Sean Cull tried upgrading his EC2 Ubuntu 8.04 instance to Domino 8.5.2 but ran into a series of problems. All of which has left him with a number of questions.

Mitch Cohen say you can easily upgrade to Sametime 8.5.1 once your have Notes 8.5.2 in place. He’s provided instructions on how to do it.

Jalpresh Tailor knows there are many reasons to bombard end users with e-mail notifications. But, he was looking for a way to cut down the numbers, so it looked less like spam and more like something they needed to pay attention to.

Stuart McIntyre has posted episode 9 of this series, entitled: The wisdom of swarms. The video is a bit under 4-minutes and doesn’t seem to have anything to do with bees.

Devin Olson is excited about the new Notes Preloader. It actually asks you if you want to have it pre-load parts of Notes to make startup faster.

Andy Pedisich apparently got out his stopwatch and timed the upgrade. He’s included some screen shots as proof.

Terri Puckett has posted links to his new article on the Lotus Domino wiki and two Open Mic calls scheduled for September. The Open Mic calls are on upgrading the Domino server and the Notes client.

Jesper Kiaer upgraded his server from 8.5.1 to 8.5.2. Everything seemed to be fine until he tried to open a local web page, then he discovered the new version handles URLs differently.

Tom Simmons has posted a schedule of Lotus classes being offered in Denver, Colorado this fall. Hmmm… Doesn’t ski season start about November?

Marc Champoux has posted, for you to download, his Show’n’Tell presentation. This is the slide show he gives to users upgrading to Notes 8.5.1. If you’re doing an upgrade, Marc is giving you permission to use his slides.