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Assurer Training Events 2014 (ATE14)

to upcoming Events - to past Events - to Event Organiser - to Event Organisation - to ATE presentations (various languages)

State of this document

This document refers to the "old" version of the ATE schemes and agendas. The Assurance Team is currently doing a complete re-work. You may follow along at the 2011 ATE Upgrade page.

This page is the overview about Assurer Training Events (or ATEs). Events have happened in many places:

Deutschland, Paris, Prague, Budapest, London, Innsbruck, Sydney, Göteborg, Melbourne, Brisbane

ATEs are now an essential part of our audit process. If you attend an ATE, you are helping our audit. Even better, if you can help us to organise an ATE, you are doubly-helping the audit! Please contact the Event Organisation Officer at events@c.o.

Who should attend?

The Assurer Training Events are intended to transfer all the information to all Assurers and also potential Assurers.

PLEASE NOTE:

As of 20090404, the non-Challenged Assurers are blocked in the system!

If you have not passed the Assurer Challenge, you are no longer an Assurer

As of 20101116, Tverify points are no longer counted -- you will need some more assurances!

attending an ATE is a really good way for dealing with these challenges ... don't forget your ID

Many changes have happened, mostly under the impact of CAcert's Audit

new and much stronger Policies,
defined Agreements which bring us into a Community
detail of CAP forms
Events Management.
Arbitrations brought changes in Assurance procedures as well as strengthened the overall effect

Previous events conducted under audit scrutiny has shown that the demand for the new information is high.

Program

The Assurer Training Events are planned with two parts:

Part I - Presentations (about 60-90 min)
Part II - Assurances, including Audit Assurances (about 60-90 min.)

The presentations are a bundle of short reports and presentations (5-10 min. each) about different parts of the CAcert changes in the background related by the audit with examples from the practice.

the practical part II is open for Assurances.

Presentations

Audit and Assurance
- Policies
- Background to Risks, Liabilities and Obligations
- 5 purposes of Assurance
- The CAcert Community Agreement
- Essential Documents
Assurance Practice
- Names
  - Simple, Strict Rules
  - Relaxed Rules
- Dates
- Signatures
- Id Documents
Evidence Gathering
Helping CAcert

New Topics for ATE 2010 and later Presentations

20100201 p20100119 PoJAM to DRAFT resolved.
- https://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Policies/PolicyOnJuniorAssurersMembers.html
Privacy (AP 7)
Assurance special cases (Pwd recovery w/ Assurance, Name change w/ Assurance, ...)
Evidence Gathering
Relaxed Name Rules

Current versions of these presentations can be viewed at the SVN server (v4.6) (please check for newer revisions). Comments and suggestions for improvements are appreciated at the Education or the Policy mailing lists.

Upcoming Assurer Training Events

Glossary: {+} in schedule, finished - {0} Attention, problems or announced delay - {-} behind schedule

Name, Wiki link

Place

Date

Organiser

Status

Event information

Open Queue of Assurer Training Events (pre-planning)

Glossary: {+} in schedule, finished - {0} Attention, problems or announced delay - {-} behind schedule

Name, Wiki link	Place	Date	Organiser	Status	Event information
ATE-Salzburg	Salzburg, AT	2014-xx-xx	Juergen B.	{-} canceled for 2014
ATE-Stockholm	Stockholm, SE	2012-02-xx	Sverker	{0} planning
ATE-Köln	Köln, DE	2011-xx-xx	Nik	{0} no venue	planning
ATE-Dortmund	Dortmund, DE	2011-xx-xx	Nik	{0} no venue	planning
ATE-newSouthWales	Newcastle? Wollongong? AU	2011-xx-xx	Iang	{0} searching for contact + venue	funds!
ATE-Frankfurt	Frankfurt, DE	2011-xx-xx		{0} scheduling	planning
ATE-Goettingen	Goettingen, DE	2011-xx-xx	Thorsten	{0} scheduling	planning
ATE-Nuernberg	Nuernberg, DE	2011-xx-xx	Lars	{0} not yet scheduled	planning
ATE-Lummen	Lummen, Belgium	2011-xx-xx	Marc	{0} re-scheduling	planning
ATE-Hannover	Hannover/Braunschweig, DE	2011-xx-xx	Mario?	{0} not yet scheduled	planning
ATE-Chemnitz	Chemnitz, DE	2011-xx-xx	?	{0} not yet scheduled	planning
ATE-Omaha	Omaha, USA	2011-xx-xx	Michael?	{0} not yet scheduled	planning
ATE-Berlin 2	Berlin, DE	2011-xx-xx	?	{0} not yet scheduled	planning
ATE-St.Augustin	St.Augustin, DE	2011-xx-xx	Luciano	{0} not yet scheduled	planning
ATE-Mannheim	Mannheim, DE	2011-xx-xx	?	{0} not yet scheduled	requested

Hmmm... these hopes need refreshing

Completed events are in PastEvents.

Name

City, DE/US/AU

20##-##-## - 20##-##-##

TBD

{0} planning

Homepage

type 201Y-MM-DD-ATECity :

Running an ATE

How to set up an ATE

At a minimum, you will need:

A venue, available for around 3 hours. 1-2 hours for presentation, 1-2 hours for assurances.
around 4 weeks notice so as to blog and mail people.
a catchment area that gets you a good number of attendees.
someone to present the material! Negotiate with the Events team on this. Also, ask about co-auditors.

Logistics

Consider:

Beamer for the English presentations (v4.5) or German Translations (v4.5)
printed copies of the key documents:
- many of the Assurance Policy
- the others as listed in the EventOrganisation - Infrastructure - Documentation page.

What if I cannot attend?

There are plans to release the presentations and reports as podcasts or on youtube as the events are once finished.

Where to attend?

Each event has his own Wiki page listed above where you can attend as attendee or as speaker.

(is it possible to add an Email attend button on each sub website?)
Sample: mailto:events@cacert.org?subject=ATE-attend-FFM&body=I%20will%20attend.
If you can help in any way, please let the organisers know! We need all the help we can get