Friday, 9 November 2007
Audio/slides of Pat Patterson on Digital Identity, SSO, LDAP, Liberty, etc
« Halloween and current developments | Main | Does OpenDS need a fork »Last night TriLUG hosted Pat Patterson (the identity expert and not the wrestler) on identity. This was what many, including myself, thought was one of the best talks we'd attended. I could tell Pat was sweating it as the announcements and time ticked off (I'd promised him close to 2 hours as our announcements and AV setup usually take less time). He managed in 90 minutes to bring over 60 people up to speed on the whole of the "Digital Identity" space, at least from a high-level perspective. You can find the slides: here and the audio: here. I'm the guy who asked all the stupid questions (as usual).
My only complaint is that Pat is a "Font Sinner". He used "Arial Narrow" on his iMac which renders differently on my Ubuntu box. Ideally, he'd have used a free and multi-platform font like: Red Hat's Liberation fonts or the BitStream fonts. This is less of a problem with his PDF rendering, but initially he gave us ODP files which rendered poorly. In essence, when distributing a PPT or ODP or whatever, use a free/multi-platform/unique named font set like Red Hat's Liberation Fonts or the BitStream fonts. When distributing PDF it only matters ideologically (my issue is that stuff doesn't render right rather than the ideological issues).
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