The CAcert webdb server will be upgraded and migrated to another server with better hardware running Debian Squeeze on Wednesday April 3, 2013. During the migration, the web server (including the signing server) will not be available for users. We expect that the total downtime will be less than two hours. This maintenance work has been scheduled for the period 11:00 – 13:00 CEST (9:00 – 11:00 UTC).
All other CAcert services, like OCSP, DNS, mail etc. will remain available during this time.
Policy Group now moved PoJAM to status POLICY p20130322. The Policy On Junior Assurers/Members is binding to the Assurers assuring other members or are by themselves under the age of 18 years.
German version below
On the world’s largest computer fair, the CeBIT in Hannover, DE, CAcert should not miss out. From march 5th till 9th Assurer and Assurees are meeting each other from 12 o’clock noon outside of hall 2 in direction of the green. In case of bad weather the assurances take place directly at the glass front of Hall 2 outside under the roofing.
More events with attendance of CAcert — at OpenSource-Events with booth — can be reviewed in CAcert wiki under http://wiki.cacert.org/Events/UpcomingEvents.
[German]
Auf der weltgrößten Computermesse, der CeBIT in Hannover, darf auch CAcert nicht fehlen. Vom 5. bis 9. März treffen sich Assurer und Assurees täglich ab 12 Uhr vor Halle 2 in Richtung der Grünfläche. Bei schlechtem Wetter finden die Assurances direkt an der Glasfront von Halle 2 außen unter der Überdachung statt.
Weitere Veranstaltungen mit CAcert-Beteiligung — bei OpenSource-Veranstaltungen auch mit eigenem Stand — sind im CAcert-Wiki unter dem Link http://wiki.cacert.org/Events/UpcomingEvents
einsehbar.
In Policy Group 2 call for votes have started:
German Version below
There will be an ATE in Kiel on 11th February 2013. More details on the wiki.
There are a couple of options to indicate that you are attending:
– Email I will attend ATE-Kiel
– Edit the wiki directly
As IanG said: “The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended for all Assurers, and include parts which contribute directly to our audit. Come and find out how you can also contribute.”
German Version
Am Montag, 11. Februar 2013, findet in der Eckernförder Str. 20, Kiel, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Toppoint e.V. das nächste ATE statt.
• Was hast du auf dem CAP Formular hinzuzufügen, wenn du Minderjährige überprüfst ?
• Warum solltest du dir die 3 Buchstaben: R/L/O einprägen ?
• Wie verhälst du dich, wenn du ein fremdes Ausweisdokument zum erste Mal prüfst ?
Antworten auf diese und andere Fragen erhaltet ihr auf dem Assurer Training Event.
Bringt geeignete Lichtbildausweise für Assurances mit.
Ein zusätzlicher Hinweis für ehemalige Tverify/Thawte Leute:
Das ATE ist auch eine sehr gute Möglichkeit eure Assurance und Experience Punkte in die Reihe zu bekommen, bevor diese gestrichen werden.
ATE-Kiel findet statt:
• Montag, 11 Februar 2013
• Toppoint e.V.
• Eckernförder Str. 20
• 24103 Kiel
• 19:00 bis ca. 22:00 Uhr
Registrierung: Ich möchte am ATE-Kiel teilnehmen
Vielleicht treffen wir uns ja da.
Mit bestem Gruß vom Events Team!
The policy group as just created a new vote on “DRP – delete residual references to board – for discussion” https://wiki.cacert.org/PolicyDecisions#20130116
If you want to follow the actual discussion just visit the archive on https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-policy.
If you want to take part in the voting just send a to cacert-policy@lists.cacert.org with “DRP – delete residual references to board – for discussion” in the subject and aye, naye or abstain as body.
The vote is now open until 2013-01-30.
The policy group as just created a new vote on “DRP – minor changes, excluding controversial issues” https://wiki.cacert.org/PolicyDecisions#p20121213
After one year of no activity on the policy side we are back in to business again.
If you want to follow the actual discussion just visit the archive on https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-policy.
The voting on the motion p20121213 is closed now.
The motion is CARRIED with an overwhelming consensus of 30:0.
Thank you all for participating!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone!
On 2012-11-25 CAcert held its Annual General Meeting. Minutes will be published soon on the wiki.
A new board was elected. We are happy to announce the new CAcert board
A big thank you to all people volunteering and helping to achieve this successful result. CAcert is dependent on many volunteers and is looking forward for your help to achieve such a good result for the coming year.
The 26th Large Installation System Administration conference (aka. Lisa 2012) will be meeting Dec 9-14 in San Diego, CA, USA. We have held a CAcert Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at several of these. The CAcert Assurance BoF at LISA 12 will be Tuesday evening December 11th. This session is open to the public. Full details are posted on the event page on the CACert Wiki:
https://wiki.cacert.org/events/2012-12-11-LISA12
We will start with a presentation to cover the basics. We will also discuss new policies and the changes that came out of the enhanced processes. We will have several assurers there to do initial assurances. Mutual assurances are encouraged for getting practice and for answering questions. And there is the added benefit of earning experience points.
If you are in town for the conference or you live in the area, please join us to learn more about free digitial certificates available through CAcert.org.
We can proudly announce that the Section Bundesrepublik Deutschland amnesty international has successfully passed the Organisation Assurance and is using the CAcert certificates for sending encrypted mails between their members.
If you want to see which other organisations use CAcert are using CAcert certificate look here:
https://wiki.cacert.org/OrganisationAssurance/OrganisationList
Wir freuen uns für die Sektion Bundesrepublik Deutschland von amnesty international, dass sie die Organisation Assurance bestanden haben. ai nutzt nun die CAcert-Zertifikate zur Verschlüsselung des internen E-Mailverkehrs.
Wenn Sie sehen wollen welche Organsiationen noch CAcert-Zertifikate verwenden schauen Sie doch hier nach:
https://wiki.cacert.org/OrganisationAssurance/OrganisationList