This week the IBM Champions program announced the nominations are open for IBM Social Business (AKA Lotus, ICS, ESS), IBM Power Systems, IBM Middleware (AKA Tivoli, Rational, WebSphere). As OpenNTF provides highly appreciated projects contributed by several IBM Champions we'd like to encourage you to nominate YOUR IBM Champion for 2016 in one or more areas of the above.

Next week sees the second user group conference of the month, with Engage taking place in the beautiful city of Ghent in Belgium. The conference runs on Monday 30th March and Tuesday 31st March at two venues. The Aula van de universiteit Gent hosts the keynote and Het Pand ("The Property") hosts the main part of the conference.