[ciphershed] Re: Summary of Skype call with Jos

  • From: "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:23:55 -0400

>I would say that now would be the time, before the influx of new
>members, to establish a preliminary PMC/ST in order to set out the
>initial roadmap for CipherShed in the coming weeks/months. We need to
>galvenise the support that TCNext will provide us around a core idea of
>how we want CS to be shaped going forward, as well as come up with our
>position toward interfacing with other groups.

I strongly agree! The time to build a PMC and Security/QA Team is definitely 
now.

Alain

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>From: ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ciphershed-
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>Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 17:00
>To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [ciphershed] Re: Summary of Skype call with Jos
>
>Bill,
>
>It's great to see Jos & Thomas acknowledging & getting behind
>CipherShed, it's very encouraging to hear they already know of a good
>number of contributing developers.
>
>I'm very flattered by your recommendation, I must admit I'm a little
>retiscent to pickup that subject with Jos until I've spoken with him
>further and can satisfy myself that it wouldn't A) represent a conflict
>of interest and B) interfere with/reflect on CS negatively.
>
>I would say that now would be the time, before the influx of new
>members, to establish a preliminary PMC/ST in order to set out the
>initial roadmap for CipherShed in the coming weeks/months. We need to
>galvenise the support that TCNext will provide us around a core idea of
>how we want CS to be shaped going forward, as well as come up with our
>position toward interfacing with other groups.
>
>
>On 23/06/2014 20:45, Bill Cox wrote:
>> Hi, guys.  I had another Skype call with Jos today, and I took a few
>> notes which I'll post here.  Nothing was confidential at all, with one
>> exception where Jos was asked by someone else to keep information
>> confidential, so Jos has his hands tied there, as do I.
>>
>> From my point of view, the good news is that Jos is willing to make
>> CipherShed the "official" TrueCrypt fork, and that his online privacy
>> rights foundation can support CipherShed as a separate non-profit.  He
>> also wants to support VeraCrypt, and possibly other privacy related
>> FOSS projects.  Jos has hundreds of emails from people who want to
>> help out, and he has not yet replied to them.
>>
>> Jos wants to know when CipherShed will be able to handle 100+ new
>> people joining the effort.  I said that we're organizing now, and that
>> we probably would be ready soon.  He also said that there are probably
>> 50 people who said they can help with translations into different
>> languages.
>>
>> He mentioned that while his foundation will accept donations, he is
>> not taking any salary.  He's doing this for free just like us.  I
>> think the CipherShed team should join Jos on a TeamSpeak call soon.  I
>> think we would all benefit from a frank group discussion with him.
>>
>> Jos found a new TrueCrypt fork that has popped up:
>>
>>
>> http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/21195/nachfolger-fuer-truecrypt-in-
>sicht.html
>>
>> I checked it out, but so far it looks like a statement that the
>> company is going to do a TrueCrypt fork on their own.  I don't think
>> that this will have much impact on us.  It sounds to me like they just
>> want a piece of the commercial TrueCrypt support business, rather than
>> promoting FOSS encryption generally.
>>
>> Jos mentioned that Thomas is short on time, which limits his ability
>> to contribute.  However, Jos signed up on the CipherShed.org email
>> list while on the call.  He pointed out that the Forum is simple to
>> find since it has it's own tab, but there's no "Contact" or "Interact"
>> tab, and you can only find the email list if you actually read the
>> CipherShed home page. Can we make the email list more visible?
>>
>> Jos's foundation can offer CipherShed unlimited cloud services in
>> Switzerland.  This may be helpful when we ship new releases, to handle
>> all the downloads.  He also said they can get security certificates
>> for free.  He can offer CipherShed full access to servers that we can
>> configure however we wish.
>>
>> It sounds to me like Jos is moving forward with his online privacy
>> foundation and is already able to offer us useful services, in
>> addition to funneling volunteers our way.
>>
>> He also asked if I would be interested in serving on the board of his
>> foundation.  It frankly is an honor to be asked, and there are
>> typically so few seats on such a board that I doubt I'd make the cut.
>>  Also, remember, this is one of the guys I said was not competent to
>> run the TC fork.  He's showing a very strong ability to forgive and
>> forget, as well as being quite flexible in how he works with us.  I do
>> believe he is highly competent at building the foundation, and that
>> CipheShed will be stronger with his foundation's backing.  Would we
>> want a CipherShed member on his board?  Frankly, there must be a
>> better CipherShed member than me for that position.  PID0 seems like a
>> strong candidate to me.  I am not sure I want our team to be that
>> influenced by the foundation, but I suspect the foundation could
>> benefit greatly from someone like PID0's participation.
>>
>> Bill
>>
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>
>At the time of writing, no warrants have been served to me, nor am I
>under any legal compulsion concerning the CipherShed project. I do not
>know of any searches of seizures of my assets.



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