May 6th 2010, NLUUG Spring Conference – System administration, Ede – Netherlans

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NLUUGThe dutch Linux/Unix NLUUG conference will host CAcert Assurances on Thursday 6th of May in the conference center De Reehost in Ede, Holland. See for details the NLUUG conference web page. The conference theme is System administration.
Be prepared and complete the assurance program form: Login to your account on http://www.cacert.org on go to CAP Forms.

If you have more as 100 assurance points and have passed the CAcert Assurer Challence, so you are a CAcert Assurer, pick up your Assurer pin/badge at the CAcert booth table!
Be sure to enlist as assurer on the event page.

CAcert zu Gast bei Linux New Media auf der CEBIT 2010, Halle 2, Stand F34

Linux New MediaCAcert ist dieses Jahr Gast auf der Cebit 2010 bei Linux New Media im Rahmen der CeBIT Open Source Project Lounge 2010 in Halle 2, Stand F34.
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CAcert AGM, New Board and Annual Report

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On 2010-01-30 CAcert held its Annual General Meeting. Minutes will be published soon on the wiki.

A new board was elected and positions were assigned during 2010-02-02 board meeting. We are happy to announce the new CAcert board formed by

  • Lambert Hofstra (President)
  • Daniel Black (Vice President)
  • Ernestine Schwob (Treasurer)
  • Mark Lipscombe (Secretary and continuing as Public Officer)
  • Nick Bebout (Member)
  • Mario Lipinski (Member)
  • Ian Grigg (Member)

During the AGM CAcert’s annual report (PDF) was presented and accepted by the membership. It shows many things happened at CAcert during the last year and is worth reading to get an impression of CAcert’s progress during the last time.

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.

CAcert at FOSDEM 2010

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Fosdem 2010CAcert will be present at Fosdem 2010, the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, February Sat 6th and Sun 7th 2010

As our CrossCommunity guest on our booth we are welcome A. Stormont with the projects Nexanta and StormOS

CU at Fosdem ….

PoJAM – PolicyOnJuniorAssurersMembers moves to DRAFT

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PoJAM moves to DRAFT
After a recent policy group decision p20100119 Iang updated all the working wiki pages to show our new Policy on Junior Assurers / Members (or PoJAM for short) going to DRAFT.
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CAcert at OpenSourceDays-2010 Copenhagen, DK – March 5th + 6th

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CAcert will be present at OpenSourceDays-2010 Copenhagen, DK, March 5th and 6th with a booth and a Keysigningparty.
DIKU Copenhagen, DK
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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Wien [Metalab] Einladung zum Fellowship-Treffen in Wien

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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 ***

December 2009 Community Update

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  • 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
  • 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

Annual General Meeting

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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)

CAcert at FOSDEM and CEBIT 2010 – Booths confirmed

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At Saturday Dec 5th 2009 we received the confirmation for a booth at the FOSDEM 2010 6-7 Feb 2010, Brussels Belgium. (FOSDEM Event Organisation)
FOSDEM 2010

and at Tuesday 15th, 2009 we also received the confirmation for a booth at the CEBIT 2010. CAcert get this sponsored booth from the Linux New Media (Cebit Open Source) (CEBIT Event Organisation)
Linux New Media
CEBIT 2010