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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, here are a few ways:

P E O P L E skills

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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:

Thanks for you help!

more campaigns

Community and Marketing needs you! Have a look at the comma page and see if there is a programme or campaign that suits.

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

Reaching 100% soon

Half way through

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 blog.cacert.org. Contact pro at cacert.org (Public Relations) for tips.

Photographer

Good photos of the CAcert booth at events are always wanted on the blog.

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Programmer / Web Developer

If you are a programmer, and can help with the development, please join cacert-devel maillist and the bugs tracking system. It's like this:

  1. download the test installation and get it working.
  2. Search for a simple open bug and try and fix it.
  3. upload your patch to http://bugs.cacert.org/ and to the test system.

  4. marshal your test team.

Systems Administration

CAcert looks after a number of systems thanks to our system adminstration 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. Join sysadm list and email your ideas. (Because CAcert has audited critical systems, it isn't always as easy as just downloading a package. Let's see your design/idea.)

Secure Hardware Designer

Watch this space for a new emerging programme.

Business, Managers ... the B R A I N

Managers, Quality, Facilitators, Events

Join the Association or subscribe to the cacert-board mailing list. http://wiki.cacert.org/comma?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=CAcert.org_CompetenceAreas.jpg

Auditor

If you are an auditor (webTrust, iSO9000, sAS70, commonCriteria, cISSP, ...) or have general governance experience, please go to lists.cacert.org, join the policy or board mailing list.

Bookkeeper

We need help with bookkeeping the finances, and the production of presentable financial reports. Please contact us directly on the board list.

More?

Here are some miscellaneous things that ANYONE can do:

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.

You can also apply for membership in the CAcert Association. See CacertMembership for details.

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, ...

Adopt-A-Page

Perhaps you have a website? Champion your area and link to it. More on this.

Your CAcert Needs You!

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