Within the last 2 days, the testserver got the running signer integration into the testserver environment. This was one of the milestones in getting a testing environment as identical as possible to the production system.
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This year too, there will be enough 35-point assurers at the booth of the LUG Ottobrunn at Linux Infotag in Augsburg (26th march) to get fully assured (100 points). Check for the CAcert badges & logo !
Auch dieses Jahr werden ausreichend 35-Punkte Assurer am Stand der LUG Ottobrunn beim Linux Infotag in Augsburg (26. März) anwesend sein, um voll assured zu werden (100 Punkte). Folgt dem CAcert Logo !
After Munich’s ATE in 2009 another one is scheduled. This time it is a joint offer from the CAcert community and Munich’s open source meetings. It is also supported by secure-u e.V.
We will host the ATE on afternoon of 2nd April. More details on the wiki.
There are a couple of options to indicate that you are attending:
– Email I will attend ATE-Munich
– Acknowledge the XING event
– 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.”
~ 30 people have been registered already. Looking forward to seeing you at the ATE.
Dear assurers and assurees,
we want to give assurees the possibility to find assurers. Hence we are calling for a meeting point daily at 12:00 hrs. noon in front of hall 2 facing the green.
We’re asking assurers to indicate themselves by a CAcert T-Shirt, stitch on jacket, CAcert-Bag oder similar, since we cannot build a rollup.
On Saturday we will arrange a longer meeting which will take place in front of hall 2 facing the green or in case of bad weather in front of hall 2 at the corridor facing the bank of windows.
For further information please visit our wiki page http://wiki.cacert.org/events/CeBit2011
All information without guarantee.
… CAcert4München.
Hmmm, not really, to be honest 😉
It is true that it has been awarded. But it didn’t won the Oscar, not even the „Goldene Kamera“.
CAcert4München was amongst the awarded proposals for the Munich Open Government Day (MOGDy) .
And the award can be viewed at the bottom of this page.
What is the proposal about ?
Well, in a nutshell it suggests that the Munich Government uses CAcert for client and server certificates needed. And they might include CAcert’s root certificates into their own Linux distribution called LiMux.
Note that one can vote for the proposal still. The more people support the proposal the more important it looks to the people running the MOGDy campaign.
How to support ?
Register: Go to the registration page , upper righ hand corner ? Registrieren.
Then on the right hand side fill in:
Benutzername: user name, your choice
E-Mail: your email address
Passwort: choose your own password
Passwort (bestätigen): enter your password a second time
Vote: Go to the proposal page and on the upper left hand side either click on
dafür (aye) or
dagegen (naye)
Of course MOGDy is targeted (but not restricted) to people living in Munich.
So please support the proposal, since it is an advantage for Munich (save costs, create yet more attractiveness in the open source community) and for CAcert (probably one „big shot“ for the inclusion status).
Thanks
Frank
We had received a couple of reports by either irc, emails to support or on mailing lists, that the Russian Translation of our CAcert.org Website has garbled Russian translations. This has been reported as Bug #900.
After several analyzes, tests, discussions, we came to the conclusion, that we need an overall UTF-8 upgrade of the critical system. This has to be started as an individual project. As this project doesn’t effects our great efforts on Audit, the priority is lowered against several other Audit essential projects. So currently, there is no easy and no quick fix possible. So we, or better to say Michael V. A. (one of the bug reporters) worked out an workaround:
the exact steps to reproduce both the problem and the workaround:
1. The Bug
http://CAcert.org [^] / Translations / ???????
( http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=0&lang=ru_RU )
Now the text is garbled (“Western ISO-8859-1” autodetected).
2. The Workaround
Switching to ISO-8859-5.
In my browser (Firefox 3.6.13) it’s exactly the following:
View / Character Encoding / More Encodings
/ East European / Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)
Now all Russian text is okay.
The workaround works for me.
Yes, I think this should work for other users, as well.
CAcert and sidux e.V. will be present at Fosdem 2011, the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, February Sat 5th and Sun 6th 2011
If you want to help on our booth, register yourself on our events wiki page Fosdem 2011 planning
CU at Fosdem ….
ATE-Brisbane is happening! Francois has scheduled us into Linux Conference Australia’s annual bash in Brisbane‘s QUT Garden Point Campus. We will host an ATE on afternoon of 24th January. More details on the wiki.
I will attend ATE-Brisbane! Registration is essential as you won’t be able to get in.
For those who can’t make the afternoon timeslot, I’ll be available on Sunday evening. Mail as above if you want an additional ATE or just assurances & help.
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. Please RSVP as above.
Other events in Oz are welcome! Mail us with suggestions (use the RSVP above). Note the board has earmarked funds to get us to Melbourne and Brisbane, and also some travel budget to other NSW locations (Wollongong and Newcastle, but hey, there are other places)! If you can offer us a venue, we’re interested!
We have scheduled to perform a system software upgrade of the CAcert webserver on Wednesday December 29 2010, starting at 10:00 CET. The upgrade will last at most until 13:00 CET, but we are aiming to complete well before that time. During the upgrade, the CAcert webserver will be unavailable for all users, and no certificates can be signed or revoked. All other CAcert servers will remain up and running though (including OCSP and CRL services).
Wytze van der Raay
team leader CAcert ciritical system administrators
ATE-Melbourne is locked in! Nathan is making available a training room at Readify’s Melbourne, Docklands location. We will host an ATE on evening of 16th December, 6:00pm. More details on the wiki.
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. Please RSVP as above.
Other events in Oz are welcome! Mail me with suggestions (use the RSVP above). Note the board has earmarked funds to get us to Melbourne and Brisbane, and also some travel budget to other NSW locations (Wollongong and Newcastle, but hey, there are other places)! If you can offer us a venue, we’re interested!
Stop press! Our count of Assurers just hit 4000 🙂 Congrats to the Assurance team and all who have mastered the Assurer Challenge. Be warned, tougher challenges are coming 😛