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svn commit: rev 6428 - in incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs: . community/who doc

Author: akarasulu
Date: Sun Feb  1 13:43:04 2004
New Revision: 6428

Modified:
   incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/akarasulu.xml
   incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/jmachols.xml
   incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/nbergman.xml
   incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/rpenoyer.xml
   incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/wesmckean.xml
   incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/doc/navigation.xml
   incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/index.xml
   incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/news.xml
Log:
spelling and grammer checks

Modified: incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/akarasulu.xml
==============================================================================
--- incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/akarasulu.xml	(original)
+++ incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/akarasulu.xml	Sun Feb  1 13:43:04 2004
@@ -5,12 +5,112 @@
     <title>Apache Directory Project: Contributors</title>
   </properties>
   <body> 
+
     <section name="Alex Karasulu">
       <p>(akarasulu at apache dot org)</p>
+      
       <p>
-      Talk about Alex here.
+        Alex wrote the LDAPd pure Java LDAP server and founded the LDAPd Group.
+        He eventually disolved the LDAPd Group and proposed and founded the 
+        Directory Project at Apache which absorbed the code base to the LDAPd 
+        Directory Server.
       </p>
+      
+      <subsection name="Some Background">
+        <p> 
+          As an enterprise architect and developer Alex had searched for a way 
+          to consolidate common data within an infrastructure into one single 
+          location to centralize it's management and allow for shared access.  
+          Such a centralized database would make enterprise integration of 
+          several applications and processes depending on this common 
+          information that much easier without duplication and consistancy 
+          issues.
+        </p>
+        
+        <p>
+          Alex first experimented with a centralized database to initially store
+          user accounts, passwords and authorization profiles for various
+          applications and resources within an enterprise.   Unfortunatly the 
+          use of an RDBMS was inhibiting.  It was a single point of failure 
+          which wound up becoming a bottle neck.  Furthermore the RDBMS was
+          not very conducive toward managing heirarchical data and delegating
+          control over it.  A new storage and access paradigm was required and
+          that's when Alex encountered the directory.
+        </p>
+        
+        <p>
+          After studying up on X.500 and LDAP Alex decided to design corporate
+          directories to facilitate in enterprise application integration and
+          the realization of workflows across these systems.  His experience 
+          lead to encounters with various directory servers which disappointed
+          him.  The directory servers encountered were a decade away from being
+          as robust as the RDBMS is for application developement.  Some of the 
+          rich features in the RDBMS have yet to be introduced into the world 
+          of the directory server or require a massive workaround to implement.
+          Things like stored procedures and triggers were most high on that 
+          list.
+        </p>
+        
+        <p>
+          Finally on October 16th 2002 Alex decided to write his own LDAP server
+          which had support for triggers and stored procedures.  On this day he 
+          registered a Sourceforge project called LDAPd and began building an
+          LDAP server.  He also founded the LDAPd Group which worked on the 
+          LDAPd server.  Eventually Jeff Machols, Robb Penoyer, Wes McKean and 
+          others joined the project.  Before a year the server had 3 releases at
+          sourceforge and an invitation was made by the Avalon team to have the 
+          LDAPd project move to Apache.   A proposal was written and submitted 
+          for the Apache Directory Project on September 3rd 2003.  The proposal 
+          was accepted by the ASF into the Apache incubator on October 30th 
+          2003.
+        </p>
+        
+        <p>
+          The dream of a robust pure Java LDAP server will be realized before 
+          exiting the incubator.  Most importantly the server will be free and 
+          supported by a healthy community of developers here at the ASF.
+        </p>
+      </subsection>
+      
+      <subsection name="Alex's Stuff">
+        <table>
+          <tr><td>Stuff</td><td>Description</td></tr>
+          
+          <tr>
+            <td>
+              <a href="http://sf.net/projects/ldapd">LDAPd</a>
+            </td>
+            <td>
+              This is the old LDAPd Sourceforge project started before the 
+              Directory Project existed at the ASF.
+            </td>
+          </tr>
+          
+          <tr>
+            <td>
+              <a href="../../project-proposal.html">Proposal</a>
+            </td>
+            <td>
+              This is the proposal submitted to the ASF to start the 
+              Directory Project as an incubator project.
+            </td>
+          </tr>
+          
+          <tr>
+            <td>
+              <a href="http://www.apache.org/~akarasulu">Homepage</a>
+            </td>
+            <td>
+              This is Alex's homepage where you can find resources on directory
+              technologies and other peices of information.
+            </td>
+          </tr>
+          
+        </table>
+      </subsection>
+      
     </section>
+
   </body>
 </document>
 

Modified: incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/jmachols.xml
==============================================================================
--- incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/jmachols.xml	(original)
+++ incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/jmachols.xml	Sun Feb  1 13:43:04 2004
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
     <title>Apache Directory Project: Contributors</title>
   </properties>
   <body> 
-    <section name="Alex Karasulu">
-      <p>(akarasulu at apache dot org)</p>
+    <section name="Jeff Machols">
+      <p>(jmachols at apache dot org)</p>
       <p>
-      Talk about Alex here.
+      Talk about Jeff here.
       </p>
     </section>
   </body>

Modified: incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/nbergman.xml
==============================================================================
--- incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/nbergman.xml	(original)
+++ incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/nbergman.xml	Sun Feb  1 13:43:04 2004
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
     <title>Apache Directory Project: Contributors</title>
   </properties>
   <body> 
-    <section name="Alex Karasulu">
-      <p>(akarasulu at apache dot org)</p>
+    <section name="Noel Bergman">
+      <p>(nbergman at apache dot org)</p>
       <p>
-      Talk about Alex here.
+      Talk about Noel here.
       </p>
     </section>
   </body>

Modified: incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/rpenoyer.xml
==============================================================================
--- incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/rpenoyer.xml	(original)
+++ incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/rpenoyer.xml	Sun Feb  1 13:43:04 2004
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
     <title>Apache Directory Project: Contributors</title>
   </properties>
   <body> 
-    <section name="Alex Karasulu">
-      <p>(akarasulu at apache dot org)</p>
+    <section name="Robb Penoyer">
+      <p>(rpenoyer at apache dot org)</p>
       <p>
-      Talk about Alex here.
+      Talk about Robb here.
       </p>
     </section>
   </body>

Modified: incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/wesmckean.xml
==============================================================================
--- incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/wesmckean.xml	(original)
+++ incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/community/who/wesmckean.xml	Sun Feb  1 13:43:04 2004
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
     <title>Apache Directory Project: Contributors</title>
   </properties>
   <body> 
-    <section name="Alex Karasulu">
-      <p>(akarasulu at apache dot org)</p>
+    <section name="Wes McKean">
+      <p>(wesmckean at apache dot org)</p>
       <p>
-      Talk about Alex here.
+      Talk about Wes here.
       </p>
     </section>
   </body>

Modified: incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/doc/navigation.xml
==============================================================================
--- incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/doc/navigation.xml	(original)
+++ incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/doc/navigation.xml	Sun Feb  1 13:43:04 2004
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
       <item name="Latest News" href="/news.html"/>
       <item name="Sub-Projects" href="/subprojects/index.html"/>
       <item name="Documentation" href="/doc/index.html">
-        <item name="Apache Wiki" href="/doc/wiki.html"/>
+        <item name="Wiki" href="/doc/wiki.html"/>
         <item name="Articles" href="/doc/articles.html"/>
       </item>
     </menu>

Modified: incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/index.xml
==============================================================================
--- incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/index.xml	(original)
+++ incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/index.xml	Sun Feb  1 13:43:04 2004
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
     <section name="News and Information">
       <ul>
         <li>
+           01-FEB-2004: <a href="news.html">Published Directory Project Website
+             </a>
+        </li>
+        <li>
            30-OCT-2003: <a href="news.html">Directory Project Proposal Accepted
              </a>
         </li>

Modified: incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/news.xml
==============================================================================
--- incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/news.xml	(original)
+++ incubator/directory/sitedocs/trunk/sitedocs/xdocs/news.xml	Sun Feb  1 13:43:04 2004
@@ -8,7 +8,17 @@
   <body>
 
     <section name="News and Information">
-      <!-- insert new news items as a subsection here -->
+      <!-- insert new news items as a subsection here w/ most recent first -->
+
+      <subsection name="01-FEB-2004: Published Directory Project Website">
+        <p>
+          Thanks to the Avalon folks for allowing us to use their new site as
+          a template we were able to rapidly build a site for the Directory 
+          Project.  This site is designed to last us until a long time after
+          leaving the incubator.
+        </p>
+      </subsection>
+
       <subsection name="30-OCT-2003: Directory Project Proposal Accepted">
         <p>
           Eve the LDAP server formerly known as LDAPd has just been accepted 
@@ -22,7 +32,7 @@
           here</a>.  Thanks to all those that made it happen! 
         </p>
       </subsection>
-    </section>
 
+    </section>
   </body>
 </document>