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CAcert at FOSDEM in Brussels, BE

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CAcert joins the open source event FOSDEM at ULB Brussels, Belgium on weekend February 4th/5th. Our stand is located in the K building on the ground floor. Our staff will happily answer your questions regarding CAcert and its certificates and perform assurances with you. Also for the CAcert fans of you we will bring our polo shirts for purchase.

If you come to the FOSDEM there are two important meetings you shouldn’t miss:

Saturday 16:00 room H.2214 talk “Trust – the root of evil?!”
One of our active members Benedikt Heintel is going to have a talk about trust: In a highly connected world like ours is trust one of the most important assets. But what if the root to trust is not trustworthy? This talk enlightens why most commercial CAs are not trustworthy by default, what we can learn from 2011’s cases like dutch DigiNotar and Malaysian DigiCert, what makes CAcert different, why CAcert is not in the browsers by default and what we do to make it happen.

Sunday 12:00 noon room Ferrer assurance party
Like previous years, participants can get assurances for their CAcert account to issue certificates valid for two years. For the assurance you will need at least one piece of official government-issued photo identification. Please register beforehand on the CAcert website and download the CAcert Certificate Assurance Programme (CAP) form. It is recommended to bring at least ten printed forms with you.

ATE Manchester / Crewe, UK – Sat 14th January

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Much has happened during recent years. The old way of orally-transmitted procedures has now gone, and our rules have been cast into formal policies. New procedures (e.g. the Assurer Challenge) and obligations (e.g. in the CAcert Community Agreement) have been approved.
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Events and Sponsoring

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CAcert will be present on the following events:
January 13th – 15th Blacksburg http://wiki.cacert.org/Events/FUDConBlacksburg
January 14th ATE Manchester http://wiki.cacert.org/Events/20120114ATE-Manchester
February 4th -5th FOSDEM Brussels http://wiki.cacert.org/events/FOSDEM2012
February ATE Stockholm scheduled

Along with these events CAcert has lounged an affiliate program with booking.com.
The affiliate program works as followed. If someone uses the link for booking.com from our event pages and he books and uses a hotel, CAcert gets a provision for this booking. The price for the hotel stays the same but you support For more see http://wiki.cacert.org/CAcertInc/Affiliates or on the event pages.

Assurance during Open Radar Conference, Szczecin, Poland

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Some assurers from Szczecin will arrive at Open Radar Conference, which will take place at Silver Hotel in Szczecin, Poland on next thursday, 1st December (conference continues on Friday, at Technopark Pomerania, Szczecin). After short talk about CAcert and certificates (which will start at 12:00), around 13:45, we will be showing how to use digital certificates and assuring applicants.

Annual General Meeting 2011-11-27

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CAcert Inc, the association within the Community, will held the AGM on Sunday 2011-11-27 21:00 UTC. Which makes it evening in Europe, afternoon in the Americas, and tomorrow morning in Australia. The meeting will be held in CAcert’s IRC channel #AGM

The agenda and preperations you’ll find under: AGM 2011-11-27

There are 3 special resolutions on the agenda:

  1. Replace Association Act 1984 Links with Accociation Act 2009 Links within current
    Make CAcert Inc Rules compliant to Accociation Act 2009 rules
  2. Correct Error 13.1
  3. Delete Common Seal

CAcert @ OpenRheinRuhr, Oberhausen, DE

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German text first, english version below.

Am 12. und 13. November findet die OpenRheinRuhr im Rheinischen Industriemuseum direkt am Hauptbahnhof in Oberhausen statt. Eine Spitzenlocation für eine Veranstaltung über freie Software, bei der CAcert nicht fehlen darf.

Jeder Interessierte kann sich am Stand von CAcert über kostenfreien Zertifikate, darunter SSL-Serverzertifikate und Client-Zertifikate für sichere E-Mail-Kommunikation informieren. Fragen zur Benutzung und zum Einsatz der Zertifikate werden ebenfalls beantwortet.

English version

On November, 12th and 13th, the OpenRheinRuhr will take place at Rheinisches Industriemuseum directly located at Oberhausen central station. The Industriemuseum is an amazing location for an event about free and open source software. Of course, CAcert presents itself on this event.

Who wants to get informed about free certificates, e.g. SSL-Server certificates, or client certificates for secure e-mail communication is invited to meet CAcert members for discussion on CAcerts’ OpenRheinRuhr booth. Questions about the use of certificates and necessary know-how will be answered.

CAcert at T-DOSE, Eindhoven, Netherlands

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On the coming week-end, November, 5th/6th, Technical Dutch Open Source Event (T-DOSE) will take place at the Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven, Netherlands (about one hour drive from Duisburg, Germany, and Brussels, Belgium).

Who wants to get informed about free certificates, e.g. SSL-Server certificates, or client certificates for secure e-mail communication is invited to meet CAcert members for discussion on CAcerts’ T-DOSE booth. Questions about the use of certificates and necessary know-how will be answered.

The location and some navigation to Eindhoven train station can be found on Google Maps.

Próxima CAParty Madrid 2011, 14 de octubre 18h

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El próximo viernes 14 de octubre 2011 a las 18 horas tendrá lugar en Medialab-Prado (Calle Alameda 15, 28014 Madrid) la CAParty Madrid 2011, una fiesta de firmas PGP y CAcert.

Este tipo de eventos sirven a los usuarios de PGP y CACert para certificar sus identidades presencialmente y firmarse las correspondientes claves públicas, ampliándose así las redes de confianza de PGP y CACert. En el evento estarán presentes al menos tres notarios de CACert, quienes podrán otorgar puntos suficientes a los usuarios presentes, que servirán no solo para certificar suficientemente su identidad, sino también para crear nuevos notarios de esta red de confianza.

CAParty Madrid 2011 cuenta con la página web
http://caparty.geek.org.es/ donde se explican los detalles técnicos
del desarrollo de la jornada de firmas y una reseña en el wiki de
CAcert
http://wiki.cacert.org/Events/Medialab-Prado2011

La participación en la jornada es completamente libre y gratuita.

Acerca de CACert
CACert es una Entidad Certificadora conducida por la comunidad, que emite certificados digitales al público en general, de forma gratuita. Estos certificados, que pueden utilizarse para firmar correo electrónico, identificar sitios web o firmar aplicaciones, son similares a los que emiten otras entidades certificadoras, prestando un servicio cuyo precio rara vez es gratuito. CACert, por el contrario, emite sus certificados gratuitamente y utiliza las redes de confianza para certificar la identidad de los titulares de los certificados. Cualquier persona puede registrarse en la página web y comenzar a utilizar certificados, aunque para poder certificar su identidad en los mismos necesitará que algunos notarios de la red la verifiquen en un encuentro personal o en una fiesta de firmas.

http://wiki.cacert.org/SpanishCommunity

CAcert at Worldwide Software Freedom Day (SFD) Sat Sept 17th

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Software Freedom Day LogoSaturday, 17th 2011, the worldwide Software Freedom Day or “Software Freedom International” (SFI) has been announced. In several cities around the world activities will be presented.

CAcert has representives at least in Cologne and Hamburg (both Germany).

The Hamburg event is held by Lug Balista.
The event at Cologne is at Coworking Cologne. Alexander Bahlo from CAcert will give a presentation “Signieren von Dokumenten in Open­Office.org/Libre­Office”

Event Details Cologne
Event Details Hamburg