After the initial confusion over Quickr 8.0.0.2 HF1 I went out to IBM Fix Central  just to make sure I had the right one, and much to my surprise found Quickr 8.0.0.2 HF2 Here are the FP2 fixes (but the fix is cumulative no need to do FP1 first)

In addition while upgrading the server I went out to the SNAPPS template site, to grab the latest files there as well.  On November 15th they posted the files required to support Quickr 8.0.0.2.   Depending on the current version of the templates you are running you might just need one file (qp_ajax.js) or if you have an older release you will need to replace the QP Common files and Qengine. On item of note is that by default anonymous places are no longer listed in My Places.  You can change the server to display anonymous places,  this forum post contains the required entry for the qpconfig.xml. Since applying all of the upgrades all appears to be working well, and the server is now compatible with the beta Quickr Connectors for Notes 8.0.1 so I can begin testing those now as well.

Quickr 8.0.0.2 HF1 is available on IBM Fix Central. Looks like it fixes four known SPR

Developerworks has a new article posted today on using REST Services for Quickr

IBM Lotus Quickr makes it easy for users to share business content. An important design principle of Lotus Quickr is to build the application on open interfaces that allow customers and partners to access content where and when they need it — otherwise known as the principle of information on demand. This article focuses on the Lotus Quickr Representational State Transfer (REST) services, including an overview and a simple example of how you can use them. Here we introduce the basic operations you can perform using Quickr REST services; more advanced operations will be explained in a future article.

I have not seen any Technotes yet, but HF11 for Quickr is now available on IBM Fix Central For those of you who have installed the previous hotfix, don’t worry you still have to manually copy a bunch of files, still no installer. Fix list is in the readme, looks like this fix is mainly fixes to some issues in the Blog and Wiki Templates, but it is a consolidated hot fix so it includes all previous fixes.

On the list of things to do today was to turn on presence awareness in Quickr today, conveniently in addition to the notes I took down at Collaboration University last week, Paul Mooney posted the sequence of events this morning from the London version of CU. The steps are pretty straightforward as listed by Paul or you can use the Documentation, and it did not take long to get it up and running, and while it works, it is not with out a few quirks. First I am using the Sametime client that is embedded in Notes 8 as my Sametime client, and in the build I am using (a later build then Beta 3) the Client ID of Sametime is wrong, as a result the Sametime server is sending all of my incoming chats to STlinks, and not my 7.5.1 client. After a few months of using a 7.5.x client using STLinks is really not pretty (assuming it ever was) ST Links . Sametime 7.5.1 The second quirk is that the STlinks has no awareness of the “In a Meeting” status which is new in Sametime 7.5, if you go to change your status you are presented with these options However if you go into a 7.5.1 client and set your status to “In a Meeting” STlinks has no icon to present your status so it spells it out which really does not look good. So at the end, awareness is working, but certainly a few quirks that need to be worked out. Will play with it more tomorrow, and then decide when to implement on the server that a handful of pilot users are working on for some additional testing.