Much has happened during recent years. The old way of orally-transmitted procedures has now gone, and our rules have been cast into formal policies. New procedures (e.g. the Assurer Challenge) and obligations (e.g. in the CAcert Community Agreement) have been approved.
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CAcert.org is scheduling ATE’s in the United States this summer.
There will be an ATE in Bonn on 8th June 2011 . More details on the wiki.
There are a couple of options to indicate that you are attending:
– Email I will attend ATE-Bonn
– Acknowledge the XING event
– Edit the wiki directly
As IanG said: “The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended for all Assurers, and include parts which contribute directly to our audit. Come and find out how you can also contribute.”
After Munich’s ATE in 2009 another one is scheduled. This time it is a joint offer from the CAcert community and Munich’s open source meetings. It is also supported by secure-u e.V.
We will host the ATE on afternoon of 2nd April. More details on the wiki.
There are a couple of options to indicate that you are attending:
– Email I will attend ATE-Munich
– Acknowledge the XING event
– Edit the wiki directly
As IanG said: “The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended for all Assurers, and include parts which contribute directly to our audit. Come and find out how you can also contribute.”
~ 30 people have been registered already. Looking forward to seeing you at the ATE.
ATE-Brisbane is happening! Francois has scheduled us into Linux Conference Australia’s annual bash in Brisbane‘s QUT Garden Point Campus. We will host an ATE on afternoon of 24th January. More details on the wiki.
I will attend ATE-Brisbane! Registration is essential as you won’t be able to get in.
For those who can’t make the afternoon timeslot, I’ll be available on Sunday evening. Mail as above if you want an additional ATE or just assurances & help.
The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended for all Assurers, and include parts which contribute directly to our audit. Come and find out how you can also contribute. Please RSVP as above.
Other events in Oz are welcome! Mail us with suggestions (use the RSVP above). Note the board has earmarked funds to get us to Melbourne and Brisbane, and also some travel budget to other NSW locations (Wollongong and Newcastle, but hey, there are other places)! If you can offer us a venue, we’re interested!
ATE-Melbourne is locked in! Nathan is making available a training room at Readify’s Melbourne, Docklands location. We will host an ATE on evening of 16th December, 6:00pm. More details on the wiki.
The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended for all Assurers, and include parts which contribute directly to our audit. Come and find out how you can also contribute. Please RSVP as above.
Other events in Oz are welcome! Mail me with suggestions (use the RSVP above). Note the board has earmarked funds to get us to Melbourne and Brisbane, and also some travel budget to other NSW locations (Wollongong and Newcastle, but hey, there are other places)! If you can offer us a venue, we’re interested!
Stop press! Our count of Assurers just hit 4000 🙂 Congrats to the Assurance team and all who have mastered the Assurer Challenge. Be warned, tougher challenges are coming 😛
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[Deutsch]
Es hat sich viel getan im letzten Jahr. Eine ganze Reihe von bisher eher “mündlich überlieferten” Regeln wurden in Policies gegossen. Neue Prozeduren (z.B. die Assurer Challenge) und Verpflichtungen (z.B. in dem CAcert Community Agreement) wurden beschlossen. Die Assurer Training Events wollen versuchen, die ganzen Informationen unter’s Volk zu bringen:
Antworten auf diese und weitere Fragen erhälst du bei den Assurer Training Events (ATEs).
Die kommende Veranstaltung in deiner Nähe findet statt am Freitag, den 5. November 2010 ab 19 Uhr:
Attraktor e.V.
Mexikoring 21
22297 Hamburg
Das Veranstaltungs-Team freut sich schon auf Eure Teilnahme.
Details zum Veranstaltungsort und Anfahrthinweise findet Ihr im Wiki: ATE-Hamburg im Wiki
Unverbindliche Anmeldung und Registrierung:
Ich möchte am ATE in Hamburg teilnehmen.
[English]
Much has happened during the past 3 years. The old way of
orally-transmitted procedures has now gone, and our rules have been cast
into formal policies. New procedures (e.g. the Assurer Challenge) and
obligations (e.g. in the CAcert Community Agreement) have been approved.
The Assurer Training Events bring all this to you, the Community:
Answers to these and many other questions are given at the Assurer
Training Events (ATEs).
The nexte ATE takes place on Friday, November 5th, from 7 p.m., at
Attraktor e.V.
Mexicoring 21
22297 Hamburg
The Event-Team is looking forward to your attendance.
Details on Location and Transportation can befound in the corresponding Wiki page.
Informal registration and questions: I will attend the ATE in Hamburg.
Back in January 2010 the former Board decided by Board motion m20100117.3 “No new subroots on current root, plan for new root”. In the discussion a date was scheduled by end of Dec 31, 2010. On my 2nd thought, probably nobody did recognize, what that means, 
to finish all the projects from the bottom left corner at beginning of 2010 to the top right corner by end of the year with the “New Roots and Escrow” (
) process running. So this article should bring Audits mistery to light.
Policy Group worked on the last few essential Policies (
), that are essential for the Audit. One essential requirement for Audit is to Rollout the CAcert Community Agreement to all the members, so they can decide to continue or to leave the Community. To become “CCA Rollout Ready” (
), the running Software needs to be updated. This opens the next problem: by starting 2010, there was no Software Update Process defined, nor documented. But we’re on the lucky side, the Software-Assessment-Project started November last year to fulfill this requirement (
). The task was: To get a repository system controlled by Software-Assessment team, a controlled testserver environment and a documentation system. Currently the team tests the transfer of a test patch to the production system. Involved parties: Software-Assessment Project team, Software-Assessment team and the Critical Sysadmins team.
CAcert’s Big Masterplan To become Audit Ready (10/2010)
In the meantime, another issue pop’d up: the “Thawte points removal” with a deadline of Nov 16th, 2010. We’ve allready posted several blog posts on this topic. So also this is related onto the Software-Assessment-Project progress ().
The next topic is running Assurer Training Events (ATE) (
). ATE’s are an essential concept in the Audit over Assurance (RA) business area. To scale a worldwide community, the community has to assist Auditors work in doing Co-Audits over Assurers. The question: How to contact groups of Assurers was answered back in 2009 with the ATE concept. The purpose of ATE is twofolded: first to communicate to the Assurers all the new informations and second to do Co-Audits. As Assurers follows the invitations to the ATEs we can expect, that they are more active in the community. So also from 2009 ATE experiences, we’ve got new resources from the community by contacts on ATEs (). So this was the plan for 2010 ATE season, to find more people, who can help on the several tasks and projects that needs to be finished, before the new Roots and Escrow project and also the Audit can be (re-)started. E.g.
Helping CAcert
). This project is running about 2 years, but currently without progress.
), that was started last year, after Auditors review of the Software that concludes: „Serious difficulties in maintaining, improving and securing.” and „Cannot form conclusion over software.”, so if the plan to start with the Audit over the old Software fails, we’re close to the 2nd path: BirdShack.
), that becomes the ground base for the New Roots and Escrow project () that should be keep tracked by an Auditor, and the re-start of the Audit ( 1) and ( 2).The New Roots and Escrow Project Relation to Audit
As said before, the New Roots and Escrow Project should be keep tracked by an Auditor. From the experiences back in 2008 on creating New Roots but fail on Roots Escrow, we’re warned to separate the Audit steps of the New Roots and Escrow Project () and the Audit over Systems ( 2). Both tasks should be close together.
On the other side, we have to do an Audit over Assurance (Registration Authority, RA) ( 1). There is no requirement on bundling the RA Audit and CA Audit as both business areas have their own Policy sets and can be checked separately. This can make our work presumably easier. Easier to get Audit funding for Audit over RA. As Assurance area is closer to be Audit Ready, we can also signal to the Community Audit is back on track. This will probably push the other tasks. With a small budget we probably can double the result by getting new resources, “Hey, there is progress on the overall Audit task” – CAcert is back!
Die letzten Anmeldungen für das ATE-Essen im Unperfekthaus am Dienstag 28. September sind noch möglich.
Unverbindliche Anmeldung und Registrierung ATE-Essen:
Ich möchte am Event in Essen teilnehmen!
Details zum Veranstaltungsort und Anfahrthinweise findet Ihr im
Wiki: ATE-Essen im Wiki
Eine Woche darauf, am Montag 4. Oktober findet das ATE-Aachen Nachmittags zwischen 14 und 17 Uhr statt. Für die Abendveranstaltung haben sich leider nicht genügend Teilnehmer gemeldet, so das die Abendveranstaltung abgesagt werden muss.
Unverbindliche Anmeldung und Registrierung ATE-Aachen:
Ich möchte am Event in Aachen teilnehmen!
Weitere Infos zur Veranstaltung findet ihr im Blogpost ATE-Aachen Info
oder im Wiki Teilnehmer Listen ATE-Aachen und weitere Infos
ATE-Canberra is programmed! Ben has confirmed that Canberra’s PCUG will host an ATE on evening of 12th October, 7:00pm. More details on the wiki.
The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended for all Assurers, and include parts which contribute directly to our audit. Come and find out how you can also contribute. Please RSVP as above.
Other events in Oz coming; or mail me with suggestions (use the RSVP above). Note the board has earmarked funds to get us to Melbourne and Brisbane! If we can find a venue there, we’re on a plane! Also, we’re thinking about Wollongong, Newcastle, etc.