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Committee Meeting 2022-12-01 19:00 UTC

The meeting will take place at 19:00 UTC at https://meet.jit.si/cacert If you do not have audio channel, you may try in the IRC channel #board-meeting on the CAcert IRC network.

Feel free to add a business item within the acceptance period of 48 hours or your question to the board below. Non-committee members: the committee may choose to convert any business proposed as a question in the questions section.

Agenda

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1. Preliminaries
   1. Chair opens the Committee Meeting
      1. Chair has a question for the attending members
   2. Who is making minutes?

   3. Chair asks whether cacert-board-private or cacert-board maillist includes any items that need to be disclosed to Members.

   4. Accept minutes from 3. Nov 2022 "I move to accept the minutes of the committee meeting of 3rd of November 2022."

2. Business

   Acceptance of new business items no later than 48 hours before the start of the committee meeting!

   1. Quick decisions (none?)
   2. Quick infos (none?)

   3. Finance team (Michael)

      1. New ERP: Info: State of affairs
      2. Brian: Information from Dirk re: Secure-U

   4. OpenID Connect (Brian)

      1. State of affairs openID project
      2. Report for RIPE
   5. Future of secureU e.V. (Information)
      1. transition finished? what is missing

   6. Background Check (Ted)

      1. BGC for Gero: Interview happend (by Ted&Etienne), committee is waiting for the report (has to be sent by Gero).

      2. BGC for Kim: Date is in confirmation phase (by Ted&Etienne)

      3. BGC for Peter is initiated. (date searching; Interview by Ted&Egal)

      4. BGC for Matthias and Sascha are initiated. (date searching started in August)

   7. Events

   8. Remote Assurance (Brian)

      1. Creation of remote assurance sub committee (RASC) on the hold until Eva is available for the policy.

   9. Any other business (board members forgot to ask the secretary to put it on the agenda)
3. Question Time

   Questions from CAcert.org community members can be added until beginning of committee meeting! As well questions can be asked at "Question Time", without added question here.

   1. "Question One." added by Your Name Comment: Replace "Question One" by your Question and add your name

      • ..
   2. Closing
      1. Propose a date of the next Committee Meeting: 1. Dec. 2022
      2. Agree on the following meeting dates: 5. Jan., 2. Feb., 2. March 2023 (keep date free, can be changed if necessary)

   3. To remember: Goals 2021/2022 (propositions by board 2020/2021) - Each goal needs a responsible person on the board who keeps an eye on it and reports regularly, keeps in touch with the responsible people. obsolete / started / waiting for available time

      • push OrgA (Guy)
      • expand PR (Alex cannot do this, wants to hand over)

      • support SecureU (find an active board member for them in Germany)

      • expand background check

      • simplify the certificate creation (this enables the start of various projects from the pipeline)

      • remote assurance, if accepted by the community;

      • software development and testing

      • delivering the OpenID Connect integration, for which CAcert is funded by the RIPE NCC.

      • New CSR software
   4. Not to forget: Staffing the teams
      1. Applicants to the Infrastructure team
      2. Applicants to the Development team
      3. Applicant to the Critical team

1. Access to local systems for board members

1. Tasks assigned to Board Members and others

1. Software Team

   1. Issue 1502: Adapt the UI at CAcert.org to deal with the "keygen" feature having been removed in browsers

   2. Issue 1482: Limit validity period of new HTTPS certificates to one year

   3. Issue 1444: PHP - Brian

   4. Issue 1417: Keygen / new CSR software - Bernhard

2. Organisation Assurance
   1. How to relance OrgA? (Guy)
3. Grant applications

   1. Protopype Fund https://prototypefund.de/en/ (mail to SW Board only)

      1. The Prototype Fund is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This is for residents of Germany only. We could create a group of people that work on a project for CAcert (with all support of the others in the background). It runs for two more years, every 6 month.
      2. Infra does not see any acute need at the moment, and does not have the capacity to provide qualified support.
      3. There are some ideas for software, but in infra's view there is still a lot of conceptual and preparatory work missing. What Infra could imagine is financing people to carry out a requirements analysis and write a requirements and test specification. This could then be used as a basis for a new implementation of the CAcert software (WebDB, Signer and perhaps other things like CATS). But these are just a few ideas of JanDD and he cannot currently recommend any people who would be suitable for this. Potential candidates would have to deal intensively with the existing software on the one hand and with the underlying policies on the other, and would have to identify a lot of missing information, ask for it and make assumptions for discussion. This requires very good analytical and communication skills and a high level of stamina.

1. Blockchain

   1. see here: https://wiki.cacert.org/Brain/CAcertInc/Committee/MeetingAgendasAndMinutes/2018-03-01/ideas#Blockchain (waiting for answer from IanG)

Minutes Committee meeting - 2022-12-01

Participants

Members of the Committee:

Present, by alphabetical order * Etienne Ruedin * Frédéric Dumas * Kim Nilsson * Michael Richardson

Absent or silent, by alphabetical order * Brian McCullough * Frédéric Grither

Members of the CAcert community and other guests

Having been active during the meeting, by alphabetical order * Dirk Astrath

1 Opening

Etienne, chair of this meeting, starts it at 19:18 UTC

1.1 Organisational matters

Etienne asks about start time for next board meetings. 19:00 UTC is convenient for all participants; Dirk asks that the meetings last no longer than one hour, and in this condition, confirms that the time can be convenient for him.

1.2 Urgent business

Etienne asks if there are anything we need to add to the agenda, and Dirk reminds that we also have to decide on the Board Roles tonight.

1.3 Drafting of the minutes

It was decided that Kim would write the minutes; copy editing by FredericD.

Etienne asks if the minutes from 2022-11-03 can be accepted, and puts the decision to a vote.

Result of the vote:

Aye: 2

Naye: 0

Abstain: 2

The minutes were accepted.

2 Business

2.1 Roles within the board

Etienne moves that the roles continue unchanged. Brian president, Michael treasurer, Frédéric D vice president, Etienne secretary. He puts the decision to a vote.

Result of the vote:

Aye: 4

Naye: 0

Abstain: 0

The roles were accepted.

2.2 Transfer of funds from West Pac to Graubündner Kantonalbank

Michael is working on transferring funds from Paypal to GKB and from West Pac to GKB. Etienne considers the use of Wise (formerly TransferWise). FredericD offers to help out with that using Conotoxia (aka Cinkciarz)

2.3 OpenID

A report describing the progress of our development for OpenID should be sent to the RIPE NCC. Deadline was actually on 30 Nov (yesterday). Etienne will contact Brian, and try to have something drafted for the RIPE by the end of the week.

2.4 Background Check by Community

No progress so far

2.5 Remote Assurance

No progress so far

3 The immediate future

Etienne invited the members of the committee to deliver each one of them the projects or priority orientations that they would propose to promote for CAcert Inc in 2023:

* OpenID: the project must be completed. (Brian)

* CCA: send a mass mailing to members about the change (Etienne, Dirk)

* ERP: NextERP is to be deployed and put into production for the benefit of accounting and volunteer monitoring. (FrédéricD, Michael)

The startup mindset: keep letting teams make their own necessary decisions, without going back to the Board every time. Board makes only broad directional decisions, and details decided by team. Mainly this goes for Software and Critical Team (which still is basically the same people.)

Etienne and Dirk informs about price increase at BIT and hardware changes.

4 Closing

Etienne ends the meeting at 19:49 UTC.

Next meeting is scheduled for 5 Jan 2023, at 19:00 UTC

Logfile

Logfile from meeting 2022-12-01

Motions

• https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20210901.1

• https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20210901.2

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