Episode 131 - GluuFederation/identerati-office-hours GitHub Wiki
Title: What is Janssen Project?
- Host: Mike Schwartz, Founder/CEO Gluu
- Guest: Dhaval Desei, Janssen Project Community Manager
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Description
Join us for a special Identerati Office Hours featuring Dhaval Desai, Community Manager for the Linux Foundation's Janssen Project. We'll explore how Janssen is advancing open source identity and access management, and what’s next for its growing ecosystem. Whether you're building IAM solutions or just curious about the project’s roadmap, this is your chance to engage with the community behind Janssen.
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Takeaways
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⚡ Gluu moved its main fork to the Linux Foundation Janssen Project to establish a community governance model which would encourage contribibutions and collaboration. No one wants to contribute to an open source project governed by one commercial company that can whiplash the community around on license like Hashicorp.
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⚡ The Janssen Project includes several projects in different levels of maturity. For example, Auth Server (the OpenID/OAuth component) is very mature, while the Cedarling component is very new.
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⚡ It's a lot of work establishing a new brand (Janssen). But Gluu felt it was important to have an open trademark that differentiated from Gluu's commercial trademark.
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⚡ The Janssen Project believes that open source is an engine for long term innovation. Too often, commercial identity infrastructure vendors start out rapidly innovating and then slow down, just collecting rent for a decade or more. An ecosystem of vendors and companies makes a platform stronger. And for security infrastructure that impacts the integrity of a transaction, transparency is good--nothing builds trust like souce code (and also CVE scanning and a transparent CI/CD build process).