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<p>Dear midPoint community,</p>
<p>MidPoint user group meeting on <a
href="https://tiimeworkshop.eu/">TIIME Workshop</a> in Vienna is
getting close. TIIME is an unconference with a lot of variability
and improvisation. Nevertheless, we have prepared some topics for
discussions.</p>
<p>We will start Monday morning with two presentations:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>The state of midPoint</b> by Radovan Semančík. I will
summarize recent releases development works and plans for next
releases. We will talk about roadmap and big things that are in
our future.</li>
<li><b>What’s hot in midPoint</b> by Katarína Valaliková. Katka
will talk about the things we are working on now. She will
provide some insights into our development process, planning,
milestones and all the other insider information. This will be
mostly about upcoming midPoint 4.1 release.</li>
</ul>
<p>We have also prepared a couple of discussion topics for the
afternoon:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Configuration management:</b> midPoint configuration is
XML/JSON/YAML. But it is stored in the database. How do we apply
version control on that? How do we maintain configuration? How
to make transfer of configuration from development to test
environment easier? Are we missing some tooling here?</li>
<li><b>Deployment efficiency:</b> Identity management field is
notorious for long and difficult deployment projects with
relatively high proportion of failed projects. It is partially
caused by low quality of input data and general disorder in
identity repositories. But can it be helped? Is there any way
how to make IDM (and midPoint) deployment easier, faster and
less risky? What would help you to make you more efficient? What
features, improvements and tools are you missing?</li>
<li><b>Beyond the roadmap:</b> Some parts of midPoint code are
almost 10 years old. The world around us has moved quite a bit
in that decade. It is quite natural that we need to rethink some
of our original design decisions. The <a
href="https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/MidPoint+2019+Survey+Results">results
of midPoint survey</a> encouraged us to go ahead with those
changes. Now we have rough idea about the future of midPoint,
but no hard decisions have been made so far. We would like to
discuss our ideas with midPoint user community and gain as much
input as possible. We will need to make a lot of important
decisions in a very near future and these decisions will define
the future of midPoint for many years to come. We want to be
sure that the decisions we make are the best we can possibly
make.</li>
</ul>
<p>TIIME is an unconference, and so is midPoint user group.
Therefore, we want to leave a lot of space for topics suggested by
you. We also plan some entertainment in the evening. TIIME
workshop organizers have already reserved tables for all user
groups at TIIME.</p>
<p>But the <a href="https://tiimeworkshop.eu/agenda/">fun</a> will
not end on Monday. There are two interesting tracks on Tuesday:
identity governance (IGA) and open source IAM (OSS IAM). I’m
looking forward especially to the OSS IAM part. Agenda for that
part is published already. There are going to be two interesting
topics for midPoint community: ConnId framework and SCIM. There
are also interoperability and testing discussions, discussions
regarding open source business models and much more. I really look
forward to this track.</p>
<p>Wednesday and Thursday is the main unconference. I guess there
will be some follow-up discussions from first two days. We may
want to continue those discussions with a broader audience. But we
have already prepared proposals for two topics for the
unconference:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Identity correlation and progressive user profiles:</b> How
do we correlate identities in case we do not have a reliable
identifier? Our knowledge of user profile may also be very
limited due to privacy and data protection. Do we need to build
user profiles in a progressive way (on “as needed” basis)? Do we
need to dynamically merge/split identities?</li>
<li><b>Impact of data protection and GDPR:</b> GDPR is in force,
but there is suspicious silence about it. How have you dealt
with GDPR? How does it impact your organization? What are the
problems? Are there any tools or processes that you are missing?</li>
</ul>
<p>This is going to be a very interesting week. I hope that we can
get good discussions and a lot of input from the community.
Therefore, let’s meet at:</p>
<p><b><a href="https://tiimeworkshop.eu/">TIIME Workshop</a>,
17th-20th February 2020, Vienna, Austria</b></p>
<p>(Reposted from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://evolveum.com/tiime-2020-topics/">Evolveum blog</a>)</p>
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Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com</pre>
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