Binary Tree has opened a survey to collect data on Transforming the Domino Platform. Data being collected includes versions, platforms, and future plans. The survey will remain open for responses through August 2009.

Andre Guirard is working on a fix, not a workaround, for the Queryclose code problem in the Eclipse-based Notes client. He would like some feedback as to whether the lack of a fix will block your deployment of 8.5.

Bastian Wieczorek has posted a short lesson on the event correlation pool, how it works, and why you get messages saying the pool is full. He includes some helpful tips on Notes.ini settings to control the cache size.

Lotus is starting a technical community to share information and experience with IBM Lotus products. This is a combination web presentation and phone discussion scheduled for May 26. A list of toll-free phone numbers is provided.

Andy Porter was poking around in Notes 8.5.1 and found a new feature he thinks is going to be a real time-saver, a button in the preview pane allows you to open archived docs.

Vaughan Rivett has posted an 8-minute training video showing some additional settings such as the importance level, return receipt, and delivery confirmation.

Sometimes a meeting invitation isn’t what you want to send, so Niklas Waller provides sample code to create a meeting button in an e-mail.

Rob Novak is helping to get speakers for the Collaboration University conferences in September and he’d like to know if you have any special requests. The events will be held in Chicago: September 14-16 at the IBM Innovation Center and London: September 21-23 at IBM South Bank.

Andre Guirard thinks the FAQ in the Lotus Forums needs to be changed. He’s proposing a new format and offers some sample FAQ topics. Andre would like your input so he can start with the 50 most common questions.

A new wiki article explains how to develop trees in the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) for use with any Eclipse project. This includes Lotus Expeditor, Lotus Notes/Domino and IBM WebSphere.