From: John C Shockey Subject: MacTechGrp Meeting - July 5, 2000 Date: Sunday, July 02, 2000 5:28 AM Straight from the keyboard of our fearless leader, Owen: MacTechGrp Meeting July 5, 2000 7-9PM Room 395 Bldg E51 MIT Sloan School Our meeting's speaker this month is Marshall Vale, head of Information Services at MIT, whose topic is: "Open Source, Cross Platform and How Macintosh Kerberos Survives Despite That" Kerberos is a network authentication system initially developed at MIT in 1984. While it has been in use at various institutions (education, government and commercial) over those many years, Kerberos has finally come into the limelight with Microsoft's use of it in Windows 2000. Throughout Kerberos' history, it has been an open source project targeted at almost every platform. Contrary to current trendy beliefs, this development approach has actually caused significant problems in the development of Kerberos. Why these problems have arisen is something to be well understood as people march towards open source. Furthermore, understanding how platform attitudes and standards affect certain open source development is critical to the success of the project. This presentation will focus on three areas involving Kerberos for Macintosh: - The history of Kerberos as open source and how it should be used as a cautionary tale - Reconciling the three major platform interests (Mac, Windows, Unix) and approaches in the current development team - The tools and procedures we use to develop MIT Kerberos for Macintosh, how we brought along old technologies and how we'll move forward to Mac OS X The usual suspects will be rounded up for exciting Macintosh jabbering, of the sort you love, and we hope you'll participate. Please bring your whole mind, a quart of jabber, and any Macintosh news, questions, or rumors to MIT building E51 Wednesday night, and let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons and necking in the parlor. Note: The room number is 395, but we often move to a room with a better projector, so 395 is often just a pointer to our real address. I always write the real room number on the blackboard in 395, so just dereference that. You can get a map showing building E51 at http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off.y=1640&hi=bldg_e51 &zoom.x=89&zoom.y=38 You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant (excepting Alice). The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. Post no bills. You can get more information on the MacTechGrp (and undoubtedly out of date meeting information) at http://www.codewell.com/mactechgrp To contact the unindicted co-conspirators irresponsible for this group, email owen@ids.net or sgs@codewell.com. Set your subject line to "Make Money Fast!!!!!!" so we'll know it's you. *** Do you aspire to someday speak before the august MacTechGrp? Whether you're a new programmer or an old pro, you probably have something interesting you could tell the rest of the group. Fear not, your lucky day could be at hand. Send an email to eric@slosser.net with your proposed topic.***