[midPoint] Blog: Quality TIIME 2020

[Radovan Semancik]

Dear midPoint community,

TIIME 2020 <https://tiimeworkshop.eu/agenda/> 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.

Monday was a merry gathering of midPoint users that formed a 
surprisingly cohesive group. Katka and me started the day with a couple 
of talks <https://docs.evolveum.com/talks/> to set the mood. But the 
whole group quickly moved toward informal discussions. We discussed many 
topics such as configuration management, IDEs, deployment practices, 
midPoint improvements and documentation. This was a great inspiration 
for us and we will consider all the suggestions we have received. It 
looks like the community enjoys to hear news from midPoint development 
team, therefore we have decided to organize midPoint webinars. We will 
start with “What’s new” webinars as a follow-up to midPoint releases. If 
the webinars prove to be useful, we will consider extending that 
activity even further.

The gathering was very friendly and there was a strong atmosphere of 
cooperation. MidPoint is a practical real-world software, therefore it 
is quite obvious that midPoint is not perfect. But there was hardly any 
critique at all. Everybody was very positive, everybody wanted to 
contribute to the discussion, everybody wanted to make midPoint better. 
I am very grateful that midPoint has such cooperative and helpful 
community. You motivate us to develop midPoint to the best of our 
abilities. Thank you all!

Tuesday was dedicated to open source IAM software. I reported on the 
plans for ConnId development that we have agreed on in the ConnId 
community. Then there was quite an emotive discussion about SCIM. This 
is hardly surprising, given all the issues regarding protocol 
interoperability during last few years. Then there was a couple of other 
discussions, but the last one was my personal favorite. Mike Schwartz 
talked about business models related to open source. I added my two 
cents by describing how our own business model evolved. The discussion 
that followed was a real highlight of the entire event for me. It is 
quite clear that /open source/ is not a business model itself. But there 
can be a thriving business based on open source development. The very 
existence of Evolveum is a proof of that.

The main TIIME unconference went on Wednesday and Thursday in its 
typical friendly and honest style. I have to say I have became a real 
fan of unconferences during all these years. We had a dinner at an 
amazing museum of natural history in Vienna. And then it was time to go 
home again. The event ended just a few days ago, but I’m already looking 
forward to meet midPoint community again. See you again next year!

(Reposted from Evolveum blog <https://evolveum.com/quality-tiime-2020/>)

-- 
Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com

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