The November 2009 blog post Last chance: End of thawte points transfer on 16th november 2009 was the starting point for the moving of Thawte Notarys to CAcert … but this is half of the story. November 16th 2010 ends the verification period of transfered points. So the 150 points transfer will be lost. To prevent the loss of Assurance and Experience Points all members using this program needs to search for assurers to get fully assured and starting also assurances to get the needed experience points. Until now, the addtl. Assurances doesn’t count, but added to the account until the Points Count process will be changed before Nov 16th 2010, so the last assurance points counts.

This will become a big shift in this year until November 2010. Current work is to prepare the building of the Software Assessment Team and the Repository project to make Software updates possible. This project is a not so well noticed project still running in the background. But if someone reads the Software MiniTOP Updates from Dec 2009 and February 2010, those can reads the progress that is made in this area. This is also a requirement for the CCA Rollout plan that needs to be started around mid of this year to succeed before Audit can continue.

If you have further questions regarding the Thawte transfer points removal, please go to the public CAcert Support mailing list.

This years CeBIT 2010, CAcert got a booth as part of 15 projects within the Open Source Project Lounge sponsored by Linux New Media. CAcert thanks Linux-Magazin and Linux New Media for the sponsoring of the booth presentation at CeBIT 2010.
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• 20100221 Markus Warg appointed to Software Assessment.
  * He is now the 2nd team member in a new team that will be formed under the “Repository Project” by Andreas Bäß
  * Also involved in this project is the Critical sysadmins team for building up the Servers and software for becoming testing and staging servers.
  * Also to train the system recovery from scratch
  * Also to prepare a proposed system upgrade
  * These are the first results from the Software MiniTOP Essen Dec 16th 2009
• 20100221 UlrichSchroeter appointed as Assurance Officer
  * Board accepts Sebastian’s resignation as Assurance team leader, and thank him for steering the ship over the last year. Sebastian remains on the Assurance team! Board appoints Ulrich as team leader, formally Assurance Officer within the meaning of the Assurance Policy.
• 20100221 Michael Tänzer appointed as Support Officer
  * Board appointed Michael as support team leader and accepts Ian Grigg’s resignation as support team leader.
  * (Formally, as Support Officer within Security Policy.)
• 20100213 Software MiniTOP Offenbach Feb 13th 2010
  * Current State of ”Repository Project”
• 20100206 Assurance MiniTOP Brussels Feb 6th 2010 - on the Agenda were several topics
  * Assurance - Tasks for coming weeks.
  • Plan for Events.
  • Submit review to board.
  • new AO and EO to board.
  • prepare CeBIT.
  • finish Co-auditing Programme for 2010, in time for CeBIT.

  * CeBIT
  * Roles
  * Support
  * ABC interviews
  * Recruitment
  * Co-Audit
  * Defining the Co-Auditor
  * co-Audit Team
  * co-Audit preparation

• 20100201 p20100119 PoJAM to DRAFT resolved.
  * https://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Policies/PolicyOnJuniorAssurersMembers.html
  * Now the Subpolicy is binding to Assurers for assuring minors and als minors to be Assurers.
  * This is the first policy in a series of subpolicys under AP, that cames back after all special assurance programs becomes frozen.

Further Community Update News you will find in the Wiki Community Update

• Community 2010 February Update

CAcert ist dieses Jahr Gast auf der Cebit 2010 bei Linux New Media im Rahmen der CeBIT Open Source Project Lounge 2010 in Halle 2, Stand F34.
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CAcert will be present at Fosdem 2010, the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, February Sat 6th and Sun 7th 2010

• Booth (Sat + Sun)
• Lightning Talk: CAcert: Client-certificates and SSO - the old-new thing, Speaker: Ian Grigg (Sun 11:40-11:55, Room: Ferrer)
• Assurance Party (Sun 12:00-14:00, Room: Ferrer)
• Keysigning Party (Sun 12:00-14:00, Room: Ferrer)

As our CrossCommunity guest on our booth we are welcome A. Stormont with the projects Nexanta and StormOS

CU at Fosdem ….

After a recent policy group decision p20100119 Iang updated all the working wiki pages to show our new Policy on Junior Assurers / Members (or PoJAM for short) going to DRAFT.
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CAcert will be present at OpenSourceDays-2010 Copenhagen, DK, March 5th and 6th with a booth and a Keysigningparty.

Open Source Days is the largest open source conference in the Nordic area. It’s your opportunity to meet, share, and learn from professional open source experts.
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• 20091221 Nick Bebout: Resignation as Dispute Resolution Officer (DRO)
• [Poll for AGM day] (Fr,Sa,Su?) Inc Members, please vote! (finished)
• 20091220 Board Meeting
  • “process of software review” ends with the motion: m20091220.2, propose 4 people, and to request ABCs
  • Support is proceeding to bring in Triage people. 3 ABCs have been completed. Michael Taenzer, Martin Schultze, Wolfgang Kasulke are now complete, so t/l-support will probably propose them for Support Engineer.
  • Arbitration: “That, given m20090811.1, and today’s informal information that some arbitrators are non-working, board requests an immediate update of the state and health of the Arbitration system from DRO, with a view to changing the roles and re-invigorating the process.”. Motion m20091220.3 carried
  • Update on Finance: No Annual General Meeting schedule yet (Update: Boardmeeting Jan 3th: AGM is at Jan 30th)
  • Minutes 20091216 Essen Software MiniTOP
    • Software, repository: Repository is up and going. Haven’t got the test system, just the developer system. We expect to have everything together by end of January.
    • Birdshack doco
    • Root ceremony: In order to re-do this process, we have to do: planning, collection of the people, budget, hardware, and also to come up with a new concept for protection of the root. This latter is important, and the whole thing will need to be serious and documented for presentation to a new auditor.
  • Hamburg Assurance mini-TOP 20091215 results with three new Special Assurance programs proposals
    • Policy On Junior Assurers / Members (2) (Discussion started 2009-12-20 in Policy Group)
    • TTP-assisted Assurance Policy (Discussion not yet started)
    • Policy for Nucleus (former Super-Assurance) (Discussion not yet started)
• 20091215 Confirmation received for a booth at the CEBIT 2010. CAcert get this sponsored booth from the Linux New Media (Cebit Open Source) (CEBIT Event Organisation)
• 20091211 Support Team declares reaching a milestone in clearing out the support Inbox. All that’s left is the future!
• 20091205 Confirmation received for a booth at the FOSDEM 2010 6-7 Feb 2010, Brussels Belgium. (FOSDEM Event Organisation)

Original Wiki Post 2009 December Update

At Saturday Dec 5th 2009 we received the confirmation for a booth at the FOSDEM 2010 6-7 Feb 2010, Brussels Belgium. (FOSDEM Event Organisation)

and at Tuesday 15th, 2009 we also received the confirmation for a booth at the CEBIT 2010. CAcert get this sponsored booth from the Linux New Media (Cebit Open Source) (CEBIT Event Organisation)

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CAcert Assurer Training Event Göteborg
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Much has happened during the past year. A list of up till now mostly “orally transmitted” rules have been cast in policies. New procedures (e.g. the Assurer Challenge) and obligations (e.g. in the CAcert Community Agreement) have been decided. The Assurer Training Events try to bring all this informations to “the people”:
- To what, does the CCA protect every CAcert-Community-Member and as such also you?
- Can you recount the 5 statements of the “Purpose of Assurance”?
- Can you at least recount 10 security marks of the Swedish passport?
Answers to these and following questions are given at the Assurer Training Events (ATE’s).
Participation in the events is free, Contributions are however appreciated.
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