CAcert Inc. Call for SGM 25th of May 2007, 21:00 UTC

The CAcert Association is calling for a Special General Meeting on the 25th of May 2007, at 21:00 UTC. The purpose of the meeting is to elect a new Committee and Public Officer. You have to be an Association Member in order to join this SGM. CAcert is greatful to the former and current board members who (and all those volunteers) have made CAcert to this current great success.

Unix & Linuxday 2007

Wie auch letztes Jahr findet am 5.Mai 2007 an der FH Kaiserslautern, Standort Zweibrücken der “Unix & Linuxday 2007” statt.

Hier gibt es auch wieder die Möglichkeit sich am Stand von CAcert assuren zu lassen. Darüberhinaus wird es um 11:00 einen Vortrag zu Themen rund um CAcert (Zertifikatserstellungen, SSL, etc.) geben.

Interressierte können sich gerne im Wiki unter http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/UnixLinuxDays2007 eintragen.

IT fair in Bamberg, Germany

There will be a CAcert booth at the IT fair in Bamberg, Germany organized by trainees of Deutsche Telekom AG on 3rd and 4th of may. Main topics will be Linux and networking. More information can be found on the website (german).
Address: Deutsche Telekom AG, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 96047 Bamberg, Germany

Im Rahmen der von Auszubildenden der Deutschen Telekom organisierten IT-Messe zum Thema Linux und Netzwerk wird es auch einen CAcert-Stand geben. Die Messe findet vom 3.-4. Mai in Bamberg statt. Weitere Informationen können der Webseite entnommen werden.
Adresse: Deutsche Telekom AG, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 96047 Bamberg

How to obtain a CAcert Assurer pin

You can obtain a CAcert Assurer label at the bigger events where CAcert Assurances events are being organized.
With this (informal) CAcert Assurer label (a pin) you can make you known as CAcert Assurer so someone can easily find you on CAcert Assurance events.

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How to become a CAcert Association member

Most of us enjoy the CAcert free certficate service. But some of us also want to help out to make this service a long term and reliable free service. The base for this is done and carried out by persons joined by the CAcert Inc. association. If you want to join the association have a look at CAcert Association Membership For only 10 US$ per year and remember you need two current association members to nominate in order to join.
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CAcert at the LUG Backnang

The Linux User Group Backnang is organizing a meeting with the subject on free security infrastructure, especially GnuPG and CAcert.
13.4.2007, 19:30
Everyone in the area is invited to come and get some cacert-points.

http://www.lug-bk.de/

CAcert Assurance and PGP signing event

At the dutch NLUUG conference, Thursday 10th of May 2007 (conf. theme is Virtualisation), location Reehorst, Ede, Holland there will be CAcert Assurances, CAcert info (and news!), and OpenPGP signing. The conference is from 9am-5 pm. For CAcert and PGP there is a free admittance.

Keysigningparty in Kiel

Um das Web-of-Trust in und um Kiel zu stärken und Menschen mit Interesse an Kryptographie, PGP und CAcert.org zusammenzubringen, findet am 20. April ab 12:30 Uhr eine PGP-Keysigning-Party in Verbindung mit einer CAcert.org-Zertifizierungs-Party statt.

Adresse: Übungsraum 1 in der Ludewig-Meyn-Straße 2 (Mathematisches Semniar der Universität Kiel) http://maps.google.com/maps?q=@54.3380,10.1216&t=h

Weitere Informationen sowie eine kurze Online-Anmeldung sind zu finden
unter http://www.kuertz.name/pgp

Alternate IRC channel launched

For convenience, a second official CAcert community channel was created on freenode. If you are a freenode regular user, come by #CAcert .

We are also distributing CAcert/Assurer/nickname and CAcert/User/nickname cloaks for people with properly registered nicks on freenode. Ask Evaldo Gardenali (UdontKnow) there for more information.

chat.freenode.net #CAcert – irc://chat.freenode.net/CAcert/

CeBIT 2007

CAcert will be at the CeBIT 2007 (Hannover, Germany) in hall5 on booth F58/2. Please see http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/CeBit2007 for more information, some accomodation is still needed.