CAcert announces the resignation of Greg Rose from the Board of CAcert Inc., as of 1st March 2008.

On resigning for job-related reasons, Greg said “It’s been interesting to say the least, and I feel happy to have made new friends and renewed old ones. Thanks for the opportunity and the honor to have worked with you all.“.

When the existing board resigned in March 2007, Greg stepped in to help, having been a long serving Assurer.
Greg Rose served as President during the critical period of 2007 and helped to build a new board, management team, steered the new board through this difficult phase to recover control of assets, and chairing a week-long meeting in Germany with our key people present.

This crucial period saw the approval of the new CAcert Community Agreement for all members of the Community and many other innovations thanks to an excellent cooperation from within the CAcert Community and Association Members:
the Assurer Challenge, in-house dispute resolution, Organisation Assurance, the re-invigoration of the business side of the CAcert, initiation of a funded audit project and formal procedures for creating and approving policies (eg.  Assurance policy and reformed point system, code signing, open sourcing of software, openness of the organisation, etc.).

Teus Hagen takes up the position of President, assisted by Evaldo Gardenali, Robert Cruikshank and Guillaume Romagny.

The CAcert association (CAcert Inc.) will have its Annual Meeting on Saturday 17th of November. More details: http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/NextAnnualGeneralMeeting . You need to be a full association member in order to be able to vote.

What is on the Agenda?: board elections (five Committee members), CAcert Community Agreement (new!), CAcert Root cert usage License and Disclaimer (new!), Policy document organisation (new!), Arbitration (new!), Open Governance, membership register update.

Note also the minutes of meeting from so called CAcert TOP meeting in September 2007: http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/TopMinutes-20070917 and current activities: security and quality enhancements to CAcert servers and services, quality improvements for CAcert assurances, Organisation Assurance initiates, CAcert community and organisations (officers and distributed responsibilites), privacy directives and openess actions (open sourcing, open governance), etc.

See the discussions on the policy and membership email lists.

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At the 25th of May 2007 Special General Meeting (SGM) the CAcert Inc. members (re)elected Robert Cruikshank, Evaldo Gardenali and Greg Rose on the CAcert Inc. Committee (board). The resignations of the old board were accepted by the members.

All the (seven) nominated new members (nominated from January up to June 2007) were accepted and are welcomed as new members.

Membership expressed many thanks to the efforts made by resigned board members for CAcert Inc., especially gratitude is expressed to Duane Groth. We hope that they will continue their support as CAcert Inc. members.