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BLUG membership are all free (free as in freedom and free as free beer ). However, it is unnecessary to be a BLUG member if you want to:
However, as a BLUG member:
You can submit your OpenPGP key to this wiki page, but first you have to register a wiki account.
BLUG membership requires you have a valid OpenPGP keychain, sufficient knowledge on OpenPGP (GnuPG) and basic GNU/Linux (Linux subsystem in Win10 not included!) usage.
How to become a BLUG member? Firstly, you have to participate a BLUG off-line events (anyone of them). And bring your OpenPGP public key (full fingerprint should be included) and Identity Card (or passport, student card, driver license) to that event which you plan to. Then, contact maintainer members, ask them sign your OpenPGP public key, your key should be signed by at least two-thirds of maintainers. It is better that make your key signed by as many as other BLUG members and event participators, so that make our network stronger and more extensive. In a word, our off-line event could considered as a mini-Key-Signing-Party!
What is a valid OpenPGP key?
BLUG will consider the OpenPGP key which meets the following criteria is valid:
Please be sure, your public key is signed and updated. Maintainers may send you a encrypted mail that your signed public key included, so that you have to decrypt the mail by using your private key and then upload this signed public key to key server by yourself.
Please note that, keep your private key privately and full securely, if you lost your private key or key stolen, you can not decrypt maintainer's mail and kick out from our WoT network immediately.
If you lost your private key, make sure revoke your public key immediately, premise is you already backup your revoke certificate, and made a new one to re-join our membership at off-line event. If you lost your revoke certificate or never generate it before, that makes you never be a member due to you loose control of your personal security.
You should never sign a key for somebody else you haven't met personally. Signing a key based on anything other than first-hand knowledge destroys the utility of the Web of Trust.
We thank your donating money, devices or anything to BLUG sincerely and honor you as a BLUG Honorary Member. But you cannot create wiki pages and upload files to BLUG wiki, however you could ask wiki permission from any of BLUG maintainer. And you are not authorized to organize activities/mini-events or start new projects in the name of Beijing GNU/Linux User Group, and CANNOT become one of BLUG maintainers.
If you joined (just registered in the old website) BLUG before 2015 but you haven't attended any of event recently, so we consider you as emeritus member, to re-active your membership just following above steps. So that we could add you into our WoT network.