COVID-19: We Are OK
COVID-19 pandemic struck the world and pretty much everybody is affected in some way. Even though the pandemic affected us, we are operating as close to normality as we can. […]
Author: Radovan Semancik
midPoint 4.1 “Pasteur”
MidPoint 4.1 “Pasteur” was released. It brings major authentication improvements, user interface improvements, improved archetype functionality and a number of smaller improvements. There are also many cleanups and simplifications in the Pasteur release. […]
MidPoint Becomes EquiDistance
Customer orientation always was a fundamental principle of Evolveum team. As our identity management system appears to be considerably popular in academic community, we have realized that there is plethora of improvements that we can make to increase the probability of our success in the academic sphere. We have concluded that the first and foremost Read more about MidPoint Becomes EquiDistance[…]
Open Source Is Not A Business Model
Open source is not a business model. This may sound like a strange statement from a founder of a successful company which is firmly based on open source. But it is true. Open source is not a business model. However, there are many ways how to build a business around open source software. […]
Dear open source developers, do not work for free
Open source funding is a huge and complicated problem. That problem does not have any clear solution yet. However, there is simple advice that can help: do not work for free.
Quality TIIME 2020
TIIME 2020 is over. As always, it was nice and pleasant unconference. But this year was quite special for us as we have conducted the very first MidPoint user group meeting before the main unconference. […]
MidPoint Book 2.0
Long-awaited book Practical Identity Management with MidPoint is here in a brand new version 2.0. Fresh from the virtual printing press. There are significant extensions and updates. […]
TIIME 2020 Topics
MidPoint user group meeting on TIIME Workshop in Vienna is getting close. TIIME is an unconference with a lot of variability and improvisation. Nevertheless, we have prepared some topics for discussions. We will start Monday morning with two presentations: The state of midPoint by Radovan Semančík. I will summarize recent releases development works and plans Read more about TIIME 2020 Topics[…]
Plans for Data Provenance
Today is a Data Protection Day, which is a very symbolic day for midPoint. We are taking data protection and privacy very seriously. We believe that privacy in the cyberspace is necessary for the free society to flourish. Despite such belief, we acknowledge the implementation of privacy and data protection may not be easy. But we are not afraid of challanges. We are fully committed to implement privacy and data protection features in midPoint. […]
Workflowless
MidPoint ditched workflow engine. Scandal! How dare they? IDM without a workflow engine? Blasphemy! Abomination! Workflow was a holly cow of provisioning for almost 20 years. Hordes of IDM systems were born (and died) with integrated workflow engine. From the cumbersome proprietary workflow engine of Waveset Lighthouse to the open source BPMN engine of Apache Syncope, workflow was a natural part of identity management. Except one pesky little detail: it does not make sense.