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If for some reason you can't get into our IM server or perhaps you just want to start a quick chat with a YellowBleeder, you can now login to Profiles and then search for someone. If they are logged into Sametime, you will be able to start a chat with them through STLinks... In Connections 1.0.2, this is the only integration with Sametime, but there will be more to come in Connections 2.0.

On Thursday,  March 20, 2008 at 10:00 PM Eastern Time, we will have a scheduled maintenance window for the Lotus Connections services on BleedYellow.com. This is to resolve some SSO issues - specifically related to presence awareness within Profiles and get full SSO between Connections and Domino. We anticipate much less than 1 hour of downtime.

We had bit of a problem with new registrations over the past 4 days. If you recently registered, and haven't been able to log in, your account should be fully operational now.

Details available here.

As has probably been visible from a flurry of blogs and discussions, we at Bleedyellow.com want to provide the user community with improved visibility on exactly what's going on behind the scenes.  So in the interest of openness and community cooperation, we decided to put together a team of user auditors who are authorized to inspect the Domino & Sametime configuration settings in the Bleedyellow environment.

We considered just opening it up to EVERYONE, but we don't want to make a rash or risky decision, particularly by throwing around information that doesn't really belong to us.  We thought the prudent thing to do would be to open read access to well-known and trusted members of the community, who have the requisite knowledge to perform inspections and advise us of anything we may have inadvertently left exposed.

The following people have volunteered to be user auditors of the Bleedyellow Domino & Sametime environments...

Bruce Elgort
Carl Tyler
Chris Miller
Gabriella Davis
IBMers
John Head
Mikkel Heisterberg
Mitch Cohen
Paul Mooney
Rob Novak
Warren Elsmore

We've asked a few other well-known administration experts as well, and hopefully will hear from them soon.

All of these people are now in a public group on the Sametime server called "User Auditors."  Hopefully, there is at least one person in that list that each of our users trusts.

As a side note, you'll notice that there's a group called "IBMers."  Yes, this is a public group that you can add to your buddy list.  And it does include all IBM users at the time of this writing.  (It's a manually maintained group for now.)  So technically, anyone from IBM can look at the configuration for the servers as well.

If you're wondering about the Connections environment... well, so are we.  It's not clear what we can do in that environment to allow read-only administrative rights yet.  But watch this blog for further details.

And thanks for keeping Yellow alive!

UPDATE: Rob Novak also just accepted our invitation to the audit team.

UPDATE 2: The last two invitations have been accepted.  Warren Elsmore and Paul Mooney have agreed.  (Well, Warren agreed and volunteered Paul, too.  Based on what Paul did with the ILUG servers, we think we're going to be glad it's READ ONLY access!)

UPDATE 3: Bruce Elgort withdrew from the User Auditor list.

We are trying to work out a way to prove it to you, but we are not now, nor have we ever, nor will we ever log chats over the im.bleedyellow.com  Sametime server.

Thank you.