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Committee Meeting 2023-05-04 18:00 UTC

The meeting will take place at 18:00 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 13. April 2023 "I move to accept the minutes of the committee meeting of 13th of April 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 (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. 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. Money transfer AU-EU: Conotoxia account // Access Michael; collaboration Treasurer/Secretary startet; to be continued in May

   4. Spring Offensive: All those who not need to finish ongoing work are hereby invited to participate in the Spring Offensive: Pick up just one of 72 small tasks that have been waiting to be completed for months or even years. Be one of 72 heroes who take a handhold and thus bring CAcert a big step forward! (How to deal with the bug tracker is described in simple words at https://wiki.cacert.org/Mantis-Crash-Course )

      1. Secretary is struggling with twitters two-step-login as he does not receive any more the mails with the code. Spring offensive startet on the blog with automated blog to twitter transfer (See "Mailing lists" for discussion)

   5. OrgAssurance

      1. 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?

   6. Background Check (Ted)

      1. done

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

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

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

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

   7. Events
   8. Infrastructure
      1. Infrastructure (Dirk): is something not running? until when? Consequences?

      2. Mailing lists alias (Kim/Michael/Etienne/Jan): what is going wrong? how should it work? what is expected? (see also https://wiki.cacert.org/comma/Arsenal/CAcertMailListsMailAddresses )

   9. Any other business (board members forgot to ask the secretary to put it on the agenda)
   10. 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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1. Closing

1. Propose a date of the next Committee Meeting: 1. June 2023 18:00 UTC
2. Agree on the following meeting dates: 6. July, 3. Aug., 7. Sept., 5. Oct. 2023 18:00 UTC (keep date free, can be changed if necessary)

1. 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)

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

   • expand background check

   • 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

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

2. 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 - 2023-05-04

Committee meeting - 2023-05-04

Participants

Members of the Committee:

Present, by alphabetical order

Étienne Ruedin

Frédéric Dumas

Frédéric Grither

Kim Nilsson

Michael Richardson

Absent or silent, by alphabetical order

Brian McCullough

Members of the CAcert community and other guests

Having been active during the meeting, by alphabetical order

none

1 Opening

From April to October 2023 inclusive, committee meetings will be held at 18:00 UTC.

Chair Étienne opens the meeting at 19:01 UTC.

Frédéric D writes minutes. Kim takes part too.

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting.

Étienne moves to accept the minutes of the committee meeting of 13 of April 2023. Kim seconds.

Result of the vote:

Aye: 4 Naye: 0 Abstain: 1

The minutes were accepted.

2 Business

OpenID Connect (Brian / Frédéric D) On Friday 5 May 9h30 Paris, Frédéric G and Frédéric D are finishing writing the financial part of the report for the Ripe NCC.

Remote Assurance (Brian / Étienne) Eva corresponded with Etienne, confirming the interest that CAcert should have in the remote certification of its members' identity. She confirmed that she was thinking about the practicalities of how to ensure that the chosen procedure would guarantee satisfactory security.

https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-board-private/2023-05/msg00000.html (access restricted to subscribers to this private discussion list.)

Finance team (Michael / Étienne / Frédéric D) Frederic D. has set aside three half-days in May (12, 19, 26) to complete the installation of ERPNext in its test container.

Etienne and Michael managed to find a satisfactory combination of monetary tools to repatriate funds from CAcert's bank accounts in Australia with West Pacific to newly opened accounts with Graubündner Kantonalbank, the bank chosen by CAcert in Switzerland.

SpringOffensive Etienne had difficulties with Twitter's two-step authentication, as he was no longer receiving emails with the one-time code. However, the "spring offensive" finally started on the blog, thanks to the automated transfer of blog posts to Twitter.

OrgAssurance Etienne will try again to contact the people concerned, in particular Guy.

At one of our Wednesday meetings on Jitsi, we invited Victoria (from USA) to describe how she would like to use CAcert's ability to certify the identity of the legal entities for which they are responsible (we are talking about our OrgAssurances programme of certification of organisations).

https://wiki.cacert.org/OrganisationAssurance

Background Check Kim has emailed Bernhard offering to help him with BGCs, to make it easier to match dates for BGCs. Kim will renew his proposal. Étienne points out the difficulty Bernhard has in maintaining his motivation, having had repeated experience in previous years of working for CAcert alone on the topics for which he was in charge.

Events The next event is FROSCON, which takes place in August near Bonn, Germany. The deadline for submission of papers is 11 June.

Infrastructure (Dirk) Dirk not present.

Other

A configuration fault in the cacert-inc email distribution list has been corrected, to allow committee members to receive copies of emails sent to the Secretary and Treasurer. The aim is to allow everyone on the committee to react in the event of the temporary absence of the Secretary or Treasurer. The defect has been corrected.

3 Question Time

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Closing

Chair (Etienne) closes the meeting at 20:37 UTC.

Date of the next meeting

The next meeting will be held on Thursday June 1, 2023 at 18:00 UTC

Logfile

Logfile from meeting 2023-01-05

Motions

• https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20230413.1 (Support authority)

• https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20230413.2 (Minutes March)

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