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
www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba@gmail.com Skype : ribalba
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 ?
Hey
I've read your presentation available here (if i'm not wrong) : http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/ghoffman/papers/talks/Hepix08/hepix08.pdf
This is a presentation I gave for managers at Hepix this has nothing to do with the talk I wanted to give at Fosdem. You are totally right in saying that this has nothing to do with an event like this. And I never indented to use any of these slides.
So can you clarify this a little bit on your side ?
Even if it is not mentioned on the slides there are still Linux OpenLDAP server that I administered. And I want to give a lower level more applied talk.
Maybe I should outline the topics I want to cover: - The problem of so many users and machines - What solutions are there available (What are people doing and what have they done) - Some history of the problem - How ldap came along - How ldap can be implemented on CentOS ONLY (Server and Client) - Problems with this approach - And future outlook
This is a ruff outline of my talk.
I am sorry these slides showed up.
I hope this clarified the mater a little more. I can promise I will not mention windows a single time.
Cheers Didi
---- www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba@gmail.com Skype : ribalba
Didi wrote:
Hey
I've read your presentation available here (if i'm not wrong) : http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/ghoffman/papers/talks/Hepix08/hepix08.pdf
This is a presentation I gave for managers at Hepix this has nothing to do with the talk I wanted to give at Fosdem. You are totally right in saying that this has nothing to do with an event like this. And I never indented to use any of these slides.
So can you clarify this a little bit on your side ?
Even if it is not mentioned on the slides there are still Linux OpenLDAP server that I administered. And I want to give a lower level more applied talk.
Maybe I should outline the topics I want to cover:
- The problem of so many users and machines
- What solutions are there available (What are people doing and what
have they done)
- Some history of the problem
- How ldap came along
- How ldap can be implemented on CentOS ONLY (Server and Client)
- Problems with this approach
- And future outlook
This is a ruff outline of my talk.
I am sorry these slides showed up.
I hope this clarified the mater a little more. I can promise I will not mention windows a single time.
Cheers Didi
www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba@gmail.com Skype : ribalba
Great ! That's surely an interesting presentation. By chance, have you considered running (Free)IPA or CDS/FDS/RHDS as the ldap solution ? If so can you talk about your conclusions/pros/cons ?
Have you already a wiki login to edit the Fosdem2009 page because i need some informations to be filled in before end of this week (see my mail to the list regarding deadline for speakers/presentations) ? Thanks again.
PS : is it possible (if it's not the case) to subscribe also to the centos-promo list so that the discussion can be centralized ? thanks
On 7 Jan 2009, at 06:11, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
Didi wrote:
Hey
I've read your presentation available here (if i'm not wrong) : http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/ghoffman/papers/talks/Hepix08/hepix08.pdf
This is a presentation I gave for managers at Hepix this has nothing to do with the talk I wanted to give at Fosdem. You are totally right in saying that this has nothing to do with an event like this. And I never indented to use any of these slides.
So can you clarify this a little bit on your side ?
Even if it is not mentioned on the slides there are still Linux OpenLDAP server that I administered. And I want to give a lower level more applied talk. Maybe I should outline the topics I want to cover:
- The problem of so many users and machines
- What solutions are there available (What are people doing and what
have they done)
- Some history of the problem
- How ldap came along
- How ldap can be implemented on CentOS ONLY (Server and Client)
- Problems with this approach
- And future outlook
This is a ruff outline of my talk. I am sorry these slides showed up. I hope this clarified the mater a little more. I can promise I will not mention windows a single time. Cheers Didi
www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba@gmail.com Skype : ribalba
Great ! That's surely an interesting presentation. By chance, have you considered running (Free)IPA or CDS/FDS/RHDS as the ldap solution ? If so can you talk about your conclusions/pros/cons ?
I wanted to mention that in other solutions. I can do some more research on this topic if this is of particular interest?
Have you already a wiki login to edit the Fosdem2009 page because i need some informations to be filled in before end of this week (see my mail to the list regarding deadline for speakers/presentations) ? Thanks again.
Yes my wiki name is GeerdDietgerHoffmann I am already signed up as a helper :) Shall I edit the wiki and include my details for the presentation like Dag and you did?
PS : is it possible (if it's not the case) to subscribe also to the centos-promo list so that the discussion can be centralized ? thanks
Am subscribed and reading it ;)
Cheers Didi
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