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Community 2010 February Update

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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

Community 2010 February Update

December 2009 Community Update

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20091221 Nick Bebout: Resignation as Dispute Resolution Officer (DRO)
[Poll for AGM day] (Fr,Sa,Su?) Inc Members, please vote! (finished)
20091220 Board Meeting
- “process of software review” ends with the motion: m20091220.2, propose 4 people, and to request ABCs
- Support is proceeding to bring in Triage people. 3 ABCs have been completed. Michael Taenzer, Martin Schultze, Wolfgang Kasulke are now complete, so t/l-support will probably propose them for Support Engineer.
- Arbitration: “That, given m20090811.1, and today’s informal information that some arbitrators are non-working, board requests an immediate update of the state and health of the Arbitration system from DRO, with a view to changing the roles and re-invigorating the process.”. Motion m20091220.3 carried
- Update on Finance: No Annual General Meeting schedule yet (Update: Boardmeeting Jan 3th: AGM is at Jan 30th)
- Minutes 20091216 Essen Software MiniTOP
  - Software, repository: Repository is up and going. Haven’t got the test system, just the developer system. We expect to have everything together by end of January.
  - Birdshack doco
  - Root ceremony: In order to re-do this process, we have to do: planning, collection of the people, budget, hardware, and also to come up with a new concept for protection of the root. This latter is important, and the whole thing will need to be serious and documented for presentation to a new auditor.
- Hamburg Assurance mini-TOP 20091215 results with three new Special Assurance programs proposals
  - Policy On Junior Assurers / Members (2) (Discussion started 2009-12-20 in Policy Group)
  - TTP-assisted Assurance Policy (Discussion not yet started)
  - Policy for Nucleus (former Super-Assurance) (Discussion not yet started)
20091215 Confirmation received for a booth at the CEBIT 2010. CAcert get this sponsored booth from the Linux New Media (Cebit Open Source) (CEBIT Event Organisation)
20091211 Support Team declares reaching a milestone in clearing out the support Inbox. All that’s left is the future!
20091205 Confirmation received for a booth at the FOSDEM 2010 6-7 Feb 2010, Brussels Belgium. (FOSDEM Event Organisation)

Original Wiki Post 2009 December Update

CAcert at FOSDEM and CEBIT 2010 – Booths confirmed

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At Saturday Dec 5th 2009 we received the confirmation for a booth at the FOSDEM 2010 6-7 Feb 2010, Brussels Belgium. (FOSDEM Event Organisation)

and at Tuesday 15th, 2009 we also received the confirmation for a booth at the CEBIT 2010. CAcert get this sponsored booth from the Linux New Media (Cebit Open Source) (CEBIT Event Organisation)

2009 November Community Update

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(Non-Critical) Infrastructure Projects are advancing, Board has accepted to go for Vienna (Sonance) and Berne one is in preparation (contract needs to be made), the hardware in Berne is ready. (see Audit Next Steps (Systems), Infrastructure Host)
New Arbitrators makes their first steps in the Arbitration Team. The backlog of Arbitration cases increases rapidly, after the support blockage seems to be fixed.
The first new Support Engineer starts working in the Support Team, also new people on the Triage team. As working on the backlog of the support mailbox, about 15 new disputes upto now forwarded to the Arbitrations Team to a total of 53 init (23)/running (30) cases. Some diputes filed originaly Jun 2009, Sep 2009
The Draft CPS is now on the main site see on the Blog and the CPS on main Site.
Assurances Program: As of Board motion m20090912.1 and finaly m20090914.2 also the assurances of underaged people (u18) were ceased. A workaround is to follow the PoJAM (WIP) procedure, but a dispute filing is allways possible.
Policy group decide p20091108 to make IDNs available everyone with some restrictions to minimize homograph risks.
recruitment of Support Engineers
. relates to the Arbitration – Case Managers – Support discussion
. Support was identified as a bottleneck, now starting try #3 to get people in
. see also Board Meeting Agenda 2009-11-15
. and Board-Next-Meeting Sunday 2009-11-15 – 21:00 UTC – Input
. and Board-Next-Meeting Sunday 2009-11-15 – 21:00 UTC – Input – Reply
. and Board-Next-Meeting Sunday 2009-11-15 – 21:00 UTC – Input – another Reply
. IanG appointed as temporary Support Officer assisted by u60 see e.g. Support Team

Original Wiki Post 2009 November Update

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