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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One Milestone in Software-Assessment-Project reached
Within the last week we’ve reached one milestone in our new Software-Assessment-Project.
The team is working since November 2009 on a new Software Repository and a new Testserver.
The Testserver needed a Testserver Mgmt System to set the environment for testing new Software and Patches for the Webdb system.
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Community 2010 March Update
- 2010-03-30 New Roots task force offers SHA2 based roots/end user certificates for testing
- 2010-03-30 Software-Assessment Project telco 2010-03-30
- GIT as the future Software Assessment repository passed test successful
- Testserver needs Testserver Management System, action plans triggered to start a deployment
- 2010-03-27 Walter Güldenberg appointed as Events Team Leader
- 2010-03-26 Sysadmin team works out way forward for SNI, client certificate authentication and SSL renegotiation changes in browsers
- 2010-03-26 Security Policy – Board vetos Security Policy Draft regarding point 9.1.4.2. Coverage – Board sighting conflicts with CAcert incorporated rules
- 2010-03-25 Ongoing update of CAcert Officers list
- 2010-03-24 First ATE in 2010 season: ATE-Sydney with 6 co-Audited Assurances and addtl. 14 interested Attendees
- Discussions through email and irc about how to seed CAcert deserts. Plans for contacting Usergroups (existing IT related social networks)
- mostly, area has many old SuperAssurers that will have faded away
- 2010-03-21 Board Meeting 2010-03-21 “Determine Root escrow and recovery mechanism” review ends with no consensus
- 2010-03-18 Rasika Dayarathna, our Privacy Officer, resigned due to lack of time. Looking forward to rejoining us later.
- 2010-03-14 Boards Projects Overview Page started deployment
- with this page, Board and also Community can get a better overview over the running and upcoming projects regarding Audit
- currently active areas/projects:
- 1.1 Software Assessment
- 2.1 New Root
- 7.1 Policy Group
- 8.1 Assurance (co-Audit)
- 9.2 ATE’s (planning)
- 2010-03-13 Board Members allowed to serve on arbitration team again
- 2010-03-06 Daniel Black gets appointed as Infrastructure Team Leader
- 2010-03-06 Efficiency gain – Policy Officer empowered to perform minor adjustments to policy
- 2010-03-06 CeBIT 2010 Big Assurance Event successful passed after 5 days with a team of about 8 to 12 and more Assurers. CAcert was one of the 15 projects on the booth at the Open Source Project Lounge sponsored by Linux New Media.
- 2010-03-03 Co-Audited Assurances Program finalized and starts at CeBIT 2010
Contributions to this Community Update by: Ian, Daniel, Uli