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+# infrastructure-pypubsub-ldap
+Apache Infrastructure PyPubSub LDAP Activity Extension
+
+This is a simple pypubsub client that listens for any change to our LDAP directory and broadcasts them via pypubsub.
+It runs on our tools-vm as a pipservice.