Hi Marco, There are two other places where I'd be posting this job ad:
* london...@groups.perlists.pm * https://jobs.perl.org/ Hope that helps! Andrew On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:54 PM Marco van Beek via GLLUG < gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > Resending this as I still haven't found anyone and circumstances have > changed massively in the last 6 weeks. > > Cheers all. > > Marco > > On 20/02/2020 10:56, Marco van Beek wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Wondering if there is anyone on the list who fancies a little Perl > > programming project? > > > > The resulting code would be open source (and happy for the author to > > put it up on SourceForge / etc) and it would appear to be a "much > > sort-for but never found" bit of code if my web searches are anything > > to go by. > > > > Long story short, we are trying to migrate from Samba3 with our own > > somewhat hacked version of OpenLDAP to Samba4 that has it's own > > version of LDAP that isn't really suitable for a couple of things we > > need to do with it. > > > > Basically we currently have an LDAP address book which is used by our > > desktop phones and our scanner. We also have started to use CardDAV as > > support is slowly extended into Thunderbird and Outlook (via a > > plug-in) but the VOIP phones and MFD do not understand CardDAV, so we > > need something to allow CardDAV to answer LDAP queries. After much > > unsuccessful searching (found one bit of bespoke code but the author > > never got back to me) I have figured out that OpenLDAP can use a Perl > > backend, and there is a Perl module that does CardDAV. We do not need > > a full two way conversation between the two, but as a project this > > does have the potential for a much bigger scope. > > > > Anyway, my Perl programming days are a while ago and right now whilst > > not exactly cash rich, I am time poor, so happy to throw some money in > > someone's direction if they think they can pull it off. I don't think > > it is more than a couple of days worth of work, but setting up a > > CardDAV system and an OpenLDAP system would be time consuming so we > > could fire up a VM with these already set up for someone to play with > > if that was needed. > > > > If anybody out there is interested let me know. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Marco > > > > > -- > GLLUG mailing list > GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug -- Andrew Solomon Director, Geekuni P: +44 7931 946 062 E: and...@geekuni.com
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