July 2010 was full of activities. Two Board members resigned. New procedures for Assurers were updated. And the Software-Assessment Project reaches one milestone.
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Community Update July 2010
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PING e.V. Sommerfest, 7.8.2010, Dortmund
Die Profis des größten gemeinnützigen Internetvereins helfen und beraten bei Fragen zu den Themen Internet und Sicherheit.
Der PING e.V. lädt am 07. August 2010 ab 14:00 Uhr zum “Sommerfest” ein.
Besucher haben an diesem Tag die Möglichkeit, hinter die Kulissen unseres Vereins zu schauen und die Aktiven Mitglieder kennenzulernen.
Abgerundet wird das ganze mit mehreren Kurzvorträgen. Die Vorträge dauern jeweils ca. 15 – 20 Minuten und sind sowohl für Einsteiger als auch versierte Interessierte geeignet.
Im Anschluss an einen Vortrag besteht die Möglichkeit in einer lockeren Diskussionsrunde Fragen zu klären oder die eigene Erfahrung einzubringen. Weiter geht es nach einer kleinen Pause mit dem nächsten Vortrag. Selbstverständlich stehen dann die Referenten und die ehrenamtlichen Helfer des Vereins für Fragen und Diskussionen gerne zur Verfügung.
Des Weiteren werden ein PGP Keysigning und CAcert Assurance angeboten.
Geplante Themen der Vorträge:
- OpenStreetMap
- Wireless-Lan Sicherheit
- Bildbearbeitung mit freier Software
- Menschliche und digitale Spuren im Internet
- Voice-over-IP
- Einblick in Ubuntu Linux
Weitere Informationen, Anfahrtdetails und last minute updates gibt es auf der Event-Seite
New Password Recovery w/ Assurance Procedure
To All Assurers,
A new Password Recovery w/ Assurance procedure has been established thru Arbitration case a20100407.1.
The procedure is outlined under https://wiki.cacert.org/Support/PasswordRecoverywithAssurance
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Thawte Points Transfer and Removal of Points at Nov 16th 2010
The November 2009 blog post Last chance: End of thawte points transfer on 16th november 2009 was the starting point for the moving of Thawte Notarys to CAcert … but this is half of the story. November 16th 2010 ends the verification period of transfered points. So the 150 points transfer will be lost. To prevent the loss of Assurance and Experience Points all members using this program needs to search for assurers to get fully assured and starting also assurances to get the needed experience points. Until now, the addtl. Assurances doesn’t count, but added to the account until the Points Count process will be changed before Nov 16th 2010, so the last assurance points counts.
This will become a big shift in this year until November 2010. Current work is to prepare the building of the Software Assessment Team and the Repository project to make Software updates possible. This project is a not so well noticed project still running in the background. But if someone reads the Software MiniTOP Updates from Dec 2009 and February 2010, those can reads the progress that is made in this area. This is also a requirement for the CCA Rollout plan that needs to be started around mid of this year to succeed before Audit can continue.
If you have further questions regarding the Thawte transfer points removal, please go to the public CAcert Support mailing list.
CeBIT 2010 closed – Co-Audited Assurances Program Launch
This years CeBIT 2010, CAcert got a booth as part of 15 projects within the Open Source Project Lounge sponsored by Linux New Media. CAcert thanks Linux-Magazin and Linux New Media for the sponsoring of the booth presentation at CeBIT 2010.
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Community 2010 February Update
- 20100221 Markus Warg appointed to Software Assessment.
* He is now the 2nd team member in a new team that will be formed under the “Repository Project” by Andreas Bäß
* Also involved in this project is the Critical sysadmins team for building up the Servers and software for becoming testing and staging servers.
* Also to train the system recovery from scratch
* Also to prepare a proposed system upgrade
* These are the first results from the Software MiniTOP Essen Dec 16th 2009 - 20100221 UlrichSchroeter appointed as Assurance Officer
* Board accepts Sebastian’s resignation as Assurance team leader, and thank him for steering the ship over the last year. Sebastian remains on the Assurance team! Board appoints Ulrich as team leader, formally Assurance Officer within the meaning of the Assurance Policy. - 20100221 Michael Tänzer appointed as Support Officer
* Board appointed Michael as support team leader and accepts Ian Grigg’s resignation as support team leader.
* (Formally, as Support Officer within Security Policy.) - 20100213 Software MiniTOP Offenbach Feb 13th 2010
* Current State of ”Repository Project” - 20100206 Assurance MiniTOP Brussels Feb 6th 2010 – on the Agenda were several topics
* Assurance – Tasks for coming weeks.- Plan for Events.
- Submit review to board.
- new AO and EO to board.
- prepare CeBIT.
- finish Co-auditing Programme for 2010, in time for CeBIT.
* CeBIT
* Roles
* Support
* ABC interviews
* Recruitment
* Co-Audit
* Defining the Co-Auditor
* co-Audit Team
* co-Audit preparation - 20100201 p20100119 PoJAM to DRAFT resolved.
* https://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Policies/PolicyOnJuniorAssurersMembers.html
* Now the Subpolicy is binding to Assurers for assuring minors and als minors to be Assurers.
* This is the first policy in a series of subpolicys under AP, that cames back after all special assurance programs becomes frozen.
Further Community Update News you will find in the Wiki Community Update
CAcert zu Gast bei Linux New Media auf der CEBIT 2010, Halle 2, Stand F34
CAcert 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 at FOSDEM 2010
CAcert will be present at Fosdem 2010, the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, February Sat 6th and Sun 7th 2010
- Booth (Sat + Sun)
- Lightning Talk: CAcert: Client-certificates and SSO – the old-new thing, Speaker: Ian Grigg (Sun 11:40-11:55, Room: Ferrer)
- Assurance Party (Sun 12:00-14:00, Room: Ferrer)
- Keysigning Party (Sun 12:00-14:00, Room: Ferrer)
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
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
CAcert will be present at OpenSourceDays-2010 Copenhagen, DK, March 5th and 6th with a booth and a Keysigningparty.
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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