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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
February 2006

Contents

1 Cebit 2006

Axel Gruner, one of the translators from the German team, will be handing out certification brochures at a BSD booth at this year's Cebit in Hannover, Germany. If you're planning on attending Cebit from March 9 - 15, do stop by. Also, if you are a member of any of the BSD projects and are able to provide handouts, CDs or other materials for the booth in Europe, please contact Axel at http://www.allbsd.de/. Cebit is just one of four European conferences which will have BSD booths this year.

2 BSDCan 2006

BSDCan will be held in Ottawa, Canada in May. Last year, the BSDCG held an informal BoF ("birds of feather") where attendees had a chance to ask questions answered by a panel of six members of the BSDCG.

We're looking for input on what you would like to see from the BSDCG at this year's BSDCan. Should there be a formal talk, an informal BoF, both, or something else entirely? Post your answer on the bsdcert mailing list or use our contact form.

3 BSDCG Update

While it has been a while since the last press release, rest assured that we've been quite busy negotiating with other agencies the various bits required to bring about a certification exam. As things are firmed up, we'll make announcements and you can expect several major announcements in the next few months.

Elections for the BSDCG board of directors and officers, as defined in the Bylaws, will occur in early March and the results will be posted on the website as well as the newsletter that follows the election results.

We should hear back from the IRS regarding 501(c)(3) status before the next newsletter. We should also have the publication date available for the annual financial report by then.

We encourage those who haven't had a chance to make a donation yet to consider doing so. If you have any questions or concerns regarding donating to the BSDCG, you are welcome to start a thread on the mailing list for an open discussion. If you prefer to voice your question privately, email either Dru Lavigne or Jim Brown - their email addresses can be found in the mailing list archives - or use the contact form with a subject of "donations".

4 Mailing Lists

The BSD Certification Group mailing list currently has 824 subscribers. And the announcements list has 140 subscribers.

If you are not on the announcements list, please sign up. It is a closed list for announcements regarding the The BSD Certification Group.

There is also a general discussion list.

5 About this Newsletter

The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every month, near the middle of the month.

Thank you to Dru Lavigne for contributing to this newsletter. The editor is Jeremy C. Reed.

If you have any news items related to the BSD Certification, please let us know by submitting via the contact form on the website or by sending an email to newsletter@BSDCertificationGroup.org. Or if you would like to volunteer for the translation team please send a note with the subject "translation" on the website's contact form.



























































































































































































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