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 at 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 ? -- - Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..."