Am Freitag den 26.10. findet das erste PGP Keysigning und CAcert Assurance Event der Hochschule Esslingen (Fakultät: Informationstechnologie) statt. Wir laden alle Intressierten herzlich ein. Alle Informationen auf der angegebenen Hochschulseite und in aller kürze hier:

Datum – Freitag, 26.10.2007
Zeit – ab 18 Uhr
Ort – Hochschule Esslingen, Flandernstr. 101 (Raum wird noch bekannt gegeben)
Veranstalter – Hochschule Esslingen (hs-esslingen.de)
Anmeldung/Info – http://www.hs-esslingen.de/de/42537

Anmeldung ist keine Pflicht ist aber zumindest für PGP eine enorme Erleichterung.

Wir freuen uns über euere zahlreichen Anmeldungen!

The CAcert board, Advisory Team, and Officers met in Pirmasens, Germany during the week of 17-21 September 2007. This meeting was kindly funded by NLnet, and is part of an on-going programme of professionalisation of CAcert and the CA, designed to meet and exceed future challenges in delivery of free certficate services to our Community. The Audit process is underway, a new User Agreement for the Community has been approved, and several formal policies (dispute resolution, disclaimer and licence, policy making) have also moved into effect for the Community. The CAcert servers are being moved to the Netherlands and more security measures are being taken, thanks to sponsorship from major companies.

Stay tuned for more news.  To help with the CAcert community effort, to have your say in the policy work, or just to get in touch, join the policy and support email lists. Even deeper, consider joining the the CAcert Inc. Association as a member, and help the Association to create the basic rules by which the Community works.  Or, you can get involved with the administration of the systems and processes, or managing the assurance events. For this get in touch with the CAcert Management Team member Teus Hagen via teus at theunis dot org or support of CAcert.org.

For more Infos: http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/TopMinutes-20070917

T-DOSE is a yearly event held in the
Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software.
The conference is free for all to attend (no registration or admittance
fee required) and will this year be held on 13 and 14 October 2007 at
the Fontys College of Applied Science in Eindhoven.
http://www.t-dose.org/ holds all the useful information.

The conference talks schedule is online at http://www.t-dose.org/node/27
A wiki with some additional details (not official, but better updated)
can be found at http://linuxwiki.de/T-DOSE2007 .

There will be a CAcert stand (see http://www.t-dose.org/t-dose/node/3)
and assurers will be present for certification throughout the
conference.

The Subversion migration is done. The repository on the old server (www2.futureware.at) is frozen. The new server (svn.cacert.org) is up and running.

You can migrate your local repository with the following command now:

svn switch –relocate http://www2.futureware.at/svn/sourcerer/CAcert
http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/ .

Die FrOSCon ist eine zweitägige Konferenz rund um die Themen Freie Software und Open Source, die am 25. und 26. August 2007 bereits zum zweiten mal an der Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin bei Bonn stattfindet.

Im Vordergrund der Konferenz steht ein reichhaltiges Vortragsprogramm, das aktuelle Themen aus dem Bereich Freie Software und Open Source beleuchtet. Darüberhinaus wird Entwicklern großer Freier Software- oder Open Source-Projekte Raum geboten, um eigene Treffen, aber auch ein eigenes Programm zu organisieren.

Link: http://www.froscon.de/

CAcert wird hier wieder einen Stand haben (siehe http://www.froscon.de/Aussteller.26.0.html).

Es werden gerne noch Helfer am Stand gesucht, die als Assurer tätig sein wollen.
Weitere Infos hierzu unter http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FrOSCon2007 (Interressierte einfach im Wiki eintragen).

Hi there. I’m Greg Rose, currently President of CAcert Inc. I wanted to tell the membership that the new board of directors is in place and doing things. We had our first board meeting a few weeks ago. We have since assumed control of the domain names, and are in the process of getting bank accounts moved over too. Most of our activity in the near future will be oriented toward getting the association on a sound management footing, so that we can make further progress on the audit, being included in more browsers, and promotion of our services.

We are planning an AGM around November. Look out for more information about that.

Don’t hesitate to ask questions or send suggestions to me/us.

Greg.

IAIK has started a SHA1 collision search project based on the distributed computing platform BOINC and needs your help: http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/

As the new secretary for CAcert, Inc. I am happy to publish the offices to be held by the board members, as follows:

Greg Rose, President

Robert Cruikshank, Treasurer, Public Officer

Evaldo Gardenali, Secretary

All other board member positions are to be declared vacant for the term of this board, until the next Annual General Meeting, scheduled for later this year.
I would also like to say thanks once more to the previous board members, and all the people who helped us with the SGM, especially our Advisory team.