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Re: looking for Open Source project presentations



Hello Kurt,

Thanks for your interest and ideas!

If we decide to put together a hothouse, then maybe we can put out an
announcement to openldap-announce.  Until then, I'll be satisfied
with a post to the general mailing list.  The USE LINUX committee is
having a conf call on Thursday  afternoon and they will discuss the
latest developments with the hothouses at that time.  Kurt, I'll be
happy to discuss this with you offline.

Regards,
-Eric.

Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
 > At 10:49 PM 4/10/00 -0400, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
 > >My name is Eric Ayers and I am writing to invite you to submit a paper 
 > >to the Atlanta Linux Showcase Conference sponsored by USENIX.  The
 > >conference will be held in October, and we are looking for abstracts
 > >for paper submissions by May 1.
 > 
 > I'll pester the core team and see if might get an abstract (or two)
 > submitted.
 > 
 > >At the last Use Linux committee meeting we were discussing open source 
 > >projects that we'd like to see papers from, and OpenLDAP was one of
 > >particular interest, as we are looking for submissions concerning
 > >network services and platform interoperability.  We would be
 > >interested in papers by those invovled in development as well as from
 > >those who have deployed the server and have experience with LDAP
 > >servers in general. Of course, the showcase is focused around Linux in 
 > >particular, and we would like to see a tie-in to the Linux operating
 > >system. 
 > 
 > There are, of course, a wide range of ways/levels of "tie-in" LDAP
 > with Linux.  The primary areas are Single Signon, Network Services,
 > Roaming Services and Messaging.
 > 
 > >I see that the project is (or was)sponsored by netboolean and you have 
 > 
 > Net Boolean, the Internet Software Consortium, and others sponsor
 > various aspects of the projects... and, of course, we generally
 > fail to meantion various employers of contributors.
 > 
 > >a lot of developers listed on your web page.
 > 
 > Yes... but only a handful are active at any given time.
 > 
 > >We also are
 > >looking for projects that might benefit from a "development hothouse."
 > >This is where we provide accomidations, a room with lots of computers,
 > >catered food, and no outside distractions for 3 days to 1 week.  If
 > >yours is a distributed development staff and a well organized project
 > >that you think would benefit from this type of environment where we
 > >could bring several of your developers together, let us know.  We did
 > >this last year with XFree86 and it was a big success - they are coming 
 > >back.  This year the Red Hat foundation is sponsoring us, so we have
 > >room for 3 more projects. 
 > 
 > I personally think this is a great idea.  I'd be happy to chat
 > with more about this privately.
 > 
 > >
 > >The call for papers and more information about the showcase can be
 > >found at:
 > >
 > > http://www.linuxshowcase.org/  
 > >
 > >If you are interested and have any questions, please feel free to
 > >write or give me a call 
 > >
 > >Also, would you mind if I posted a similar announcement to
 > >the openldap-general list, as we are looking for deployments as well.
 > 
 > Some of core team members manage significant deployments.  I'll
 > pester them and others on this level as well.
 > 
 > I have no real problem posting such to general despite general
 > being implementation neutral.  This would expose your announcement
 > to other opensource LDAP'ers.  Alternatively, I'd be willing to
 > approve an openldap-announce posting.  Feel free to submit such
 > to postmaster@openldap.org.