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SnowCamp 2020, c’est déjà fini 😢

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La 5ème édition du SnowCamp, la conférence pour les développeurs qui se passe au coeur des Alpes, s’est achevée Samedi dernier. Et ce fut, encore une fois, un superbe événement.

En tant que co-organisateur du SnowCamp, je ne peux qu’être fier de cette conférence qui a accueilli plus de 500 participants et 60 présentateurs. Les retours que nous avons de tous, y compris les sponsors, sont tous positifs et motivants.

C’est difficile de résumer 4 jours en quelques mots, alors je vous laisserai regarder les photos que j’ai faites.

Et j’espère que cela vous donnera envie de participer l’an prochain, en tant que présentateur ou simple participant. Et si jamais vous souhaitez soutenir cette conférence, n’hésitez pas à contacter l’équipe par mail: sponsor@snowcamp.io

A Janvier 2021 !

SnowCamp.io 2018

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2017-sticker_peppercarrot_snowcamp2018_exportI’m one of the organisers of a developers’ conference here in Grenoble, France, the SnowCamp. The 3rd edition took place last week at Minatec. During 3 days, we hosted 10 University workshops, 40 presentations, 3 keynotes, and welcomed 375 attendees. And on the Saturday, we ran a smaller unconference with some of the speakers on the snowy slopes of Chamrousse, the closest ski resort to Grenoble.

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It has been 4 very intense days, but I’m really happy with how smooth the event went, and I’m excited to help organising it again next year (no spoiler, but it should take place end of January 2019).

My photos of the event are on my Flickr account, but they are also aggregated with other photographers’ shots on the SnowCamp Flickr Album.
SnowCamp 2018

ForgeRock at Grenoble Ekiden…

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21680633313_c13f693bcc_zLast Sunday, ForgeRock team participated in the Ekiden, a marathon organized in Grenoble, in favor of various charities, including the “Papillons de Charcot” (literally Charcot’s butterflies, to help people with Charcot’s disease).

The race is a marathon, but run as a relay of 6 persons respectively running 5km, 10km, 5km, 10km, 5km and 7.195km).

The ForgeRock team did great and finished in 3 h 28 min and 6 secs. Congrats to the team and we’re looking forward to next year edition, see if we can register 2 teams.
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Why I love my job !

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At ForgeRock, I have multiple reasons to enjoy what I do. I have the responsibility for two products: OpenDJ, the LDAP directory services and OpenIG the Identity Gateway, and I also manages the French subsidiary. But what really gets me excited in the morning is that I get to work with very smart and passionate people!

Jean-Noël, one of the engineers of the OpenDJ development team, has a passion for beautiful code and AlpesJuggyTranshe loves refactoring, cleaning existing code. On his personal time, he started to automate his process in Eclipse, and then turn it into an Eclipse plugin, and finally made the code available as an open source project: AutoRefactor. Now, in the office, most of the engineers using Eclipse are also using the AutoRefactor plugin.

So when Jean-Noël got to present his work at our local Java User Group (the AlpesJUG), the rest of the team went along and supported him. As one of the other engineers has a passion for photography (which I share), it gives this amazing picture gallery and set of souvenirs for everyone:

AutoRefactor Session at the AlpesJUG (Feb 24, 2015)
Photos by Bruno Lavit – Click to go to the picture gallery

PS: It also helps that we are working in a great environment where we can afford to do this⬇︎ (sometime to time) during our lunch break!

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4 years !

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ForgeRock logoFour years ago, exactly I was free from all obligations with my previous employer and started to work for ForgeRock.

My first goal was to setup the French subsidiary and start thinking of building a team to take on development of what we named a coming later OpenDJ.

4 years later, I look at where we are with ForgeRock and I feel amazed and really proud of what we’ve built. vertical-logo_webForgeRock is now well established global business with several hundreds of customers across the globe, and plenty of opportunities for growth. The company has grown to more than 200 employees worldwide and still expanding. The ForgeRock Grenoble Engineering Center has moved to new offices end of May and counts 13, soon 14 employees and we’re still hiring.

Thanks to the ForgeRock founders for the opportunity and let’s keep rocking !!!
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We’ve moved !

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As ForgeRock is growing fast and we have a number of new hires joining us in the Grenoble Engineering Center, we’ve moved office for a larger space, still in the same building.

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The new office has a large open space area where all engineers (dev, QA and doc) can work and exchange.
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It also has a couple of smaller office for managers , and a decent meeting room, that has already been hacked 🙂

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ForgeRock engineering center meeting room Engineers in action !

 

And the good news is that the new office will allow us to hire even more, in the next months and years.

ForgeRock France 2nd Anniversary

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ForgeRock France was officially formed on October 25th, and so last week we marked our second anniversary.
In the past 2 years, we’ve grown from 1 to 4, to now 7 employees, and we’re still looking for talented software engineers for our research and development center in Montbonnot, France (near Grenoble, just on the edge of the Alps). We have opened positions for Java developers, Quality engineers and experts in Identity and Access Management. If you’re interested, check our website and apply from there.
But more important than the growth of the French part of ForgeRock, I’m really excited by the company as a whole. We’ve grown so much in every way since we’ve started, and it’s visible :

ForgeRock team as of end of September 2012, during our company meeting in Greece.

What a week !

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Big BenIt’s been one of these weeks, where you’re so busy that you hardly have the time to tweet, let even blog. The week started on Sunday morning with an early flight to London (after a very short night thanks to my daughter end of the year party). On Monday, I’ve been driven to Bristol, to see our new office, meet with Steve Ferris, head of ForgeRock UK, and meet with Chris Ridd who has just joined our company as a Support engineer, focusing mostly on OpenDJ, our open source LDAP directory services in Java.

After Oslo, this was my second stage of the tour of world-wide offices (*). Bristol office has opened a couple of weeks ago, and it’s really nice, located on Queen’s Square, in an old house and spread through 3 stores and a cellar.

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On Tuesday, we left the Bristol office around noon to come back to London for 2 meetings with customers, both using OpenDJ.On Wednesday morning I flew back to France, to prepare our Grenoble office warming party, planed for the Thursday at 5:30pm.

On Thursday I went and picked up Lasse Andresen our CEO, at the airport. He was just back from San Francisco and making a detour on his way home for the party. We had a little time for talking about the business, hiring, and a few other things, and already our first guests started to show up for the official opening of the new office for the ForgeRock Grenoble Engineering Center. Over an hour and half, we had the visit from some of our office neighbors, some ex-colleagues from Sun, the Chief Service Officer from BonitaSoft (another great startup from Grenoble, build on open source software), our external accountants, a few leaders from the AlpesJUG (the local Java User Group), guests from other software or services companies around, and even the future new hire who signed his contract yesterday. I was so busy with welcoming everyone, making sure glasses were not empty, that I realized afterwards I had not taken a single photo of the event, despite having my camera ready on my desk.

This morning, Lasse and I had another session of work before he started to head towards the airport to fly back home, and since then, I’ve been trying to catch up on emails, documents and all… This is my last action before I call it a week and go in the living room to sip a very fresh beer and relax !

The coming weeks should allow me more time for blogging and tweeting. Until then, enjoy the week-end !

(*) I don’t plan to continue my tour until September, and should see the San Francisco office when I’m coming to speak at JavaOne.

We’ve moved office !

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As we’re growing the team in the Grenoble area, we’ve finally moved office to the “Silvaco” building in the Montbonnot tech area.

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We now have enough space for the whole team, interns and for the coming new hires (and yes, we still have positions opened). The facilities include a small cafeteria, some showers for the cyclers, soccer players or runners, and a well air-conditioned machine room that we haven’t fully taken advantage yet. Here are a few photos:

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We’re still in the progress of decorating the office, adding a more relaxed and friendly atmosphere, with certainly some “Rock attitude”.

If you’re in the neighborhood or you plan to pay us a visit, here’s the google map to come:


Don’t hesitate to drop by, we have coffee and may be more, especially if you are a developer with a passion for code and Java.

Finally, I’d like to have a special thank Mancala Networks and its CEO Marc Rozier for having hosting us for the last year, as we were building the team.

Open positions at ForgeRock

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In the Grenoble officeDo you want to work with open source projects, build highly scalable identity middleware products, enjoy an international environment in a fast growing company and have fun ?

Check out our open positions.

We are seeking for a number of highly motivated and skilled software professionals to grow our engineering team, in Development, Quality and Technical writing. Our engineering teams are based in the Bay Area and Portland (USA), Bristol (UK) and Grenoble (France). We also have positions opened in Support, Sales, Account Management and Business Development.

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A view of Grenoble, France. (c) January 2012, Ludovic Poitou.

Happy New Year 2012 !

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2011 is gone and we’re back to work. Welcome in 2012. We ended the year beautifully and we’re hoping the new one is starting the same way. So far the signs are good.

On behalf of ForgeRock and more specifically ForgeRock Grenoble Engineering Center, I’d like to wish you a very Happy New Year ! May the year be even better than last one…

Hot balloon over lake with Mont Blanc in the back.

Sun Directory Masters 2009 in Grenoble. Day 1.

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Gecday1It’s been a busy day in the Grenoble Engineer Center with Directory Masters gathering from all over Europe and even Japan for two days of training on the coming releases of Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition and Sun OpenDS Standard Edition.

For those two days, we’re hosting 30 sales, presales, architects, consultants from Sun and partner companies, immersed within the developers, architects, managers of the Directory Engineering team. This is a very good way for our guest to understand where the product is going and how to better sell it to customers, and for engineers to learn more about the real customers needs and problems to solve.

Today we’ve touched mostly the Directory landscape, our product roadmap, DSEE, deployments, performances, virtual directory features. Tomorrow will have more of an OpenDS flavor…

PS: To my Japanese friends, Moryia is not on the picture, but he’s in Grenoble 😉

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