Peter Presnell’s Lotus Legends

December 23 2009

Through the fog of Q4 and pre-Lotusphere preparation, I was aware that Peter Presnell has been building a "Lotus Legends" list of community luminaries.  I hadn't really checked it out until yesterday, and I was really impressed with Peter's work.

Clearly, with a 20-year product history so far, the Lotus Notes/Domino community has tons of legendary contributors, from all over the world.  Peter has done an excellent job at highlighting three dozen names you already know, but perhaps you never knew the reasons why these names are so big in the Lotus world.

For a long time, I've wanted to do a formal recognition program from IBM for people like the Lotus Legends on Peter's list.  At least as a small gesture, I'd like to endorse his, and suggest there are probably another dozen or two names that belong on that wall of fame.  Who do you think is missing?

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  1. 1  Mike Maguire  | 12/23/2009 3:21:28 PM

    Well, for starters, since you've named a few IBM/Lotus folks, you definitely missed Maureen Leland! I mean, come on, the designer of designer? How could you?

  1. 2  Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 12/23/2009 3:43:04 PM

    Cough, Cough. ;-)

  1. 3  Bruce Elgort http://elguji.com | 12/23/2009 5:18:18 PM

    @Alan - you are there already ;-)

  1. 4  Peter Presnell  | 12/23/2009 9:15:58 PM

    Thx for carrying this blog Ed... Here is a list of names (in alphabetical order) I am still working on.

    Adam Osborne, Alan (pls get that cold attended to) Lepofsky, Ben Poole, Charles Robinson, Graham Dodge, Jamie Magee, Kevin Cavanaugh, Kevin Pettit, Mitch Cohen, Matt White, Mitch Cohen, Rob McDonagh, Scott Good, Stephan McDonagh, Stephan Wissel, Ulrich Krause. Note: All are still subject to FBI background checks and confirmation they hang around to have a beer with the crowd at Lotusphere each year...

    Any bio info or votes of confidence in the above (or the many other I am still missing) will help get these added sppner rather than later.

  1. 5  Emilio Penedo  | 12/23/2009 11:02:18 PM

    Ed, Lotus is not limited to English spoken countries, you should ask your IBM local colleagues (country subsidiaries) to nominate a Lotus Legend per country to form a worldwide Lotus cloud to reach beyond the Lotus Yellow Bubble.

  1. 6  Bill Geimer  | 12/24/2009 12:12:15 AM

    Peter, What a truly great contribution to the 20th year of Notes. Ed, as always, thanks for letting us all know about it.

  1. 7  Michael Bourak  | 12/24/2009 7:37:11 AM

    I would nominate, as a group, a team of ex loti : Damien Katz who re-fueled our @Formulas, Bob Congdom and team would gave life to "http" part of Domino, Ned Batchelder, Andrew Wharton, Silvain Galineau, Steve Leland etc...they all contributed to great content and were of a great help in the 1990's and 2000's

  1. 8  Charles Robinson http://www.cubert.net | 12/24/2009 8:17:03 AM

    Looking at it from the perspective of the people who have contributed significantly to the community by participating in the blogs or forums or speaking at conferences, my list would include: Nathan Freeman, Gregg Eldred, Matt White, Susan Bulloch, Steve McDonagh, Stephan Wissel, Tom Duff, Kevin Pettitt and Peter Presnell.

    @4 - Peter, I'm flattered -- and more than a little surprised -- you would include me in your list. Unfortunately I didn't attend Lotusphere last year and I won't be there this year, either. I also can't clear an FBI background check, so I guess that takes me out of the running. I appreciate the consideration, though. :-)

  1. 9  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 12/24/2009 9:12:51 AM

    @5 claro que si! We definitely need more non-English-speaking nominations here. You are welcome to suggest some!

  1. 10  Tom Edmonson  | 12/29/2009 1:03:14 PM

    Two from the pre-web days, where the (dial-up replicated) Business Partner Forum was where the Lotus community lived:

    - Carol Anne Ogdin - a rarity in that she was both a hard-core technical resource and someone who could vividly articulate how Lotus-based collaboration could radically transform an institution.

    - Scott Brown - I think I remember this correctly, but wasn't he the longtime editor of the Lotus Modem Toolkit? In the dial-up days, that was a complete lifesaver.

  1. 11  Kerr  | 12/31/2009 4:02:39 AM

    @Alan, Maybe you and Carl Tyler need to team up. ;)