Monthly Archives: February 2011

CAcert-Assurances at CeBIT 2011

Dear assurers and assurees,

we want to give assurees the possibility to find assurers. Hence we are calling for a meeting point daily at 12:00 hrs. noon in front of hall 2 facing the green.

We’re asking assurers to indicate themselves by a CAcert T-Shirt, stitch on jacket, CAcert-Bag oder similar, since we cannot build a rollup.

On Saturday we will arrange a longer meeting which will take place in front of hall 2 facing the green or in case of bad weather in front of hall 2 at the corridor facing the bank of windows.

For further information please visit our wiki page http://wiki.cacert.org/events/CeBit2011

All information without guarantee.

And the Oscar goes to …

… CAcert4München.

Hmmm, not really, to be honest 😉

It is true that it has been awarded. But it didn’t won the Oscar, not even the „Goldene Kamera“.
CAcert4München was amongst the awarded proposals for the Munich Open Government Day (MOGDy) .

And the award can be viewed at the bottom of this page.

What is the proposal about ?

Well, in a nutshell it suggests that the Munich Government uses CAcert for client and server certificates needed. And they might include CAcert’s root certificates into their own Linux distribution called LiMux.

Note that one can vote for the proposal still. The more people support the proposal the more important it looks to the people running the MOGDy campaign.

How to support ?

Register: Go to the registration page , upper righ hand corner ? Registrieren.

Then on the right hand side fill in:

Benutzername: user name, your choice
E-Mail: your email address
Passwort: choose your own password
Passwort (bestätigen): enter your password a second time

Vote: Go to the proposal page and on the upper left hand side either click on
dafür (aye) or
dagegen (naye)

Of course MOGDy is targeted (but not restricted) to people living in Munich.
So please support the proposal, since it is an advantage for Munich (save costs, create yet more attractiveness in the open source community) and for CAcert (probably one „big shot“ for the inclusion status).

Thanks
Frank

Workaround for Russian Translation of the CAcert Website (bug #900)

Russia Translation of CAcert.org WebsiteWe had received a couple of reports by either irc, emails to support or on mailing lists, that the Russian Translation of our CAcert.org Website has garbled Russian translations. This has been reported as Bug #900.

After several analyzes, tests, discussions, we came to the conclusion, that we need an overall UTF-8 upgrade of the critical system. This has to be started as an individual project. As this project doesn’t effects our great efforts on Audit, the priority is lowered against several other Audit essential projects. So currently, there is no easy and no quick fix possible. So we, or better to say Michael V. A. (one of the bug reporters) worked out an workaround:

the exact steps to reproduce both the problem and the workaround:

1. The Bug
http://CAcert.org [^] / Translations / ???????
( http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=0&lang=ru_RU )

Now the text is garbled (“Western ISO-8859-1” autodetected).

2. The Workaround
Switching to ISO-8859-5.

In my browser (Firefox 3.6.13) it’s exactly the following:

View / Character Encoding / More Encodings
/ East European / Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)

Now all Russian text is okay.
The workaround works for me.
Yes, I think this should work for other users, as well.

CAcert at Fosdem 11th, Feb 5th – 6th 2011

FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting

CAcert and sidux e.V. will be present at Fosdem 2011, the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, February Sat 5th and Sun 6th 2011

If you want to help on our booth, register yourself on our events wiki page Fosdem 2011 planning

CU at Fosdem ….