There are times in life where you need to take a risk. This is one of those times …

Last week we held ForgeRock’s Exec Team offsite in Bristol, UK. We spent the days discussing ForgeRock strategy and in the evenings we socialized. (A great attribute of the Bristol office is that the basement has been converted into a cozy pub with working tap!)

As the evening progressed a guitar appeared and CEO Mike Ellis was caught playing a nifty, impromptu riff. Although intended for a small group of listeners, I could not resist sharing this secret clip with the greater ForgeRock community.

For me, the clip is a reflection on what life is like at ForgeRock. Beyond IAM, we have talented people from all over the world — Musicians, Artists, Athletes, Writers, etc. Mike, Lasse and team have done a great job recruiting the “best of the best” and it not only makes our end product better, but also makes life at ForgeRock so much more fun.

Can’t wait until we catch Mike singing next. Maybe we’ll find out he’s a Soprano!?!?! Apologies in advance Mike!

From June 12-14 you are going to want to be in Pacific Grove, CA! ForgeRock is hosting its Open Identity Summit and will be talking about everything OpenAM, OpenIDM and OpenDJ.

Scott McNealy and Pat Patterson are confirmed as keynote speakers and a more detailed agenda will be rolling out next week.

A call for paper is opened, but not for long. You have up to May 6th to submit your proposals for presentations.

Also, register and book your hotel ASAP. Space at Asilomar is filling up quick!

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.