It's the time of year when elections are opening for the OpenNTF board. We have five Member Directors up for election this year:

- Christian Güdemann
- Adam Foster
- Jesse Gallagher
- Serdar Basegmez
- Doug Robinson

The terms of the three Contributor Directors are also expiring. Anyone with an ICLA or CCLA can apply for the post, which has a one-year term. The current incumbents are:

- Nina Wittich
- Fredrik Norling
- Howard Greenberg

Anyone interested in standing submit their names and a candidate statement to ip-manager at openntf.org.

The election schedule will be:
- Nominations open until 22nd September
- Voting from 23rd September to 30th September
- Winners take office on 2nd October

Domino Query Language is not standing still. Come learn from John Curtis about where DQL is and where it is headed.

Version 12 will see extended capabilities never before possible through programmatic means with Domino. Enhancements to the language itself will begin the talk, including the addition of Formula Language, client/server NRPC support and complete Full Text Index exploitation. The ability to federate and combine results from multiple queries as well as any (Notes)Document collection using the new (Notes)QueryResults processing engine will be highlighted extensively with a demo in its current state. Time permitting, additional new Notes and Java backend class features like transaction support will be revealed as well.

This webinar will take place on September 17, 2020 at 11:00 AM (New York time) to 12:30 PM. There will be time for questions at the end.

To register for this webinar go to: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4007218914974652431

OpenNTF presents Water Cooler Talks, an irregular new series of webinars to provide a stage for individuals sharing their stories, experiences and best practices with their peers.

This month's topic is all about developers' workbenches. As developers, we all have tools and routines we use to develop, collaborate, and test our applications. We have experienced lots of issues and made mistakes and have a workflow that does the job, but may not be ideal. Are there better ways to do our jobs? Come learn from your fellow developers in this webinar that looks at the typical toolbox and workflow routines of several OpenNTF Board members and how they develop apps, manage tasks, track bugs, handle versioning and more.
        •        Howard Greenberg develops Notes/Domino/XPages applications for a variety of  clients. Come learn how he uses source control in Domino Designer along with SourceTree and BitBucket to collaborate with his clients and maintain a history of all changes.
        •        Jesse Gallagher develops XPages and webapp projects that target Domino. He will present his development environment and discuss using Maven and Jenkins to automate builds and delivery.
        •        Serdar Basegmez utilizes Domino to create RESTful APIs for his clients. He will present his development environment and share some tips on Eclipse configuration, deployment and testing Domino plugins.

This webinar will take place on August 20, 2020 at 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM US Eastern (3 PM GMT). There will be time for questions at the end.

To register for this webinar go to:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3671147688091868172

You can also access information about and recordings of all of our webinars at https://openntf.org/webinars