Engage 2026
Once again the community has got together for the annual Engage event.
This was the second managed by Kris and Tom and it’s clearly visible that they are improving and following Theo’s path, which is not easy at all.
The venue was, as usual, not conventional. The stadium of the KAA Gent football team. When you attended the session on the third floor you were looking right at the field, impressive!
Attendance was up from the previous year, which is a very good sign, not only there were the usual suspects, is nice to meet again friends from other countries, but also several first-timers and students.
Not surprisingly there were several sessions where AI was the topic, I feared that this trend would restrict the sessions to be interesting only for developers, but it turned out I was wrong, there were sessions where the speaker showed how to use AI in order to make Domino administration easier, a very good thing in my opinion.
It was good to see that AI has moved from being just the trending buzzword to a technology that can be used to achieve good results also in our space.
I helped Keith Brooks in setting up the room for his remote session, and we found some issues in connecting the monitor to the laptop. We solved it using one of the most advanced techniques available. Power off the monitor and power it on again. Guess what ? It worked.
Our session was on a very specific topic, so when I saw about a dozen people attending I was very happy, especially considering that in the room there were some of the most experienced people in the community that work with Sametime.
As OpenNTF, we officially launched our last project, the LotusScript Class Map, which was received very well by the developers attending the event. More details on our website https://www.openntf.org
One of the best moments overall was when at the “Ask HCL” session, Tom showed up on stage. It was really great to see him in person again. We all wished him well for his recovery after surgery and I am sure he will do again a great job with Kris next year.
Looking forward to Engage 2027!