Event overview
A-5. Your Relation to Lotus
A-6. Have you been to Lotus events before ?
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 63
Total entries skipped: 13
| Customer | Business Partner | IBM-er | Other | TOTAL |
 BLUG (Belux) | 19 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 52 |
 UKLUG (UK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 ILUG (Ireland) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
 SNUG (Netherlands) | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
 Lotusphere Europe | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
 Lotusphere Orlando (US) | 8 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 27 |
 Other | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| TOTAL | 33 | 63 | 10 | 5 | 111 |
Continue these BLUG events or meetings ?
B-1. Do you think we should continue with these BLUG events or meetings ?
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 67
Total entries skipped: 9
Is the timing for the BLUG meeting OK ?
A-5. Your Relation to Lotus
B-2. Is the timing for a BLUG meeting OK for you ?
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 67
Total entries skipped: 9
| Customer | Business Partner | IBM-er | Other | TOTAL |
| Yes | 19 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 58 |
| No | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| TOTAL | 25 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 67 |
Session distribution during a 2 hour meeting
A-5. Your Relation to Lotus
B-3. How would you like to have the sessions organized during such a 2 hour meeting ?
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 66
Total entries skipped: 10
| Customer | Business Partner | IBM-er | Other | TOTAL |
| 1 long session | 7 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 26 |
| 2 sessions of 1 hour | 19 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 46 |
| 2 simultaneous sessions of 2 hours | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 35 | 46 | 4 | 3 | 88 |
Have a full-day event ?
A-5. Your Relation to Lotus
B-4. Should we hold a big one-day event (like we did in March 2009), once a year ?
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 66
Total entries skipped: 10
| Customer | Business Partner | IBM-er | Other | TOTAL |
| Yes | 18 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 51 |
| Not really | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| TOTAL | 24 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 66 |
Topics to Cover ?
B-5. What topics would you like to see covered during the events or meetings?
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 34
Total entries skipped: 42
| anything and everything Lotus notes related, IBM/Lotus roadmaps for the various Lotus Products |
| Administration, Cluster, DAOS, Mobile Connect. |
| best practices on usage as a customer, customer cases, software-vendor showcases,.. |
| both IBM strategy and Business Partner cases. New & Proven technology |
| demos, development tips, new features |
| Dev Stuff.: Xpages |
| eID & Lotus Notes / Domino |
| E-mail compliance and archiving |
| Every New feature. |
| interesting business cases, new technology, discussions about certain use cases, tools |
| If it is for end users: demo 'unused/unknown' possibilities, roadmap, impress end users with 'groupware' possibilities. |
| Let's disscuss that around a beer, ok ? ;-) |
| Lotus Domino Designer evolution |
| May be it's a good idea to have a list of topics and let the users vote which topic they want to see. |
| New design/admin features, announcements, sneak previews , best practices, realizations.... |
| New features, Future project.. etc.. |
| New Lotus features, road maps |
| New releases |
| New releases, roadmap of Lotus Notes software, demo, customer testimonials |
| New versions (even in beta) and features, connection with other products (like Atlantis), would also be good (if feasible) to have a kind of lotus labs (like we have on lotusphere) |
| News about the new release. For exemple, |
| News in products (Client / Designer / Admin) |
| Plenty |
| Presentations of new products with a business case |
| Reference cases, product updates, vision, best practices |
| Some updates from Lotusphere |
| technical (setup daos, id-vault, upcoming sametime 8.5 |
| technical topics |
| Technical sessions |
| The new features |
| whatever that is of any interests for the IBM/Lotus customers |
| Web development with Domino and without xPages. That's my speciality |
| Workshops and Free Certification Courses (easy to manage) e.g. Lotus Notes Client Management Specialist or Domino, BES, Sametime Monitoring and Analytics Specialist IŽd be happy to arrange that, making my CTO available for the free traing course;-) |
| X-Pages |
Willing to present ?
B-6. Are you willing to contribute, and do a presentation yourself ?
A-5. Your Relation to Lotus
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 64
Total entries skipped: 12
| Sure | Maybe | Absolutely not | TOTAL |
| Customer | 2 | 11 | 10 | 23 |
| Business Partner | 10 | 15 | 9 | 34 |
| IBM-er | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Other | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| TOTAL | 17 | 26 | 21 | 64 |
BLUG.be website content
B-7. What kind of content would you like to see on 'BLUG.be' ?
A-5. Your Relation to Lotus
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 63
Total entries skipped: 13
| Lotus related Event listing | Interesting Links | A discussion forum | Other | TOTAL |
| Customer | 18 | 20 | 15 | 1 | 54 |
| Business Partner | 27 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 66 |
| IBM-er | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| Other | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| TOTAL | 52 | 53 | 25 | 9 | 139 |
Willing to Contribute or Donate ?
B-8. As such events or meetings are not free, are you willing to contribute or donate a yearly fee ?
Total entries: 76
| No, Sorry | Maximum 25 EUR | Maximum 50 EUR | Maximum 100 EUR | A free donation, so I can choose | TOTAL |
| TOTAL | 33 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 76 |
Contribution/Donation Comments
B-9. Comment on Fee
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 17
Total entries skipped: 59
| - We should maintain current quality to keep people coming |
| A BLUG is a forum where IBM gets to advertise its products. So it is all about generating money for IBM. Let them pay the bill :-) |
| A fee would hold back my employer to go to such event (if the sessions are not technical) |
| As an ISV weŽd prefer to sponsor hand-selected events. If we participate, yes. If not, probably not. |
| As customer it should be free sponsored by IBM and the different BPs |
| Can't IBM do some sponsoring? or other vendors? |
| Companies should be able to contribute by providing infrastructure and/or sandwiches/drinks for a meeting |
| depends on the value i get in return |
| how to get this organized ? |
| I Discuss with my boss but it's not in our budget, it can come from IBM, Lotus Partners or product around Lotus. |
| I may not decide about that kind of questions for my company. |
| I think this can be considered as pre-sales activity towards customers. |
| I would see it as normal that BLUG memebrs have a fee to ensure BLUG can work |
| Maybe have the business partners pay in relation to their status (premier, advanced, ...). |
| Nothing is free |
| SNUG in The Netherlands is 42,50 euro. Also a Business Partner community is available using Sametime, where handy in contacting all the Business Partners |
| yearly fee is maybe difficult if you can't join all events but a fee/event should be no problem if level of the event is OK (whiich they are until now :-)) |
Interested in Sponsoring ?
B-10. Are you interested in Sponsoring ?
A-5. Your Relation to Lotus
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 64
Total entries skipped: 12
| Sure | Maybe | No | TOTAL |
| Customer | 0 | 3 | 21 | 24 |
| Business Partner | 2 | 14 | 17 | 33 |
| IBM-er | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Other | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| TOTAL | 5 | 18 | 41 | 64 |
Sponsoring Comment
B-11. Comments of Sponsoring
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 7
Total entries skipped: 69
| Best to contact Guy Ceulemans |
| gadgets with blug/lotus logo |
| I prefer the multi level sponsoring idea. |
| No for this year. |
| Speaker sessions and/or education session are interesting. Booth is for sure good but reaching a larger audience with our speech and have a lot of interested CLPs attending our free cerfication/briefing courses is of higher priority. |
| This is Laurent Boes's budget of course :-) |
| This is open for discussion. |
General Comments
B-12. Any other Comments you would like to add ?
Total entries: 76
Total entries filled-in: 9
Total entries skipped: 67
| For heaven's sake, don't schedule a BLUG event at the same day as an EasiSphere event. |
| I hope that the number of customers will increase. IBM & BP's can support the BLUG but the participation of the user-community is important. |
| Invite more end users... |
| Last BLUG was great. Would like to see a bit more customers and less vendors/sales people though. |
| Nice survey. No wonder you have won an award |
| Nice work Theo |
| Not at this time |
| Post presentations also in ppt format |
| The BLUG is a real good initiative to ensure Lotus Notes/Domino lives and has a future. |
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