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= Diary of the Committee 2014/2015 =
July 2014 to September 2015

== Keypersons List (KPL) ==
An up-to-date Keypersons list was requested by arbitration during the
previous legislative period of committee. Since it was not possible to
collect the necessary data during that time a new board member was
nominated to take care of this list in late Summer. As there was no
progress the task to collect the data was handed over to Eva in February
2015. After some issues with members on this KPL it was handed over to
president in August. Currently it's not clear how this list should be
distributed.

== Motions ==
During the previous period there were some motions, which had to be
overruled by new motions. Board took care of these motions in August
2014 and September 2015 and corrected (overruled) these motions.

== DRO ==
After the resignation of the former DRO at the end of the last period
board appointed Martin as a new DRO in late summer 2014.

== Policy Officer ==
Eva resigned as policy officer during Summer 2014. After her resignation
there was a initiative, consens and policy motion within Policy Group to
reinstall her as Policy Officer. Eva agreed to get reinstalled as policy
offer. No action was taken by board.

== Possible Member Exclusion ==
There was one case about an exclusion of a CAcert Inc. member during the
previous period. The member left CAcert Inc. on its own. Board decided
to hand over this to Arbitration during late summer 2014.

== CxO-Meeting ==
During Froscon (late August 2014) there was a CAcert Officer meeting at
Froscon. The president joined this meeting as representative for board.
During this meeting various items were didiscussed from the view of
nearly all officers. There was a consens to do a better teamwork, do
more report to and from PR and search more actively for now volunteers.

== Document Officer ==
Sebastian was appointed as Document Officer in late summer 2014.

== MD5 / Root Key Resigning ==
In autumn there was a discussion about a resigning of our root key to
avoid the MD5-Issue. The software team made some tests and preparations
until it was presented to board during a boardmeeting in April.
Unfortunately it was not possible to find a wording for a motion where
Benny (representing Software) could agree. Some months later the same
wording was agreed by Benny so it passed in early July. On Froscon 2015
there was a successful test-run of this Root Key Resigning.

== Installation Instructions ==
Etienne collected installation instructions for CAcert certificates from
various CAcert members.

== CCA-Rollout ==
During 2014 the rollout of a new CCA was created. All users were
informed late summer 2014 about this update. Unfortunately the old CCA
was active for some days in early 2015 due to a software issue. To
inform all affected users Policy Officer had to file an dispute about
the authority to initiate this mailing questioned by Software, which was
granted by arbitration. This caused a delay of several weeks and
discussions during several board meetings.

== Software Teamlead ==
Michael resigned from Software Teamlead during autumn 2014. In early
2015 there was a board motion to install Benny as a new teamleader,
which was declined. Since then board takes the role as Software Teamlead.

== PR Officer ==
Alexander was removed as PR teamlead in early 2015. There were plans to
install a new PR Teamlead in spring 2015, which did not take place due
to various reasons.

== Event Officer ==
Walter resigned as Event Officer teamlead in autumn 2014. Until now
there were no volunteers presented to board.

== Let's Encrypt ==
There was a contact to "Let's encrypt" on 31c3. Unfortunately this
contact wasn't kept due to a missing mission statement from board.

== Support Issues ==
There were some issues with a Support Team Member especially by handling
"Delete Account Cases". This resulted in a temporary block to
Support-Console and OTRS for this team member ruled by Arbitration in
April. The remove of this block requires a successful training of this
team member and can be ordered by board or arbitration. Until now no
successful training of this team member took part.

Another Support Team Member announced on Froscon 2015 his suspension
from support. To keep Support working Arbitration appointed two
Support-Members (after proposal/motion by board) to do the most
important support tasks temporarily until Support is working again.

== Inter-Team-Issues ==
In early 2015 there were a lot of issues between different teams, which
were brought to board. This costed a lot of time for board and arbitration.

== Funding ==
Board agreed to change the "Advertising"-Link to our own internal
crowdfunding.

== Continuing moving CAcert to Europe ==
A team (build by boardmembers and non-board-members) is working on the
move to Europe.

== Audit incidents ==
There were some findings from Audit where procedures were not followed.
One of these findings resulted in a board-motion to do a privacy CATS
(to be created) once a year. Other findings require changes in software
and/or process descriptions.

== Security issues ==
In autumn 2014 there was an issue detected with OTP logins. One part of
this issue was solved within a very short time, the second part was
changed by software after several months and arbitration interaction.
Another issue was detected in August 2015. Up to now board wasn't
informed with details.

== Arbitration Issues ==
During 2015 the type of raised disputes changed. They got more and more
against different teams or had personal issues. These disputes, appeals
and resolutions (for AGM) block a lot of resources not only in
arbitration and create destabilisation within CAcert and CAcert Inc.

== Presence on Events ==
As in the years before CAcert was present on several events. On most of
these events one or more boardmembers were present.

== Milestones reached during the last year ==
CAcert reached 300.000 community members in February
Sixth language translation (Czech) was completed in January
More than 34000 new CAcert community members in 2014 (which makes 2014
the Year with the biggest membership growth)
Successfull test-run of Root Key Resigning

== Inputs & Thoughts ==