CAcert Incorporated is a registered incorporation association in Australia (NSW), which incorporation operates the CAcert.org service.

Rules

The operational Rules for associations incorporated under the Associations Incorporations Act, 1984 you will find here: http://www.cacert.org/docs/CAcert_Rules.pdf

These rules define the association operations, membership fee, liability of the members, elections, AGM, etc. In Appendix 1 you will find the membership application form. Appendix 2 has a form with which you are able to get a proxy for voting for you on an Anual General Meeting (AGM).

For quite some more (legal) documentation on the New Southe Wales Australian law for associations you have a look at the Assocications Incorporation Act 1984 No 143 (last updated on 4th of December 2006).

Membership

Do not mix up the term association member with the term "member of CAcert". With the latter one means: registrated CAcert user. An association member is able to elect or to be elected for board membership of CAcert Inc. and the person can vote on an AGM. Being only a CAcert regsitrated user one cannot vote on an AGM.

If you want to become a member of the CAcert association, please read the association rules, and afterwards fill out this form: http://www.cacert.at/svn/sourcerer/CAcert/CAcert-Association-Membership-Application-Form.pdf To become a real member of CAcert Inc Association (once again, this is different from a registrated user of CAcert) is that you have to be nominated by at least two current CAcert Inc association members. So try to find a member who will nominate you, e.g. via a request to one of the CAcert email lists. If you found two nominators tell them why you want to join and what you plan to contribute. Once nominated (the nominators will send a signed nomination to the association members and CAcert board, you have to pay the anual membership fee in order to be able to vote.

The easiest is to print off the membership application form, complete it, scan it and sent it of for nomination via a (CAcert cert) signed email.

There exists an association membership email list: cacert-members AT cacert.org. This list is moderated.

You can pay your yearly membership fee through Paymate: https://www.paymate.com.au/PayMate/ExpressPayment?mid=cacert&ref=CAcert-Inc_Membership-fee&amt=10.00&curr=USD

The current membership fee is 10 US$. With Paymate you can say that the transfer should be in US$.

Make sure you pay yearly your membership fee. You have to pay your membership fee before 1st of July every year. Only when you have fully paid your fee you have voting rights on an AGM.

The association membership list is open. That will say association members can obtain one copy of the membership list if they pay up front 2.50 $. Use the Paymate URL in a slightly modified way: ref=Copy_Membership_list_fee.

The membership can be ended e.g. by sending a signed email to the secretary of the CAcert Board. The membership ends one month after that ending note.

Board

http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=8

Incorporation

http://www.cacert.org/docs/incorporation.jpg