[midPoint] Blog: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

[Radovan Semancik]

Dear MidPoint community,

Another year is almost over. Year 2019 was a very demanding year, but it 
was a year full of great achievements. We have released midPoint 4.0 
<https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Release+4.0>, bootstrapped 
long-term support (LTS) program 
<https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Long-Term+Support>, global 
midPoint community met for the first time 
<https://evolveum.com/first-global-midpoint-community-meet-up/> – and 
much more.

It is quite hard to enumerate all the things that we have done in 2019, 
all those improvements that we have made and all those bugs that we have 
fixed. We have participated in EU FOSSA2 bug bounty program 
<https://evolveum.com/midpoint-went-through-eu-fossa2-bug-bounty/> that 
came with its own load of work. We have implemented a lot of new 
midPoint features, many of those are very innovative and some of them 
are quite unique and daring. But we are more than aware that midPoint is 
not just the technology. MidPoint is a living thing that is created and 
maintained by the people. Therefore we were very busy with innovations 
of our company. Thriving open source company is still quite a rare sight 
and therefore it is quite expected that Evolveum is not the most usual 
company on the market. We had to invent and re-invent a lot of things, 
we had to try various approaches to business. There are no tries without 
failures therefore, quite naturally, there were problems and failures. 
But we are moving on. One year older and, hopefully, one year wiser.

All of us in Evolveum would like to express our very special thanks to 
you – midPoint community. We are more than aware that we would not be 
able to create and maintain midPoint without you. We would like to thank 
you for your contributions, your feedback and suggestions. It is music 
to our ears to hear your praise of midPoint. But it is equally important 
to hear constructive criticism and we are very happy that we have such 
an open and honest community. You have expressed your opinions during 
the events that we have participated on, and you have shared your 
thoughts in midPoint survery 
<https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/MidPoint+2019+Survey+Results>. 
We would like to thank you all for your understanding and patience. We 
know that sometimes the cooperation is not entirely easy. But we also 
feel your passion, your support and your dedication. We are more than 
grateful for that because it is you who keep us on the right path to 
open source excellence.

But now, farewell 2019 and welcome 2020. There is a lot of work already 
planned for the next year. We will start the year with several new 
colleagues joining our team. There will be a midPoint community meetup 
<https://evolveum.com/midpoint-on-tiime-2019-reserve-the-dates/> early 
next year. We plan to have two feature releases of midPoint in 2020. We 
will be attending conferences and other community events. There is a lot 
to look forward to in 2020. May the next year be happy for all of us!

(Reposted from Evolveum blog <https://evolveum.com/merry-christmas-2019/>)


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Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com

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