[gentoo-soc] GSoC 2013: identity.gentoo.org - LDAP front-end web interface

[gentoo-soc] GSoC 2013: identity.gentoo.org - LDAP front-end web interface

[Pavlos Ratis]

Hello,

My name is Pavlos Ratis and I go by the nickname of dastergon. I am an
undergraduate student of Informatics and Communications in the
Technical Educational Institute of Serres, Greece. I’ve been using
Gentoo since 2008 or so. Now I am an official and active Gentoo
developer where I work with various packages and web applications in
Gentoo.

I am interested in working on the "identity.gentoo.org" GSoC idea[1]
which is an LDAP front end web interface that will allow both Gentoo
developers and users to configure easily their attributes from
Gentoo’s LDAP server. This project is based on a previous GSoC project
codenamed ‘Okupy’[2], which is an LDAP authentication web UI. The web
application will be for general usage and not only for LDAP
administrators or system admins.

The web app will parse the ACL from LDAP and it will provide a web UI
that will allow users to easily edit the LDAP attributes. Primary
goals for this web application are to improve user experience to
manage LDAP attributes, to help recruiters and mentors manage their
mentees and to reduce workload for sysadmins.

You can find my proposal here[3]. I'm open to constructive criticism
and suggestions for improvements.

Looking forward to your replies.

[1]http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Ideas/identity.gentoo.org
[2] https://github.com/gentoo/identity.gentoo.org
[3] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/dastergon/1

Thanks,
Pavlos