CAcert partners with local non-profit Foundations (see bottom for definition). A Foundations can provide local support to events, and more clearly handle donations and other revenues.

See also StrategicPartnerships.

Oophaga Foundation -- The Netherlands

The Stichting [http://www.oophaga.org/ Oophaga Foundation] is a Dutch organisation formed for the purpose of providing hosting support for free certificate provision projects as CAcert.org services and servers. Oophaga is supported by non-profits NLnet foundation, HCC, St. IAE and NLUUG. The foundation also has commercial supporters; [http://www.bit.nl/ BIT] (high end ISP) & [http://www.tunix.nl/ Tunix Internet Security services,] and some major hardware suppliers such as SUN, AMD, Cisco, Net Apps, etc.

Oophaga Foundation also represents the [http://www.cacert.nl/ CAcert Dutch Community].

Balimbing -- Germany

Project [http://balimbing.de Balimbing] is a plan to form an Association (Verein) in Germany to handle CeBIT, LinuxTag and CCC events. Still in the planning stage, needs your help.

Call for action: German resident members required to help! Help your GermanCommunity to show the Dutch how it's done...

CAcert Incorporated

CAcert Incorporated is an Association formed under NSW, Australia law. Its primary purpose is (informally) to hold the intellectual property, oversee the development of the community, and develop the business of the CA. More [http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/CAcertIncorporated here]

In the above, the term Foundation is used inclusively to cover a wide variety of structures: Associations, (Dutch) Stichtungs, (German) Vereins, non-profits, etc. As the legal structures differ dramatically from one country to another, it is hard to come up with a good term.