At the NLUUG (dutch Unix/Linux user group) conference, Ede, Holland on the 15th of May 2008 CAcert will have a special booth for CAcert assurances (information, individual and organisation assurances). See conference details .
The Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE) has had a self signed cert for it’s SSL stuff. As of April 19, 2008 it will use a cert signed by CAcert.
For more information: http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#ssl
CAcert group is now approved on LinkedIn, and open to the CAcert community. The group is reachable at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/89248/182D4E19701F
At the Penguin Convention in Michigan there will be a keysigning party for Michigan and the surrounding cities (Flint, Lansing etc.). Penguicon is open to the public, but registration is now at the door only for this year. Penguicon will take place next weekend, April 18-20. in Michigan, US and the details can be found on the official website. The keysigning portion will take place on Saturday. More information on the Penguicon Website (http://www.penguicon.org/).
Certification & Keysigning will be held on 25th of April (Friday evening at 19h local time) in Restaurant & Cafe Rila (changed location) on Balanstrasse 16 in the Muenchen city center. You can submit your attendance and your keys latest by 20th of April (Sunday), the listing will be made on Monday. The official site about the meeting is held on CAcert wiki.
CAcert is now official under the GPL Licence Version 2. More information and the Source Code could be found under http://www.cacert.org/src-lic.php
CAcert Inc. as association, will have a Special General Meeting on two by-laws issues to be voted upon:
The SGM is on 4th of April 2008 11 pm MET, via CAcert irc channel. The details are in the SGM agenda.
CAcert association members are called to attend this meeting. The minimum quorum for a formal meeting is five attendees. Even if these voting topics are not much of a discussion the SGM is important and minimizes the costs of operation.