I enjoyed it very much to be with lovely community guys, old and new friends. I want to thank Theo Heselman , he and his crew did and does a really great job to get us all together (350 attendees, 30 IBM Champions, 65 speakers).

Kitty and Warren Elsmore were with us again and made lovely copies of ourself in lego. Thanks to you too.

It was little bit quiet here after Connect 2014. I had lots of projects and no time to add new scripts or even do bug fixing.

I promised at Connect, that i will fix the JDBC drivers, that they will load on Windows too. See cnxMemberCheckExIDByEmail.py as an example.

Loading JDBC Drivers within jython scripts

Jan Riedel sent me a solution for SLES and i tested his proposal today within Windows. He points me in the right direction, i mustn’t load the path or jar within the script, it is better to load on starting wsadmin. You have to add the JDBC Driver path to WAS_EXT_DIRS.

IBM Connect 2014 is here. I enjoyed the last days very much! Meeting great old and new friends, community members and the IBM Champions family .

I’m very impressed of the news IBM provides us. New IBM Mail and Connections Mail, Connections next and the integration of lots of software within IBM Connections.

Today i will make my session “BP 307 – Practical Solutions for Connections Administrators – Tips and Scripts for Your Daily Business” with the incredible Sharon Belamy . When you’re here in Orlando, we would be happy to see you there.

Find some videos of our demos here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2lio4h18rp0r88a/N-Bz9FHXmn

This week i attended the Admincamp in Gelsenkirchen. It was a awesome event, where i met lots of friends and other cool people.

I made two sessions, you can find the session slides here, in this special case in german.

1. Security and Administration of IBM Connections

2. Save the mice – Scripting in WebSphere, Connections and DB2 (Online Version)

I have extended and translated the session slides from ICONUK.

You can download this Slides as ZIP :

• index.html is ICONUK Version

• index-ac.html is german AdminCamp Version

Here some of my impressions:

Oping session with Rudi Knegt