LDAPCon 2015 is almost upon us! Good thing too, as it has soaked up a
vast amount of my time recently.
We have:
24 Speakers, tutors and organisers
34 Paying punters
13 Sponsors delegates
8 Sponsoring companies
5 Extras for the conference dinner
The Informatics Forum is preparing the spaces for us. There will be
two rooms on the tutorial day, with tables, power and network.
There will be one lecture hall on the conference days.
The circulation space will have poster boards and display tables on
all days.
Sponsors will add material to the delegate packs.
There will be T-shirts! (that makes it a proper techie conference...)
Early arrivals can meet in The Doctors pub on Tuesday and Wednesday
evening.
Event catering will include hot lunches (including vegetarian).
The conference dinner will be at The Caves - literally under the South
Bridge. Food and wine included, cash bar available for other drinks.
For those staying in Edinburgh on the Friday night we have booked the
Cellar Bar at the Canon's Gait: real ale and pub food available. If we
get some indication of numbers the Conference will provide some finger
food.
The website has timetables for the event, travel info and venue maps.
I will be travelling to Edinburgh on Tuesday. If you need to contact
me by phone from then on, use +44 7708 216138 - also accepts text and
email.
Andrew
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LDAPCon bookings are going well. 52 people are registered so far,
which includes 14 speakers and 5 sponsors' staff. Another 6 speakers
have yet to claim their ticket, and there could be up to 21 more
sponsors' staff. Sales have slowed up as we are now past the early-bird
booking period but I expect a few more to come in. We are likely to
have about 80 people in total.
We have 7 sponsors so far plus another one in progress.
31 people have registered for tutorials so far:
Morning Basic 12
Morning Advanced 19
Afternoon first session 31
Afternoon 389 16
Afternoon Web2LDAP 15
Dinner is booked at The Caves, with a Scottish-themed menu.
So far nobody has asked for vegetarian food, which is a bit odd...
One of our tutorial presenters has had to pull out for family reasons.
I am looking for a replacement to present the 389 tutorial.
I have just sent out reminders to speakers who have not yet
submitted slides or full papers. Those received so far are available on the
downloads page (password RustyPipes):
http://ldapcon.org/2015/?page_id=253
There is also a Tutorial Downloads page here:
http://ldapcon.org/2015/?page_id=327
The password is HeavyMetal
Andrew
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Hello,
I would like to know which is the best orientation for the posters:
portrait or landscape?
And when can we submit subjects for lightning talks?
Clément.
David is keen to do the keynote!
> From: David Goodman <david(a)theno1consultingagency.com>
> To: Andrew Findlay <andrew.findlay(a)skills-1st.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: LDAPCon 2015 is in Edinburgh this year
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Good to hear from you and thank you for your invitation to be the keynote speaker at LDAPCon 2015 which I’m delighted to accept. At the moment it seems I’m completing a number of ‘circles’ and referencing PARADISE is very timely!
Andrew
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Here is the draft timetable. In developing this my thinking is:
* Keep all sessions to 2hrs or less - preferably 90 minutes
* Put longer papers earlier in the day when people are able to
concentrate for longer periods
* Get the lightning talks and poster presentations into the
first day so that people have a chance to discuss them
* Allow some time for LDAPEXT business and allow a trade-off
between that and lightning talks if needed
* Try to group papers with similar themes together (not always
possible of course)
* Maintain the momentum of the event so that it does not trail
off into a 'graveyard shift' at the end of each day.
(Howard: I am depending on you to wake people up in the last
session on Friday! I have extended your slot to allow for some
music :-))
* A lot of people are likely to spend Friday night in Edinburgh
so we should organise some evening event rather than let them
drift away.
Thursday 12 Nov 2015
08:30 Registration and coffee
09:00 The OpenID Connect protocol - Clément Oudot
09:45 Universal SSPR: a new edge for Self Service Reset Password - Alban Meunier
10:15 Improvements of LDAP protocol and transaction protocol - Christian Hollstein
11:00 Coffee
11:20 DBIS: Directory-Based Information Services - Mark Bannister
12:05 Æ-DIR: Yet another LDAP user and systems management - Michael Ströder
12:50 Lunch
14:00 Asynchronous LDAP programming is full of Promises! - Ludovic Poitou and Matthew Swift
14:45 Building Identity and Access Management in GitHub Enterprise - Matt Todd
15:15 2-factor Authentication with OpenLDAP, OATH-HOTP and Yubikey - Axel Hoffmann
15:30 Tea
15:50 What’s new in OpenDJ 3.0 - Ludovic Poitou and Matthew Swift
16:20 Driving Google Apps with LDAP - Boyd Duffee
16:35 LDAP Monitoring using opensource - Sanjun Song
16:50 LDAPExt Update
17:00 Break
17:10 Lightning talks
18:00 End of session
19:00 Conference Dinner venue opens ?
19:30 Dinner ?
Friday 13 Nov 2015
09:00 Innovative replication management in FreeIPA - Ludwig Krispenz, Petr Vobornik
09:40 A synchronous approach to multimaster replication in the M-Vault directory server - Damy Mahl
10:15 Monitoring OpenLDAP - Michael Ströder
10:30 Coffee
10:50 Introducing a Security Access Control Engine that resides in OpenLDAP - Shawn McKinney
11:35 Complete Open Source IAM Solution - Radovan Semancik
12:20 Lunch
13:30 Using LDAP as Data Back-end for XML-Data from Digital Humanities Projects - Peter Gietz
14:15 Samba4 with OpenLDAP backend - Nadezhda Ivanova
15:00 Tea
15:15 WiredTiger Backend for OpenLDAP - HAMANO Tsukasa
15:30 An asynchronous meta backend for OpenLDAP - Nadezhda Ivanova
15:45 What's new in OpenLDAP - Howard Chu
16:25 Wrapup
16:30 End of session
18:00 Evening social event ?
I would like to publish this ASAP, so comments quickly please!
Thanks
Andrew
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Here is the second version. I have made space for a 45-minute keynote
session. This has to contain the welcome and sponsor bits, so the
actual keynote should be about 35 minutes.
To achieve this I have had to add 15 minutes to the end of Friday
so now we finish at 16:45. I have also moved Michael's monitoring
OpenLDAP talk into the lightning talks / posters category, and
have reduced the first two papers from 45 minutes to 40 each (even so,
the first session now runs for 2 hours).
Andrew
Thursday 12 Nov 2015
08:30 Registration and coffee
09:00 Keynote
09:40 The OpenID Connect protocol - Clément Oudot
10:20 Improvements of LDAP protocol and transaction protocol - Christian Hollstein
11:00 Coffee
11:20 DBIS: Directory-Based Information Services - Mark Bannister
12:05 Æ-DIR: Yet another LDAP user and systems management - Michael Ströder
12:50 Lunch
14:00 Asynchronous LDAP programming is full of Promises! - Ludovic Poitou and Matthew Swift
14:45 Building Identity and Access Management in GitHub Enterprise - Matt Todd
15:15 2-factor Authentication with OpenLDAP, OATH-HOTP and Yubikey - Axel Hoffmann
15:30 Tea
15:50 What’s new in OpenDJ 3.0 - Ludovic Poitou and Matthew Swift
16:20 Driving Google Apps with LDAP - Boyd Duffee
16:35 LDAP Monitoring using opensource - Sanjun Song
16:50 LDAPExt Update
17:00 Break
17:10 Lightning talks
18:00 End of session
19:00 Conference Dinner venue opens ?
19:30 Dinner ?
Friday 13 Nov 2015
09:00 Innovative replication management in FreeIPA - Ludwig Krispenz, Petr Vobornik
09:40 A synchronous approach to multimaster replication in the M-Vault directory server - Damy Mahl
10:15 Universal SSPR: a new edge for Self Service Reset Password - Alban Meunier
10:45 Coffee
11:05 Introducing a Security Access Control Engine that resides in OpenLDAP - Shawn McKinney
11:50 Complete Open Source IAM Solution - Radovan Semancik
12:35 Lunch
13:45 Using LDAP as Data Back-end for XML-Data from Digital Humanities Projects - Peter Gietz
14:30 Samba4 with OpenLDAP backend - Nadezhda Ivanova
15:15 Tea
15:30 WiredTiger Backend for OpenLDAP - HAMANO Tsukasa
15:45 An asynchronous meta backend for OpenLDAP - Nadezhda Ivanova
16:00 What's new in OpenLDAP - Howard Chu
16:40 Wrapup
16:45 End of session
18:00 Evening social event ?
NOTES:
Lightning talks to include:
The Open Source Identity Ecosystem - Shawn McKinney
Monitoring OpenLDAP - Michael Ströder
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We will need somewhere for people to meet up on the day they arrive:
Tuesday for most tutorial-goers and Wednesday for the rest. A pub that
does food would be ideal.
I suspect that many people will not be able to get all the way home on
Friday night after the conference, so we also need something to do
that evening. Again it should provide food, but it would be good if we
could find something more interesting than just a pub or restaurant.
This will probably have to be a venue that we don't need to book firm
numbers into in advance, as people may decide their travel plans after
booking conference places. I am planning to maintain the momentum of
the conference through to 16:30 on Friday, and it would be good to
have an evening attraction to give people an incentive to stay around
and talk after the formal event finishes.
Any suggestions?
Andrew
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We need to step up the search for sponsors for LDAPCon 2015.
I attach the PDF version of the sponsorship details. Please
forward this to suitable people in any organisation that you think
might be interested in sponsoring. Here are some words that
can be used in covering notes:
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The fifth International Conference on LDAP, Directory Services and
Identity Management will be held in Edinburgh this year:
Tutorials: 11th November 2015
Conference: 12th and 13th November 2015
The conference has a full programme with 22 peer-reviewed papers across
two days plus a 2-track tutorial day and a poster session.
This is an ideal opportunity for companies involved in Directory
Services and Identity Management to promote themselves to an
influential audience. We are expecting at least 70 delegates
from around the world, and the website will be seen by many more
professionals over a period of years.
There will be ample opportunities to meet LDAP specialists including
the central figures in the development teams of many well-known server
products. The conference dinner on 12th November will be held in a
spectacular city-centre venue, providing more networking opportunities.
Sponsorship packages from £500 to £2000 (+VAT) are available.
See the attached file and the conference website at http://ldapcon.org/
for full details. Act now for maximum exposure.
-------------------------------
It would be useful if you could let me know who you send this to
so that I can avoid too much duplication!
Thanks
Andrew
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