Committee Meeting 2023-03-02 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 2. Feb 2023 <!> "I move to accept the minutes of the committee meeting of 2nd of February 2023."

  2. Business

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

    1. OpenID Connect (Brian/Frédéric D)

      1. State of affairs openID project
      2. Report for RIPE
      3. Documentation (who?)
      4. PR (maybe only if documentation is done?)

        1. If progress is not as expected: What is needed for the project to be completed successfully? Who from the board can support?

    2. Remote Assurance (Brian)

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

    3. Finance team (Michael)

      1. New ERP: Info: State of affairs (Frédéric D)

        1. If progress is not as expected: What is needed for the project to be completed successfully? Who from the board can support?

      2. {i} Money transfer AU-EU: Conotoxia account // Access Michael; collaboration Treasurer/Secretary

    4. OrgAssurance

      1. {i} Secretary tried to go in touch with G.S. on 2. and 16. Feb. - waiting for answer.

        1. If no nor negative answer: other ideas/names?

    5. Background Check (Ted)

      1. done

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

        2. {i} BGC for Kim: done (by Ted&Etienne), signed report received

      2. pipeline
        1. BGC for Brian: who (no board member in BGC team! Ted/Egal/JanDD?)

        2. {i} BGC for Peter is initiated. (date searching; Interview by Ted&Egal)

        3. {i} BGC for Matthias are initiated. (date searching started in August)

        4. {i} BGC for Sascha are initiated. (language: en or de)

    6. Events

      1. {i} FOSDEM Brussels (Dirk) https://fosdem.org/2023/

      2. {i} Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (Dirk) https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de

    7. Infrastructure (Dirk): is something not running? until when? Consequences?
    8. Any other business (board members forgot to ask the secretary to put it on the agenda)
    9. What coming next? ???
  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

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    2. Closing
      1. Propose a date of the next Committee Meeting: 2. Feb. 2023
      2. Agree on the following meeting dates: 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. {X} obsolete / (./) started / {OK} waiting for available time

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

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

      • (./) expand background check

      • {OK} remote assurance, if accepted by the community;

      • simplify the certificate creation (this enables the start of various projects from the pipeline)
      • software development and testing
      • New CSR software

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

    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

Person

Board-Private

Committee Archive

Wiki

Nextcloud

Brian

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Etienne

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Admin

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Frédéric

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Admin

Kim

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Michael

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Sascha

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Admin

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1. Tasks assigned to Board Members and others

Person

Task

Deadline

Other People Involved

Notes

Brian

Contact QA/QC Volunteers

10 January 2022

Gero Treuner, Peter Nunn, others?

To begin work, they do not need ABC.

Brian

bla

2022

xxx

xx.

Brian

bla

2022

xxx

xx.

  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)

Committee meeting - 2023-02-02

Participants

Members of the Committee:

Present, by alphabetical order

Brian McCullough

Etienne Ruedin

Frédéric Dumas

Frédéric Grither

Kim Nilsson

Michael Richardson

Absent or silent, by alphabetical order

none

Members of the CAcert community and other guests

Having been active during the meeting, by alphabetical order

Dirk Astrath

1 Opening

Chair (Brian) opens the meeting at 19:15 UTC.

Kim writes minutes. Frédéric D takes part too.

Etienne moves to accept the minutes from 2023-02-02. Kim seconded.

AYE: ER, KN, MR, FG ABSTAIN: FD, BM

2 Business

OpenID Connect (Brian/Frédéric D)

State of affairs openID project

No comment

Report for RIPE

Frédéric completes the report for the RIPE NCC already written by Brian and provides Brian with the completed version. Étienne will sent to RIPE.

Remote Assurance (Brian)

Brian isn't pushing, as Eva said she would look at this when she has time.

Finances (Michael)

New ERP (open source ERPNext application): state of affairs (Frédéric D)

Frédéric builds ERPNext on LXC containers on two different servers. Frédéric explains why there are several obstacles with the Debian version of LXC, to comply with the requirements of the infrastructure team, as set out by JanD. Frédéric explains that running non-privileged LXC containers without LXD is not trivial for him. Michael is helping Frédéric to solve these matters of configuring LXC in the absence of LXD.

Money transfer AU-EU

Michael and Étienne needs to coordinate as only Étienne can access the Conotoxia account. Discussion about the absolute need of having a proper association registered. Michael moves that we make sure to have CAcert registered in Switzerland so other corporations can safely accept CACert as a proponent.

AYE: MR, KN, BM, FD NAYE: FG, ER

Étienne will investigate and report on the costs and obligations of registering and identifying a non-profit organisation with the Swiss administration. Michael again recommends keeping as much money as possible in EUR, as this is the currency in which expenses are paid.

OrgAssurance

Étienne tried to contact Guy without success, about his role in the organisations' insurance. FrédéricD will contact Guy by phone. Dirk suggests to involve Alexander Balo too, as he is also an OrgAssurer.

Background Check (Ted)

done

BGC for Gero:

Waiting for Gero to submit the report.

BGC for Kim:

Brian moves to accept the BGC and Board and CAcert will consider Kim to be allowed to do any tasks necessary for CAcert. Seconded by Michael.

AYE: FD, BM, MR, FG ABSTAIN: ER, KN

People waiting in the pipeline

BGC for Brian:

BGC for Peter:

BGC for Matthias:

BGC for Sascha:

Events

FOSDEM Brussels (Dirk) https://fosdem.org/2023/

Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (Dirk) https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de

Infrastructure (Dirk) Dirk visited BIT during the weekend of 25-26 February, adding one Lenovo small factor computer. Issues arose, but were fixed the next day. Next visit planned in April (switch off Sun1 server, replaced by the added Lenovo). Might be possible to use other hardware for testing. Discussion about choice of hardware for the future.

Any other business

None

3 Question Time

Kim willing to test and review software, if told how, and it not being too technical. 😉

Closing

Chair (Brian) closes the meeting at 20:23 UTC.

Date of the next meeting

6 April 18:00 UTC

Logfile

Logfile from meeting 2023-01-05

Motions

Actions

Who

Status

Action

Minutemaker

wip

prepare Agenda and Minutes for the next meeting

Brian

Software meeting

every 2 month

Secretary

bank

accounts, contact with treasurer

Brain/CAcertInc/Committee/MeetingAgendasAndMinutes/2023-03-02 (last edited 2023-04-10 12:56:56 by EtienneRuedin)