Committee Meeting 2017-01-11

The meeting will take place at 20:00 GMT in the IRC channel #board-meeting on the CAcert IRC network.

Committee Members: feel free to add a business within the acceptance period or your question to the board below. Others: add a question to the questions section.

Premeeting

  1. Minutes author prepares the minutes from the last meeting

  2. Minutes author prepares the action items. All action owners to update.

    2017-01-02

    Minutes

    Secretary

    January, 4th

    {+}

    2017-01-02

    Update Action Items List

    Secretary

    {0}

    2017-01-02

    Contact Australians

    Etienne

    a.s.a.p.

    {*}

    2017-01-02

    Letter to Australians

    Brian, Etienne

    January, 11th

    {0}

    2017-01-02

    Pourparler DRO

    President

    January, 11th

    {+} by Gero

    2017-01-02

    OFT paper work

    Treasurer, Secretary, P.O.

    January, 17th

    {0}

  3. Minutes author puts motion m2010xxxx.y to accept the minutes

Agenda

  1. Preliminaries
    1. Chair open the Committee Meeting
    2. Who is making minutes?
    3. Gero and/or Dirk gives a short statement about the minutes from the last meeting from old committee
    4. Accept the minutes from the last meeting of the old committee.

      • If the minutes are still not written: Should we insist or dismiss the topic? At least a transcript is added to the wiki page. (ER)
    5. Accept the minutes from the last meeting.

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

    7. Chair asks whether cacert-board maillist includes any business items that aren't on the agenda yet.

    8. Chair introduces the URL of action items to the meeting, and asks for discussion.

      1. Dismissals (secretary)
        • "Michael will investigate what the conditions in Germany would be if one would use a bank vault for escrow." As there is no need for a bank vault for escrow now, it does not make sense to do any investigations about this action item. Dismiss action item 20130428 2.4 as obsolete.
        • "Preparation of the blogpost regarding the removal of ID document scans left over from TVerify shutdown was delegated to PR officer – Michael will contact him." A post could not be found, a post five years later does not make sense. Dismiss action item 20120505 3 as obsolete.
  2. Business

    Acceptance of Businesses 48 Hours before beginning of Committee Meeting latest!

    1. Committee
      1. Vacancies (all)
        1. Committee
        2. P.O.
      2. Permission Review
      3. Hand over
    2. Arbitration
      1. DRO (Gero)
      2. Resignations
    3. Community
    4. Business added by Your Name Comment: Replace "Business One" by Title of Business and add your Name

      • Additional Inputs Comment: Replace "Additional Inputs"by Description of Business, Description of Reason-Why/Purpose, Additional Comments, Additional Documents, Additional Links, if useful for other Committee Members to prepare for Committee Meeting.

    5. et cetera
  3. Question Time
    1. "When will you address other positions?" (This question went under in the heat of discussion on January 2nd.)

    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

      • et cetera
  4. Closing
    1. Agree on date of the next Committee Meeting
    2. Chair closes the Committee Meeting

Minutes

Present: Brian (chair), Dirk, Gero, Etienne; Guest: Eva

  1. Preliminaries
    1. Chair open the Committee Meeting
      • As the president arrives just from traveling, the vice president takes the chair.
    2. Who is making minutes?
      • The secretary is making minutes.
    3. Gero and/or Dirk gives a short statement about the minutes from the last meeting from old committee
      • Gero gives the information, that the minutes 2016-12-15 (former committee) will be written this week. For this reason, the following topic is adjourned to 2017-01-18.

    4. Accept the minutes from the last meeting of the old committee.

      • see above
    5. Accept the minutes from the last meeting.

      • The minutes are accepted.
    6. Chair asks whether cacert-board-private maillist includes any items that need to be disclosed to Members.

      • Most topics are all ready included into the agenda. Is added as late item 2.2.2. Resignation and due to illness, the respobsability of 2.2.1. is changed to Gero as he replaced Dirk.
    7. Chair asks whether cacert-board maillist includes any business items that aren't on the agenda yet.

    8. Chair introduces the URL of action items to the meeting, and asks for discussion.

      1. Dismissals (secretary)
        • "Michael will investigate what the conditions in Germany would be if one would use a bank vault for escrow." As there is no need for a bank vault for escrow now, it does not make sense to do any investigations about this action item. Dismiss action item 20130428 2.4 as obsolete.
        • "Preparation of the blogpost regarding the removal of ID document scans left over from TVerify shutdown was delegated to PR officer – Michael will contact him." A post could not be found, a post five years later does not make sense. Dismiss action item 20120505 3 as obsolete.
        The committee dismissed three obsolete action items: "dismiss action items 20140413, 20120505.3, 20130428.2.4 as obsolete" Furthermore, the committee took some time to have a look on other still remaining action items. It was statet, that the committee should not deal with very old items until it has done/has spare time with the current important things. A to do list with day-to-day business is showed on the top of the agenda and tracked by the secretary.
    From the floor was voiced that there are needs to be more description of agenda items which are not "standard", such as "accept minutes". Voices from the committee agree in opinion.
  2. Business

    1. Committee
      1. Vacancies (all)
        1. Committee
        2. P.O.
        There are no news from secretary's side to both 2.1.1.1. (vacancy of three Australians) and 2.1.1.2. (prospective vacancy of PO) as the "letter to Australians" is on delay due to a miss understanding between the vice president and the secretary. They will catch up this in the next days.
      2. Permission Review
        • The committee decided "that Brian form an ad-hoc committee to review all permissions where there may be some relevance with assistance of Eva and asks other members for help where needed".
      3. Hand over
        • The committee decided (as discussed in last meeting) "that dicussions and consensus about moving CAcert are intended to happen in the policy group and the already existing Phoenix platform (email list and pad functionality, presuming ongoing consent of the owner), that board members will participate as role of ordinary community members, and that board will coordinate and move if necessary."
    2. Arbitration
      1. DRO (Gero)
        • Following motion m20160921.1 the committee has to accept the proposal from arbitration team and should appoint Ian G as Dispute Resolution Officer provided that he later accepts it although having declined it because of insufficient time. The committee encourage Ian to dedicate some time despite of a CoI stated earlier, because arbitration will probably suffer more with board in this role (until another candidate can be found), but to not make to much pressure, the appointment is rescheduled. In between, the vice president will talk to the designated DRO, as previous clarifying personal conversation seems more appropriate at the moment. The agenda item will be put on the next agenda again.

As the meeting time is all ready overdue for three quarters of an hour and several people have to leave, the following items are rescheduled to the next committee meeting, that takes place at Wedesday, January 18th 2017, 20:00-22:00 GMT.

  1. Resignations
  1. Question Time
    1. "When will you address other positions?" (This question went under in the heat of discussion on January 2nd.)
  2. Closing
    1. Agree on date of the next Committee Meeting Wedesday, January 18th 2017, 20:00-22:00 GMT
    2. Chair closes the Committee Meeting

Motions

Actions

This list is updated at the agenda, see next meeting.


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