[GLLUG] Perl programming project

[Marco van Beek]

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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