In addition to a PGP keysigning party/event, there is also an effort to get CAcert certificates "assured".  Generating a certificate is actually somewhat easier than a pgp key -- you simply go to their website, fill out a form, and wait for an e-mail response.

Well, in theory it's easier :)

In truth, there are a couple of pitfalls.

I don't want to steal too much of Phil's fire for his presentation, so I won't go into too many details, but if you want to participate in the "key signing" party at this month's SGVLUG presentation, you will need to create a key before you arrive (well, I suppose you could create one during the meeting, but passing around the "fingerprint" might be a bit cumbersome -- we don't have any printers...)

Last May, the server that hosted our site (and mailing list) suffered a disk failure, but that was only a minor problem.  The larger problem was that our ".org" domain was in limbo