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| <author email="wesmckean@apache.org">Wes McKean</author> |
| <title>Apache Directory Project: Contributors</title> |
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| <section name="Wes McKean"> |
| <p>(wesmckean at apache dot org)</p> |
| <p> |
| Wes is one of the newest members of the LDAPd group, and a founding |
| member of the Apache Directory Project, having joined the Apache Software |
| Foundation when LDAPd was absorbed into the Apache incubator. |
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| <section name="Background"> |
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| As an IT profressional, entrepreneur, and father, Wes has worked in the Atlanta |
| metro area for over 14 years. Wes has always had a special love for Open Source |
| initiatives and their authors, having used open source applications with many of |
| the companies for which he has worked. Wes discovered LDAPd and Alex Karasulu |
| while searching for an open source project to integrate into his current employer's |
| commercial offerings. Having found LDAPd on SourceForge, he immediately got |
| excited about the synergies between the two products, and realized that Wes and |
| LDAPd had a lot to offer each other. |
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| Wes is current involved with the Snickers subproject. Snickers is a drop in |
| replacement for the ASN.1 codec used by Eve. |
| The Snickers subproject itself is broken up |
| into compiler and coder/decoder subprojects. Snickers will be a <b>non-blocking, |
| event driven</b> parser, setting itself apart from currently available open |
| source and commercial offerings. |
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| Wes has taken a great interest in the database sub-system used by Eve and the orignal |
| LDAPd server. He has written several new backends, and also a entirely new indexing |
| scheme to handle the various technical challenges of the LDAP persistent storage. |
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