Editing OpenLDAP (section)

==History==
The OpenLDAP project<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.openldap.org/project |title=OpenLDAP, Project |publisher=Openldap.org |access-date=17 February 2014}}</ref> was started in 1998 by Kurt Zeilenga.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.openldap.org/project/kurt |title=OpenLDAP, Kurt D. Zeilenga |publisher=Openldap.org |access-date=17 February 2014}}</ref> The project started by cloning the LDAP reference source from the [[University of Michigan]] where a long-running project had supported development and evolution of the [[Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|LDAP]] protocol until that project's final release in 1996.

{{As of|2015|5}}, the OpenLDAP project has four core team members: Howard Chu (chief architect),<ref>{{cite web|author=Howard Chu |url=http://www.highlandsun.com/hyc |title=Howard's Miscellaneous Page |publisher=Highlandsun.com |access-date=17 February 2014}}</ref> Quanah Gibson-Mount, Hallvard Furuseth, and Kurt Zeilenga. There are numerous other important and active contributors including Ondrej Kuznik, Luke Howard, Ryan Tandy, and Gavin Henry. Past core team members include Pierangelo Masarati.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aero.polimi.it/masarati/personal.html |title=Ando's Home Page |publisher=Aero.polimi.it |access-date=17 February 2014}}</ref>