Video summary
The Identus Community Call from August 25, 2026, was a virtual gathering attended by the host, Pat, and John, as several other team members were absent due to illness. The meeting began with a reminder of the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust's anti-trust policy and code of conduct, emphasizing that all calls are recorded and published. The primary agenda focused on the mentorship program for the Identity Portal, where participants discussed the need to prepare a mid-term evaluation by August 31. This report is intended for Javier and Sadie, who are working on the portal, and will serve as evidence of progress leading up to a scheduled check-in call in early September with mentors and mentees.
Significant updates were shared regarding the technical roadmap and maintenance activities for the Identus platform. The team plans to invest more time in developing the SDK Rust and introducing Midnight Verifiable Credentials and Midnight Indeed into the technology stack. To ensure proper long-term maintenance, they are planning to create AI automation scripts that will handle dependency upgrades and version transitions with minimal manual effort. While there were no immediate updates on the release of the latest Identus portal or the completion of the SDK Rust refactoring, the team expects to begin these efforts within the next two weeks once the current prototype application is ready for release.
In addition to technical developments, John provided an update on his writing project, noting that he is currently finalizing edits and adding graphs to a draft that is expected to be completed by the end of September. Although the timeline has extended slightly longer than anticipated, the main draft is considered acceptable, and the team offered their support for reviewing the work before its submission. The group agreed to remain in close contact over the coming week to gather all necessary information for the mid-term evaluation, with a commitment to provide more detailed insights next week.
The call concluded with a mutual agreement to wrap up discussions and reconvene in one week for further updates. The host thanked everyone for their time and participation despite the reduced attendance due to sickness, expressing confidence that the team will successfully meet the upcoming deadlines. As the meeting ended, participants exchanged goodbyes, looking forward to seeing each other again next week with fresh information regarding the progress of the Identity Portal and related projects.
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Okay.
Hello everyone. I know that I'm
currently alone and it's mostly because
a lot of guys from
our team
currently sick. Oh, hello John.
I thought that
I'm going to be alone.
How are you doing?
>> Good. Hello. How are you?
>> I'm fine. Thank you.
Pat and heavy are slightly sick today as
well as
other guys [snorts] who are working on
identity portal. So, today we are going
to be No, not alone.
Today we are going to be you, me, and
Pat.
So,
um, welcome everyone. As you [snorts]
know, we have anti-trust policy notice
uh dependent by Linux Foundation
Decentralized Trust and the code of
conduct that
uh declares the way how we
need to behave for all these calls
because all these calls are recorded and
published.
And today's agenda,
um, Linux Foundation Decentralized uh
uh
identity portal mentorship program.
Um, I've got email that we need to uh
prepare a middle term evaluation by next
Tuesday, August 31, and it's uh our home
uh
work for Javier and uh
uh Sadie
who working on identity portal. Uh so,
we need to report and uh
provide evidence and estimate the
completion of the identity portal
progress till this uh date. And I
believe somewhere in the beginning of
September uh
Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust is
going to
organize middle term uh check-in call
with mentees and mentors to discuss the
progress and uh probably other short
information about um mentorship program
program
insights.
Uh we also uh need to fill a
quarter
uh two uh
Technical Advisory Committee report.
That's the second point. And uh I'm
going to do this together with Spot
and create corresponding PR over this
week. But our progress is going to
include our
uh release and maintenance activity and
changes to the road map to invest more
time in the SDK rust and introduce
midnight verifiable credentials and
midnight indeed to the Identos
technology stack.
And
that's actually it for me. But do you
have any updates about Identos portal
maintenance Sorry, Identos platform
maintenance?
>> Um
Uh this week I don't have much update.
Um we we have we we usually have like
workflow to do some
maintenance stuff and that thing is is
getting upgraded. So so right now
there's no action right now. So stay
tuned for
stay tuned for
some automation
for Identos.
>> Yeah, thank you but
short summary. We are planning to
create a couple of
AI automation scripts that will help us
to maintain dependency upgrades and
um
the upgrades between different version
of platform
uh
with
minimum
time required from our side.
So
the project will be properly maintained.
And any update about SDK rust?
>> Um also also not yet, but um
probably after I get some release with
the
>> [snorts]
>> latest Identos portal
>> Yeah, the the latest ID thing. So after
that we can we can proceed with the
refactoring. So so pretty soon and
maybe next in the next 2 weeks we can
start working on refactor. Yeah.
>> Yes, agree. I'm going to do similar
stuff with our prototype application.
Ever since it can be released and sure
that we need to do the SDK Rust.
>> Yep.
Yep.
>> Uh cool. Uh John, any questions from
your side? How's the book?
>> Uh no questions from my side. Uh
still trying to wrap up um
an edit right now.
Um
it is maybe looking 2 weeks away at this
point, a little longer than I thought,
but um
we need to turn it in at the end of
September, so um
hopefully we can have an edit so people
can check out a week or two.
Um
the main
the main uh whatchamacallit, the main
draft is okay, but we're adding uh
graphs and things like that right now,
so
hopefully it'll be ready soon.
>> Mhm. Cool. Let us know if we should need
to or pair of eyes to review and give
you feedback.
Okay, any other questions, discussions,
anything else?
If no, I propose to close the call. Uh
we will uh do our best to
uh
invest a little bit more time uh next
week and
I believe that we will collect the
uh middle term evaluation uh together
with Sadie and Javier. So, [snorts] next
week we will have uh more information
about what's going on.
Okay, thank you for your time. Uh take
your time back and see you in 1 week.
>> Thank you.
>> Okay, thank you.
>> Bye-bye.