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.

See here for further information about the OpenNTF Alliance:
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