- **Time:** Wednesday 6 December 2023 at 13:00 CEST (11:00 UTC)

- **Place:** #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

- "It just keeps coming. We need a solution."

- "Asked pippin_ if he could maybe get attention from ecrist to try and solve this."

- "Website team continues to report that they are on the verge of launching the new stuff."

- "But there is a release freeze planned for last weeks of December so we may not actually get it this year."

- "A patch for this has been created and it needs reviews."

- "For new contributions the new license already applies."

- "The --tls-export-cert code was removed, and plaisthos will reimplement it."

- "Then it is up to dazo to review things so we can work on finalizing this."

- "One of the last tasks is reviewing if remaining items are trivial patches, and maybe get legal advice on those if necessary."

- "After --export-peer-cert/--tls-export-cert issue is clarified and code merged, we feel we're ready for a new release."

- "Tentatively next week."

- "There is currently no place to donate money to the community."

- "The question is, do we want to allow donations? The answer is yes."

- "We need to figure out how to deal with that legally, and what payment methods to accept and how."

- "Probably credit card is a must. Maybe PayPal as well. Bitcoin seems to encounter some resistance in the discussions."

- "We definitely do not want the donation thing to be forced - have a mechanism to do it, but keep it out of the way."

- "Random things yelled out (to investigate): legal entity? stripe? PayPal? credit card? open collective? GitHub sponsors? Linux foundation? sf conservancy?"

- **Tunnelcrack progress** [TunnelCrack community wiki article](https://openvpn.net/wiki/TunnelCrack)

- "Current status: when mitigations start appearing we will mention them in meeting notes."

- "Naming: We decided to rename from 'Hackathon' to 'OpenVPN community meetup'. This has a more open spirit to it, as we want to encourage developers and those interested in contributing to feel welcome."

- "Where: Karlsruhe, Germany. It is a relatively central location in Europe and is fairly easily reachable by train. A meeting location is yet to be arranged."

- "When: At the moment tentatively set to 20-22 September 2024."

- "Who: We'll do an open invitation to openvpn-devel mailing list, but also CC: specifically past attendees and people of interest."

- "Shirts: There is plenty of time still to prepare a shirt design."

- "This page is outdated badly: [Static Key Mini How-To](https://openvpn.net/community-resources/static-key-mini-howto/)"

- "Company will send this to tech writer to redo based on [GitHub doc](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst) info and also retain a link to that GitHub doc."

- "Having a simple guide online will help adoption."

- "Tests should cover: GRE, IPSec, userland, DCO, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows."

- "Requires time to be dedicated to doing this."

- "When time available will do it."

- "Matt provided icons in [GitHub Issue #595](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595)"

- "**Update:** will be picked up by selva when he has time."

- "Company is trying to get to SOC2 compliance."

- "Probably will need a simple NDA to be signed by recipients of emails to security@openvpn.net."

- "Company guy took standard NDA we use for contractors, suggests to use that."

- "Novaflash thinks we should review that first to see if it's really suitable or not, community members are not contractors after all."

- "Company switched EV code signing to CloudHSM, this is the same cert type we use for driver signing, is also suitable for binary signing."

- "In future we could possibly switch community to that same key. Saves having to maintain 2 different keys."

- "Depends on how hard/easy it is to access company key signing thing from community infrastructure."

- "Also no high priority at the moment, we have a working solution now."

- "Cron2 was asked if OpenVPN has a software bill of materials. Answer was no."

- "Coincidentally, in OpenVPN Inc a security requirement is to have an SBOM so this is on our list of things to do."

- "When we pick up this task we can coordinate on it."

- "Mattock made a new forums system that runs on Rocky Linux 8 as agreed with ecrist."

- "Ecrist has looked at it but the current state of the migration is unknown."

- "Novaflash will pick this up at some point."