Yet Another IAM and Open Source Blog

I’m very pleased to announce two OpenLDAP events in France with H. Chu, OpenLDAP chief architect :

• the 23th march starting at 6PM : you are welcome at an after-work event to speak about new features of the latest 2.4 OpenLDAP version
• the 24th march starting at 9AM: a business oriented event to cover support, maintenance and industrialised OpenLDAP directory and related tools

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Professional seminar

After meeting Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, last week, I have the chance to meet today :

• Claude Durant, Osiatis strategic VP, founder of IstmF, which take time to present ITIL v2 and v3,
• Paul Trevithick with the FederID and the Linagora security teams : discovering Higgins project, presenting our IAM projects (InterLDAP, FederID, LSC, SyncID)

And tomorrow, Ismael Ghalimi will teach how to improve time management to the Linagora management team in which I’m involved.

Let’s find some links about open source software assurance, my work at Linagora :

• Indexel
• 01informatique

This first major version of the Ldap Synchronization Connector which includes a fully functional version.

You will find a simple and ready to use interface to build your directory connector : you can take data from databases, CSV files and also other directories.

It is now very simple to generate new tasks, starting from the directory object classes. You only need to know the database schema in order to write the SQL requests.

The full changelog is available here.

Take a look and you are pleased to send us feedback and feature requirements if something is missing for your needs.

How to dream about a better weekend for every one using a free desktop :

• OpenOffice.org will be released under LGPL v3
• MS Office will be compatible with ODF !

You may be dreaming or just think that you are Sunday, the 9th march 2008 :), even if the Vienna city has decided to introduce a budget line for the 2010 for Microsoft Vista, considering the Wienux distribution, based on Debian, may failed.

For the 2008 edition of the Google Summer of Code, Clément, one of my colleagues, and I are going to share a subject about LSC and InterLDAP.

For LSC, I think about JPA compatibility. For InterLDAP, maybe formalizing Ldap Query Language could be a good subject.

I was really surprised when my boss gave me this link : it’s simply a freshmeat at the power of 10 ! Register your project and you are going to improve it :

• remove license issues
• get the awardness about documentation or tests
• get a free “big picture” always up to date (what is also a big challenge !)

Let’s look at :

• InterLDAP
• Ldap Synchronization Connector

Just a piece of news from the H2-144 room in the ULB: if you were there, you would have found more than 3000/4000 open source developpers, ready to code, contribute and share their knowledge.

They were greats technical shows and meetings about various different technical software and technologies. I have the pleasure to follow :

• Tux with Shades, Linux in Hollywood
• How a large scale opensource project works ? (FreeBSD)
• Hacking OpenJDK and Friends (not really amazing)
• PostgreSQL 8.3 Performance Features (this one was amazing !)
• Hudson (I just installed my hudson IRC bot during the conference)
• CMake
• Workflow
• OpenWRT

If you never try and go to this event, book your next February to avoid missing next edition : it’s a place to be !

Why not dreaming about a true open source meta directory project ? So do it on syncid.org !

First of all, the first work is to specify functional and technical requirements. Only after that, we may try to write some code. Why ? Because, I have never implement such a engine because nothing is available in the open source world. So I need some help to know about the commercial products, functionalities and technical implementations.

After that MySQL has been sold to Sun, a new move arround open source communities is beginning : open source websites can also be sold at about 10 k€ !