[GLLUG] Perl programming project

Andrew Solomon andrew at geekuni.com
Wed Apr 8 17:44:11 UTC 2020


Hi Marco,

There are two other places where I'd be posting this job ad:

* london.pm at 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 at 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
> >
>
>
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