Dear CAcert, Inc. Association members,

This is an announcement for the CAcert, Incorporated Annual General Meeting to be held on November 17th 2007 22:00 UTC, on our IRC server located at irc://irc.cacert.org/CAcert or ircs://irc.cacert.org:7000/CAcert (secure), channel #CAcert.

Proposed agenda for the meeting can be found at http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/NextAnnualGeneralMeeting. Please submit any topics not covered there to evaldo@cacert.org, my CAcert Secretary email address, so that we can make any needed arrangements.

It is now time to nominate your fellow members for Committee (“Board”) elections, as the Committee is completely replaced on each Annual General Meeting. Please send your signed nomination and seconding emails to evaldo@cacert.org. Candidates should send me a short paragraph about themselves for inclusion on the wiki page for the elections.

The intering Committee members that are now empowered signalled that they are available for reelection, and that they are seeking a new Committee to be formed with 5 members.

Regards,

Evaldo Gardenali
Secretary
CAcert Incorporated

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/ .