Didi wrote:
Hello
I would like to propose a talk for Fosdem08. I was involved in the single sign on strategy for CERN, this amounted to synchronize 263 Million user accounts. I was using Scientific Linux for this, but everything I have learned can be applied to CentOS. The talk would be about how CentOS can be used on the server side and on the client to have an arbitrary number of user accounts. Further I would explore the difficulties that such a vast amount of users poses and what interesting discoveries I made. I hope this is of interest.
Cheers Didi
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Hi Didi,
First of all, let me thank you for your offer. I put the centos-promo list in CC so that everybody can follow the discussion : it's the official place to discuss about all the presentations/ways to promote CentOS at events.
I've read your presentation available here (if i'm not wrong) : http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/ghoffman/papers/talks/Hepix08/hepix08.pdf ?
Let me clarify a little bit (and don't get me wrong) : Fosdem is all about opensource solutions and *only* opensource solutions, so talking about using Active Directory based solution for authentication (and so talking about the benefits of Windows 2008 Read-Only DC) is surely not the 'goal' of such event. BTW they have real stricts rules on that and they can even 'kick out' people talking about commercial products : i've even seen two years ago the Fosdem organizers kicking out people try to sell an automated penguin robot because it was considered a commercial product.
So i don't know what other people think of the presentation content, but i doubt that it will make it for the Fosdem audience ... But as already said, don't get me wrong ! It's surely an interesting presentation and technically very interesting. I'm sure that such presentation can be given in a more 'commercial' oriented event (like for example the LinuxWorldExpo) and be considered a very interesting business case.
So can you clarify this a little bit on your side ?