Supporting CAcert
If you're using our free service you might want to give something back. Here is a list of what you can do for CAcert. In case you need contact : support (at) cacert.org
Spread the word!
You can help CAcert by spreading the word and getting more people to use our certificates. Just tell your friends what CAcert is and what you can use it for. If you have any kind of contact with software developers or people like Linux distributors, you could ask them about including CAcert in their browsers, certificate stores, software, ...
CAcert Support Mailing list
If you want to help CAcert with it's daily work, you are more than welcome to help out on the CAcert Support Mailing list. All you have to do is to subscribe to the list on https://lists.cacert.org/wws/subscribe/cacert-support (see GettingSupport) and to wait for questions you can answer.
We collected some rules and hints:
It's OK if you address support seeking people with their firstname, eg. Hi Peter.. We are all pretty relaxed and CAcert is a community and not a company. You might feel strange if someone replies with Dear Mr. ... to you but that's OK
If you're not 100% sure of your answer or if it's something regarding unstable policies, etc. you better add a This is an unofficial answer from the support mailing list to your reply. Make sure that it's easy to see whether it's your opinion or a CAcert fact.
- Try to make use of the FAQ and other wiki pages as much as possible. There is no point in rewriting the same answer over and over again. If the wiki is incomplete rather fix the page and send a link.
- Using a mail client that supports showing message threads allows you to see if someone has already answered or not. This allows for it to be easier to work out who needs help and who has already been helped. Thunderbird supports this feature.
Thanks for you help!
Help With Translating the Website
Sign up on https://translingo.cacert.org where you can access the base translation (English) and translate it into other languages. Your help is appreciated
Currently 100% translated and well maintained
- de_DE, es_ES, fr_FR, hu_HU, nl_NL
Reaching 100% soon
- it_IT, ja_JP
Half way through
- cs_CZ, pl_PL, pt_PT, tr_TR, da_DK
If you speak anything else you're more than welcome!
Help with Documentation
There are a lot of questions asked every day on the support mailing list, IRC, ... It would be great to have complete documentation, FAQ, Policies etc. for all those questions and maybe you can help us writing, reviewing, optimizing, ... Every now and than we need help to translate drafts into English ...
Just contact us via IRC or subscribe to a mailing list and offer you help.
Help with the News
You can write about CAcert/security on our communal news blog at http://blog.CAcert.org. Contact pro@cacert.org (Public Relations) if you want guidance.
Programmer / Web Developer
If you are a programmer, and would like to help with the development, please join http://bugs.cacert.org/ and search for those bugs that are still open, and which do not contain ready-made patches. Get the sourcecode of CAcert, and develop patches, and post them to the bugtracker. Many other applications could use better Product_Support_for_X509 so you can help them out directly.
Information-Designer
The CAcert website needs improvements to the structure and workflow, to be more usable for new users. Please grab a copy of the CAcert sourcecode, and start improving the website. Take the information from the Wiki, and structure it to improve the usability and information availability of the website.
Webmaster
Please join http://bugs.cacert.org/ and search for the Web-Related bugs that are still open, and do not contain ready-made patches. Get the sourcecode of CAcert (most of the website is part of the sourcecode), and write patches, and post them to the bugtracker.
Systems Administration
CAcert looks after a number of systems thanks to our SystemsAdministration team. If you'd like to help our a current system contact the responsible system administration and talk about what you'd like to do.
If you'd like to deploy a new CAcert system to do something cool just let us know. If the board thinks it a good idea we can set it up on a virtual server. Email your proposal to the https://lists.cacert.org/wws/info/cacert-sysadm email list for some peer review first. There are some interactions with critical systems that make auditing hard and may effect your design/idea. We'd love to hear your great ideas.
Project Manager
Please contact us directly
Moderator
We need someone to moderate necessary discussions, with the necessary distance to keep neutral. Please contact us directly.
Auditor
If you are an auditor (WebTrust, ISO9000, SAS70, CommonCriteria, CISSP, ...), please go to http://lists.cacert.org/, join the policy mailing list and contact us there.
Photographer
Please try to take good photos at the next event http://blog.cacert.org/ of the CAcert booth/presentation there.
Bookkeeper
We need help with bookkeeping the finances, and the production of auditable financial reports. Please contact us directly.
Quality Assurance
We want to build up a team of quality assurers, who regularly review the workflows and database, challenge assurances, ... Please contact us directly.
Organisation Assurance
According to our new policy at [PolicyDrafts/OrganisationAssurance] we need people who are legally trained/qualified to know how to verify the identity and responsibility of organisations. Please contact us directly.
Emergency response
We are searching for people for our Emergency response team. (Handling abuse requests, ...)
Product Managers
We are searching for product managers in the fields of OpenPGP, X.509, Jabber, Timestamping, ... to care about products. Please see the ProductManagers page for more details.
Donating Money
If you don't have time to get personally involved you can donate money to the CAcert Association using Paymate. CAcert is a non-profit association based in Australia.
See http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=13 for more information
You can also apply for membership in the CAcert Association. See CacertMembership for details.