Join us on June 12th to 14th, 2013, in Pacific Grove, California for the first ForgeRock Open Identity Summit, an event for and with the community of the OpenAM, OpenDJ and OpenIDM projects. The agenda is still work in progress and will be previewed soon. But you can be part of it. A call for paper is opened, but not for long. You have up to May 6th to submit your proposals for presentations. Don’t wait for the last minutes !

A note on logistics, please make sure to book your hotel, registration is not complete until you’ve booked your room!  Space at Asilomar is filling up, so we encourage you to register ASAP to reserve your spot.

We’re looking forward to seeing you at the event!

The first change decided is that the next release will be versioned 2.6. We got the feedback that the versioning scheme with Xpress releases and final releases with the same version number is confusing. Moving forward, we will try to keep the following scheme : a stable release will have an even minor number and development releases will have an odd number.

We’ve also set the date for the release to end of Q2 of 2013 (end of June).

The REST to LDAP service has now been integrated in OpenDJ server, although not fully featured yet. The team is working really hard to deliver the remaining features by June, and closing the few remaining important defects. If you want to start evaluating the REST to LDAP service, just grab a recent nightly build. Mark is doing a great job of documenting the REST features as they become available.

We will soon make the RPM and Debian packages available for tests with the nightly builds, along with the new upgrade mechanism, and then enter a cycle of stabilization before the 2.6.0 release.

Feedback is important for us, so please download and test the nightly builds, report success via email or issues in our bug tracking tool.

All of this predates my involvement with LDAP, directory servers and even X.500, but I feel related to it, since the names, projects or people, he mentions are familiar to me and I had the chance to meet or even work with some of them.

Anyway, for the curious who want to understand the roots of LDAP, it’s definitely worth reading.

This is a great news, and is definitely setting us on a great global growth path.

Welcome to our new partner Foundation Capital, and thanks to Accel Partners for the renewed investment.

I’d like to thank the organizers for the great conference. And I hope that we’ll be able to have a strong presence next year.

You can find my photo album from Devoxx France 2013 on G+.

Booth at about 7pm.

And the booth at 7:45pm.

Looking forward to a great conference. See you all in the next 3 days.

The session was broadcasted live on Google Hangout, unfortunately due to a nice blue screen, in 2 parts. You can watch them here:

Part 1:

Part 2:

The slides are available on the LavaJUG Wiki

Thanks for the great reception to the whole LavaJUG and more specifically to its leaders Olivier Coupelon, Pierre Colomb, Sylvain Desgrais and Thomas Maurel.

And next week, from  March Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th, you will find ForgeRock at the Devoxx France conference.

Come to our conference session about “Enterprise Security in a Cloudy and Mobile World” (the session is in French). The session is on Friday 29th, from 11:45 to 12:35, in Miles Davis room. Mark it on your calendar, and if you miss it, make sure you stop by our booth (B3) to say hello and talk with some of our engineers. We will also be present at the HackerGarten on Wednesday from 14:00 to 18:00, should you want to have fun with one of our open source projects : OpenAM, OpenDJ or OpenIDM.

On behalf of the ForgeRock Grenoble Engineering Center, I’m wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year 2013.

(cc) 2012 – Ludovic Poitou.