The following mission statement, demonstrates the resolve of the community, and dedication to excellence for OpenNTF as a member-driven alliance:

OpenNTF is devoted to:

• Enabling groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open source.
• Providing a framework for the community so that open source applications may be freely distributed, using widely accepted licensing terms.
• Increasing the quality and quantity of templates, applications and samples that are shared by the community.

OpenNTF was launched in 2002 by people from the Lotus Notes/Domino community. Since then 60.000 users have registered on OpenNTF to download code. There are more than 250 open source projects and an additional 800 snippets of code.

In January 2009 IBM announced at Lotusphere that IBM has agreed to sponsor a new collaboration with OpenNTF. IBM intends to offer resources to invigorate the community, donate templates and samples, and make code available under widely-accepted open source community license terms. Since this announcement IBM has worked with the chair of OpenNTF to define a new governance model and IP model to accomplish these goals which has resulted in the OpenNTF Alliance.

OpenNTF is a software development community devoted to getting groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate on Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open source. The OpenNTF Alliance also provides a framework for the community so that open source applications may be freely distributed, using widely accepted licensing terms. The mission of the OpenNTF Alliance is to increase the quality and quantity of templates, applications and samples that are shared by the community.

There are a series of legal documents that define the policies and procedures of the OpenNTF Alliance – as follows:

FAQ’s – providing answers to some of the more common questions. Please let us know if you would like us to add additional FAQ’s.

Membership Agreement – which all members sign and which gives an overview of the rules concerning membership

Intellectual Property Policy – governs how OpenNTF handles Intellectual Property issues.

Contribution Process – describes how you go about making contributions to OpenNTF.

Individual Contribution License Agreement – the license that covers contributions from individuals to the OpenNTF community.

Corporate Contribution License Agreement – the license that covers contributions from an organization to the OpenNTF community.

Terms of Use – by accessing, browsing or using this website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions contained in this agreement.

Privacy Policy – which provides details on the types of information that is gathered and tracked by this website.

OpenNTF Copyright Notification Procedure - which provides a mechanism of requesting the removal of any content posted on or accessible through this Web site that infringes your copyright.