Committee Meeting 2020-09-17 (2020-09-18 in Australia)

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

Northern Winter: 08:00 PM GMT = 21:00 CET = 15:00 New York EST = 07:00 Australia AEDT
Northern Summer: 08:00 PM GMT = 22:00 CEST = 16:00 New York EDT = 06:00 Australia AEST

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

This will be a short meeting. You may miss some of your favourite topics that takes a lot of time. You may vote about minutes, agendas, etc. later. The goal of this meeting is to make at least two decisions so that the teams can continue to work as hard as they did in the past weeks. If there is remaining time, we may share some information.

NEW

Live temporary notepad to keep track of the minutes - please participate in the writing

Audio-video channel, in parrallel to the classical IRC chan - please join us there

Agenda

  1. Preliminaries
    1. Chair opens the Committee Meeting
    2. Who is making minutes?
    3. Is there a time limit? Who is time keeper?

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

  2. Business

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

    1. Future
      1. Arbitration: report on the progress with applicants (FD)
      2. Business Model "security hardware appliances" (FD)
        1. Interview with the project leader of the "CAcert for safety hardware equipment" idea.
        2. Interview with the project leader of the " CAcert for blockchain " idea.
    2. Finance Team
      1. Money transfer, etc.
    3. Infrastructure Status
      1. Applicants: Welcome meetings
    4. AGM Sat 2020-11-07-20:00 UTC

      1. Request for team reports (Secretary) https://wiki.cacert.org/AGM/Next

      2. Annual report (President)
      3. Membership fees (Tresorier)

    5. Policy Group Information: There was a short discussion about adjustments in view of the move to Europe. Vote coming up soon. Please participate in the Policy Group mailing list. (Etienne)

    6. Software Team

      1. Bug 1482: https://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=1482 (Limit validity period of new HTTPS certificates to one year)

      2. PHP http://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=1444 (Brian)

      3. Keygen http://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=1417 (Ted)

    7. Critical Team (decision)
      1. Status of applications for Critical/Infrastructure team (Frederic/Dirk/Candidate)
  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. Agree on date of the next Committee Meeting: 1st Oct. 2020

Logfile

Logfile from meeting 2020-09-17

Minutes

Minutes were written in parallel to the meeting, with tasks listed in action items and actions of this document.

Participants

By alphabetical order.

Members of the Committee being present:

* Brian McCullough

* Etienne Ruedin

* Frédéric Dumas

* Peter Nunn

Members of the Committee being absent or silent:

* Christophe Meesters

* Frédéric Grither (present, but silent)

* Sascha Ternes (present, but silent)

Members of the CAcert community and other guests, having been active during the meeting:

* Egal (guest)

Minutes

The Chair opened the meeting at 20:07 UTC

Approval of the minutes of the meeting of the 3rd of September, 2020

Votes: 3 Ayes, no Naye, no Abstain https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20200917.1?showvotes=1

Approval of the minutes of the meeting of the 20th of August, 2020

No minutes are written yet; Frederic D is going to prepare them form the IRC channel log.

Arbitration Brian proposed to post our conclusion on the board's public list, and to see the responses of the members who are following that work. We expect him to do it in the following days.

Business Model "security hardware appliances" Interview with the project leader of the "CAcert for safety hardware equipment" idea.

Frédéric D is going to invite for a talk our guest expert next week and make the online appointment public on board-public list. Interested people are invited to join the talk.

Interview with the project leader of the " CAcert for blockchain " idea.

Etienne R is going to invite for a talk our potential partner next week and make the online appointment public on board-public list. Interested people are invited to join the talk.

Infrastructure Status Infrastructure Status - Applicants

Before our next committee meeting, Frederic D going to setup the welcome call for people having recently joined, together with Jan D. and members of the committee.

Critical Status - Applicant

Before our next committee meeting, Frederic D going to setup the welcome call for the one person being able to join, together with Drik A and members of the committee.

Preparation ot the Annual General Meeting scheduled on Sat 2020-11-07-20:00 UTC Dirk A delivered several team reports: critical, access, infrastructure, support, software, events, secure-u.

Frederic D is going to call Christophe M to get him up to speed on the preparation of the annual accounts.

Etienne R is going to remind the President of the need to submit his annual activity report and is going also to send out calls for membership fees.

Policy group Etienne R is going to start as soon as possible the vote on the adaptation of policies and CCA for making them compatible with the move of CAcert Inc. to Europe.

Software team Frederic D is going to setup a video meeting with Bernhard F, Jan D, Dirk and other code developers, with in the meeting agenda being how to organize our work to come in case:

CAcert gets founded by the RIPE NCC;

CAcert has to work on is own alone, without a dedicated grant from the RIPE NCC.

JanDD already started with bug 1482. https://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=1482

Critical Team nothing

Questions None

Next meetings Next committee meetings on the Thursday 17th of September, 2020 and Thursday, 1st of October 2020.

We aggreed on Thu 2020-10-01-20:00 UTC for the following meeting.
Save the date: Sat 2020-11-07-20:00 UTC for the next AGM.

The Chair closed the meeting at 21:09 UTC.

Motions

* m20200830.2: Motion to accept Minutes of the meeting of the 13th of August, 2020

Actions

Who

Status

Action

Minutemaker

wip

prepare Agenda and Minutes for the next meeting

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