[KLUG Members] KLUG's May

[Adam Tauno Williams]

This May we have a variety of topics for you, including a new presenter
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2005-05-10   LDAP107: Building A Federated Directory  

The flexibility of LDAP and the OpenLDAP DSA make it possible to build a
'federated' directory: a directory that brings all your datasources
together. Include data from other DSAs, automatically discover other
DSAs using DNS SRV records, and proving data to LDAP clients from
traditional SQL relational database systems. OpenLDAP can also be used
as the backend for core network services like DNS & DHCP. Your Dit can
become a one-stop-shop for all your administrator's and user's basic
information needs.  

Adam is a network administrator based in Grand Rapids, but the network
he deals with is all over Michigan, with a couple of hundred
workstations, running Linux and other Operating Systems. Not only does
he deal with domain issues at work, but he is also the owner of the
domain "whitemice.org". Adam has been a regular contributor to technical
discussions on our main mailing list, both presenting and solving some
of the most challenging networking and configuration problems.
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2005-05-17 - Back From the MySQL Conference  
 
Freshly back from the MySQL conference, Jamie will relate first hand the
new and exciting developments concerning on of the world's most popular
database servers.  Jamie welcomes questions-in-advance if there is
something you want to know.

Jamie McCarthy is a Perl monkey and reluctant MySQL guru
forSlashdot.org. In his other life he is a volunteer for The Holocaust
History Project (holocaust-history.org). He's been using Linux and Perl
since 1997.
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2005-05-24 - Intro to Open Object Rexx and preview of Opus 4  
Intro to Open Object Rexx and preview of LDS's plans to open source
technology that delivers Computing That Just Plain Works!

IBM made another significant contribution to the open source community
at the beginning of 2005 by releasing their Object Rexx language to the
open source community. Since then a major effort has been underway to
make the v3.0 release a spectacular version, which it is. www.ooRexx.org

Then, watch LDS's Electronic Software Distribution technology in action
in its Opus 3 version, and get a preview of the path ahead to Opus 3.5
and Opus 4 which are targeted as open source projects.  
Mr. Lueck founded LDS in 1987 as a computer consulting firm to serve the
Kalamazoo area small businesses in their computing needs. He has a
reputation for delivering reliable computing solutions utilizing
revolutionary new products and concepts as core components of those
solutions. In he had the vision to greatly multiply his efforts through
automation. This concept has become what the industry today calls
Electronic Software Distribution. He continued to push the limits of
Electronic Software Distribution technologies while consulting
exclusively at Consumers Energy for six years. He has worked with both
vendor products and his own innovations to assist with the management of
over 5000 computers and file replication between more than 80 sites. He
has researched for several years how to best combine his experience and
success in the corporate arena into a product and service which could
serve countless small business. Stay tuned for more!
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2005-05-31 - ISM, Open Source, and the GRPL  

Your Linux machine can be a network gateway. It can also run a firewall.
What if you created some software to control the firewall and allow or
disallow individual users access to the network through this gateway?
Come see how the Internet Station Manager (ISM) does just this.
Originally designed for libraries, it can make the job of managing a
group of shared machines much easier. Using Perl, Apache, MySQL, and
your operating system's firewall, it's a free alternative to help share
resources.  

Bill Ott is the Information Systems Manager for the Grand Rapids Public
Libraries. He has been using Linux and free Unix variants since 1994. In
1999 he co-authored an application to manage timed sessions for public
Internet stations within the Library. Now in it's 4th revision, the
Internet Station Manager (ISM) has been released under the GPL, and has
been downloaded hundreds of times throughout the world.
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And just wait... July and August will be good too!
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