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Sept 15, 2005 - August Newsletter

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BSD Certification Group Newsletter August 2005
  1. Web Site Internationalization
  2. BSD Usage Survey Launched
  3. RSS for BSD Certification Blog
  4. Web site Statistics Report and Analysis
  5. Mailing Lists
  6. Upcoming Events
  7. New Case Study
1. Web Site Internationalization

The localization team is putting together the plan for internationalizing the website and we'll write more on this next month. If you have expertise that would assist in the internationalization, please either send an email to Patrick or use the contact form on the website with "translation" as the subject.

2. BSD Usage Survey Launched

The Group has launched a usage survey that contains questions about BSD usage and demographic data for companies and organizations worldwide. The goal is to get a clear view of how BSD is used, by whom, where, under what kind of administration (local or outsourced), and so forth. This data should give us feedback for the business plan, one of the next key documents for the Group to complete.

The survey will be available in several languages as translations are completed. The English version is at:

http://surveys.bsdcertification.org/phpESP/public/survey.php?name=survey02

Links to other translations will be available on the website.

3. RSS for BSD Certification Blog

A project blog is available at http://bsdcg.blogspot.com. This blog is a personal view of the various parts of the project- how they are progressing, and what the next steps are. The blog has a Feedburner feed, available in Atom and RSS formats at:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/BSDCertificationGroup

Keep track of how things are progressing by incorporating this feed into your RSS/Atom aggregator.

4. Web site Statistics Report and Analysis

- From Patrick Tracanelli

In August we had 6444 different visitors, and 70705 Web page hits. We averaged 207 visitors a day, with about 81Mbytes of data transfered per day.

On August 26th we reached the month's top access, counting 1176 visitors, and 1055228 Kbytes transfered. It is clear that the Road Map released on August 25th is responsible for this big day for the Web site.

We still have our main access period between 10:00 and 18:00 hours. This 8-hour period is responsible for approximately 79% of all our visits in August, which are all "commercial" period of times, so people still visit us mostly when they are at work.

In August the Road Map was the most accessed link in our Web site, counting very much more hits than the root URL, which means direct linking from outside Web sites accoutned for a very high percentage of our accesses. The PDF file for the Road Map was downloaded 4832 times (1250648 Kbytes transferred)

In July we had 4856 hits for the Survey Report, and in August we had another 948, for a total of 5804 downloads. This Month our top referrers have changed. For the first time the top referrer is a Chinese Web site. In second place is the main Slashdot Web site and later a numer of SlashDot's subsites. The top 10 referrers were: 

#       Hits            Referrer
1       2771    3.92%   http://blog.china-pub.com/blog.asp
2       1627    2.30%   http://slashdot.org/
3       1366    1.93%   http://blog.china-pub.com/more.asp
4       746     1.06%   http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/
5       628     0.89%   http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl
6       419     0.59%   http://www.bsdcertification.org
7       403     0.57%   http://bsd.slashdot.org/
8       207     0.29% http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_taosecurity_archive.html
9       172     0.24% http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/freebsd
10      153     0.22%   http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm

38% of our visits were from US in August, while about 23% could not be resolved. Among those resolved Brazil is back on first place for foreign Country, followed by Germany and Poland. Here follows the top 10 networks/countries: 

#       Hits    Files   Kbytes  Country
1       17382   13200   567934  Unresolved/Unknown
2       15858   12663   566616  Network
3       14108   10432   562475  US Commercial
4       2322    1868    60257   Brazil
5       1795    1337    42360   Germany
6       1698    1305    52213   Poland
7       1627    1132    54826   Canada
8       1344    922     47475   Italy
9       1130    936     49509   US Educational
10      1104    879     44699   Netherlands
5. Mailing List

As of September 2, there were 798 subscribers on the bsdcert list and 100 subscribers on the announce list.

Someone asked which shell will be used for certification?

Jeremy answered that it will be the Bourne shell. IIRC Aeleen Frisch, in her book "Essential System Administration", also says that knowledge of the Bourne Shell is necessary. Wicked Cool Shell Scripts contains many "canned" Bourne shell scripts. Other useful resources are Heiner's Shelldorado and An Introduction to the UNIX Shell by Stephen R. Bourne.

6. Upcoming Events

We have some updates on the events mentioned in the last edition of the newsletter.

BSDFest has been postphoned til sometime in 2006. We'll keep you posted once the new date has been confirmed.

The schedule for NYCBSDCon has been confirmed and you still have time to register if you're in the NYC area on Saturday, September 17th. Dru Lavigne will be giving a presentation on BSD Certification. In addition, members of the BSD Certification Group from NYC, Canada, California, Virginia and Germany will be in attendance.

The BSD-Installfest in Salt Lake City, Utah is still on but has changed venues. Details on the event can be found at http://gubug.org/meetings.php. Dan Langille will be travelling from Ottawa, Canada to be present at this event.

7. New Case Study

Carlos Horowicz, a member of the Argentinian Spanish translation team, is author of the latest FreeBSD case study. It is at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/casestudy-argentina.com/article.html.

If you have an idea for a whitepaper or case study for any of the BSD projects, contact us with "editor" as the subject. If you've already done so in the past and haven't heard from the editor lately, email Dru Lavigne a friendly reminder.

Contributors

Thank you to the contributors to this newsletter: Dru Lavigne, Patrick Tracanelli, George Rosamond, Jonathan Drews, and Jim Brown.





























































































































































































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