The NLUUG will have a big event at the 7th of November 2007 for their 25 year birthday in Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Holland. See http://www.nluug25.nl for detailed information. At this event there will be CAcert Assurances at a special booth as well GPG/PGP signing opportunities will be there.
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.
CAcert have seen enormous changes within the structure of CAcert during the last 3 or 4 month. This changes reflect a new, professional approach of CAcert which will allow us to grow way beyond the level we have been so far. Therefore Advisory proposed to the board to have a multiday meeting to adress all those issues. The new structure of CAcert consisting of Board, Advisory, Officers and Community needs to learn a better communication and a better cross area working. The Board has many issues on its route, like approving the backlog of important suggestions and preparing AGM, just to name a view. Advisory has to drive many issues as well, especially getting audit on track, creating policies, dealing with Super Assurers, Organisational Assurance, etc. The officers need to define their teams, their tasks, communication lines, reporting, etc.
So this meeting will be in Pirmasens, Southwest Germany in a nice meeting location in the week of 17th to 21th September 2007. More on this as soon as we know.
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/ .
Die FrOSCon ist eine zweitägige Konferenz rund um die Themen Freie Software und Open Source, die am 25. und 26. August 2007 bereits zum zweiten mal an der Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin bei Bonn stattfindet.
Im Vordergrund der Konferenz steht ein reichhaltiges Vortragsprogramm, das aktuelle Themen aus dem Bereich Freie Software und Open Source beleuchtet. Darüberhinaus wird Entwicklern großer Freier Software- oder Open Source-Projekte Raum geboten, um eigene Treffen, aber auch ein eigenes Programm zu organisieren.
Link: http://www.froscon.de/
CAcert wird hier wieder einen Stand haben (siehe http://www.froscon.de/Aussteller.26.0.html).
Es werden gerne noch Helfer am Stand gesucht, die als Assurer tätig sein wollen.
Weitere Infos hierzu unter http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FrOSCon2007 (Interressierte einfach im Wiki eintragen).
Hi there. I’m Greg Rose, currently President of CAcert Inc. I wanted to tell the membership that the new board of directors is in place and doing things. We had our first board meeting a few weeks ago. We have since assumed control of the domain names, and are in the process of getting bank accounts moved over too. Most of our activity in the near future will be oriented toward getting the association on a sound management footing, so that we can make further progress on the audit, being included in more browsers, and promotion of our services.
We are planning an AGM around November. Look out for more information about that.
Don’t hesitate to ask questions or send suggestions to me/us.
Greg.
Attendees of the Chaos Communication Camp can join an unorganized informal meeting with other CAcert members for assurances and discussions about CAcert from 16:00 to 17:00 each day at the hackcenter.
The event takes place in Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany from 8th to 12th August 2007.
IAIK has started a SHA1 collision search project based on the distributed computing platform BOINC and needs your help: http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/
As the new secretary for CAcert, Inc. I am happy to publish the offices to be held by the board members, as follows:
Greg Rose, President
Robert Cruikshank, Treasurer, Public Officer
Evaldo Gardenali, Secretary
All other board member positions are to be declared vacant for the term of this board, until the next Annual General Meeting, scheduled for later this year.
I would also like to say thanks once more to the previous board members, and all the people who helped us with the SGM, especially our Advisory team.
At the 25th of May 2007 Special General Meeting (SGM) the CAcert Inc. members (re)elected Robert Cruikshank, Evaldo Gardenali and Greg Rose on the CAcert Inc. Committee (board). The resignations of the old board were accepted by the members.
All the (seven) nominated new members (nominated from January up to June 2007) were accepted and are welcomed as new members.
Membership expressed many thanks to the efforts made by resigned board members for CAcert Inc., especially gratitude is expressed to Duane Groth. We hope that they will continue their support as CAcert Inc. members.