GSOC Mentoring #1: First Meeting

Florian is student at TU München. At Google Summer of Code (GSOC) he is doing a project for Plone Foundation.
His topic is "Non-AT membrane, a new plone authentication scheme and ldap".

I'am - Jens Klein - mentor this project. I've experience with PAS and related topics like LDAP. I got in touch with PAS (Pluggable Authentication Service) and PlonePAS (PAS integration in Plone), early at Plone 2.1 times. Not all worked as expected. For our customer Linde Verlag we made it work. We used early Membrane code and built an extension called Memblets for user-properties through content objects. Later, memblets core features were integrated in Membrane.

Florian is located at Munich, I'am at Innsbruck. It's by train a distance of roughly two hours and so I invited Florian to visit us at the BlueDynamics office for a conceptual meeting. This happend on May 16th. The very creative meeting took about four hours and was finalized with a beer at the pub Treibhaus. Robert Niederreiter joined the meeting as well and after several sheets of painted flipchart-paper, discussions about use-cases and architecture Florian got good input for  his concept.

Florian will publish his refined concept soon. To anticipate a detail: It's female and her name is Paula.