Patrick Felstead is the maintainer of a leading edge identity technology open source project called Bandit (http://www.bandit-project.org). His responsibilities include building and approving architectures of the components we are producing: Common Identity (Higgins), Authentication, Authorization (RBAC and XACML), Audity and Compliance record emmitting, and Persistence. I am building a community around this project and defining goals and assigning tasks to those participating. I also provide much of the content and organization to the wiki pages used to collaborate. I communicate with many other products inside of Novell and coordinate there uses of Bandit components. Patrick is owner and CTO of Agemni. This company is an ASP that provides a CRM application specific to the satellite reseller. The company was started in 2002 and we are one of the leaders with many of the largest Echostar and DirecTV resellers.