References

[SSP-Statute] https://dracc.commonsconservancy.org/0034/

[SSP-Board]

SimpleSAMLphp governance and legal home

The SimpleSAMLphp is an open collaborative software development effort, with community governance provided by the SimpleSAMLphp Board of Directors.

SimpleSAMLphp’s legal-administrative home is with The Commons Conservancy [CC], a Netherlands-based foundation for creating and fostering a technology commons in Europe. The Commons Conservancy is a multi-tenant “foundation-as-a-service” provider hosting virtual not-for-profit organisations in the field of open source software, design and hardware development.

The SimpleSAMLphp software product

SimpleSAMLphp is an open source software project that is widely used as a digital identity solution. The core project is highly extendable and supports many identity protocols, primarily SAML 2.0, but also for example OpenID Connect or OAuth 2.0 via multiple specialized modules.

Any organisation or individual can spin up a SimpleSAMLphp based service for their community using the operational model that best fits their context and needs. Currently the main target group for the SimpleSAMLphp platform is the global Research & Education sector. SimpleSAMLphp is known to be used in other sectors such as government, health, NGOs and commercial organisations.

SimpleSAMLphp Strategy

The SimpleSAMLphp software project strategy is to:

ensure continued support, maintenance, and further development of the

SimpleSAMLphp software with features sufficiently relevant to ensure the product is and remains relevant for its target groups;
maintain architecture that enables interoperable core that is

extensible with community contributions in a modular fashion;
be a well-maintained, secure, well-documented product that is easy to

install, integrate and operate;
keep up-to-date to modern standards, existing features, technology and

project infrastructure;
have the ability to absorb community contributions and address

community reported issues effectively and timely, while keeping it easy for maintenance;
have a level of community-management activity that is adequate to

ensure that key community members retain a sense of affiliation and solidarity with the project;
raise funds sufficient to accomplish the previous goals.

Operational approach

To support our strategic aim of continuous software production and community development, long-term engagements for key roles are preferred. Currently identified key roles are:

Lead Maintainer - Manages the SSP project in close collaboration with

the developer community. Maintains and develops code as well as handling community contributions.
Lead Communications - Manages general communications and outreach on

behalf of the SSP project, including the web presence (website, blog updates, use case stories, etc). Organizes in-person and/or virtual SSP project meetings, including hackathons and gatherings at conferences and similar.

Short term engagements may be used for specific, not continuously occurring tasks that typically are well (enough) standardised to capture in a simple description of work or tasks requiring specialised skills and knowledge we can not or do not want to maintain in the Programme. Examples of such tasks are:

- code security audits, crypto security audits

- designing a new UI

- creating promotional material

Funding and sourcing strategy

Since its inception, SimpleSAMLphp has been developed using in-kind contributions. With the move of the SimpleSAMLphp project to the Common Conservancy the contributions are supplemented with the paid-for ones.

SimpleSAMLphp’s funding strategy is to actively seek financial or in-kind contributions from organisations that use or have strategic interests to support SimpleSAMLphp software (commercial, non-profit, R&E support organisations and collaborations, EC, open source support foundations, etc.).

Strategy responsibility and updates

As stated in the SimpleSAMLphp Statute [SSP-Statute], the SimpleSAMLphp Board [SSP-Board] is responsible for defining and maintaining this strategy. The SimpleSAMLphp Board will review and if needed update this strategy from time to time, consulting with the wider community.

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