Alan Lepofsky - Socialtext

Alan "LeopLand" Leopfsky was one of the original IBMers to reach out to the Lotus community via a blog. While at IBM Alan held a range of positions including running customer councils, conferences, and working with Business Partners. At one time Alan was head of software strategy. Despite his position at IBM Alan still found time to be a top innovator at ideajam. Alan has been a regular presenter at Lotusphere and various LUGs.

Andre Guirard - IBM

Andre is perhaps one of the best known Product Developers at IBM. He has written articles for The View since 1997, been a regular contributor at SearchDomino, was a co-author of the Domino Designer 6 Redbook, has written many articles on Developerworks and given several presentations at Lotusphere. Andre's Web Site posts many great technical tips and he recently added the LotusScript Gold Collection project on OpenNTF.

Andrew Pollack - Northern Collaborative Tech.

Andrew is an independent Notes/Domino consultant who has been working with Lotus Notes since 1991. Andrew has also combined his experience as a firefighter and IT professional to develop a communication system for firefighters - Second Signal. In 2003 he was awarded the Lotus Beacon award for his work on producing a secure extranet. Andrew regularly speaks about Domino Administration at Lotusphere.

Bastian Wieczorek - Teleperformance

Bastian maintains an informative blog site, Lotus Notes Toolbox, and is an ideajam Top Innovator. Bastian is a major contributor of projects on OpenNTF that include: Add Notes ID Mailfile add-on, Blue UI Framework, Browser Bookmark Storage, Datacenter Documentation, Delegation Delete Plugin, Domino Maintenance Script, Multilingual translator bot, Notes Crash Cleaner, Phone Lookup Widget, and Selfservice Portal

Ben Langhinrichs - Genii Software

Ben is as a well known member of the Notes community. Since 2000 Ben and his company Genii Software has developed the Lotusphere Sessions database that has helped so many Lotusphere attendees plan there time effectievly at Lotusphere each year. Ben is a regular blogger from where he has become a strong advocate for the need for Notes mail fidelity with HTML. Ideajam Top Innovator.

Bill Buchan - hadsl

Every community needs a few colorful characters and "Wild" Bill Buchan is one of ours. Bill's unique sense of humor has made his blog site one of the most popular. He was voted a finalist for Best Lotus Blogger in 2008. He has been a prolific presenter at a great many Notes events around the globe. This includes the extremely popular "Worst Practices" presentations co-hosted with Paul Money given at Lotusphere and a great many LUG events.

Bill Ernest -

Bill was one of the original Notes pioneers starting way back when with the betas of Notes 1.0! Forget LotusScript v Java, this guy could do it all with @Formula. He single-handedly built the first Notes-based workflow tool called Quality at Work. Bill later spent 10- years at Teamwork Solutions. Bill was a highly regarded member of the Partner Forum and Penumbra Forum. Sadly the yellowverse was to lose Bill in May 2005.

Bob Balaban - Looseleaf Software

At Lotus/Iris/IBM Bob was involved in most of the major programming initiatives for the Lotus Notes environment. Bob developed the back-end class libraries for LotusScript added with Notes 4.0 and also played a major role in adding Java programming to Notes. Bob later formed his own company Looseleaf Software developing extensions for LS. Bob has presented at almost all Lotuspheres since 1993. Geek Ya Later!

Bruce Elgort - Elguji

Bruce has played a major role in so many Notes community initiatives. He and Nathan T Freeman were co-founders of OpenNTF. Bruce and Julian Robichaux are co-hosts of the Taking Notes podcats. He has also joined forces with Sean Burgess, Jess Stratton, and Carl Tyler on the 1352 Report. Bruce worked with Rocky Oliver to develop the concept of Show N Tell Thursday and more recently he has been involved with the new Xpages Blog.

Bruce Lill - Kalechi Designs

Bruce has worked with Lotus Notes since 2.0. He has shared his experience with the Lotus Notes community with presentations on Dojo, JSON,and LEI at Lotusphere, Entwickler Camp and IAMLUG. Bruce is a regular blogger with "How did I do it". He also has an OpenNTF project - Domino 2 JSON. Bruce is a regular contributor to IBM's Application Develoipment wiki and a Top Innovator at ideajam.

Carl Tyler - Epilo

Carl has been a pioneer in extending Sametime. These skills were recognized with the awarding of an Advisor Magazine Editors Choice award in 2004. Carl is another "yellow boomer" that came to prominence in 2003 thank to the Declan's OpenNTF Blogosphere template racking up 500,000 visits to his site. Carl is a regular presenter at Lotusphere and LUGs where he covers topics such as SameTime and VMWare. Ideajam Top Innovator.

Chris Blatnick - IBM

For over 13 years Chris has been a pioneer in redefining what we now consider normal or acceptable as a user interface for Lotus Notes. He has developed some of the coolest interfaces for Notes applications and often shares his ideas with the Notes community through his Web site. Chris has recently joined IBM where he will most likely assist in adding additional polish to the UX for Lotus products.

Chris Brandlehner - IBM

Christian joined Lotus in 1999 and subsequently IBM where he still works as an Accelerated Value Leader in Austria. He became an active member of the yellowverse in 2003 when he began blogging and contributed projects on OpenNTF such as Open Notes Picture Database and Open Secure Password Repository. Christian has been a regular presenter at the Austrian Notes User Group (ANUG)

Chris Miller - Connectria

Aka: IdoNotes (and sleep), Chris has been a pioneer in the Notes blogger community dating back to 2002. He produces the IdoNotes podcasts along with TheSocialGeeks. Chris is a regular presenter at various LUGs and Lotusphere where he provides great insights into Domino Infrastructure, Administration and Messaging. More recently Chris worked with Gabriella Davis to produce a public widget catalog.

Chris Toohey - Clearframe

Chris has been a prolific contributor to the yellow bubble over many years. Chris's OpenNTF projects include Abbr, ShowTime, and TimeTracker. He co-hosts the YellowCast podcasts with Tim Tripcony. In the blogosphere he is the "domino guru" and his Web site carries plenty of code and articles. Chris is the Lead Community Advocate for IBM's Lotus Technical Information and Education community, author at developerWorks and Lotus Design Partner.

Daniel Nashed - Nash!Com

A regular blogger, Daniel is the "guy who got Domino running on the Microsoft Xbox". Daniel's company, Nash!Com, is a member of the Penumbra Group. Daniel wrote a Tips & Tricks page for Groupware Magazine. Daniel's contributions to the Notes community include the start/stop script for Domino on Linux/AIX/Solaris. Daniel has been a regular presenter at Lotusphere (since 2003) and DNUG.

Declan Lynch - Czarnowski Inc.

Declan is perhaps best known as the developer of the OpenNTF Blogsphere template used by many Notes bloggers. It is not surprising therefore to find that Declan has been a long-time blogger in the Notes community with several blog sites. Declan has become a pioneer in the recent introduction of Xpages having produced a 54-part series on his experiences learning Xpages and his next great OpenNTF project Xtalk.

Ed Brill - IBM

Perhaps nobdy has done more than Ed Brill to promote a partnership between IBM and the Lotus Notes community. He is an active member in the Notes community via his blog site and twitter. In his role at IBM Ed has been carefully repositioning the Lotus product suite. Thanks to Ed and his team the Lotus brand is on the rise once more and Microsoft now has more than Google to worry about.

elguji - ideajam

Over and above the individual contributions made by Bruce Elgort, Bruce's company elguji also warrant recognition for the contribution it makes to the Lotus community. Elguji provide the community with the ideajam Web site that allows the community to contribute and votes on ideas for improving our product Elguji's products were recognized as Beacon Award winners in 2009. Bruce, Gayle Elgort, and Matt White are prominent at most Lotus community events.

Gabriella Davis - The Turtle Partnership

Gabriella is one of the most highly respected Domino Administrators in the Lotus Notes/Domino community. She is a regular speaker at Lotusphere and various LUGs and almost every other technical event on the planet covering Domino Administration and/or integration with other Lotus products. Gabby joined forces with Chris Miller to provide the Notes community with a public widget catalog.

Gary Devendorf - Microsoft

Rumour has it that Gary left IBM in 2003 to join Microsoft. But while Gary may have left Lotus, Lotus never really left Gary. While at IBM/Lotus/Iris Gary was a key player behind Domino Designer (the one before DDE), LotusScript, LS:DO, DXL, and Web Services. Still a technology evangalist Gary has pioneered ways to integrate Lotus and MS products such as .Net. And yes, he still attends Lotusphere every year.

Jake Howlett - Rockall Design

Over the years Jake has been a prolific blogger and provider of Lotus Notes code examples via his codestore Web site. Jake has been at the forefront of pushing the boundaries of Notes/Domino as a Web platform well before XPages made it fashionable. More recently he has been exploring opportunities of integrating Notes/Domino with Flex. Jake won the LotusUserGroup.org Blogger Award for 2007.

John Head - PSC Group

John and his company PSC have been big supporters of OpenNTF. PSC were the original hosts of the OpenNTF server. John is a now a member of the OpenNTF steering committee and Chairman of OpenNTF's IP Working Group. John is a regular presenter at Lotusphere as well as a tireless advocate for the Notes community on the Design Partner program.

Julian Robichaux - SNAPPS

Julian has been a major contributor of OpenSource code to the Notes community over many years via his nsftools Web site and contributions to OpenNTF such as OpenLog. Julian and Bruce Elgort co-host the Taking Notes podcasts. Julian often represents SNAPPS at Lotusphere, LUG Conferences and Collaboration University.

Kathleen McGivney - Sakura Consulting

Kathleen (aka The Domino Chick) is a highly respected Domino Administrator, Architect and sometime Developer. Kathleen is a regular presenter at Lotusphere, The View Admin Conferences, Lotus Premium Support conferences and various LUGs. She has co-authored two IBM Redbooks on Domino R5 Clustering and Deploying QuickPlace and has been a regular blogger since 2004.

Lotus911 - Bleedyellow.com

Lotus911 prides itself in attracting some of the finest talent in the Notes community. Nathan Freeman, Tim Tripconny, Scott Hooks, and Chris Whisonant share their talents through regular blogs, articles in THE View, and presentations at Lotusphere and other LUGs. Lotus911 also make a free Lotus Connections resource (bleedyellow.com) available to the Notes community. Lotus911 are also an active member and supporter of OpenNTF.

Ludwig Nastansky - University of Paderborn

One of the true innovators in the Lotus Notes community, Ludwig is credited with being a key driving force behind the establishment of Lotus Notes within Germany and also playing a major role in China. Ludwig's contributions were recognized with an IBM Faculty award in 2008. Lugwig is a regular presenter at Lotusphere and other LUGs. He presently serves on the steering committee of OpenNTF.

Marie Scott - Virginia Commonwealth University

Marie Scott is one of the emerging stars in the yellowverse. Since returning from Lotusphere in 2009 she started her own blog "CrashTestChix" on bleedyellow. Marie & Tom Duff are presently working on a User Guide for Lotus Sametime and Marie is slated to do several sessions on her return to Lotusphere in 2010. Marie has also become one of Ideajam's top innovators.

Mary Beth Raven - IBM

Perhaps nobody has done more than Mary Beth Raven to help remove the "Lotus Notes Sucks" label from the Lotus Notes client interface. Mary Beth and her entire team have adopted a similar style to Ed Brill in reaching out to involve the Lotus Notes community and share more information about what is happening inside IBM with the product we all love.

Matt White - Elguji

Matt is a talented Domino Web and Xpage developer who has developed ideajam, linkjam and Iqjam for elguji. So it is perhaps no surprise that Matt is one of Ideajam's Top Innovators. Matt is one of the members of the DominoWiki project on OpenNTF and co-author of another OpenNTF project TaskJam. In the past few years Matt has also started to present at Lotusphere and other LUGs.

Mikkel Heisterberg - IntraVision

A Notes/Domino Developer/Administrator, Mikkel is perhaps best known as the developer of LotusScript.Doc, a Notes application that generates Web documentation for Lotuscript code. Mikkel has been a regular blogger since 2004 and passionate tweeter. He has also been a member of the Lotus Design Partner Program since 2007. A writer for The View Mikkel has also spoken at Lotusphere and other LUGs.

Mitch Cohen - Colgate-Palmolive

"Curious" Mitch Cohen has been a regular blogger since 2007 covering SameTime, Quickr, and Lotus Connections. Mitch's blogging efforts were rewarded with an invite to participate in the inaugural Lotusphere Blogger program. In addition to presentations at Lotusphere Mitch is one of the organizers of the Tri-State Lotus User Group.

Niklas Heidloff - IBM

Over the past year Niklas's name has become synonymous with OpenNTF. Niklas has been coordinating IBM's activities with OpenNTF. This has lead to an increase in the profile of OpenNTF and an increase in the contributions of high quality code sample and projects. Before this Niklas was a regular blogger and exponent for building Composite Applications.

Patrick Kwinten - Sandvik

Patrick is active member of our Lotus Notes community in Sweden where he works as a Lotus Notes developer. Patrick's blog - All about Lotus Domino Development - provides great technical information for Notes developers. Patrick is amongst the top five innovators at ideajam having contributed 90 ideas and he also makes regular suggestions for OpenNTF projects.

Paul Mooney - Blue Wave Technology

Paul Money is a highly regarded Domino Administrator who created a hit when he set out to conduct the first Irish Lotus User Group (ILUG) conference in 2005. Offered as a free event for members of the Lotus Notes community this event's popularity has grown each year. Paul and Bill Buchan co-host the highly rated "Worst Pracitices" presentations given at Lotusphere and many LUGs each year.

Prominic - Domino Hosting

Behind the scenes at many of the prominent Notes community sites such as OpenNTF, ideajam, and codestore you will find prominic.net is hosting the Domino servers on which these sites run. Even my own site owes its existence to the helpful service of prominic. Prominic's CTO Justin Hill serves on the OpenNTF Steering committee.

Ray Ozzie - Microsoft

Perhaps no-one has given more to the Notes community than the man who gave the community Lotus Notes in the first place, Ray Ozzie! Ray began working on Notes on Dec 7 1984 after signing an agreement with Mitch Kapor. On Dec 7 1989, Notes 1.0 was released by Iris Associates, a company co-founded by Raz Ozzie, Tim Halvorsen, and Len Kawell. Ray remained at the helm of Iris Associates guiding the development of Notes from 1984 to 1997. Ray was named “Person of the Year” in 1995 by PC Magazine.

Rob Novak - SNAPPS

Rob "Lotus Rock Star" Novak is perhaps best known as an evangelist for Collaboration using Lotus QuickPlace/Quickr. A regular presenter at Lotusphere, Rob has written numerous articles for The View and Lotus Advisor. He co-authored the Deploying QuickPlace Redbook. Rob is president of SNAPPS who provide the Collaboration University events each year in USA/Europe along with a wide range of free Quickr templates.

Rocky Oliver - Onyx Creek Technologies

During his career Rocky "Lotus Geek" Oliver has bled both blue and yellow. Rocky has been a regular blogger since 2003. He was the author of Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible and co-author of ty LotusScript. During Rocky's time at IBM he was involved with Notes/SAP integration and starting the redesign of the Notes application templates. Rocky is a regular presenter at Lotusphere, LUGs and Advisor Devcons.

Stan Rogers -

Until an untimely illness slowed him down the Yellowverse was blessed with an amazing programmer who has gone out of his way to share. He is best known for the many contributions he made on the Notes.Net forums. Anyone who has regularly posted questions is likely to have had a helpful response posted by Stan Rogers. Stan has also been a regular blogger over at Stan's Space with catchy titles like "Sex and the single list".

Stephan Wissel - IBM

Now based in Singapore, Stephen has been involved with OpenNTF since 2003 and is one of its true innovators. In addition to proposing Blosgpshere, Stephan manages the DXL Magic project and makes regular suggestions to a number of projects. Stephan has been a presenter at Lotusphere and is a regular contributor to Show 'N Tell Thursday.

Steve Castledine - IBM

Steve is an Advisory Software Engineer for IBM Lotus where he now focuses on development with XPages. Steve has been a blogger since 2003, builidng his own blog application (DominoBlog) in the process. Steve has been a HUGE contributor to OpenNTF with numerous projects: Bookmarks for Connections, Business Card, Discussion Nextgen, Floating Panel Control, XPages Framework, and XPages Wiki.

Steve McDonagh - AVX

Perhaps the best known blogger from the Northern Ireland section of the yellowverse, Steve has been sharing his knowledge and experience at his blog site DominoYesNoMayber since 1997. Steve has been a Notes Developer/Domino Administrator since 1995, Steve's recent contributions the the Notes community include the AJAX Name Picker on OpenNTF and presentions at UKLUG.

Thomas Bahn - assono

Thomas Bahn has been working with Lotus Notes since 1999. He is recognized as one of the leading proponents of Object Oriented LotusScipt having created his own LotusScript framework on OpenNTF - assono Framework 2. Thomas's has also contributed another OpenNTF project - assono Password-Safe. Thomas has presented at Lotusphere and other LUGs and written articles for The View. Ideajam top innovator.

Tim Tripcony - Lotus911

Tim "Tip of the Iceberg" Tripcony is one of a number of talented Notes gurus working at Lotus911. He has been working with Xpages since Day 1. His blog site now carries some pretty cool code for Xpages and SSJS and before that with LotusScript. Tim and Nathan push the boundaries of Notes in articles for The View. Tim both presents and speedgeeks at Lotusphere. Tim and Chris Toohey have teamed up to produce the Yellowcast podcasts.

Ulrich Krause - eknori

A blogger since 2003, Ulrich is a chef for one of the hottest projects on OpenNTF - Project !!Help!!. He also has another project, Trigger Happy and one of OpenNTF's first GPL Committers. Ulrick was one of the first members of the German Notes Forum and a regular presenter at events such as EntwicklerCamp, AdminCamp, and Softsphere. Ideajam Top Innovator.

Vince Schuurman - vinceschuurman.com

Vince has been part of OpenNTF from the very beginning, acting as our European administrator before becoming its chairman in 2009. Vince has also been instrumental in creating the releases of the OpenNTF Mail Experience, PMT as well as assisting on a number of other projects. Recently Vince has taken up the mantel and done presentations for openNTF at LUGs. Vince has been blogging to the yellowverse since 2005.

Warren Elsmore - BE Systems/Blue Wave

Warren Elsemore is a regular blogger but perhaps is best known for his role in conducting UKLUG each year. Warren's company BE systems was recently acquired by Blue Wave, owned by ILUG organizer Paul Money. So collectively BlueWave now plays a HUGE role in the organizing community events in this part of the world.

Yancy Lent - Axceler

Yancy is best known as the founder of Planet Lotus, one of the most popular Web sites for the Notes community. This site started as an aggregation service for Notes bloggers but now offers a free blog site for the Notes community, a jobs board, and code exchange.