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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Liebe Freunde der Freien Software,

am 15. Jänner 2010 findet ein Fellowship-Treffen in Wien statt. Wir treffen uns ab 18:00 Uhr in der Bibliothek im Metalab, Rathausstraße 6.
Die Agenda starten wir um 19:00 Uhr.

Folgende Punkte stehen dieses Mal auf der Tagesordnung:

• Rückblick Vortrag TU Graz
• Ausblick 2010
• GnuPG Keysigning (dezentralisiert), auch CAcert assuren mögl.
• Diverses
• gemütliches Beisammensein

Wie immer richtet sich die Einladung an alle, die sich für die FSFE oder für Freie Software interessieren. Wir freuen uns auf eine große Teilnehmerzahl!

Viele Grüße,
–
Das österreichische Team der Free Software Foundation Europe
* Werde ein Fellow der FSFE und verteidige deine Freiheit! *
*** https://www.fsfe.org *** https://fellowship.fsfe.org ***

• 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

Today the board has passed the motion m20100103.4 to set the date for January 30th 2010 at 21:00 UTC. It is therefore my pleasure as secretary of CAcert Inc. to invite all members of CAcert to attend this Annual General Meeting.

When: Saturday 2010-01-30 21:00 UTC
Where: irc.cacert.org #agm
Who: All CAcert Inc. Members

Please also remember to pay your dues, since according to current rules you may not otherwise vote.

Regards,
Philipp Dunkel
(Secretary)